by Anthony Cappello

Created on: August 23, 2009   Last Updated: August 24, 2009

Gratitude is one of the most compelling healing forces in our lives. It helps us to get out of our heads and into our hearts. When you are truly in gratitude, your mindset and emotions can lift you higher and higher. No matter what is going on around you, having a healthy sense of gratitude in your heart can brighten up any moment. For gratitude merely affirms what is so, and this simple affirmation carries a powerful energy.

Not only does gratitude give you a higher sense of appreciation for what you already have, it also builds momentum to have more great things in your life. By thanking God, the Universe, Spirit for all the blessings that have been bestowed upon you, you open your heart more and more for more of that light to come in and bless you more and more.

By thanking Spirit in advance for something that you wish to manifest in your life, this helps attract the said outcome in your life. The reason being is that you create the mindset that what you desire is already yours. This takes faith to build this sort of momentum, but once you truly believe this in your heart, you will see more and more things begin to manifest in your life. A good way to build this sort of momentum is to visualize what you desire as already part of your life.

Even if you only start out for 10 minutes a day, meditate on this idea and allow all the good feelings to come in when you picture yourself truly having what you want. This takes faith and practice, because at first your "rational" mind may not believe these new ideas and may try to reject them. Just observe these thoughts as merely old programs in your mind and remind yourself that you are changing into a new mindset. Keep on doing this and allow the excitement of this possibility to grow within you. Don't worry about the details about how you are going to achieve a particular outcome, just hold the idea firmly of how good it would feel if you really had this or that in your life, and let the Universe handle the details. It can be anything from more money to more spiritual balance in your life.

Thoughts are energy just like anything else in the physical world, so directing that energy to a heart felt sense of gratitude helps you to attract more goodness in your life as well as helping raise your vibrational level to a higher sense of peace and love. For it has been said that if you have the faith of but a mustard seed, you can move mountains.

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