5 Creative Ways To Stay Grateful

Republished from peacefuldumpling

Tis the season for family, friends and food! However, among all these amazing celebrations and traditions is a core value that we can continue to practice even after the holiday season is over: Gratitude.

Here are 5 ways you can stay grateful this holiday season and beyond!

1. Replace expectation with appreciation.

Take time this season to let go of your should’s and could’s. Instead of being led by your expectations of how things should turn out or expectations you might have for yourself, appreciate where you are and who you are in this moment. Releasing your expectations and trading it for appreciation allows you to stay present. When you come to your yoga mat, release any expectations of how you should feel, how strong you should be or how flexible you could be. Allow yourself to be grateful for the body you were able to bring to your mat. Be thankful for the time you carved out for your practice. Be happy you have the privilege of turning inward to feed your own mental and physical health. Appreciate the world around you and your whole perspective can change.

2. Embrace Challenge

We often take obstacles or limitations in our life and allow them to identify us—whether they’re mental or physical. We start to say things like “I’m not strong,” “I’m not flexible,” or “I’m stressed out.” We let these limitations become who we are and as a result, we end up standing in our own way. Instead of allowing these obstacles and struggles to become real hinderances, embrace them. Accept yourself where you are and accept these challenges as a valuable part of who you are. Realize that obstacles in your path or merely opportunities to grow stronger, stretch further, work harder and release more. Each challenge in your life can be embraced to help you grow. Bow to your struggles and thank them, for without them you might never have realized how strong you can truly become.

3. Make it your Mantra

Being grateful is a step on the path to happiness. But it’s good to remember that there will be hard times along the way. That’s why it’s important to keep gratitude as a daily mantra. Beginning your day with a daily mantra keeps you grounded, connected and present. Take time to recount the things in life you can be thankful for and add things to the list as you go through your day. Keep a list of positive experiences you can look back on when you’re sad or have a hard meeting at work. Whether you woke up in a positive light or are struggling to see the silver linings, let everything, from the leaves changing colors to getting the last scone for your coffee, steer you to gratitude.

4. Inspire Action

Gratitude is an amazing practice to put into, well, practice. It is not only about recounting the things you have that you’re thankful for. Its also about sharing the love, giving back and inspiring action. Thankful for your mom? Give her a call! Thankful for your health? Grab a friend who’s never been to yoga and share the experience. Grateful for a big Thanksgiving dinner? Volunteer at a soup kitchen or donate canned goods to those in need. Let your gratitude shine bright, inspire others and effect positive change in the world.

5. Stay Present

Release attachment to the future and the past. Be connected to the present because—as cliche as it is—the present is a gift. Embrace the moments and the people around you. Enjoy the good things and know the bad things will pass. Allow yourself to take everything one step at a time, stay grounded, and be grateful!

No matter the season, gratitude is an amazing practice to keep. During this holiday, enjoy and embrace the things in your life that make you thankful. Keep this practice going throughout your day, throughout your week, throughout the rest of the year and beyond!

What are you thankful for this holiday season?

Be Grateful

Let's be grateful (pictorial blog)

Wow! That Was Quick!!

Republished from The Secret

Dear Rhonda and all her marvellous team!

Judging by the speed of this particular manifestation, this is, I believe, the first of many sharings to come!

I began reading The Magic yesterday morning. I haven’t read either of the other books but I’ve seen The Secret DVD many times. Anyway I got going immediately on following the advice for the practice for day 1 of the 28 day process.

Well what can I say? It’s like looking at life through new eyes. My word!! How much there is to be grateful for! Well just waking up to how very blessed I am, as we all are, was gift enough, but the Universe was intent on giving more. Within 4 hours of reading that first chapter and putting it into practice I got an email saying I had won £500 on the premium bonds!! Ha ha wow! That’s what I call a fast turn around!!

Thank you Rhonda and thank you all for sharing your wonderful and very inspiring stories, they have lifted me up and motivated me no end!

