Change Your Life With Gratitude and Appreciation
Practicing gratitude and appreciation has the power to change every single part of your life. It’s not just a feel-good exercise. Gratitude and appreciation are the two highest vibration emotions on Abraham Hicks’s emotional guidance scale.
When you shift your mindset to gratitude and appreciation, you’ll feel a difference in your body. That’s because your energy changes. Everything changes when your energy changes.
The Mind-Body Connection
The mind and body are inextricably connected. Your thoughts and emotions affect your health… Your thoughts and emotions affect your relationships… Your thoughts and emotions affect your work and business… Your thoughts and emotions affect your quality of life.
It’s proven you can literally think yourself healthy and happy. Simply by intentionally thinking of things for which you’re grateful, you can improve your health and well-being. Contrarily, negative thinking and emotions are detrimental to your health and well-being. Case studies show that negative thoughts and emotions alone can cause death even when no contributing external factors or illness are present.
When Living With Gratitude and Positive Thinking Is Your Norm
When you practice gratitude daily, your ability to live each day with a truly grateful heart becomes easier. Just like lifting heavy weights becomes easier when you work out every day, your ability to sustain a positive mindset regardless of circumstances becomes easier with practice when you’re put to the test.
Every day you practice gratitude and appreciation, your positive thinking and appreciation “muscles” become stronger. Eventually, positive thinking and gratitude become your mind’s default setting. After a while, living with gratitude and a positive mindset becomes your norm.
You Are In Control: Choose Your Thoughts
Every moment you have a choice. While it takes practice, it’s possible to simply notice your thoughts without judgment and choose your thoughts. You are in control.
Regardless of what’s happening around you, what challenges you face, and what circumstances you find yourself in, there’s always something to be grateful for. Always. When everything seems to be going wrong, you have the ability to be choose gratitude and appreciate what’s going right.
What you look for, you’ll find… every time. You control where you place your focus.
Choose Good Thoughts
Where focus goes, energy flows. When you want to feel good, enjoy good health, enjoy your life, improve your energy, business, and relationships, choose good thoughts. It’s that simple, and it becomes second nature with practice.
Good thoughts can start with gratitude and appreciation. Good thoughts sustained turn into positive emotions. Any emotion sustained becomes a state, a way of being. Thinking positive thoughts and feeling good raises your vibration. The better you feel, the higher your vibration. It’s good to feel good.
Becoming Magnetic: Like Attracts Like
According to Abraham Hicks, it only takes 36 seconds for your thoughts to begin attracting that which you think about. Your thoughts create the world around you, and like attracts like. When you think good thoughts, you attract more good thoughts, and you begin attracting more good things into your life.
When you think about things you appreciate and start feeling grateful, you begin attracting more things to appreciate and be grateful for. Once you are thinking positively and feeling good consistently, you know are living at a higher frequency. You are magnetic!
Remember, you attract what you think about, and like attracts like. So, think about good things, and think good thoughts. Everything vibrates. Everything is more energy than matter.
The Choice Is Yours: Choose Gratitude and Appreciation
The choice is yours… From experience, I know how powerful choosing gratitude and appreciation is. Choosing faith, grace, gratitude, and intentionally thinking good thoughts is what’s gotten me through my life’s tremendous storms. Consciously choosing to walk by faith, live with grace, and always think the best is what makes me nearly unshakeable today.
Keys to Happiness and Success
It’s important to remember the happiest and most successful people know these secrets. Most happy and successful people choose to live with gratitude and think positively daily. Choosing to live with gratitude and appreciation is key to being able persevere through trials and setbacks. Perseverance and positive thinking is absolutely necessary to reaching any pinnacle. Many successful people discuss their gratitude practices openly during interviews and in books they’ve written.
Achieve Your Goals with Gratitude and Appreciation
When you want to achieve goals and be successful in anything, know the road to get there is never linear. The road to achieving your goals is full of curves, bumps, and detours that you can’t see when you start, but they’re there. You will encounter them. Developing an attitude of gratitude and appreciating the journey is what helps you reach the finish line.
Gratitude and Appreciation in the Bible
It’s no coincidence that the Bible mentions the concept of giving thanks, gratitude, and thanksgiving more than 150 times. When I’ve faced my own Goliaths, my faith and repeating certain Bible verses over and over again in my mind like a broken record helped me maintain my strength and stability without fear.
Since focusing on Bible verses that reminded me to be grateful helped me remain fearless, strong, and think positively when I couldn’t walk because I was temporarily paralyzed, I know focusing on gratitude and appreciation can work for you, too.
My Life: Going Through Challenges With Gratitude and Appreciation
Even when I couldn’t feel anything on my left side, I chose to feel grateful and appreciate the smallest things. Thinking positively, maintaining a positive mindset, and finding humor in the darkest moments was all possible because of my faith and choosing gratitude and appreciation.
My faith and gratitude sustained me, and they still do. When I was paralyzed and couldn’t walk, I chose gratitude. The Bible says to give thanks in all circumstances and tells us to call things that are not as though they were. There are no exceptions. Always be thankful. Choosing to live with gratitude and appreciation is a life changer. Believe me. I know.
Conclusion
Be grateful for the curves, the challenges. Challenges make you stronger mentally, physically, and emotionally. Challenges give you the opportunity to think differently and provide you with a choice, like a fork in the road.
When challenges show up, and they will, you have two choices. Which will you choose?
Will you choose determination and creative thinking, or will you stop the car, get out, and give up? Quitters never win, and winners never quit.
Appreciate the setbacks; they’re learning experiences. Nothing lasts forever. We live. We learn. We become better and stronger.
Practicing gratitude, living with appreciation, and choosing good thoughts is something almost all happy and successful people have in common. Success leaves clues. This is your clue to start practicing gratitude today.
Check out this post for 27 ways you can easily start incorporating gratitude into your daily life.