Learn The Attitude of Gratitude
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I hope this day finds you in your joy, living your passion grateful for what you have.
The most important aspect of creatively
using the law of attraction is an attitude of gratitude. If you think about it, when you are in a grateful frame of mind, you're
happy and pleased with what life has given you. That emotional state releases harmonic chemicals (hormones) within your body
which course through your electrical nervous and your endocrine system (glands).
It's like when you laugh out loud, Vitamin
K is released throughout your body and your cells begin to glow. People who are grateful and happy create a state of being that
brings more of the same events, people, places, experiences and circumstances to them that continue to make them feel good.
When
we experience thoughts of doubts or other forms of negativity instead of resisting the negativity - because what you resist persists
- let it pass through you. Observe it and allow it to be the contrast that creates what you want - but don't focus on it.
See the positive the negative frames.
In right-brain drawing a key technique is drawing the negative space. By drawing the negative
space - you create the positive space!
Using this same technique, only metaphorically, allow the negativity to help you create
the picture that you want and focus on the whole picture. Too often when we first start working with the law of attraction we
get afraid of our negative thoughts which in turn creates a spiraling downward which is harder to climb out of.
Keep your heart
and your eyes turned toward the sun. Go outside and breathe the fresh air. Think about it - what is the alternative?
A dirt nap? If you can't find something to be grateful for - be grateful for the ability to breathe in and out. That means
you're alive and you have options.
Think about the story of Victor Frankl, a Jewish man born into a family of civil servants
in Vienna in 1905.
In the Autumn of 1942 he, his wife, and his parents were deported to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt.
It is here that his father died in 1943. Assisted by Dr. Leo Baeck and Reginga Jonas, Frankl worked at the camp as a general
medical practitioner, and later, as a counselor to new arrivals and those with suicidal tendencies. Then, in 1944 he was transported
to Auschwitz, where his mother died, and later to the Turkheim, a concentration camp not far from Dachau. Meanwhile, his wife had
been transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died.
Frankl was the founder of logotherapy and Existential
Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy. In his book "Man's Search for Meaning" (first published in 1946) he
chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms
of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living.
"...We who lived in concentration camps
can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few
in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way..."
Victor Emil Frankl was liberated from
the concentration camp in 1945. He went on to do many things, including running the Vienna Poliklinik of Neurologics which he
did until 1971. He lived a full life, remarried and wrote many books, dying at the age of 92 in 1997.
Of humor he writes,
"Humor is another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor more than anything else in
the human makeup, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation..." (Source - Wikipedia)
If a man
who lived to the age of 92 surviving the brutalities of a WWII concentration camp - learns to not only survive but find beauty in
all people, (both captor and captive), events, and circumstances where others would recoil and find only horror - what does
that really say of our own circumstances?
How bad is it really?
Do yourself a favor - laugh. Be grateful -
be ongoing. Enjoy your life - find the little things that make you happy and make you grateful. Write a list of your happy
thoughts, read it over when you're feeling down and you'll find yourself feeling better in no time!
Enjoy today - enjoy the moment
- this is your only true place of power.
