Have you ever noticed there is more harmony in a certain area of your life, or an abundance of something you’ve always found it easy to be grateful for?

Take a moment today to look back and see if you can discover the miraculous power of gratitude at work in your life.

For example, this morning I was sitting in my covered patio looking out and appreciating my backyard.  My yard literally backs up to a lush forest filled with birds, squirrels, deer, butterflies and other wildlife.  I began to think about how much I appreciate…and have always appreciated…being surrounded by nature and having a lovely backyard. I remembered my first backyard when my fiance and I rented a house together for the first time.

As a single adult, I had always lived in an apartment. Even as a child we always lived in an apartment. So my first house with a backyard was a huge treat!  We were living in one of those little 40’s bungalow-style houses in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles with a postage stamp backyard, but I absolutely adored every square inch of it.  There were trees along the fence that gave us privacy.  There was even an apricot tree that I enjoyed watching bloom and come to fruition. I would try to pick the fruit before the squirrels got to them (I think I managed to salvage about 1/3 of  the apricots) and share it at the office. I even canned them one year in brandy and gave them as Christmas presents (the apricots, not the squirels )

We also bought a hammock at one point and oh, how I loved lying in it and staring up at the sky, watching the clouds float past.  The backyard also allowed us the opportunity of having our first dog.  And boy, did she enjoy that backyard!  She would run around and around in circles until she pooped out.  I even grew tomatoes for the first time in my life.  All the while, I was grateful for every aspect of having a backyard.

Universal law states that we attract to ourselves more of that for which we are grateful, right? Well, it was certainly proven in this case.  Each successive house we lived in after that little one had a more expansive and verdant backyard.  This is our third, and by far the most amazing.  It simply just occurred that the houses that were available for sale, and in our price range, happened to have an amazing backyard.  Coincidence? I don’t think so.  It is, in fact, the natural outcome of the practice of proactive gratitude.

I have also noticed a common theme on our Gratitude Experiment community on Facebook .  And that is, that many people are grateful for their friends.  And it seems the more grateful they are for them the more and more amazing friends seem to come into their lives.  This is true for every area of our lives where we find it easy to be grateful.  And the areas we find difficult to be grateful for are usually the areas that are more challenging and limited. (I will address that aspect, and how to transform that experience in a future blog.  Stay tuned.)

So now it’s your turn.  Look at the area or areas of your life where you have historically found it easy to be grateful.  Have you noticed this part of your life expanding, multiplying, or attracting more good?  

Looking forward to reading about your experience!

He said that many of us actually “love to hate something.”  That we get some sort of satisfaction and thrill out of our pet peeves that becomes almost an addictive “high” when we engage in them.  Therefore people with pet peeves tend to engage in thinking about them A LOT and even expecting that which they hate to occur.  “You see, I told you she would do that…ohhhh, that really gets my goat.  I hate that when she does that.”  Etc., etc. 

He followed this by expressing the idea that “the Universe doesn’t know the difference between what you love and what you hate, it only knows what you’re interested in.”  A statement often restated in one way or another by many New Thought/ancient wisdom leaders…because it is so true.

The Universe only knows what’s got your attention and what you’re emotionally caught up in.  The Universe “reads” the tone of your vibration and reflects back into your world more of the same.  This is why it may seem as if you are revisiting the same painful experience over and over again.  This is why complaining can have such a negative impact on our lives.

As practitioners of proactive gratitude, we can use this wisdom to remind us that when we are engaged in noticing and celebrating and documenting those things for which we are grateful, we are actively engaging in what we love.  We are actively vibrating with the energy of love, which the Universe “hears” and reflects back to us. 

So lets spend more time getting “emotionally caught up” in the energy of what is so wonderful about our lives. Let’s be really interested in the good that is all around us and the best in people.  Let’s allow ourselves to really enjoy the good and vibrate with the energy of love.  And then, let’s notice how, day by day, there is more and more to be thankful for.

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I am grateful that my children made it through their overnight camp successfully without even one call home.

I am grateful for the lush, lavish abundance reflected in the trillions of leaves on the millions of trees all around me.

