Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-- John Lennon
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die
even the undertaker will be sorry.
-- Mark Twain
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Create Happiness And Possibility In Your Life Through GratitudeBeing grateful in your life doesn't mean you are to be grateful for the bad things that happen. How can anyone be grateful that something bad happened and their life has become worse? The right understanding of being grateful is required to activate that power for creating possibility and abundance in your life. When you know how to be grateful, you are drawn nearer to the Creative Power and the Creative Power draws nearer to you. And as you move closer to the Universal Source, you are bathed in the power of Creation and Abundance that is Life. And the more you are immersed in this creative energy, the more you begin to attract the good things that you desire into your life. How Does Being Grateful Bring You Closer To Creative Living Power? When you give a precious gift to someone you care about and they accept it with true gratitude and joy, how do you feel? Do you want to take it back and give them something bad? Or instead, you feel a sense of joy which makes you want to give even more and better gifts? The joy and gratitude in their eyes makes you feel good and lights that inner spark within you with a corresponding joy and happiness that they appreciate your gift. And the more they are appreciative of what you have given, the more you want to give to them even better things. But when you give a gift and the person responds by looking down on it, chucking it carelessly away into a corner and even curses you for it, what do you feel? Would you want to joyfully give another gift to that person? That emotion of disdain, disrespect and anger stops you from wanting to give them even better things. In the same way, when an experience or lesson of life is sent your way to prepare you for the next step, and you disdain it, spit on it in anger, or complain about it, you have missed the pearl inside the oyster. You have thrown away the gift of life and the treasure within that will develop you and help you grow. You would have stopped the flow of even better things into your life. Nothing in life happens by chance. There is a gift in every moment, every experience and every person. When we are ready, we see the lesson. When we aren't, we miss it. The lessons and gifts are always there. It is us who are not ready, or willing, to see them. When you are grateful to Life for everything that you have, it draws Creative Consciousness nearer to you and opens the channel for increasing abundance and blessings into your life. Being Grateful For Something Bad The question is, how do you be grateful for something bad happening in your life? You don't. You're not grateful that something bad happened in your life. You are grateful for the good that comes out of the bad. * You can be grateful for something that has made you stronger. * You can be grateful for something that you have learnt about yourself that you didn't know before, that puts you in a better position to create something good in your life. * You can be grateful how whatever "bad" that happened opened your eyes to see your current situation isn't what you want. It has awakened you to realize what you really do want. * You can be grateful for being "awakened" and born into the realization that you have always had everything you needed to create a better life for yourself. How Does Gratitude Create Possibility and Happiness? When you are grateful, you are focused on the good things in your life. You see the good things in your life that have always been there. As you focus on the good things in your life, your mind is infused with good pictures and your soul is bathed in good feelings. And as within, so it is on the outside. You will begin to create better things in your life, and you will begin to attract better experiences into your life because you have created those very ideas in your mind. When you are grateful: * You focus on the positive and good things, which create mental images of good things, which create the energy and attraction for good things into your life. * You feel good, and vibrate with positive energy. * Your mind is cleared of doubt, confusion, worry, anger and all the negative emotions that cloud your thinking and your judgment. You clear up your mind, and in turn, clear up your inner being. As you become grateful for the people, abilities and things that you already have, you start to realize the possibilities available to you if you tap into these existing resources. And you always have the resources you need at this point in time. You have the resources to move forward to the next step, and when you reach the next step, you will have the resources to take the next step, and the next and so on. In fact most of the time, the greatest resources that you have are within you. They can be your talents, your courage to break out into a new direction, or your ability to pick yourself up when you are down. It can also be your simple ability to recognize what you already have around you that can help you achieve what it is that you want. When you are grateful, you focus on the good things in your life, which starts the cycle and creation of better things. It only requires you to make that choice to see the other side of the coin to begin the flow of abundance and joy. Being Grateful To Life When you are grateful, you are grateful to Life that it has brought you lessons and gifts for your growth. And because Life brings you gifts through people and experiences, you become grateful for the flow of people and experiences in your life. And as you grow in your awareness of the flow of life around you, you start being grateful that you have the inner resources to work with what you have to create what you want. And as you become kinder to yourself, and aligned with your true nature of creative power, you become more grateful that Life has given you everything you'll ever need to grow to the next stage. And when you realize this, you begin to realize that truly all things work for your growth, and you start to see how everything in your life is brought to you so that you can move into the abundance that is your natural birthright. What Are You Grateful For? You are grateful for two things: * The gifts and experiences that you already have in your life. (Your Present Life) * The gifts and experiences that you will receive in your life. (Your Desired Life) Exercise To Practice Gratitude: Look around you and at your life. What are the things that would make your life worse if you didn't have them? Be grateful for them. What are the things that can make your life better because you have them? Be grateful for them. Write them down into your "Gratitude List". You can start by writing at the top of the page "I am so happy and grateful that I...(have, am or do)..." For example - "I am so happy and grateful that": * I have the ability to write and share what I have learnt with others. * I have a computer to create this blog with. * I have the ability to walk around. * I have food to eat when I am hungry. * I have a place to rest comfortably and securely at night. * I have the ability to learn new knowledge and skills. * I have written an article about the power of gratitude so that if you benefit from it, you might recommend it to others to read. *Wink* * I have .... * I am able to .... And so on. The more you write this list, the more you realize that there are truly many things in your life that you can be grateful for. Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in your life. Good and bad are simply two sides of the same coin of your life. You have the ability to be thankful and grateful, and you have the ability to be angry and bitter. The choice has always been yours, to create more abundance and joy into your life, or the opposite. When You Are Grateful When you are grateful and create a place of joy and gratitude within, you are already experiencing what it means to be happy. It is something that people would pay handsomely for, but the truth is no matter how much money they can pay, they cannot buy true joy, because it exists within. And as you practice gratitude, not only will you be happy, but you start to attract the good things that you desire in your life towards you. "When you know that what you want comes from the invisible supply, and you focus on creating from abundance, material things will come to you." Gratitude creates possibility because when you are focused on what is already good and what you want in your life, you are constantly creating the mental pictures of what is good and what you want. And as you focus on the resources you already have, you start seeing the possibilities of how what you already have can bring you closer to what you want. And the more constant and steady your mental picture is, the more sure and steady you will create what it is that you want. It is impossible to focus on the negative when you are grateful, and it is what keeps you connected to the Creative Source of Thought that is Abundance. Be Grateful You Have The Ability To Read This Article. *Smile* Darbright runs Personal Development Made Simple at http://www.darbright.com, a website devoted to making a life of freedom and abundance possible through Personal Growth. |
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