Using Appreciation and Gratitude

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 … read more

Daily Gratitude – Reflect on Appreciation at the End of Each Day

Inspirational and motivational experts encourage us to incorporate a gratitude and appreciation practice into our lives. This helps bring us into a very positive state of awareness and receiving.

As we appreciate the good in our lives and focus on it, the exhilarating positive vibrations that we give off serve to draw more of the same to us! Understanding and using this concept can greatly enhance our life by supercharging our sense of accomplishment and self-worth.

Using Gratitude for Weight Loss

One of the ways we sabotage weight loss is by constantly focusing on the negative aspects of our bodies. “I hate my stomach. My thighs are huge! My butt is out of control. I hope no one notices my cellulite, yuck.” Not surprisingly, by the power of the Law of Attraction we simply attract more to dislike about our bodies.

You may have heard about the power of gratitude in manifesting better things in your life. Most often this technique is used for better health, finding a soulmate, increasing abundance, and so on. However, … read more

How to Be Grateful In the Midst of Great Challenges

Gratitude When Life’s a Train Wreck?

“You’ve got to be kidding. My life is falling apart, and I’m supposed to be grateful?”

Well, yes.

I know that sounds just insane when everything has turned to disaster. If you or your loved one is battling a serious, even terminal disease, if you’ve lost your job or even your home, if your marriage or long-term relationship is in serious trouble or over…

Sometimes life can be just plain hell, and I’m not going to … read more

3 Ways to Use Gratitude to Improve Your Attitude

Few things can affect your overall quality of life as powerfully as your attitude can. Your attitude affects your career, your relationships, your hobbies, and even your financial status. Most people discover that when they improve their attitude, everything else in their lives seems to improve also.

A daily practice of gratitude is one simple way to give yourself a painless attitude adjustment because it reduces your temptation to focus on more “negative” mind-sets. When you feel grateful it is nearly impossible to feel frustrated, sad, empty, or disconnected. A negative focus and a gratitude focus cannot … read more

Using Gratitude and Appreciation to Find Your Life Purpose

A lot can be said for an attitude of gratitude, but did you know it can also help you clarify your life purpose? If you rarely make the effort to feel grateful, you are probably familiar with a pervasive sense of boredom, frustration, dissatisfaction and emptiness.

Even if your life circumstances are bearable for the most part, you might still feel a bit disconnected and aimless on a regular basis. A shift toward a more appreciative mind-set can trigger incredible changes in your life – one of which is inspiring you to move toward the activities that speak most … read more

Gratitude and Appreciation: Endings to New Beginnings

Endings are always hard, whether they involve relationships, jobs, change of residence or anything else. When our comfortable circumstances change, we suddenly find ourselves feeling unsettled and aimless.

What now?

A gratitude focus can help you make these transitions smoother, more purposeful – and way less frightening.

Use a blank journal (or your existing journal) to map a new way of thinking about your changing situation.

Things to focus on would include:

1) What you are grateful for about the situation that is ending.

What … read more

Gratitude and Appreciation Reflect Back to You

Have you ever heard that the people and situations in our lives mirror back what we project out? You can probably remember plenty of times when this seemed to be so.

For example, perhaps you awoke one morning in a grumpy mood – and then proceeded to encounter one grumpy person after another during the rest of the day. Or you felt overwhelmed with problems – and seemed to attract dozens more problems, both minor and major.

How to Start a Gratitude & Appreciation Practice

Has adopting an attitude of gratitude been a challenge for you? Do you start each day with the best of intentions and then find yourself losing focus as you encounter more and more negativity?

The problem stems from trying to change the habits of a lifetime in one fell swoop!

If you’ve spent a large portion of your life not focusing on gratitude, you can’t expect yourself to change your whole mind-set immediately. (Most of us always try though, don’t we?)

But can you do it for one day? Can you commit to adopting a grateful focus no matter what … read more

How Gratitude Can Help You Attract More Money

Gratitude is one emotion that works hand in hand with the Law of Attraction, especially where money is concerned. Where financial lack is present, there is a blockage of energy – some form of resistance is preventing the natural flow of abundance into the person’s life.

This can be difficult to understand by traditional lines of thought. Perhaps you are used to thinking of money as a tangible object that you have to obtain, like most people do. However, with the Law of Attraction, there is nothing to obtain, but rather ALLOW.