Gratitude Day 18

Welcome To Day #18 of 21 Days of Gratitude

Begin and end each day with appreciation

We began this 21-day even by affirming that the teachers of “The Secret” have emphasized that “gratitude” is a powerful accelerant of the law of attraction.

Today’s message is directly from the “Secret behind the Secret” authors - Abraham-Hicks.

Abraham’s encouragement: Begin and end each day with appreciation

“We want to give you this affirmation: Today, no matter where I’m going, and no matter what I’m doing, and no matter who I am doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for good feeling things.”

And if we were standing in any of your physical shoes we would put ourselves in bed tonight and we would lie there in an attitude of appreciation.

We would think about this day. We would think about our children. We would think about the earth. We would think about lakes.  We would think about flowers and kittens…

We would think about whatever it is that makes you feel good when you think about it and we would let that be the tone in which we would go to sleep…

And when you awaken, lie in your bed…and reach for the feeling of appreciation that you set in motion before you went to sleep.

Then lie in bed and deliberately appreciate a little more.

Not too long. A minute or two. Lie there and appreciate - don’t force it - just lie there and appreciate…

And before you jump into the day…go to a place and sit deliberately for 15 minutes with the deliberate intention of bringing yourself (through prayer, through mediation, through the quieting of your mind) into alignment with the fullness of who you are

And once you have achieved that feeling - if only for two or three minutes - you have set your day into the most supreme unfolding that is possible.

And when you come out of (prayers and) meditation go right into thoughts of appreciation…

And if you will follow that process for just a handful of days thirty, really, at the outside)

~ you will adjust your set-point of happiness

~ you will change your point of attraction

~ you will get off on the right foot every day of your life experience

and you will begin to discover that your point of attraction has shifted so dramatically that people who know you will begin asking you, ‘what is your secret?’

and you will say ‘I am deliberately setting the tone of everyday before I go to bed the night before and I am awakening into alignment with who I am.

I am starting my day out every day seeing the world through the eyes of (God).

And then say, and ‘I’ve got to tell you, it is a beautiful world.”    Abraham-Hicks, San Antonio, 9/8/07

Action Steps Today:

1) Ponder the following quote below:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we  have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to  clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

2) Continue your daily list of 5 things that you are grateful for in your Gratitude Journal.

Appreciatively,

Elyse