Gratitude. I’m sure you have heard of this word before and you probably know that it simply means a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation. Gratitude may be a mouthful to pronounce but the act of showing it is actually rather simple and effective to implement. Knowing the power and potential of showing gratitude and subsequently applying it accordingly can be the single most decisive factor in ensuring better degrees of success for yourself.

Let’s dwell a little on exactly what gratitude can do for you and subsequently your success. Gratitude instills a positive feeling in you and the people you show it to. It alters your perspective of negative feelings, thoughts or beliefs you may have of yourself or others by alerting these feelings, thoughts and beliefs to the things you are grateful for. Gratitude raises your awareness and focus and it can inspire you to achieve better for yourself and the people around you.

In fact, there are numerous other benefits of gratitude. Yet, many people still do not or refuse to shower themselves or the people around them with gratitude. Instead, they put themselves and others down by criticism and condemnation. To see if you fall under this category, take the next few seconds to ponder over the following questions:

1) What exactly are the obstacles that are holding you back from showing gratitude to yourself and to others?

2) How can you overcome these obstacles?

3) How can you unleash an onslaught of gratitude to yourself and to others?

The obstacles stated above are mainly negative thoughts, emotions and beliefs that you may possess that are probably not only hindering you from showing gratitude but they are most probably also hindering you from success. However, the chief aim of my article is to show you the importance of showing gratitude and how you can go about doing it. As such, I will not touch in depth about how to overcome these negative thoughts, emotions and beliefs. But if you would like to find out more, please refer to resource box below.

Now that you are clearer about the benefits of gratitude, let’s first talk about how you can start showing gratitude to yourself. To start doing this, you must first be appreciative of all your achievements – be it big or small – that you have experienced so far in your life. Ask yourself: when was the last time you actually rewarded yourself for those achievements? If you have constantly been doing so, then good for you and keep it up. If not, then it’s about time you start indulging or pampering yourself with some simple or extravagant (whichever is appropriate) rewards for all your past achievements and the future ones.

Next be appreciative of the things you have – your job, work place, house, wealth, family, food and surroundings. I know it can be rather impossible to directly show gratitude to these things but don’t fret. You can actually list down these things and write down thank you notes for each of them to express your gratitude. Keep referring to this list when you’re feeling sad or depressed and you can instantly feel a surge of happiness or positive emotions.

So far, I have covered on how you can show gratitude to yourself and the things around you. Now I will touch on how you can show gratitude to the people around you. There are many ways you can express your gratitude to the people around you but I will only list down the few I feel are important and simple to perform. You are however, free to find out or think of others of your own and implement them as you deem fit.

1) Instead of putting down, insulting and complaining about the people around or working under you, try complementing, praising and appreciating them for all they have done for your well-being and your achievements. By doing this, you gain their respect and trust and they are more likely to continually assist you to achieve better.

2) Make a thank you list of all the people you are grateful for and constantly refer to this list to give yourself a better and greater feeling.

3) Give a simple verbal thank you, note of appreciation or even a thank you e-mail to express your gratitude to the people who have assisted you in achievements.

4) Shower the people you are grateful for with small or big cards, gifts, presents or rewards to clearly show them how much you appreciate them.

5) Or simply provide the people around you with gifts that cannot be bought with cash like your valuable time, your sacrifice or something that is of utmost importance to you.

Gratitude. The word may be a little complex to pronounce but there is actually nothing complex about performing the act of showing gratitude. Always bear in mind that when you show gratitude to yourself, the things and the people around you, you will definitely hold the key to unlocking your personal growth and ultimately your success.

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In the article, The Power of Gratitude in Conscious Manifestation, I discussed the importance of gratitude in conscious manifestation, as it harmonizes you with the Thinking Substance out of which all things are created.

Gratitude is love and brings a sense of completion or letting go, and so being grateful for the things you desire in advance is a great power at becoming magnetic to your desires. The law of Attraction operates within the Thinking Substance, and we can wield it more powerfully the more we harmonize with this creative Substance.

