Previously I had promised you a blog on empowering thoughts. There are many thoughts that are powerful, one being thoughts of gratitude. Gratitude is the key to our hearts. With gratitude we open up ourselves to feel love for who we are and what we already have. Without gratitude for where we already are in life, we can never move forward, because we are then in fact resisting our own being, our life, our journey. Being grateful creates a spiral upwards, where the more you are grateful in your life today, the more you will attract/draw to yourself to be grateful for tomorrow.
I’d recently completed a gratitude challenge on facebook. The challenge was to post five things I was grateful for in a day for 1 week. I could not repeat a gratitude and it had to be something I truly felt grateful for. This has been a big learning experience for me and I’ve gotten so much out of it. On the first couple of days, I had posted the things that I was usually grateful for, my families health, the support around me & the opportunities that present themselves. After these first couple of days, I had to start really thinking about what I was grateful for outside my general spectrum. Things that came to mind were things I hadn’t really considered before, like the music that puts me in a great state of mind, for time and that I have clean air and water. It made me realise there are so many things in life that just work out I had been taking for granted.
Also, I learned a lot about the people around me. When I was expressing gratitude, it made the space for others to step up and do the same. The change we can inspire in others is powerful and this is just one example of that.
I put you all to the gratitude challenge! So tell me, what have been your wins out of expressing gratitude?
