Health

Using Gratitude for Weight Loss

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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

Appreciate One Thing That’s Going Right

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Appreciation is such a powerful tool for shifting your focus in a positive direction. One of the best ways to use appreciation is to help remove your focus from everything that’s going wrong.

Many of us get caught up in obsessing about the negative stuff and all day long our thoughts go something like this: “I hate this job, it would be so much easier if they would just let me do my work instead of bothering me constantly with meetings, change this, do that…ugh! Oh, here comes Ms. Annoying again, what terrible tales of woe does she … read more

Gratitude: How to Feel Grateful When You Just Don’t?

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Sometimes it can be challenging – REALLY challenging – to get into a state of gratitude when you’re just not feeling it. Maybe you’re upset about something that’s going wrong, or angry at someone, or feeling so empty that you truly can’t summon a genuine feeling of gratitude at the moment.

The following exercise is going to share an easy way to start feeling grateful in a general sense, and once you reach that stage you should be able to apply your feelings of gratitude to specific situations in your life. Before you start the exercise, be sure you … read more

Appreciating Sacred Space and Time

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Do you ever feel like your life has gotten stuck on a “fast forward” setting? Our modern world is so busy, so much to do, so much to see, so much to accomplish before the end of each day – we can speed walk, speed talk, speed type, speed eat, and speed drive right through the days, weeks, months and years of our lives.

Maybe it makes us feel productive. Or maybe it unnecessarily keeps us stuck in a “fight or flight” response, endlessly pumped up on caffeine and adrenaline. This pressurized state can be beneficial at certain … read more

Appreciation Exercise for Well-Being

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Whether you are recovering from an illness, want to lose weight or simply get into better shape, using the power of appreciation can help you to shift your dominant thoughts about your body. It is AMAZING how much power your thoughts have over your physical well-being! Numerous studies have shown that thoughts do indeed have the power to heal.

Using appreciation to jumpstart this process can be done in a couple of ways. You can either appreciate your body as it is right now – focusing on the things that ARE good (thereby removing your focus from the … read more