Gratitude is the best attitude

One guess guys, what do you think is life’s best kept secret or the least popular subject to talk about? It can be found in this phase “Gratitude is the best Attitude.” Our reactions can stem from a knowing nod while uttering “yes, I know I should feel grateful” but often it is expressed more along the lines of “only if you know, tell me, what have I got to be grateful about?”

This word did not exist in my vocabulary for a long time as I had perfected my half cup empty theory. I had no clue what people were talking about when being “happy for no reason” (OOPS.. sorry to Marci Shimoff who wrote this lovely book and for whom I had the pleasure of learning from for a whole year). What Marci described on the front of her book actually started to make sense to me (i.e. “7 steps to being happy from the inside out.”) I get it now. Finding happiness is an inside job and the fastest way to get us there is by practising gratitude.

But! How do we learn that, reality is reality, right? Come and look at my pile of “?” (choose your own word here please) and I can give you a long list of events (and people) that contribute to making me so miserable.

You may have heard of creating Gratitude Journals or counting things we are grateful about at the end of a day. They worked as having these repetitive thoughts and given enough time would mould into a belief - as beliefs are just thoughts gathering momentum (like an iceberg is made out of the same H2O, if they tried long and hard enough then could “harden” themselves up). Beliefs in turn bring forth the equivalent emotions.

Allow me to explain. For example if I choose to believe [chosen already] that I am a bloody good blogger and that all of you would love to read my blogs, once convinced I would feel so excited screaming “I am so happy,  I can’t stand it!”…and of course you heard me loud and clear, thus you turned up.. Now I have managed to combine my positive intention (thought) with my elevated emotion and you found yourself reading this blog. Would you read it if I first sent out a signal to the Universe that it is not very good, not worth your time and energy? If I did then I might as well close up shop.

So….be careful how we align our thoughts (highest dosage being given out in concentrated intention form) if we want to continue to see goodies arriving at our front doors. If we can apply gratitude to every single thing by deliberately “seeing” the best outcome/learning opportunity, then the Universe would MATCH our vibration/energy/frequency. Thoughts are Energy and likes attract likes, that’s all.  

I had an opportunity to practise how this law of gratitude works. Many years ago as I was lying on a hospital bed after being told “You have Cancer” with no warnings which turned out to be a false diagnosis. I was in such a state of shock that a shut-eye would be out of the question. So I played a “gratitude game” with myself. I looked around my surroundings, noting every item I could afford to feel grateful about. This ranged from appreciating all these young Doctors and Nurses (they all looked so young these days and I wanted to feed them and make them sit down to rest), then followed by touching the soft blankets, the clean linens, plastic wrapped pillows.. (sorry, maybe give that last one a miss). I broadened my vision further, now thanking the Architects, builders, and interior designers who created such a nice healing place for me. When I reached item 26 (oh, incidentally that was the typical hospital tomato soup), I was fast asleep. I think the reason rested upon the fact that fear is the most disturbing power in our life to our survival - but at that moment, when I realised that so much had already been given to me, fear took a backseat. In other words, my acknowledgment of my half full cup restored my sanity, which in turn became my rescue remedy.

Now I understand that our Universe eavesdrops on us 24/7, so the more grateful I am, it will match my beliefs and shower me with more like-items to be grateful about. Please do not hold onto any “lack” of thoughts and entertaining “down and out” emotions while expecting abundance to arrive, it doesn’t manifest that way. The Universe works on the Laws of Attractions, it follows our “direction”, not the other way round. It is pure common sense, sadly sometimes common sense is not that common.

I am asking you to experiment on yourself if you can in fact entertain two opposite emotions simultaneously, and that is “can you feel grateful and be miserable at the same time???”

...and how I dig Dr Joe Dispenza’s statement that:  

Gratitude is the ULTIMATE STATE of receivership.  

Go and enjoy a matching play/game with your Universe, and do stress less in knowing your Universe has you well covered already.