Aspects Of Gratitude

To summarize all the powerful effects of gratitude, these are:

• Puts you in the vibration or energy of your desires fulfilled, making you a stronger point of attraction for their manifestation
• Brings completion in advance, convincing the subconscious mind to deliver this imagined reality (recall that the subconscious mind makes no distinction between the actual and the imagined)
• Dissolves internal resistances that lock in dysfunction and what is not wanted, so that change is made possible
• Confers inner freedom to your being, as you are accepting and a “fluid” energy able to move easily with life
• Speeds up learning so you can move on in life
• Puts you in vibrational harmony with the best outcomes in all situations, so that you’re choosing blessings rather than lessons
• Harmonizes you with the Thinking Substance and the Mind the God, drawing you near to the source of all blessings
• Gives back to the universe so that balance is maintained at all times (leaving you free of involvement to restore balance, i.e. karma)
• Confers wholeness and a state of inner peace, which promotes healing
• As a force of unconditional love, it activates the hidden workings of the cause and effect of love that operate in the universe, which is expressed in life as being in the grace of God

Affirmations For Personal Development

Below is a set of gratitude affirmations that will help you develop an attitude of gratitude, which can accelerate the manifestation cycle for you. These affirmations may be enhanced with the Affirmation Enhancer Tool, which is like ‘etheric software’ that contains clearing and rescripting protocols that clears all that stands in the way of integrating an affirmation energetically and awakening to the co-creative power inherent in the divine self and to a deep understanding of our divine right and our responsibility to manifest our life according to our true desires. The Tool enables a person to embody the energy of the affirmation instantaneously, at deep levels of being. It does this by dissolving the back-wash of opposing thoughts, hidden agendas and unmet needs that often underlie affirmations, cleansing the subconscious mind of all memories, programs and patterns that do not support the affirmation, releasing emotional and mental body patterns and programs that support the denial of the affirmation, and infusing the body, heart, mind and soul with divine ideal traits that will support deep integration of the truth of the affirmation. Accelerated manifestation is further enhanced by the creation of an imagination in the auric field that acts as future potential drawing a person to that affirmed reality that has been purified of hidden intent. For more details on the Tool, visit www.affirmationenhancer.com.