I am grateful for the successful financial negotiations which are almost now complete.

I am grateful for the new skin product that miraculously cleared up my irritated skin.

I am grateful for the support and camaraderie of my “moms night out” group of fabulous women.

I am grateful for being introduced to an accupunturist and the miraculous work it is doing.  I feel great!

Well, we know that sometimes the most amazing blessings come to us out of the most challenging experiences.  At the very least, we’ve learned a lesson. We’ll never make that mistake again, right?  We can also learn more about forgiveness.  We can learn to forgive ourselves, our family and our friends.  What a blessing that is. Forgiveness frees us.

But there is a deeper level on which we can take this message.  Beckwith went on to say that, “when we are grateful for everything, we are literally lifting our vibration…lifting it out of the realm of dense, physical form…out of the realm of ‘effect’ and into the the vibration of ’cause’.”  

Okay, if we accept that everything is energy, and all things vibrate at a certain vibration…and that like vibration attracts that which is like itself, then this begins to make sense.  In other words, if I am focusing on how bad my current experience is, this causes me to feel pretty bad about myself, other people, and life in general.  I am now vibrating at a level that will…if I don’t change it…attract more challenging experiences to me.

But, how do I change it?   I can begin to change my vibration by shifting my perception.   I can shift my perception to a place where I understand that these challenging circumstances and experiences are, in fact, ”effects” in my life.  It’s not who I am. Who I am is far greater than the experiences and circumstances of my life.  I am an expression of Life itself.  When I focus on this…I can be thankful for my life. When I am thankful for my life, I begin to feel better about myself and about life in general. 

When I feel better about these my life, my mind becomes clearer. I can begin to see solutions to certain challenges. I begin to get ideas about how I can change things.  I can also feel more compassion for myself and others.  I can love myself more.  All of this lifts my vibration into the realm of “cause” from which my experience flows.  And the experiences that flow from this vibration are blessed indeed.

What do you think?  Do you think it’s possible to be grateful for everything?  Can you honestly be grateful for everything? Share your thoughts by commenting here.

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Today I am grateful for the experiences in my life that have led me to this point…I am open and available to Spirit to move through me.

The same is true for each one of us. At any moment, you have the choice to choose what you will experience.  I hope you’ll choose to discover…to uncover…the blessing in every experience.  Then, you will never be a victim again. That’s true freedom.

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I am grateful for such a fabulous day…sun shining, cool, moist and sparkling.

I am so grateful for the wonderful dinner with friends…people  who enthusiastically enjoy life!

I am grateful for really good bluegrass music…live.

I am grateful my daughter showed signs of maturity today…handling disappointment with grace as she cheered on others who took the prize. Hurray for her!

I am grateful for that tree today, that is feeling it’s innate “spring-ness” and despite the fact that we have another month of winter, at least, is beginning to bud.  What trust.

I recomend it highly.  So get out your notebook or yellow legal tablet and just start it.  It may seem overwhelming at first, but just start with one…then another one will come…then another.  It doesn’t have to be huge, monumental things.  The small blessings are just as important.  It’s when we acknowledge our blessings in this way that we begin to see how amazing our life really is and how fabulous we really are. And when we do that, we cannot help but attract even more.

My Gratitudes for today…

I am grateful that my kids love the winter break camp they’re in and both are getting to experience how joyful it can be to help kids who are younger or have special needs. It warms my heart.

I am grateful for the conversation with my husband and his understanding and support of me.

I am grateful that everything is falling into place in a perfectly synchronistic way.

I am grateful.

Here’s all you need to do.  Come to the site daily (bookmark us for easy access), look at the daily post (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc.) and click on the “Comment” button.  Post your list of gratitudes there in the comment section.  You can read others there as well.

You can begin at any time, any day.  Just begin it…and watch what unfolds in your life!

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Unlike other fluffy, “feel-good” positive thoughts and motivational quotes, these manifestation tips are transformational tools that will powerfully activate the manifestation process in your life.

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And many blessings on your journey of manifesting a magnificent life!

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Wow, huh?