Designing a passionate life includes gratitude. Since we are in the week for Thanksgiving here in the United States I thought it would be appropriate to talk about gratitude. I do believe that living in gratitude is key to living a passionate life because gratitude is saying 'yes' to your life. It opens you up to the possibilities and the energy flow of action and abundance. I don't think we celebrate gratitude just one time a year and then we're done with it. It's a way of life, of opening and letting Source flow through you.
Start practicing gratitude no matter what your outside world looks like. Depending on where you are, you may be thinking that it's really hard to find anything to be grateful for in your life. By starting the gratitude process, it becomes easier and easier to be grateful and you start to see a world full of possibilities and you take actions that reflect those possibilities. The moment you say 'yes' you accept and love what is. Resisting what is present in your life only makes it grow stronger.
I've listed a number of ways to start practicing gratitude below. Read through them and try a few of them and create a practice around the ones that work for you or create your own. Try it for a week and see how you feel.
Ideas on How to Practice Gratitude
- The first thing you do in the morning when you wake up is to say thank you for the day ahead of you.
- Be open to the wonders of the day and say thank you when you see the possibilities. Start small if you have to but find those possibilities and be grateful for them.
- Notice how you connect with yourself, others, and Source and say thank you when you notice it.
- Look in the mirror and say thank you.
- Think of something that you are really grateful for. See it, feel it, imagine it and shout out loud, THANK YOU!!!!
- Think of something that you are not grateful for, perhaps a problem, circumstance, event etc. See it, feel it, imagine it and shout out loud, THANK YOU!!!
Saying thank you goes into potentiality and opens us to the things in our lives that need blessing. I do know for a fact that focusing on what is not working, causes suffering. The choice is yours. Start living a passionate life now, sign up for my free PDD report.
