A Holiday Gratitude Challenge: Are YOU up for it?

As we approach the holiday season, we have an opportunity before us! It dwells withIN the concept of gratitude. Gratitude is a gift! It’s a powerful internal healing elixir capable of reviving your soul and generating new energy into your life. This is a gift available to you right now and in every moment!

Whether things are going well in your life or if your circumstances challenge you to the core, there is something more powerful than any medicine, more effective than any counseling, and more immediately beneficial to the spirit: GRATITUDE. Don’t believe it? I encourage you to just try it!

Here is my holiday challenge for you: I challenge you to wake up the next 21 days and begin each day either writing down, verbalizing or mentally reviewing at least 10 blessings in your life. When you begin your day in this empowering way, you pave the way for even greater blessings to flow your way. (YOU ARE THAT POWERFUL!)

Even if you aren’t sensing that you have much to be grateful for, you can choose to shift your focus from any sense of lack, sadness, or even loneliness you may feel or experience, to a liberating, expansive feeling of gratitude for everything that IS beautiful and positive in your life. Feeling gratitude for something or someone attracts more of that something or someone into your experience. Therefore, to add more of what you desire into your day to day existence, you simply have to focus on genuinely appreciating and valuing that which you want more of! Gratitude is the divine tool you can use to add positive energy to existing energy that is already in your world.

The reality is that we can liken ourselves (AND OUR THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS)  to a giant magnet continuously attracting more of the same energy that we are emitting into our environment. Whatever we are feeling, whether it’s love, fear, anger, frustration, bliss, joy, gratitude or resistance, we are in essence creating a magnetic force that attracts and draws to us the events, conditions and circumstances which directly correspond to those feelings.

Fearing something actually creates a magnetic force that attracts more of what we fear into our lives. Feeling gratitude projects a magnetic force that draws to us more of what we are expressing gratitude for. Gratitude puts us in a harmonious vibrational resonance which naturally attracts additional energies that are in alignment with that which we are grateful for. It’s actually a phenomenally beautiful process that never fails.

So, what do you have to lose? Nothing. In fact, you have everything to gain, my beautiful friends. You may be wondering “How in the world can I be in a state of gratitude when so much seems to be going wrong in my life?” If you dig down a bit deeper and reflect upon this further, you have the option to emerge with a crystal clear understanding of what is happening from the soul perspective. First of all, it’s important to seek out the blessing hidden or contained within each and every challenge. Yes, I know this isn’t easy! The events, conditions, and circumstances that we are currently experiencing are manifestations of thoughts and emotions that we have chosen (subconsciously or at a soul level) as well as choices we have made at some point in the past. Those thoughts, emotions, and choices represent the seeds of creation that eventually manifest into our reality.

Remember, we are the ones that think our thoughts. Our thoughts do not think us! In the same way, our emotions serve as a gauge; they are a reflection of the quality of thoughts that we are thinking. Just to clarify,  we don’t consciously choose chaos. What happens is that without realizing it, we can place our attention and focus on what we fear or what we don’t want! What we consistently place our focus on, whether it’s illness, poverty, fear, or joy, love, and wealth, we will absolutely draw into our experience. I’ve seen and proven this to myself again and again in my own life. Energy meets energy.

Since our current outcomes are based on what we have consistently thought and felt at some point in the past and those outcomes are now being experienced in our lives, guess who energetically paved the way for them? We did! Although that may not make us feel any better about them just yet, consider this…

Since undesirable outcomes often stem from our own consistently held undesirable beliefs, thoughts and expectations, then isn’t it also possible to shift and change them to pave the way for more desirable results? Absolutely! Simply recognizing the fact that our thoughts and emotions are magnetic provides us with an understanding of our immense creative power. This is exciting to realize. This awareness can be the catalyst that instills a new sense of appreciation for the power of choice that we always have to create our lives consciously;  in whatever ways we choose. This is empowered living at its finest. This is claiming our creative power and potential to direct our present and our future in ways that truly excite and delight us.

When we allow ourselves to feel joy and gratitude for seemingly small or insignificant aspects of our lives , we allow even greater things to enter our experience. It boils down to appreciating the blessings we are currently experiencing and noticing, knowing that this paves the way for greater blessings to flow.

When we consciously direct our attention and focus to what’s “working” in our lives, that energy of celebration magnetizes more to celebrate! We hold ourselves in a beautiful energetic space that attracts blessings to flow. The act of appreciating someone or something can be likened to nurturing a seedling with sunshine! We are giving that “seed of desire” the positive energy it needs to sustain itself and grow.

When we choose to believe in someone or something, including ourselves, miracles begin to happen. Miracles become our new “normal!”

Offering unconditional love take practice, and yet it also provides the space for anything to thrive and grow. As we approach 2018, this is the ideal time to nurture ourselves, our bodies, our hearts, our environment, our businesses, our family members, and our loved ones with love. It is also the ideal time to truly commit to nurturing ourselves and others with self acceptance, and compassion.

Embracing an attitude of gratitude begins a beautiful cycle in which we attract even more things to be grateful for. Therefore, even if it seems as though there are areas in your life in which you struggle or feel challenged, just remember that you can choose to focus on the things that are going well. In doing so, you step into the driver’s seat and you become a conscious creator, drawing more success, joy, and LOVE into your life experience. I have taught and written about these powerful energetic principles for years, as I have further honed them in my own life.

The bottom line is this: The act of feeling grateful keeps us in energetic/vibrational harmony with our desires! It is only natural to feel sad or disappointed at times. The key is to feel through those emotions (ride them like waves) and select or shift into a higher frequency state of being/emotional space as soon as possible . When we feel, allow, and accept all of our emotions- they have the freedom to pass through us with grace and ease. In that space, we create room to expand and focus on what IS WORKING AND WHAT WE DO WANT. Resistance and judgment only keep us stuck. So, as we make friends with our feelings, we give ourselves the option to flow through any and all pain and into passion, power and purpose.

I encourage you to DEEPLY EXPLORE what you’re grateful for in your life. Feel and extend sincere appreciation for those individuals, situations and events (even and especially the most challenging ones!) Truly FEEL the clarity, the expansion, the joy, the love, and the appreciation from a soul level.  Allow  yourself to linger in that space (a self cultivated state of grace) and soak up the powerful, radiant frequencies that stem from the vibration of gratitude. Now, remember that feeling, and purposely and intentionally return to it throughout your day.

I choose to continue to live by one of my favorite mantras: “Count your blessings and watch them multiply.” May you experience the power of this mantra for yourselves. Wishing you abundant blessings this holiday season and plenty to be thankful for!

Thank YOU for walking beside me, hand in hand and heart to heart as we navigate this adventure of life!

With Tremendous Love and Gratitude,of

Car