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!