In the USA Thanksgiving is the most important family holiday. It is also a day on which many celebrities share food with those less fortunate than they are and I know from my own experience that this is a very rewarding experience.
Giving thanks to all the good that already is in your life is probably the easiest ways to find happiness and to get more of the good. One of the first things I ask of my coaching clients is that they keep a gratitude journal. I recommend that they write at least 3 things they are grateful for. The more the better.
Why do I ask them to do that? Because I want them to focus on the good that is already in their lives. I also want them to start feeling good about themselves. I want them to appreciate what they already have so the gap between that and their goals seems smaller.
For most people, it seems easier to find things to complain about than to find things to give thanks for. But it is exactly that which keeps them from happiness and fulfillment. What we concentrate on is what we get. When we complain and concentrate on what doesn’t work, we enforce exactly that. That is why when people have financial challenges and don’t stop to concentrate on their lack of money, things get worse and worse. Whatever they try, they don’t seem to get out of that situation and even when they make money they loose it again.
What you focus on expands. When you focus on lack, lack is what you get. When you focus on abundance, abundance will come into your life. Start giving even if you have little and give without expecting anything back. If you give and expect gratitude it will not work.
Our subconscious does everything to fulfill our wishes but it cannot understand a negation. If you say “I don’t want to smoke” it understands “I want to smoke” and helps you with that. If you think “I don’t want to have financial problems” etc. it understands only the basic which are financial problems. Therefore it is Omni-important to focus only on what you want and never on what you don’t want.
As I said, in the beginning, giving thanks, feeling grateful is the easiest way to feeling happy. Look at what you already have in your life and say thanks for that – each and every day. Be grateful when the sun shines and when rain gives water to the land so our food can grow. Give thanks for having a roof over your head, for the food you eat, for having family and friends in your life, and for your health and whatever wealth you have accumulated so far. Give thanks for being alive and kicking. For the flower, you see grow out of the cracks of the asphalt, for a beautiful sunset, or the perfect snowflake that lands on your nose.
There are thousands of moments and things in every day of our lives that we can and should be grateful for. Start writing them down in your gratitude journal every night before you go to sleep and again in the morning before you start your day. Do that for 21 days and your life will change. That is a promise.
Happy Changes!
Barbara
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