I am happy to report that I am doing better now.  I am off the ventilator but still in the hospital.  But it got me thinking about abundance and how fortunate I truly am. I have been so blessed by the abundance of prayers and support that I have received from both my friends in my daily life and from my online friends.  When I fell ill, my online friends circulated the news and started an international prayer room.  I was blessed to have someone put my name in the Wailing Wall.

When I was wakened from my unconscious state and saw all that was done in my name, as sick as I was, I knew I was rich beyond measure.  I have one friend that I met online who lives in Canada and sent me a card every week. It wasn’t just the cards, flowers and calls. They were and continue to be wonderful.  But it was the realization that I have an abundance of love in my life.  I wouldn’t trade that for all the riches in the world.  Prosperity and abundance are not just about money and what we possess…it is about love and friendship.

In this time in our lives, it is so easy to focus on what is happening in the world, our 401K’s….and don’t get me wrong, they are important.  But remember to look at the blessings you have in your life also and be grateful for them.

I’ve been given many gifts throughout this ordeal.  I have been given a second chance at life.  And I have been shown how rich my life truly is. So many people never find this out until it’s too late.

To all my friends and to those I will never know or meet who prayed for me or sent well wishes, my most profound thank you for being a gift in my life.  I love you all.   I also want to say a special thank you to Dr. Brij Sharma and Dr. Kwiatek for saving my life.  A special thank you to Linda Navarro, who helped me enormously during this time.  And also to the team of nurses, speech pathologists, social workers, respiratory, physical and occupational therapists and personal care aides at North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove. They went above and beyond their jobs and offered me support and encouragement that I will never forget.  They are all angels in my book.

If you would like to share your experience of love and abundance, it would be an honor to include it here.  We can all use that kind of good news!

Susan Bonfiglio

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So for all my friends whether you celebrate this day of Thanksgiving formally or not, may you be blessed with abundance and prosperity.  May you live in a state of Thanksgiving!

Susan Bonfiglio

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But the lessons of September 11th go beyond loss and pain. I was privileged to work as a grief counselor at the Yankee Stadium Memorial Service in NYC. It was a time the city came together, our sadness and pain the back drop for one of our finest hours as a community of people.

September 11th taught me that I need to embrace life, to live it abundantly! None of us is promised a tomorrow. Each day is precious. No matter what the stock market is, the size of our bank accounts, whether we are in the jobs we want, or what we look like, we are here today. And that means we have the ability to change the quality of our lives.

In the times of loss and sadness, I have found my gratitude. I remember to say thank you. I appreciate the small gestures, the offer of a tissue in a time of grief. When I can stay in that gratitude, I live with a prosperity consciousness. I am blessed beyond good fortune to have people who care about me and that my needs are taken care of.

From this day forward may you live in that prosperity consciousness! There is more than enough. We are blessed at all times, no matter what our present circumstances.

And may God bless the families who have lost their loved ones.

Susan Bonfiglio

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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

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