The quickest way to change your life is to start practicing gratitude!
Why is this?
It is because Gratitude is the ‘Grand Pooh-bah’ of all positive emotional states. Where there is gratitude there is also love, joy, inner peace, forgiveness, compassion, possibilities and all goodness. These qualities follow gratitude everywhere it goes!
I have personally found that developing an attitude of gratitude allows you to:
Make peace with yourself.
Shift your attention to the positive.
Be open to opportunities.
To welcome new things in our lives we must first make peace with where we are. What we resist will persist. Creating true change starts with acceptance. Gratitude is the gateway to this acceptance. Gratitude shifts our attention to living in the moment. We move out of wishful thinking and assume responsibility for where we are. If we can express gratitude no matter what is happening in our lives we soften and become more open to expressing love, joy, peace, forgiveness and all goodness.
When our attention is on gratitude we start feeling more positive and energized. This is because when we acknowledge the good in our lives we start to see and experience more good. What we give our attention to is what we our giving power and life to. In this sense, gratitude shifts our focus from the negative to the positive. Maintaining positive thinking becomes easier when our attention is on what is working in our lives.
When our attention is focused on what is good in our life, we are able to see more possibilities. Gratitude opens us up and makes us more available. We can see opportunities and solutions to our problems more clearly. Gratitude lifts us up and removes the blinders so we can see the good that is always around us.
Creating lasting happiness starts with cultivating gratitude. Because the magic of gratitude is… The more we are grateful, the more we have to be grateful for!
Author: Fiona Adams – cupoflifenewsletter..com/
