Gratitude Games

Gratitude is the key that opens the door to your dreams manifesting in this physical reality. I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about gratitude and its magical affects it seems to have on one’s life but do you know why? It has to do with the law of attraction, which refers to the fact that we live in a magnetic universe. There is no exclusion, only inclusion. You get more of what you focus on, because it is impossible to receive something you are not in tune with. So while this can work in the negative, it works equally well in the positive and looking at gratitude is a perfect example.

According to Paul the Venetian, “Gratitude is really a stream of energy going forth from you with a BLESSING. Since Ll life desires to be loved, your gratitude causes more and more of the intelligences in all life, to RUSH to you, to be blessed by your gratitude, and to be temporarily relieved from the pressure of discord, which they have been under. Lack of gratitude for the good now experienced, has prevented many a door on opening for earnest students and prevented the abundance of good, which they desired and expected. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR GRATITUDE ND LOVE!” (Ascended Masters and Their Retreats)

So gratitude it would seem, is literally the key that opens every door. Without it, we are literally locking ourselves out of all the good that the Universe, that God, desires for us! Gratitude is good for more then just trying to accumulate more things, it has an almost magical way of soothing the emotions. Next time you’re stressed or depressed, just start thinking about all the things you’re grateful for and say thank you, out loud if you’re alone. And start really small, think about how everything you have is really only borrowed. If you contemplate that for a few moments you will realize the truth behind that, because even our physical bodies are on loan from our creator. If we truly owned it, we wouldn’t have to give it back at the close of an life span. So if even your body is borrowed, perhaps you should start there! The following is an example of train of thought gratitude exercise:

Wake up in the morning, open your eyes and stretch. Breathe in the fresh air and think to yourself, “Wow, thank you God for another day. Thank you for this fresh air. Thank you for my lungs that work, so that I may enjoy this fresh air. Thank you for my sense of smell that I can appreciate the morning scents. Thank you for my eyes and my eyesight that I may see the beauty that is all around. Thank you for my wife that’s still asleep next to me. Thank you for our loving marriage. Thank you for bringing her into my life.”

Then perhaps you start to get up to go make tea and you see your little dogs,  “Thank you God for my fur babies, thank you for their health and thank you for saving her that one time when she was really sick. Thank you God for the love they bring into this house.”

As you walk down the hallway to your kitchen you notice the wood beneath your feet and the smooth walls of the hallway and you start to say, “Thank you for our home, that keeps us safe and warm. Thank you for these floors, thank you for these walls, thank you for every single piece of furniture in this house!”

You finally get to your kitchen and while you’re preparing the tea, you give thanks for the clean water and for the fire on the stove. You’re grateful for the tea, for the cups, for the lazy morning. And as you’re doing this you realize it feels good, and it’s easy to keep going. It’s easy to keep seeing things and realizing that you should be grateful for that thing too, no matter what it is! And before you know it, there just seems to be an endless line of things to be grateful for!

This really works but don’t believe me. Experiment with it yourself. Find your own way to play this very personal game, but play it and play it often. I have a friend that plays his gratitude game every night when we walks his dogs. He told me that on the first time around the block he lists out loud to his dogs all the things he’s grateful for and the on the way back he tells the universe all the things he wants, and gives thanks that they are imminent. He lives a charmed life and will tell anyone that his life turned around shortly after he started playing his gratitude game every single night.

So I challenge you to a a 30 Day Gratitude Challenge. Commit to playing a gratitude game with yourself or even with your spouse, every day for 30 days, you can do it silently to yourself, with a loved one, a journal, a blog, a vlog, a vision board, be creative! But whatever you do, start being more grateful, especially when you’re stressed. Whenever you’re starting to get upset, see if you can calm yourself down and change your frequency simply by tuning into things that you are grateful for, and tuning out the things that stress you. Try it and see for yourself! Anything is possible, especially when you get out of your own way and just be grateful!