How is your life when you feel gratitude for everything that you experience?

[Linda Lawson]

Gee, okay gratitude for everything. I haven't experienced that much gratitude yet.Imagine the possibilities!

I know that when I do feel graitude it changes how I see what is going on for me. I focus on what I learned from a situation and I am a thankful for whatever feeling or behavior it evokes rather than defaulting to feeling like a victim of circumstance.

Feeling. gratitude opens the door for me to accept and love my choices regardless of what they are ...and to re-choose. .Feeling gratitude all the time .?

I see and feel myself experiencing freedom in all moments.. I choose that for myself now.

Warm Regards,
Linda Lawson

[Linda Lawson]

"There is no way we can be grateful for Everything and we always have grievance towards someone,someone whom I do not love and forgive.Living now on Earth,knowing that there is someone or something that bugs me...going on is easy , by if not forgiving but by just forgetting or ,because we never forget...by just letting it be a part in our minds,but just a tiny part which comes out every now and then...a pink or yellow or blue or green bubble...let it out ,burst it and go on,The bubble will appear again ,you know it,but use the needle you have in your hed and say "Screw this,it won´t bother me more than I want it to bother me".It will bother you for a time,then you will find new worries ...."

Well said, Kari. I love the way u say what is on your mind. In my studies with those a few steps ahead of me, I have found there i s more to gratitude than I previously knew.

Gratitude is something to choose to feel . It comes easily for those times of hugging a warm and friendly doggie, or a young sweet child , but for the challenging things like worrisome folks or the car breaking down in busy traffic ,hmmm. that's another story.

So when those challenging times come up,I practice choosing gratitude. We can all ask Source within to create its own knowing of how to feel gratitude when we just don't feel like it.With the same will and choice to say "Screw this , it won't bother me any more than I let it bother me," we may choose gratitude.

I mentioned in an earlier response that researchers have found that gratitude has a healthy effect on the body and its systems.It has a higher resonance than conditional love. So, there is the quality of life one chooses to experience and the quality of what one transmits to others and the environment to consider , if we like, as well.


warm regards,
LInda

[Amya]

hello linda

all the time is a great goal - :)
it seems that when i am in the flow of feeling grateful, appreciative of the simple beauty in my day, in my moments, that it builds on itself, it gets easier with each bit that i add...and as that is happening, my sense of time changes, so that it can feel like "all the time" for even just a few moments - wonderful to work with, to notice, to feel as a reality
and yes - incredibly freeing to be on such a path!
here's to each step being the right one, no matter what it is...building the bridge as we walk

in light
aa

[Gratitude Power]

Gratitude Power said:

When you are in a vibration of gratitude it does change how you feel--it doesn't mean that you have to feel grateful for every difficulty or frustration in your life, it just means that you are able to come from a different space when you process these events. Imagine being angry with a situation and make a choice to deal with the siuation through compassion versus anger and resentment. That's what the vibration of gratitude does for you. You make different choices. Love and gratitude Karen

[Linda Lawson]

Hi Karen,

"When you are in a vibration of gratitude it does change how you feel--it doesn't mean that you have to feel grateful for every difficulty or frustration in your life, it just means that you are able to come from a different space when you process these events. Imagine being angry with a situation and make a choice to deal with the siuation through compassion versus anger and resentment. That's what the vibration of gratitude does for you. You make different choices. Love and gratitude Karen"

I love that everyone has something to add to the mix on this discussion.

I see I have left out that gratitude is for the learning that results from the situation.As we are here to further the soul's growth, according to some wise Ones, the soul may require a bit more challenge that we, as personalities, might choose.


Does this make sense?

warm regards,
Linda

[Gratitude Power]

Linda Lawson said:

Hi Karen,

"When you are in a vibration of gratitude it does change how you feel--it doesn't mean that you have to feel grateful for every difficulty or frustration in your life, it just means that you are able to come from a different space when you process these events. Imagine being angry with a situation and make a choice to deal with the siuation through compassion versus anger and resentment. That's what the vibration of gratitude does for you. You make different choices. Love and gratitude Karen"

I love that everyone has something to add to the mix on this discussion.

I see I have left out that gratitude is for the learning that results from the situation.As we are here to further the soul's growth, according to some wise Ones, the soul may require a bit more challenge that we, as personalities, might choose.


Does this make sense?

warm regards,
Linda

Yes--I agree, Gratitude is food for the soul.
Gratitude Power

[Ron Alexander]

Gratitude - Another reason to be grateful for everything
WORD FOR THE DAY
Monday, Jul. 13 (gratefulness.org)

Every time you express gratitude
or compassion for any aspect of
yourself or someone else,
you breathe life in.


Mariah Fenton Gladis
Tales of a Wounded Healer

[Lindy]

Hi Violette,

Your words are so true! At the lowest points in my life during my late twenties, realization set in that my depression was always about what was happening to me, how my life was being affected, why wasn't I accomplishing greatness. My life was overcome with I and ME. My focus became to give, give, give to others. My feeling of gratitude comes directly from stopping the me and focusing on the we. I now look at others and focus on how I can be a positive to someone else's negative.

My feelings of gratitude come from my interactions with others, to see others happiness, to take one small moment and be a light!

[Karin Sahlman]

Hello Everyone! Well it's a difficult question .. although I really TRY to feel gratitude in all I experience, I seem to
forget it half of the time .. I guess I don't concentrate the way I should.
One thing is for sure, I will start a new job this coming Monday, and for that I'm REALLY Grateful, as I've been
unemployed since 2007. I will Love my new job, taking old people out to different places ... I guess it's the little
things in this Life that I need to remember to be grateful for ... I am trying. Tips from you dear friends, I will treasure
and hold close to my Heart.
Love, Joy and Light
Karin