It All Starts With Gratitude
Gratitude is the key to a happy life. Brother Davide Steindl-Rast said it best, “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
We are what we pay attention to. We can tune into any feeling we want. It’s like a radio with many stations…country, rock, easy listening. Each produces a different mood. When I am in the mood for dancing, I am not going to listen to a radio station that plays elevator music. That would only make me fall asleep. If we want to know what kind of vibration we are in, all we have to do is look at our emotional state.
If I am feeling angry, I am living in a negative vibration. When I am feeling angry, it sets in motion a way of being that produces a certain result, one I am usually not pleased with.
Gratitude is an emotional state that produces a positive vibration. When we are living with a grateful heart, we become open to prosperity.
Wallace D. Wattles wrote in The Science of Getting Rich that lack of gratitude would keep us in poverty. Gratitude keeps us hooked up to our source of supply, some call God and others call by many other names.
Having an attitude of gratitude will keep you from falling into lack and limitation thinking.
So let’s take an action this week to keep us hooked up to our source of supply. Let’s keep a gratitude journal. If you don’t already do this, start. It is life changing. Every day, write down at least five things you are grateful for. They don’t have to be earth shattering. When it’s hard to find things to be grateful for, I think of things like coffee and blue skies. That’s ok.
So if you are already keeping a gratitude journal, great…keep going. If you are not, give it a try. It will change your life.
Susan Bonfiglio
