The Power of Gratitude

The idea of any goal achievement journey is to get eventually what you want. This process involves steps, some of them are the actual actions you need to take and others are preparatory. If you do your preparations right you will achieve your goal in the shortest and the easiest way.

When you take steps that involve the evolution of your soul, make sure you don’t do them solely because someone told you to do so. These are steps that you actually need to FEEL. They must involve your emotions not only to help you achieve results that you want but also, in the process, to help you purify your soul and to ease your Karma for this life and any future re-incarnations (if you believe in them).

One of the steps that must involve your feelings is Gratitude. You can’t just say “I am grateful for this and that”, you have to feel it actually. And when you feel it you realize how lucky you are.
Our problem is that we do not notice things that we have, we start to notice them very often when we lose them.

When we’re young we don’t usually feel gratitude for that, in times when we are in good health it doesn’t cross our mind to express our deep gratitude for that – have it ever crossed your mind to express the gratitude to bread you have daily? Unfortunately we take everything for granted. This is especially true in the Western society.

So first thing we need to learn is to express gratitude for things that we already have.
Make it a habit to express your gratitude daily for big and small things that happened throughout the day.

Try to devote separate 10 minutes to this exercise. Do no multitask. Do not do this exercise while you are driving, washing dishes or taking a shower. While you might have things to be grateful while doing different activities for the purpose of this exercise devote 10 minutes to this.

You can even close your eyes to connect better with your inner self. Being GRATEFUL is really a feeling not just words so you need to FEEL it during the exercise.

There is no better way to connect to God than to be grateful for everything you have.

When you master this step, the next step is to be grateful for the things that yet to come into your life… You have to master step one before you can succeed in step two. After all if you are not grateful for lots of things you already have how you can be grateful for the things that haven’t manifested yet?

Here is what Wallace Wattles says about the Gratitude:

… the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your wants to the formless substance.
This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessary to relate yourself to the formless intelligence in a harmonious way.

To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vital importance that I shall give some space to its discussion here and give you instructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring you into perfect unity of mind with the supreme power, or God.

The whole process of mental adjustment and attunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.
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The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

There is a law of gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.

Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith, and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith.

If you want to achieve your desires, here are the steps:

First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.

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