When you feel gratitude, you attract wealth. But how can you feel gratitude for something you don’t have? If you are struggling to launch your business, the bills are piling up, and you haven’t had a new client in weeks, how do you feel grateful for anything? Let me teach you how to feel grateful and draw wealth and abundance to you like a magnet.
But first, did you know gratitude comes in two levels? The first level is the very superficial level. This is feeling gratitude for things and circumstances that are in your life at the moment. Your Mom drilled it into you to say “thank you” when you received things, so this is the type of gratitude we experience most easily. You are grateful for your house, your stuff, your health, the people in your life, your job, your skills, the fact that you have a long weekend approaching.
This is all fine and good, but it’s pretty ineffective when it comes to drawing more abundance into your life. When you try to come up with a list of things to be thankful for, you might say, “Well, with this economy, at least I still have a job.” This isn’t real gratitude. It doesn’t make you feel joyful or happy; it just makes you feel temporarily safe. If you’re having a pity party and are full of negative thoughts, starting with this level of gratitude is an easy way to start turning your thoughts around.
The type of gratitude that is going to rock your life is a much deeper gratitude. It involves being thankful for the big picture things like your life, the perfection of the universe, and everything in your life (good and bad!). Yes, it’s being grateful for your very existence – every moment of it and everything in it. It’s being overjoyed at the chance to exist and shape the universe.
This gratitude isn’t something that is easy to experience. It’s akin to unconditional love, another difficult concept to achieve. You have to let go of fear, let go of judgment, let go of negativity, and be thrilled that you are here living the human experience in the universe. It needs to be fully ingrained in your personality – those who experience this kind of gratitude almost have a glow about them. Everything in their life is a “wow” moment and they are overwhelmed with gratitude in all things.
Have you ever stood at the top of a mountain, or on the shores of a beach at sunset and felt simply overwhelmed with the beauty of it? That is the feeling that you want to cultivate in your soul – but about all things in your life!
When you are in this state of mind, you no longer have to remind yourself to think grateful thoughts. You ARE grateful. It is a part of your being. When you vibrate at this level, you’re activating the Law of Attraction and attracting the good experiences that share that vibration. The people, places, and events that you need will appear in your life as if by magic.
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