Gratitude Affirmations

1. I AM blessed in so many ways and am deeply grateful
2. I AM grateful for my life and growing consciousness within it
3. I AM profoundly grateful for the power granted me to command the formless intelligence all around me.
4. The more grateful I am, the more my soul may live in close touch with God.
5. My soul continuously rejoices and unites with my experience as I engage in gratitude.
6. Gratitude opens the door for my essence to flow through my life, and spirit blessings to pour into all that I choose to create.
7. Gratefulness is how I return energy to the universe for the bounty I am blessed with.
8. The more grateful I am, the more blessed I am.
9. The more grateful I am, the more connected I am to the source and power of creation.
10. I am deeply grateful to the Creator who wants me to thrive in life.
11. I now immerse in gratitude and cultivate it as a habit.
12. In profound gratitude, I am in a harmonious relationship with the formless Substance out of which my life emerges.
13. By my gratitude, I am close to the source of abundance.
14. My subconscious mind is continually finding things that I am grateful for.
15. In my sleep, I am continually fed inspirations to support me to develop a habit of gratitude in life.
16. I am able and willing to embrace all experiences and derive the gifts they hold for me.
17. I am grateful for life hugging me in a perfect reflective way.
18. I release all resistance to any part of my life and accept it all, knowing it is there as “love in action.”
19. I release all bitterness, resentment and dissatisfaction that I may see the blessings I’ve missed.
20. In gratitude I am at peace with my life and able to withdraw from non-serving energies and focus wholly on creating wonderful things in great joy and expectancy.
21. In gratitude I am fluid energy able to move easily with life and direct it according to my desires born of love.
22. In gratitude I am inwardly free and unattached to specific outcomes; everything that comes to me is imbued with divine wisdom.
23. With a grateful heart I see opportunities for growth and joy everywhere.
24. My gratitude reaches God and God moves towards me.
25. My gratitude reaches the source of abundance and the source rushes towards me.
26. In gratitude, I love unconditionally and become infinite being with infinite potential.
27. I am capable of doing what I do because others have come before me. I am grateful for the world I see.
28. I engage and enjoy the luminous divine Essence in all who enter my life.
29. I am grateful for all the players in my life. Everyone in my life is “love in action”.
30. I appreciate all people in my life, for each one brings an opportunity for learning to me.
31. I now experience being fully supported by everyone in my life.
32. I am strongly and constantly grateful for all that is in my life.
33. Gratitude keeps me connected to the power of the universe.
34. Gratitude is love, and my heart opens to receive all the blessings coming my way.
35. The grateful mind focuses on the best.
36. I focus on the best in everything and everyone, and the best appears abundantly for me.
37. My life is the image of what I give attention to. What a wonderful experience!
38. I am thinking Substance taking the form of what I think about.
39. I am a lucid dreamer, dreaming wonderful possibilities and potentials.
40. The grateful mind expects the best.
41. I continually expect the best in everything and everyone who enters my life.
42. I am profoundly connected to the source and power of life through the love that I am.
43. I am profoundly connected to the source and power of life through continual gratitude.
44. I breathe in the beauty, abundance and goodness of life; it abounds.
45. I see only abundance and supply all around me; how wonderful to be alive.
46. I am loved my God and in deep gratefulness, I allow myself to take this love in deeply.
47. Before going to sleep, I release all idle thoughts and focus on all my blessings.
48. As I count my blessings, my blessings grow.
49. As I am grateful to others, they are gracious to me.
50. In gratefulness, I give back to the universe and I am fulfilled.
51. Being in gratitude is heavenly.
52. In gratitude I am in harmony with the creative energies of the universe.
53. By continual gratitude, I am open to receiving God’s grace.
54. I am deeply and continuously grateful, and thereby I align to the outcomes of greatest blessing.
55. I am grateful and thereby allow more supply into my life for which to be grateful!
56. I release all concern as to how to feed, clothe, or supply my world, and turn all my thoughts to expressing the love that I am in freedom and joy.
57. The grateful mind expands to embrace even more of the blessings of life—I am continuously grateful and expanding.
58. I dwell only on the best and the blessings, and I become the best, blessed, and a blessing unto others.
59. Faith is born of gratitude; I have faith and am filled with joyous expectancy.
60. I continuously expect great things and am deeply grateful in advance.
61. I am so grateful to be alive!

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True inner transformation will come to you when you practice gratitude.  Follow these steps to develop an attitude of gratitude. THE best way to raise your vibration and attract what you desire.

I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to practice gratitude when you are following your path to personal development growth.

Think of it not only as a tool for transformation but as a way of life.

Now, if you have wrapped your mind around the fact that we are all energy then you realize there is no separation and we are all connected. Everything is energy with it’s own rate of vibration that attracts things of like vibrations to it.

That of course includes our thoughts. And thoughts, feelings and words of gratitude are some of the most powerful and they allow for great positive shifts to occur.

THE TOP 2 WAYS TO PRACTICE GRATITUDE

#1. BE THANKFUL IN ADVANCE: It has been said that the most powerful form of gratitude is the kind which you express in advance of your actual experience. The expression of faith that this requires allows for the most effective type of vibrational shift.

#2. FIND THINGS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR IN BAD SITUATIONS: Focus on someone you have a conflict with or on a negative emotional situation in your life. You then look for things to be grateful for in those situations. They may not be obvious, but they are ALWAYS there.

Be grateful… that you only have to deal with this person once a month, that if it weren’t for this situation – you wouldn’t have met a new friend, that this situation now offers an opportunity for growth…

A newer, more positive energy will be come from this especially since you had to look deeper into yourself to find the gratitude.

OTHER WAYS TO PRACTICE GRATITUDE

KEEP A GRATITUDE JOURNAL: It’s a good practice to take 10 minutes a day to write down things you are grateful for and that bring you joy. They can be big or small as long as you tune into the feelings of gratitude for having them in your life right now.

