SECTION 3 - The Power of Gratitude

Gratitude is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.

Gratitude is more than good manners.

A regular Gratitude practice is transformational.

It helps you to pay purposeful attention, which is also good. Unexpected things start to happen when you have a Gratitude practice.

Things that happen when you’re grateful include:

  • You attract good things (law of attraction).

  • Attention is focussed on good things flowing into your life. Do you attract more of what your focus on. It puts you into a particular state of being.

  • A loop of happiness is created.

  • Like attracts like.

  • Your experience greater happiness.

  • When were grateful, our energy is devoted to being thankful for the wonderful life that we have.

  • When we are grateful, we feel happy, so we’re more grateful, so we feel happier. A loop of happiness is created.

  • Remember that negative thoughts attract negativity in your life. Gratitude practice helps you become more positive and therefore you attract more positivity into your life.

  • Your relationships deepen.

  • Gratefulness is magnetic. Gratitude is a happiness vitamin.

  • Thankfulness is an exchange of positive energy between two people. When we’re grateful to others, it attracts them to us.

  • You become healthier.

    • In one study, participants were asked to either count their blessings or their burdens. Those who counted their blessings:

      • Had 16% fewer physical symptoms;

      • Spent 19% more time exercising;

      • Had 10% less physical pain;

      • Got 8% more sleep;

      • Had 25% increased sleep quality.

  • Gratefulness is powerful when it comes to promoting good health.

  • Gratefulness puts positive energy out into the world and the universe – YOU ARE MORE OPTIMISTIC.

    • Studies show a 5% increase in optimism for those who kept a weekly gratitude, journalling practice.

    • Studies show a 15% increase in optimism for those who kept a daily gratitude journalling practice.

  • Optimism is significantly correlated with gratitude. Everything seems possible.

  • Your mental health improves. Specifically, gratitude:

    • reduces toxic emotions such as envy and regret;

    • minimizes depression; and

    • decrease stress.

  • If you want to get a better hold on your emotions, and start living a mentally, healthy life, start practising gratitude.

  • Your personality is enhanced. Specifically, gratitude helps you:

    • Become emotionally resilient;

    • Feel better on a consistent basis;

    • Deal with fewer toxic emotions;

    • Become more relaxed;

    • Become more optimistic;

    • Become less focussed on material things;

    • Become more spiritually connected;

    • Become less self-centered; and

    • Have more self-esteem.

  • Your level of gratefulness has a direct and major impact on your overall personality.

  • You become less materialistic.

  • When you’re ungrateful you lose much of your ability to enjoy life, and you feel more negative emotions.

  • When you’re grateful, you feel it deep sense of well-being.

    • You’re content with what you have;

    • You don’t compare yourself to others; and

    • You are more inclined to be generous to others.

  • You’re extremely grateful for what you already have.

  • You are more spiritual.

  • When you are more spiritual, you raise your overall energy level so that you receive even more good things from the universe.

  • Spirituality and gratefulness go hand in hand.

  • Gratitude can:

    • Strengthen your health;

    • Enhance your personality;

    • Deep in your relationships; and

    • Increase your overall levels of happiness.

  • Overall, gratefulness has the potential to be a complete game changer in your life!

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