Dear Ones,
What are you feeling grateful for today? How often do you allow yourself to stay in the energy of gratitude?
Many people say ‘thank you’ without even getting in touch with the energy of gratitude but there is much to be said about allowing yourself the time to feel deep, true gratitude for Life. No matter what is going on in your life YOU are NOT your circumstances! There is always something for which you can feel grateful.
The Sun is still in the sky. There are flowers to enjoy. You are inhaling and exhaling as you read this. Your heart has known joy and pain and still keeps pumping blood throughout your body. The list goes on and on. And when you create a space in your energetic being for gratitude to live then you can shift your perspective on everything else.
Remembering that there are lessons contained in every event, circumstance and relationship in your life, you will grow more swiftly when you stay in gratitude for those lessons, even the ones that are uncomfortable or painful. There are people with whom you come into contact who bring you lessons, again, even the uncomfortable ones, and you can feel grateful for them. Imagine how many other people for whom YOU have been the bearer of a lesson! Be grateful for that, too.
As you move along the pathways of your Life Plan you are navigating uncharted territory, for there has never been nor will there ever be another You. The entire Universe is grateful to you for showing up at this time in human history to fulfill your unique role in the unfolding of the Universe’s Plan. Be grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the evolution of humanity.
Do you feel as if Life is passing you by or that the lessons are too painful to endure? You are not alone but you are a person of courage, for only those spirits who have a great deal of courage have agreed to live on Planet Earth during these changing times. Your spirit is indomitable. You are brave and bold. You created your own lesson plan before your spirit took on a human body. And now you are about to graduate to a higher level of the expression of the greatness of humanity. Go with the flow of this expression. Do not allow yourself to sink into the troubles you perceive around you. All is developing according to the Plan that the Universe has for Planet Earth in the 21st Century. All is developing according to the Plan for your individual life, but you are not disconnected from all the other individuals so join in community with like-minded people to move through the coming changes. Even Mother Earth is experiencing change in her climate. And change in any form has the power to cause fear in those who lack courage.
But you, Dear One, do not lack courage. You agreed to be on Planet Earth to assist her in moving through these changes. You have a part to play in the unfolding of the Plan.
And the energy that will sustain you through the changes is the energy of Gratitude. For when you feel and experience Gratitude you observe without sinking into despair, you tackle the tasks before you while you stay committed to your Life Purpose, and you share your life freely with others who are also on the path, welcoming their company as together you move forward.
Do not fear the coming changes. Rather, be grateful that they are finally here. The world will rejoice on the other side of these changes for you will be reunited with the other spirits who agreed to share this time with you.
And so it is.
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MUSE-INGS: What’s on Your Gratitude List?
May 31, 2011 — RosemarySometimes it’s difficult to access gratitude when we are feeling overwhelmed with our life or with our circumstances. There seem to be a lot of us who are undergoing major changes and transitions in our lives. Are you?
A friend of mine recommended this exercise to me: Write out 100 things for which you are grateful and read the list every morning and every night. This helps to focus your energy in gratitude instead of worry. If you know anything about the Law of Attraction you know that you attract that on which you focus your attention. If you are constantly worried then you are energizing and magnetizing the very thing you are worrying about, which is probably NOT what you want to have happen!
But if you go into a space of gratitude for what you do have then you energize more of that in your life. ‘This or something better’ is the energy of attraction when you express and really get in touch with gratitude. This is why affirmations work, because, when created properly, an affirmation is stated in the positive, in the present, and as if it is already reality so it is stated with gratitude. When you send out this message of attraction the Universe arranges things to provide what you are focused on, or something better.
There are critics who do not hold that the Law of Attraction works but I believe differently. Even when I didn’t know about the Law I could see that my thoughts were creating my reality. Or did the thoughts create the lens through which I saw my reality? Does it really matter?
Finding gratitude in the little things in your life will propel you forward into finding more things for which to feel gratitude. Make up your list of 100 things and have fun with it. Maybe ‘fun’ is on your list! My list has things as prosaic as ‘My iPhone’ and as esoteric as ‘Seeing a Great Blue Heron, 2 foxes, a golden eagle and a coyote, all this week’ on it. No matter what, there is always something to be grateful for.
I remember my beloved Aunt Margaret on her last day of life. My family had been on vacation when we learned that she was unwell and not expected to last very much longer. We hurried to her bedside and she had waited to see us to say goodbye. After we left her a nurse came in and offered to get her whatever she wanted. My aunt asked for a ginger ale and told the nurse where to find some money for the nursing home soft drink machine. The sweet nurse said, ‘Don’t worry. This is my treat.’ And my aunt’s response was, ‘Thank you. In my condition tonight I’ll accept your treat.’ She died a few hours later.
We can choose to be in gratitude or we can choose to find something to get upset about. We can be sweet to other people or we can be mean to them. We can create affirmations from gratitude or desires from greed. All of Life is about choice. Oh, maybe not about consciously choosing everything that happens but certainly about choosing what our response will be. When we start each day in gratitude, our choices will come from an expanded awareness of how our lives are unfolding. This expansion guides us to better choices throughout that day.
I am grateful to you for being a subscriber to this ezine or a reader of this message.
Now, 99 more and I’ll have a new gratitude list completed!
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