Be grateful for: a stress-free commute to work, a call you got from an old friend, a delicious meal, a hug from your child, a compliment you received from your boss, a great night’s sleep, an invigorating workout…

DO A GRATITUDE WALK: As you’re strolling with the kids, walking the dog, or doing your chores, look around and rattle off as many things as you can think of to be grateful for. Tell the Universe out loud what you love about your life.

HAVE A GRATITUDE ROCK: This is something I first saw in The Secret movie. Find a small rock and keep it with you throughout the day and let it remind you to state something you’re grateful for whenever you touch it.

WATCH A GRATITUDE AFFIRMATION VIDEO: Go to Wealthvibes.com or YouTube.com and watch free affirmation videos.  Make it part of your daily ritual and a powerful gratitude exercise.

WRITE A GRATITUDE LETTER: Write a mock letter to someone very important in your life who would be excited for your news. Tell them how grateful you are about this wonderful thing that has happened in your life. Doing this exercise will bring about intense emotions and will put you in a joyful, grateful vibration.

“Hi Julia, The most exciting thing happened to me… I couldn’t wait to tell you about it.  I went to the gym a few weeks ago and was working out and got to talking to the girl next to me.  I told her about the new web business that I just launched and she was so interested that she interviewed me for a local newspaper article.  It created tons of traffic to my website and I made some big sales too.  I am SO grateful that I met her that day.”

TIP: You can even write this “as if” that something happened to try and attract it into your life.

DO THE MIRROR EXERCISE: Talk to yourself out loud while looking into a mirror. Express your gratitude and appreciation. If you use EFT, tap around at the same time. Later on, you can use this image of yourself tapping in a visualization for a quick, enhanced gratitude refresher.

Just make sure you practice gratitude every day. Create a routine that’s easy and sustainable.

When it comes to creating and experiencing the kind of life you want, it’s a law of the Universe that it will always deliver in the right time for the right vibration of your body.

So if you practice gratitude, you will energetically raise your vibration and speed up the process of attracting what you desire.

There is truly NO BETTER WAY to do that than when you have an attitude of gratitude.

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If some of you have already read various books about Law of Attraction usage, then you have no doubt already had a dabble at trying to receive something with the Law of Attraction.

Now you may have been chuffed at the result that happened afterwards, but more than likely nothing happened and you are trying to work out why the Law of Attraction is not working for you. Many give up due to the disappointment of not receiving immediately but one needs to perserver and believe.

As you may imagine it is all about knowledge and practice. Everyone can tap into the what the universe has to offer.

Well you may not be aware, but there is actually a mastery to its usage and many users are at a level of knowledge where they can class themselves as Master, and are of course reaping the rewards big time. How do they do it? Do you see others that always get what they want? Well you may have guessed it, they are more than likely mastering the Law of Attraction. Some master it without even being aware that they are doing so.

Now that you have found about the Law of Attraction, you can now proceed to learn about the advanced techniques and discover how to succeed where others, even yourself, failed in the practice before.

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If you are wondering whether or not there is anything beyond the law of attraction, then you need to take a look at this article.

Many critics of the law of attraction complain that the law of attraction is merely a tool to satisfy materialistic cravings.  However, what they fail to realize is that the law of attraction (or manifestation consciousness) is merely one level of consciousness.  Each person must master this level of consciousness before they can trust God to work through them for the greater good of all.  Fail to master the law of attraction and you will never be able to achieve a higher level of consciousness.

I am currently working through Dr. Michael Beckwith’s Life Visioning Program.  As I do so, I found that he has a very good explanation of where the law of attraction fits into a program of personal development; and moreover, why mastering it is an important turning point on the way to achieving a higher level of consciousness.  Take a look at this brief article and you will understand why I am enjoying his program.

Stage One: Victim Consciousness

In this stage, a person perceives something outside himself as the power that provides everything from basic needs such as food, water and shelter to abundance, relationships and, ultimately, happiness.

When “bad” things happen, a person living from a “victim consciousness” will describe the event as “caused by them or it” and “happening to me.”  Whether “it” is family, friends, coworkers, society or an external deity, the victim asserts no control over his own life and blames someone or something for all of the good or bad that manifests within his perception.

