Our experience of living in a spirit of gratitude contributes to our state of happiness and joy we feel each day, and is connected to abundance in our lives. Having gratitude in our heart can make each day brighter, more fulfilling and enjoyable without changing anything else in our daily routine.
Response of Gratitude
It is really not about how much or how little we perceive that we have, but our genuine response of gratefulness to everything that surrounds us in our life each day. Have you ever noticed how people who are appreciative for all they have in their lives seem to live more happily and abundantly? They are grateful in situations when others are distraught. They see abundance where many see scarcity. “Lucky” things just seem to happen to them more often than to other people. We might ask, “Why is that?”
Connection is the Key
The experience of living in gratitude is about our living in connection with Source, the Divine spring from which each of us receives all that is in our lives — from our spiritual gifts, to our spouse, our children, friends, our home, our material possessions, to our job and the abundance that flows from all that we do. Living in gratitude cultivates a positive, uplifting flow in our lives.
Glass Half Full
Yet, our human self can often focus upon and see what is missing, what has been lost, rather than seeing what is present and beneficial around us.
We may compare our lives and situations to others, which is entirely unfair to both ourselves and to them, since every one of us is unique. Each of us has blessings in our life that reflect our special qualities and our spiritual individuality that we are unable to see, which are silently envied by those we know, wishing they were more like us in certain areas of their lives.
Recognize We’re Already Blessed
Living in gratitude, or being grateful, is a recognition that we are already blessed in so many ways. However, it is all too easy to dismiss it as commonplace. Even people who live in the circles of the affluent can see their luxury homes and showy cars as plain and ordinary because all the people they know have ones that are so much better. They are unhappy in situations where most people would feel thrilled.
The abundance of blessings in our lives can blind us to the abundance of blessings we are already endowed with.
Gratitude Magnetizes Abundance to Us
When we live in the energy and attitude of gratitude, we naturally open ourselves and magnetize a greater unfoldment of situations, things and people into our experience that sustain and increase our level of joy, happiness and gratefulness.
In turn, it opens the faucet of energetic flow that the Divine, our guides, angels and the Universe can use to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and abundance in all forms, including love, happiness, joy, rewarding relationships as well as material increase and bounty. We become open to receive those things that are truly important to us, which may not be what many people perceive as valuable.
When we recognize that the unfoldment in our daily life is related to the nature of our connection with gratitude, we can choose to live in it.
Our Lives Shine Brightly
Good and bad times, alike, will come and go. Gratitude keeps our focus on all that brings us joy, shining brightness in our own lives and those of others.
Living in gratitude is about our recognition of thankfulness in everything, everyone and all situations in our lives, for they all teach us what we came to learn, while enjoying inner fulfillment at the same time.
