Nov
25
Gratitude: Giving Thanks Creates More for which to Be Grateful!
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Spiritual Healing
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude is a state of mind and heart. What we focus on, expands and increases. Since this is the case, focusing on giving thanks for the blessings in our lives keeps us in the dual energies of feeling blessed and mindful of abundance.
This is the PERFECT energy for more blessings to occur!
To build on this experience,
* take a few minutes and pay attention to the positive elements in your life
* write down the key positive elements
* allow the feeling of abundance to fill you … and to spill out around you, wrapping you up safely and securely
Gratitude allows you to bring MORE into your life! In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as recorded in her Sonnet 41:
I thank all who have loved me in their hearts,
Who paused a little near the prison-wall
To hear my music in its louder parts
Ere they went onward, each one to the mart’s
Or temple’s occupation, beyond call.
But thou, who, in my voice’s sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy divinest Art’s
Own instrument didst drop down at thy foot
To hearken what I said between my tears, . . .
Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot
My soul’s full meaning into future years,
That they should lend it utterance, and salute
Love that endures, from Life that disappears!
                        — Elizabeth Barrett Browning