Thanksgiving is a holiday that simply has gratitude at its heart. How wonderful is that?
Why is it that so many teachers emphasize the importance of gratitude?
Because it is a powerful engine in our life. Remember that where your thoughts go, your energy goes. The energy that flows when we say thank you for helping me do this (whatever goal you name) is that we are making a partnership with our spirit guides to get it done. The better your relationship with your spirit guides, the more you will be able to get done. We focus our energy on completion, and that is more powerful than wishful thinking or hoping it will work out.
What is another aspect of gratitude? Easy. How good does it feel when someone thanks you for doing something? Of course, everyone likes that. So you see, thanking our friends and associates is one thing. Another powerful level of connection is with our spirit guides, and if we thank them the same way we thank our physical friends, it works the same way with our spiritual friends.
Gratitude sets good energies into motion for us. Gratitude opens us to more gentle vibrations of appreciation which lets more empowering energies get into our aura. When we express gratitude, the sense of joy that is part of it draws people into our circle and aligns our consciousness. We are interacting with people on a higher vibration when we express gratitude. Gratitude is an aspect of love.
Notice how you feel when you are happy and thankful. Doesn't it feel like everything flows smoothly when you are in that frame of mind? Doesn't it stimulate peaceful energies within you and without you?
Another train of thought that runs with gratitude is this. Everything that we need in life is here. When we appreciate all we have and look around for what we need, we often find it hiding in plain sight. When we appreciate what is around us, we find what we need.
Gratitude also affirms the idea that we will make good progress on our dreams because we are working with spirit. spirit's favorite way to connect with us is when we are helping others and when we are being creative. Notice how that works in your life and you will have more reasons to be happy.
In fact expressing gratitude is the perfect way to get more to be grateful for. We create alignment with joyous results when we do that. Notice how when there is something important you want to do and you keep getting yes from the people you want to work with, you know that spirit is in alignment with it happening.
I love it that once a year, we have a holiday that is centered on that one simple idea.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Have a wonderful day!
