EXTENDING GRATITUDE
Even the happiest and most good natured folk can experience low points from time to time. It's at depressed moments like these, when we feel the full weight of life upon our shoulders, experiencing low energy and a lack of motivation, that we should take stock of who we are and what is going well.
Recognising our good fortune, the love we have in our lives and counting off all the blessings held with our family, friends and health, will help to re-energise and lift up our spirits, with only a few simple words written or spoken.
"I am grateful"
Whenever a low-mood takes you, quickly write out a list of all the things you have going well in your life at that time. Think about others who have not even a roof over their heads, who are sick and alone. Count out how many fortunate attributes you have reasons to be grateful for and magically, the world becomes a better place for you – and perhaps your desire to be more generous towards others is heightened too. Being charitable, humble and giving, will help us all to receive more positive energy.
Manifesting Through Gratitude
In order to attract greatness into our paths, we first need to extend our positive energy outwards, which like a radio mast, attracts even more positive energy our way. Positive attraction can be activated via a process of repeating positively spoken words and mantras. Visualisation and focus on what we want, coupled with a strong belief in our ability to achieve desired goals, can help us to manifest positive results. These manifestations are not generated from 'emptiness', but from the world around us, created with focussed, wilful intent – filtered through the mind's Reticular Activating System into being.
Where your attention goes, energy flows...
We are constantly being bombarded with streams of sensory information. The job of the RAS, is to ensure we don't get overloaded with too much info, so it focusses only on what is required and important to us. The RAS then filters out the rest. So when we focus on the things we want, we start to 'see' what we desire as the mind adjusts the pathways in our brain and senses, to be more receptive in obtaining these desires. Conversely, the same could be said for the things we don't want and that kind of attraction stems from having a negative outlook. Like attracts like – it really is that simple.
If we only focus on negative aspects of life, the RAS filter will attract negatives towards us. Not having positives to focus on, means the RAS filter will 'fail to see' the positives which are abundantly all around us. People who are generally quite negative, tend to forget that 'like attracts like' and it's people, who we term 'glass half empty' types – ie. the ones who lack optimism, that tend to moan about not having things go their way. Those who claim to have bad luck tend to attract more bad luck. But luck can be created through positive mindsets and gratitude.
Making Luck
Volunteer your services to a charity – because helping others who really do need assistance, will reaffirm how lucky you are. Create more luck by working harder to increase your odds of success. If you are mostly a reserved type of person, make a bold step out into the unknown – by taking on something you wouldn't normally do, which generates 'hidden' opportunities from chance. Then we are good to go.
Once gratitude has been awarded, one's good fortune realised through charitable deeds, pessimistic attitudes removed through random acts of 'letting go' – it's time to put one's desires out there into the cosmos...
Remember This Simple Fact
Whatever the practised focus and intent is directed at – this will become the new reality. Positive intention attracts positive outcomes. Conversely, repetitive focus on negative intentions, will attract poor outcomes for those who 'wish' them upon themselves. We need to be more aware of how our subconscious thoughts could be affecting the positive/negative balance. Therefore, careful considerations need to be given to our energies, on how we think and what we say, because what we project through our thoughts, through written and spoken words, is ultimately the direction we head in and the person we become.
