A LIFE WITH AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO TRULY APPRECIATE AND BE GRATEFUL FOR WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE RECEIVE, WE EXPERIENCE HAPPINESS AND JOY. PEOPLE LIKE TO BE THANKED AND WE ALL BENEFIT WHEN WE SINCERELY COMPLIMENT ONE ANOTHER. TO IGNORE EXCELLENT SERVICE, A GENEROUS GESTURE OR AN ACT OF HELPFULNESS IS THOUGHTLESS, POSSIBLY UNKIND AND BOUND TO CAUSE SOME FORM OF RELATIONSHIP EROSION. LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE TO OTHERS WILL BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AND OF COURSE CAUSE PEOPLE TO WANT TO HELP YOU MORE IN THE FUTURE. TO OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR FEELING OF THANKS, APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE IS A MARK OF HEALTHY SELF-ESTEEM AND TRUE HUMILITY CREATES PEACE, CONTENTMENT AND WELL-BEING. TO LIVE IN GRATITUDE HAS MANY BENEFITS. LIKE IT IS ACTUALLY TO LIVE IN ABUNDANCE. WHEN WE ARE CONSTANTLY IN THE ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE, FEELING THANKFUL NOT ONLY FOR WHAT WE HAVE RECEIVED BUT FOR WHAT WE KNOW AND TRUST THAT WE WILL CONSTANTLY BE PROVIDED, WE BEGIN TO MAGNETICALLY ATTRACT ABUNDANCE. OUR NORMAL STATE IS THAT OF ABUNDANCE. IT IS ONLY OUR CONNECTION WITH THE RACE MIND CONSCIOUSNESS OF LACK, AND OUR OWN CONDITIONING, WHICH KEEPS US FROM ACCEPTING THAT WHICH IS TRULY OURS. ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AT THE ROOT OF THE MAJOR PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS IN ANCIENT TIMES, WAS THAT OF ALL-SUFFICIENCY. IT WAS TAUGHT THAT TO UNDERSTAND ONE'S SELF WAS TO UNDERSTAND GOD, THAT BY GOING DEEP WITHIN, ONE COULD TRANSMUTE FEAR INTO LOVE, IGNORANCE INTO WISDOM AND LACK INTO ABUNDANCE. IF WE FOCUS ON WHAT WE DO NOT HAVE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN LACK. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF WE CONTINUE TO BE AWARE OF THE UNLIMITED ABUNDANCE ALL AROUND US, AND CONSTANTLY FEEL THE RESULTING GRATITUDE, ABUNDANCE WILL CONTINUE TO BE OUR STATE OF AFFAIRS, AND EVEN INCREASE. THERE IS NOTHING LACKING ON THIS PLANET, IT IS THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM THAT HAS GONE AWRY DUE TO OUR ILLUSIONS ABOUT LACK, NOT TO MENTION MAN'S GREED, DUE AGAIN, TO FEAR OF LACK, THAT HAS INDEED KEPT US IN LACK. IF WE FEEL SUBCONSCIOUSLY "UNWORTHY" OF THE RICHES AND WEALTH OF THE UNIVERSE, WE WILL BLOCK THE FLOW OF ABUNDANCE COMING TOWARDS US. MAKING AN EFFORT TO CONSTANTLY BRING OUR CONSCIOUS AWARENESS BACK TO AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE, WILL IN ITSELF SET UP A MAGNETIC ATTRACTION TO ABUNDANCE.
CICERO WRITES "GRATITUDE IS NOT ONLY THE GREATEST OF VIRTUES, BUT THE PARENT OF ALL OTHERS."