From Gabrielle

I read this today from Gabrielle Gerard, perhaps one of the most incredible people I have ever met. Her words resonate with me and they just make sense. From Gabrielle to me, from me to you:

Attitude of Gratitude by Gabrielle

Healing the Mind, Empowering the Spirit
As you increase the feeling space of gratitude within you, you will increase the feeling and tone of abundance. And that vibration will attract more abundance to you.
1. Establish a relationship with the Cosmic Creator. Learn to meditate. Cultivate activities that connect you to the inner world. Nature. Creativity. Activities that create a meditative state.
2. Set an intention each morning to cultivate gratitude throughout the day.
3. Tune in through right thought and actions when you seek to operate the Cosmic Laws.
4. Learn to recognize and receive goodness when it comes to you.
5. Open your eyes to the good that you have now. This can help shift victim mentality. Take time to observe how much you DO have. Not what you DON’T have. This will raise your vibration. Step 6 will help you with this.
6. Every day, for 30 days, get up early, and journal 3-5 pages on things you are grateful for. You will be amazed at what comes out as you journal!!! Stretch your mind in this exercise. Be grateful for everything. Include the material things in your home. Friends. Family. The body. Health. And then go on to the more difficult things. This can help shift victim mentality as well as belief in the Scarcity Principle.
7. If you desire to create something in your life. Tune into the Source Energy. Thank God in advance for bringing it into your life. ACT AS IF. Reflect on this daily.
8. Practice thinking in Gratitude. Watch negative thinking. Alchemize it immediately. Bring the mind back to focusing on the attitude of Gratitude! Even if there are things in your life that you are not wanting, things that appear to be less than your desire. Learn to be grateful for all of life’s experiences that have brought you to this point. They do have a purpose.
9. Speak from Gratitude. Speak graciously to people. Our words are extensions of our thoughts. This will raise your vibration.
10. Act from Gratitude It is important to ACT and not sit idle. Do something today that is a physical extension of your thoughts, of the feeling of Gratitude itself.
11.AGAIN, be thankful in advance for the things that are coming into your life.
12. If there is someone in your life that you are having issues with, do this exercise: Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths to relax the body. Put your mind in the heart space. Hold your mind there and become the heart. Focus the breathing toward the heart. Become the heart center. Now hold this individual in the mind and heart. Send as much loving vibration to this person as you can. If negative feelings come up, take a few breaths and let the breath alchemize the emotions that bring cleansing. Reflect on one thing, an attribute that you may appreciate about this person. Perhaps they are teaching you patience. Perhaps you like the way they dress, or that they have style.
If they are doing something that you do not like, do the mirror exercise. What is this person trying to teach me? Look to see if somewhere in yourself, you are behaving similarly. Consider that what you do not like in them is something you are not willing to look at within yourself. Or the behavior that scares you or intimidates you is something that you need to bring forth within yourself. This will bring deep insight, humility, and clarity. Always close this meditation in a space of sending the individual love without expectation ~ recall the Law of Detachment.
13.Take time to be grateful for our planet, for Nature. What an extraordinary home we have.
14. Learn to be grateful for the body in which your soul resides this lifetime!! What a magnificent creation!! As you become more grateful for the body, you may take better care of it mentally, emotionally, and physically.
15. Beauty is everywhere. Practice seeing what is beautiful. This cultivates Gratitude.
16. Live as if you were going to die next week. You WILL become aware of what you are grateful for.
17. Be joyful. Watch for thoughts that negate. If you have forgotten how to connect to joy, journal about the times that you have experienced the inherent state of Joy. A memory may invoke that for you. Think things that bring you Joy. A joyful and grateful attitude will bring into your life the good things you desire.
18. Switch the flow: Gratitude and lack of gratitude, is the same energy on two ends of a continuum. As you work with cultivating an authentic relationship with Gratitude, remember that you are flowing your energy from “bad” habits toward “positive” ones. As you are aware of the ungracious part of the continuum, you have the opportunity switch the flow to the awareness (the mind, the energy) toward the other side of the continuum, Gratitude. Do not beat yourself up when you see the ungracious side of yourself emerge. When it surfaces, simply switch the flow!!
19. Breath. As much as you can!!!!!
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