How to Practice Gratitude -

Gratitude is one of many positive emotions. It’s about focusing on what’s good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have.

Gratitude is a learned experience and it needs to be cultivated. It moves us to a place where we feel whole, fulfilled, and complete. From this place, we can respond to life with a sense of value and gratefulness.

Gratitude is a high octave spiritual emotion that graciously combines with other highly charged spiritual energies such as compassion, unconditional love, and acceptance – attitudes that elevate us to feel, with open hearts, the joy and awe for all we have in our lives.

When we enter a state of gratitude, we open our spiritual channels that allow more of the same to flow in. When we give thanks, we raise our spiritual frequency to a higher level. This magnetic energy that we create then attracts more of the same to our life at a higher vibrational level.

What it Means to Have Gratitude

Gratitude is one of many positive emotions. It’s about focusing on what’s good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have. Gratitude is pausing to notice and appreciate the things that we often take for granted, like having a place to live, food, clean water, friends, family, even computer access.

Gratitude is always a two-way street, a magnet with two sides that reflect both giving and receiving. We need to do more than just express our thanks for all we have however; we also need to give back. Giving and receiving are part of the same circle, which runs in circuits.

While we may be blessed with a powerful inflow of this magnetic energy, we also need to complete the circle by creating an equally strong outflow.

A good example of “what goes around comes around” is courtesy between drivers on the road. When we choose to give a fellow driver a break by letting them get in front of us or allowing them time to find their way, it will come back to us time and again – in reduced stress and feeling better about ourselves, just for being kind on the road.

What are Examples of Gratitude

Show Gratitude To People Who Love You

Do something little but thoughtful for them—like clean up after dinner!

Tell them you’re there if they have anything they want to talk about—and let them know they have your full attention.

Compliment them on a talent, skill, or strength that you admire.

Share a specific example of something they did for you and how it made a difference in your life.

Give them something of yours that you think they would enjoy, and let them know specifically why you want them to have it.

Show Gratitude To People Who Serve You

Give a larger tip than usual.

Exhibit patience, even if you’re in a hurry.

Smile when you order or request their assistance. Smiles are contagious, so give one away!

Offer to get a coffee for them, if it’s someone working in or outside your home.

Praise them in a review and/or recommend them to people you know.

Show Gratitude To People That Work With You

Write a hand-written Thank You note.

If you’re running a meeting, keep it short to show them you appreciate and respect their time.

Be the calm, light voice in a stressful situation.

Listen if they’re having a difficult day, and recognize if they need space to figure things out on their own, not advice or help.

Offer to lighten their workload in some way if you are able.

Show Gratitude To Yourself

If someone compliments you, thank them and let them know you’re proud of that skill, talent, or accomplishment.

Make a list of ways you’ve impressed yourself lately. Give yourself time to enjoy a passion you’re sometimes too busy to fit in.

Schedule a date with yourself—an afternoon or evening that’s all about you.

Take an inventory of all the good things you’ve done for other people and the world.

Compliment yourself—say it while looking in the mirror, write it in a journal, or on a sticky note and put it on your refrigerator.

We are happy to be alive. We trust our own self and the Universe, feeling secure in the knowledge that we are being taken care of, that everything we need is being supplied for us.