Many people miss the low-hanging fruit when it comes to bringing more of what they want into their lives. There is plenty of science to help us better understand why gratitude works to actually help us manifest more good things into our lives. Listen to inspire yourself & learn more!
There used to be a time when you would mention the word gratitude or gratitude journal that an awful lot of people would eyeroll right. And they'd be like, Oh my God, this girl with her does ridiculousness. And the funny thing is, if you observe experientially, either periods in your own life, or just what's happening in other other people's lives, when you make the intentional effort to focus on gratitude, a lot more, better things happen in your life, you feel a lot better about it, I'm going to get into that in a minute with the science around it. And when you focus on what's going wrong, or what needs to be fixed, or who's at fault, and that sort of thing, then more of that pops up into your life. And I'm not even there's like just a crap ton of science and psychology and understanding why this happens. I just want to focus though, on the gratitude. And there's so much cool science now about understanding how the act of practicing gratitude literally changes our brainwaves literally changes our heart energy changes us biologically. So we naturally feel more hopeful, right, more at peace more in harmony, more in the higher vibrating emotions on the emotional scale, things like love and joy and acceptance. Two more interesting things about gratitude. One is that you can't feel two emotions at once. So for example, I keep a gratitude journal every night before I go to bed. And I just sit down and take like three minutes to write down all the things I'm grateful for from that day. I think back on them, I revisit those emotions, I'm literally building neural networks around these emotions, these ideas, these wonderful experiences that I'm having, I'm revisiting the emotions physically, feeling the emotions. And so what I'm not feeling is the frustrations. And sure, there are challenges and frustrations that pop up into in any day, right. But I'm not reinforcing them, I'm not creating my whole big overarching view of my day around them, I am choosing to create it around the things that I'm grateful for. And that just feels really amazing. On top of that, I am going to bed with these brainwaves with these emotions with these feelings with these ideas. And our subconscious does so much of our work for us while we're sleeping, building our beliefs around who we are, what's possible, right our self concept while we're sleeping. So just personally, one of my favorite things is to keep the gratitude journal at night before you go to bed. And if if you've never done this, or if you're like me, and you've done it on and off, just take notice that I definitely noticed that when for whatever reason I get out of the swing of that, that my life similarly Takes a Dip right it or seems to be I perceive it that way. And actually it does. And then when I get back into it, I'm like, Oh, this is amazing. I don't know why I took that little break. So I guess what I'm saying is basically, don't take my word for it. Just have the experience for yourself, and see what truth, if any lies in that experience for you. Another way I like to nurture gratitude in my life is to show appreciation, show gratitude show thanks. Even just a little thing to sincerely let someone know, wow, I really appreciate that, that that was awesome, thank you. And it creates an emotion in me, it creates an emotion in them. It acknowledges my gratefulness and appreciation and gratitude towards whatever small little thing they did or said and really pumps them up and makes them feel better. So just taking the time to do that, you know, people can be so quick to point out anything they feel that you've done wrong or whatever, we can do that too. Of course, for other people, we're just looking at them like, oh, man, I can't believe they did XYZ. But I like to say, what here is going on that I'm grateful for that I'm appreciative of, and then take it that next step and actually express it to someone. And again, if we go all the way back to what I said a few moments ago about creating those neural networks revisiting those emotions, emotions are very sticky and very powerful. And you get to choose like, by choosing gratitude, you're literally choosing what kind of neural networks do I want to create? What kind of repetitive emotions do I want to create within myself, it's really, really cool. All of this kind of biology around the idea of gratitude, and most importantly, that we all have absolute creative control over that, you know, I can choose to be grateful we can choose to do things that nurture gratitude. And just like anything else, just check it out. Try it, see if it resonates with you. I hope that it does. Hope you have a wonderful day, and I'll talk to you soon.