What I Realized About Giving Thanks

We’ve all heard of gratitude.  People say “ be grateful and abundance will appear”.  Do your daily gratitude journaling. Say out loud 10 things you’re grateful for and so on, right?  

And maybe you think about being grateful.  Maybe you are writing or saying what you’re grateful for every day.  

You practice. You’re diligent.  And you wait.

Yet nothing happens.

Nothing meaning -what you want to see happen (more income, more clients, more visibility, better productivity, more ease, more support etc.) has not come to fruition.

Giving thanks is important.  And I think many of us (including me) have been missing the deeper message of how gratitude works.  

The deeper message came to me the other day.  

It is this:

Until we are able to hold the feeling of gratitude for longer periods of time, the effects we seek are not likely to happen.

When you can hold that feeling of being grateful in your heart -in this moment and every moment thereafter, you will see a shift.

But here’s what happens. You think about what you’re grateful for and the next thing you know, you’re on to some other thought.   You get distracted.

I know because I do too!  And the other day it hit me.  

When I get distracted, I’m no longer in the NOW.

And when this happens, you move out of the present moment and into the future.  

When you move into the future, you shift your energy into worry, confusion, overwhelm, frustration and all those not-so-pleasant feelings.  

This is not the energy where abundance and prosperity hangs out!  

So as you give thanks, stay in the moment.  

Stay with the feeling it gives you for as long as you can.  Even when your thoughts move on (which of course they will), keep that feeling of gratitude with you each moment.  

When you do this, your energy will shift and you’ll begin attracting more of what you want in your life.

Xxoo

Lisa