Happy Thanksgiving And Gratitude

byjudym

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4 years ago

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend and after enjoying some wonderful time and an incredible feast with family I'm now reflecting on how thankful I am for all the truly wonderful things in my life.

Gratitude is an incredibly important practice that we all should be using on a moment by moment basis and not something to give thanks to once a year on Thanksgiving.

If you want to create more happiness in your world or have better health and relationships here's a few reasons wh practicing gratitude can really make a big difference in your life.

• It makes you happier! Try feeling down when you put a smile on your face and make yourself genuinely grateful for something. It's almost impossible. And the simple fact that you're reading this means you've got many things to be thankful for that not everyone enjoys. Like access to being online, the knowledge and wherewithall that's brought you to our awesome community at Wealthy Affiliate and all the creature comforts that come from living in a world with running water and all of those other great conviences.
• You improve your health. Having an attitude of gratitude helps with everything from easing aches and pains to experiencing better sleep. Being in a state of gratitude helps to boost your immune system and helps to reduce stress and depression. Recent studies show by just getting outside and going for a daily simple walk you're less likely to catch those seasonal colds and flu that effect so many people.
• Gratitude opens the door to abundance in your life. Whenever you're in a state of gratitude you're opening the doors for the law of attraction to bring you more. After all like attracts like and by being in a true state of appreciation and gratitude you are welcoming more blessings to your world. Always focus on abundance instead of what you think you are lacking in your world and you're literally releasing an unlimited flow of happiness and wealth to your life. After all that's why you see the people that "really need money" struggle so much to get it instead of those who have lots effortlessly attracting more.
• Gratitude helps you become a better person. When you're having a really challenging time of things that's when it's so very important to be grateful. When we experience difficult times we are shaping ourselves into a better version of ourself and focusing on the good really helps us get throught life's inevitable challenges. After all the only thing that we know for sure is that things will change. Accepting and being grateful for the good things helps to keep us present and living in the current moment.

How about for you... Is gratitude an important part of your life or is it still a work in progress?

Thanks so much for reading and Happy Thanksgiving!