Gratitude and Law of Attraction

By Becca Kline

Gratitude is the most powerful vibration there is for attracting goodness into your life. If you could spend all of your days in true and complete gratitude, you really wouldn’t even need all of the “things” you think you need in order to make you happy, because you would simply BE happy. At the same time, you would not be able to hold back the goodness and “things” that would flow effortlessly into your experience as a result of your positive vibration of gratitude. In fact, many great spiritual teachings impart the importance of giving thanks in one form or another. Christ ALWAYS gave thanks in his prayers and he also gave a powerful parable about the one who went back to give thanks. It is the single most powerful thing you can do to shift your vibration to a higher level.

And so, here is an exercise you can do right now to begin a dramatic shift in your own vibration. Begin a Gratitude Chain:

Find a place of peace and quiet for a few minutes and think of someone in your life who has helped you or had a positive impact on you in some way. It needs to be someone who is alive and whom you can contact because that is exactly what you will do. Contact that person in any manner you choose: you may wish to phone him or her or you may wish to write a letter or email. I find writing it down to be much more powerful because it forces you to really focus your energy on the subject and stay on target as opposed to saying it once haphazardly and then getting distracted by chit chat.

Choose whichever method feels the most comfortable to you and communicate to that person how grateful you are that they have come into your life. Don’t worry if you feel you are not very good at expressing yourself. It doesn’t need to be eloquent and it doesn’t need to be a long essay. Three sentences will suffice to get your message across. However, please don’t just go and find a cute poem of gratitude somewhere and copy and paste it into and email. This needs to be personal. It needs to come from YOUR heart to generate deep feelings of gratitude. Really think about what this person has done for you, FEEL deeply the emotion of gratitude that will well up within you and communicate this to the person.

Your message should include the following:

- What the person did that influenced your life
- How this has had an impact on your life, and finally
- Why the world wouldn’t be the same place for you if this person hadn’t been there.

Communicate these 3 basic things to the person you have chosen. As I said, it doesn’t have to be long or eloquent. Your message needs to come from a place of GIVING something to that person, expecting NOTHING in return. Give freely and generously of yourself in your expression of gratitude with the intention of blessing that person. (When you do this, the universe MUST bless you back, it is spiritual law – but you do not get to choose the form in which this will happen. Just trust that it will happen.) As you do this, you will feel a shift in your own vibration. You will feel elevated and expanded for the experience.

Now, in closing your conversation or written expression to your chosen person, invite him or her to pay it forward. Invite your person to choose someone else and take 5 minutes to express gratitude to that person. The only conditions are that:

- It can’t be YOU, it has to be someone else, and

- It must be personal. In other words, not just something inspirational that gets copied and pasted and sent around, but something your person writes him- or herself expressing:

o What the person did that influenced his or her life
o How this has had an impact on his or her life, and finally
o Why the world wouldn’t be the same place if this person hadn’t been there.

This is NOT meant to be chain mail that says something good will happen to you if you do and something bad will happen if you don’t pass it on!!! The ONLY thing that will happen if you do this is that you will shift your vibration for the better. (And if it gets passed on enough, we can slowly begin to elevate our COLLECTIVE vibration as a planet!!)

You may choose several people and do this exercise more than once. Actually, I would recommend doing it every time you notice that you are feeling really stuck and at least a couple of times a year at a minimum. You may end up choosing someone who taught you a painful lesson in life. Here’s an advanced tip for you: the more you have to rise above yourself to come to a place where you can genuinely express gratitude, the more you have to overcome your own pride, the more you have to be a bigger person for doing this, the more expansive and beneficial the experience will be.

I hope you have found this article useful. Please leave a comment on my blog at http://www.change-your-paradigm.com/ to let me know if this has helped or make a suggestion about something you want me to write about. For now, I wish you peace and joy. Please know that no matter who you are, no matter what you have done or manifested in your experience, YOU ARE a perfect expression of God. http://www.change-your-paradigm.com/