Sometimes 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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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Bring Your Dreams into Your Now
February 1, 2012 — RosemarySo much of what we are surrounded by these days seems to draw our attention to what we lack and what we ‘need’ to fill that space of lack. Just watch commercial television for a few minutes and you will be convinced that you ‘need’ that beer to attract the sexy girls, that drug to feel happier, those clothes to feel good about yourself, that cell phone to be ‘cool’ and the list goes on and on.
And then there is the fear-mongering that leads us to be fearful of everything including being ‘not enough.’ We are also told to fear foreclosure, terrorism, the loss of a job, the loss of a relationship, the loss of beauty, etc. How are we supposed to overcome this constant bombardment that tells us to focus on lack?
First, avoid those commercials! We rarely watch commercial TV but saw a lot of commercials during the American football playoff games. In another week we’ll be watching the Super Bowl with its extremely high-priced commercials telling us what we lack. [ I actually love the commercials that are done especially for the Super Bowl as they often tell stories and are very creative, but they do want us to feel that we’re not good enough unless we buy their product.] News broadcasts also seem to want us to focus on the stories with the most sensational happenings which lead us into a focus on what we don’t want. Maybe we should also stay away from the news. [I do.]
So what do you focus on instead? Focus on how you feel, what you do have in your life, and keep yourself in the space of gratitude and action based on living in the present moment. And BE who you were born to be so that you can fulfill your Life Purpose in this lifetime. When you know your WHY and you commit to being who you are, you have a lens through which to view your life that brings into focus the values that lift you up and that help you to choose what you will do in every moment.
Think about your purpose. Do you know your ‘why’? If you’re not sure, then make an effort to identify why you are living this life. Conscious Living is a choice based on a commitment to be awake and aware in every moment and to move toward greater consciousness and personal growth. Knowing your Life Purpose is an important part of Conscious Living.
What are your dreams? Your visions? The Mystic Message is not about giving up your dreams, but about holding them as visions that are with you in the present moment. This is why affirmations are written in present tense rather than in the future. Hold onto your visions as manifested in this blossoming present moment. Your dreams are your dreams NOW and if you focus on the dream as present in a ‘becoming reality’ sense then you are attaching the energy of presence to the dream rather than the energy of lack of the unmaterialized dream living in a nebulous future. Hold that dream in your own space so that it is not ‘the stick’s length’ away from you, which is where it will stay just like the carrot.
Be who you are. Commit to living your Life Purpose. Hold your dreams in the present moment. All of your energy can be focused on now and so can your joy.
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