The Secret Really Works!!!

Republished from The Secret

When I read The Secret, I was skeptical. But after applying The Secret and The Magic, I have this huge amount of gratitude for Rhonda and her team.

I used to be a person with self limiting beliefs as I come from a broken family. Due to only average scores in academics, I thought I would never be able to get admission into my dream college.

I started applying everything that Rhonda had mentioned in the books, and as they say, thoughts becomes things. I got admission at one of the top most colleges in management. And guess what?? I also got a call from another top institute which wasn’t my dream institute yet still I gave the interview.

It works guys!!!!! Have positive thoughts? Life becomes positive. Have negative thoughts? Life becomes negative.

Everybody can achieve their dreams. Just have faith and think and feel positive.

Thank you Rhonda and her team for bringing this beautiful hidden Secret out into the world.

Gratitude is the attitude

Written by: Amit Shukla

So as I begin this article, let me make it clear that despite having written multiple blogs & republished as well, I have been practicing gratitude on & off, because just like all of you, even I am human & at times I forget the benefits of 'Gratitude' & as we are conditioned since our childhood to crib about things, people so as we grow older, we try to keep the heritage alive & pass it on to the newborns & so on & so forth.

So what makes me worthy of writing this article? Well, the mere fact that I have been practicing Gratitude over the last week & the results have shocked me to the core. They have made me believe that there is nothing bigger & better than gratitude & with it you can achieve the impossible.

It gives the essence that not all is to be stuck with & you can let go off a lot of things. It's amazing that life is so abundant & we just don't understand it, because we are so busy talking about our problems than talking about our joys.

I guess that such a change be made in our lifestyle , upbringing, moral values that people talk more about the goodness in their life, the fact that they are alive to see the day, that they have electricity , food on the table to name a few. Just think what life would be like if we start talking about our joys & make it a part of our habit.

Think about it & share your thoughts in the comments.

Gratitude

Republished from The Secret

I did not actually believed in the idea of The Secret which I heard about during a train journey. The discussion between two people led to an exchange of the movie “The Secret” in my pen drive. My uncle also asked me to take it in my pen drive and watch it. I took it, I watched it but it did not convince me until I had accidents where every time I opened my laptop I would to see the screenshot of the movie in on laptop. I started to google about it and the stories convinced me and I practised it. It really worked!

I got in the government job which I always wanted throughout my life. As soon as I entered the workplace, my colleagues did not support me. I started taking everything positively. Every morning I woke up and said thank you to the universe for blessing me with a supportive environment at my workplace and wonderful colleagues.

Everything started changing. Those who harassed me became my friends and helped me.

My health was not going good because of long sitting. My shoulders started hurting. I started practising The Secret for my good health and oh my God!!! I just can’t express, my health started recovering. I am now in a good position: I have all the good health, wealth and all the blessings from universe. Thank you Universe, Rhonda and the team of The Secret. Now, I am using The Secret to get a wonderful life partner who supports me in my career and in my dreams, supportive in-laws and I also want to be in a stronger position in my workplace. I know it is coming to me. Regards to the Universe for blessing me with everything I wanted and I wished!

Be Thankful

Gratitude Attitude

Get, Set, Go!

Written by Amit Shukla

It comes as no surprise that life is filled with all the goodness unless you have focused on the negatives only & the most wierd part is that we all do so. We all focus more on the negatives than look at the goodness around us.

The mere fact of being alive to see this great day today is such a bliss that should take away all the negativity from you & your mind unless you think that focussing on the negatives can lead to the positive as Algebra says (-) X (-) = +.

It could apply to mathematics but in real life negativity can only cause pain so it's important that you focus on the +ves around you, be it drinking water, air that you breathe, food that you eat, feet that let you walk, hands that work per your instructions & when you start focusing on it, you will see the goodness that you have in abundance with you & then think about the goal that makes you do all that you want to do & when you have it just

GET, SET, GO!!!