Attitude of Gratitude”
by Dr. Sharon R. Bonds, PhD.
Understanding gratitude and the role it plays in your life is one of the easiest ways
to change your life for the better. Gratitude is one of the most common feelings you
will have when you receive blessings, i.e. winnings, gifts, money (unexpected win falls)
and when you satisfy your intentions. The more you feel your target feelings of
gratitude, the closer your life moves toward your intentions. Gratitude will open
doors for you and create miracles in your life. Simply by feeling grateful and
expressing your feelings, your life changes for the better. It’s just that simple! With
that in mind, I’ll ask you this and also ask that you take a moment to think about and
ponder the following question:
What Are YOU Truly and Deeply Grateful For?
The reason I ask is due to the simple and unwavering fact that deeply felt, emotionally
charged and consistently expressed sentiments of gratitude serve as the catalyst for
profound, seemingly magical and miraculous transformation in your life.
The way that you create gratitude in your life is to look around and note the things in
your life that you are grateful for. You can write them down or say them aloud or to
yourself, but acknowledge everyday the things you are most grateful for in your life
and always end your acknowledgment with the biggest “thank you,” you are able to
convey.
The simplest way to express gratitude is to adopt and incorporate the words “thank
you” into your daily regiment. Saying “thank you” is a verbal form of expressing
gratitude. Please note that you can never be too thankful, in fact the more
thankfulness and gratitude you have the more abundance you will receive. Now, the
reverse is also true, the less gratitude you display for the things that you already have
will result in those things both physically and spiritually, being taken
away from you. Our goal at this point is to monitor, see and insure that all of your
thoughts, feelings, words and actions are all thankful, grateful and positive.. This is
often difficult for us to accomplish in a material world of thought-forms of violence,
sex and greed. While we cannot be protected from seemingly negative events, we can
learn no to dwell on them and thus attract similar events into our lives. This is called
the law of attraction, which is a universal law. The law states, in short that “like
attracts like” the law operates through you, the energy base by whatever you think,
say, command, feel and your actions produce energies. These energies attract like
energies for example, negative energies produce negative energies, positive energies
produce positive energies and energies of gratitude produce energies of abundance
that’s attracted to you and into your life. It’s on the same plane of reaping and
sowing, what goes around comes around, you get what you give, behavior is a
mirrored image of self and what you put out is what you get back. All the
aforementioned expressions are descriptions of the law of attraction and if so be the
case then every action of thankfulness or should I say gratitude causes an opposites
reaction of receiving that which is equal to the amount of thankfulness, or should I
say once again, the amount of gratitude you are giving to others. So be thankful and
grateful, then sit back and watch your life change for the better if you incorporate a
daily “ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE.”
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