Last month I began a new gratitude practice. I’m not so sure what prompted me to do this, but it would not be exaggerating to say that my life has been truly incredible ever since.
If you’ve been maintaining a gratitude process like a gratitude journal, you might want to try what I call the "every moment" gratitude practice.
It’s exactly what it sounds like - practicing gratitude in every moment.
The results are just amazing. Of course, the first thing you’ll realize is that you feel better. But it’s not just that - feeling good is just the top layer of it all.
I find it’s a spiritually renewing practice, much like meditation. You go very quickly from simply feeling good - no, make that feeling great! - to having this awareness of the beauty of the world, and an immediate sense of the love that’s inherent in everything.
I think we have a gratitude muscle, and like anything, the more you exercise it, the easier it gets. And even when events happen that you don’t particularly like, it starts becoming easier and easier to see through things to something you can appreciate. Because there is always something to appreciate.
With the every-moment gratitude practice, you see the gifts that have always been there, all around you, in every moment of the day, with every breath that you take.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Beautiful! I love how you are working with gratitude and sharing it with others. It surely is, as far as I’m concerned, once of the highest principles that we can work with. Not only that, but it creates a whole new quality of experience.
I believe that to live a life you are genuinely thankful for is among the greatest of human achievements.
I think that gratitude is a state of being. I have a free book on gratitude at my website. www.lessonsinlawofattraction.com. Gratitude is a powerful tool for activating the law of attraction deliberately and creating such experiences as abundance!
In joy and abundance,
Kendra
May 29th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
This is a great article! The only thing I would add is that we offer gratitude in advance of receiving - the “thank you, as if you had already received it” It has certainly worked for me and changed my life, for the better.
Love and blessings,
Ken
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I really enjoyed this article. The decision to be grateful can produce great results, and can strengthen bonds of friendship with little other effort. Gratitude is an action word.