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Enlightenments |
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
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Melody Beattie |
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Appreciation as a Secret of Success
An important reason for being in a state of appreciation as often as
possible is that when you are in such a state, you are in one of the
highest emotional states possible.
When you are in a state of appreciation and gratitude, you are in a
state of abundance. You are appreciating what you do have instead of
focusing on, and complaining about, what you don’t have. Your focus
is on what you have received… and you always get more of what you
focus on.
And because the law of attraction states that like attracts like,
the more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract,
and even more to be grateful for. It becomes an upward-spiraling
process of ever-increasing abundance that just keeps getting better
and better.
Think about it. The more grateful people are for the gifts we give
them, the more inclined we are to give them more gifts. Their
gratitude and appreciation reinforces our giving. The same principle
holds true on a universal and spiritual level as it does on an
interpersonal level. |
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Jack Canfield |
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| Gratitude
Rocks Story from The Secret by Rhonda Bryne |
I think everybody goes through times when they say, “Things aren’t
working right” or “Things are going bad”. Once, when there were some
things going on in my family, I found a rock, and I just sat holding
it. I took this rock, I stuck it in my pocket, and I said, “Every
time I touch this rock I’m going to think of something that I’m
grateful for.” So every morning when I get up in the morning, I pick
it up off the dresser, I put it in my pocket, and I go through the
things that I’m grateful for. At night, what do I do? I empty my
pocket, and there it is again.
I’ve had some amazing experiences with this idea. A guy from South
Africa saw me drop it. He asked, “What is that?” I explained it to
him, and he started calling it a gratitude rock. Two weeks later I
got an email from him, in South Africa. And he said, “My son is
dying from a disease. It’s a type of hepatitis. Would you send me
three gratitude rocks?” They were just ordinary rocks I found off
the street, so I said, “Sure.” I had to make sure that the rocks
were very special, so I went out to the stream, picked out the right
rocks, and sent them off to him.
Four or five months later I get an email from him. He said, “My
son’s better, he’s doing terrific.”
So it’s very important to have an “attitude of gratitude.” |
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Lee Brower |
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