I found this attitude in churches where, when praying for the sick, the prayer is concluded in a manner such as “And God, if you choose mot to heal Jane, help us accept and deal with her death.”  Wow, now that’s an effective prayer of healing.  Unfortunately, most people fail to ever escape this stage of consciousness.

However, the ultimate goal in this level of consciousness is to escape to Stage Two where he learns to consciously create all of his needs and wants, thereby ceasing to rely (or blame) something or someone outside himself.  Through the process of accepting responsibility for his state of being as well as exercising the practice of forgiveness, the former victim arrives at a heightened state of consciousness whereby he realizes that he has the power and the responsibility over his own existence.

He learns to implement this newfound wisdom by moving to Stage Two – Conscious Manifestor.

Stage Two:  Manifestor Consciousness

In this stage, the manifestor is aware his responsibility and power to consciously create the world around him.  We call this the law of attraction.  His perspective shifts from “he caused it to happen to me” to a “I caused this to happen to me.”  With this newfound power his prayer life shifts from begging God to have mercy on him to declaring that God will (or has) provided all that is necessary to manifest the desires of his heart.

The manifestor couples affirmative prayer with meditation and visualization, thereby allowing his thought to become things and change his circumstances.

This is where critics argue that the person should be declaring that God’s will be done, instead of their own.  The problem with this argument is two fold.  First, a good argument can be made that the desires of your heart come from God.  God gives the musician the desire to own an instrument and the builder the desire for materials to build.

Secondly, before the person can ever trust God to the point that he can surrender and let God work through him, he must know that he has the ability to control his own destiny.  Only, then can he let go and let God.

Once the manifestor masters the law of attraction, he will awaken to a higher level of consciousness  that reveals two truths.  The first truth is that material possessions do not lead to fulfillment.  The second truth is that when you know that you can have the desires of your heart, your desires change from materialistic desires to spiritual desires.

At that point, the manifestor is ready to move to Stage Three – Conscious Channeler.

State Three – Channeler Consciousness

In this stage the manifestor, having mastered his domain, has built a level of confidence and trust in God to allow God to work through him for his greater good as well as the greater good of mankind.

This is commonly referred to as being “in the zone” whereby you somehow accomplish extraordinary undertakings but cannot explain how you were able to do it.  In this stage the channeler realizes that “God did that through me.”  Through the practice of meditation, the channeler surrenders his will to God and lets go of all earthly baggage.

The more the person meditates, the more time he spends in union with God.  Eventually, he will be able to maintain this state when he not in meditation.  At this point, he awakens to the final stage of consciousness.

Stage Four – Being Consciousness

In this stage, the channeler exists in a state of union with God.

As he persists, he eventually realizes that God is expressing himself as that person.  The person’s perspective shifts from “God did this through me” to “God did this as me.”

In this stage, the person’s sense of self begins to dissolve and he realizes that his consciousness is the consciousness of God along with all other things in the universe are the same.

The subtle difference is that the person shifts from “witnessing” God work through them to realizing that he is the spirit of God participating in the creation of his own life.  You no longer are “in the zone”; but, instead, you “are the zone.”  As Jesus said “I and my Father are one.”

All of the other stages of being have prepared you for this consciousness.  Knowing that this consciousness flows through all matter in the universe, the person becomes one with God, nature, other humans and the cosmos.

The Law Of Attraction Is A Waypoint, Not A Destination

Now that you understand that using the law of attraction is only a means to an end, you understand why the critics of conscious creation miss the point.

The law of attraction is merely a point of transition a life of blame, victimhood and helplessness to a life of trusting God to work through you for your good as well as the good of mankind.  It is important to master the law of attraction so that you understand that you have the power and the responsibility to consciously create your reality.

Only then, you move from a point of materialism to a higher level of consciousness where material manifestations pale in comparison to the wonderful things created by God through you and, eventually, by God as you.  So, it you felt as though embracing the law of attraction was selfish and base, reconsider your conclusion.

The law of attraction is a tool to take control of your circumstances on your way to a level of existence that creates good for all of mankind.

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