Category: Gratitude

  • Gratitude from the Inside-Out

    Gratitude from the Inside-Out by T. Dorsey

    Being grateful for the good already in your life is a transformative energy that can bring more good your way.  Often referred to as the Attitude of Gratitude, it activates the universal principle, the Law of Attraction, which states, “Like attracts like.”  By putting your attention on the abundance already in your life,  you draw to you more abundance.

    However, when most people put their focus on existing prosperity, they usually list such things as family, friends, home, food etc.  This type of gratitude list consists of things external to the individual.  What are often omitted from such lists are those things internal to the individual.  I call it Gratitude from the Inside-Out. This type of  gratitude is as powerful(if not more so) than having thanksgiving for external things.

    Quiets Negative Self Talk
    I find that beginning my gratitude list with identifying my internal abundance ignites a powerful sense of self worth and self awareness. So often, we have within us an ongoing internal dialogue about the things we do not like about ourselves.  I call this voice the Internal Critic. Internally, we berate ourselves for not being good enough, not having enough, or not being deserving.   Listing the positive qualities that make you feel prosperous builds a strong counter-argument to the Internal Critic. The Gratitude from the Inside-Out List provides proof-positive that within you there is good. It is a testimony that you are worthy and deserving.

    Connects You to the Divine
    Gratitude from the Inside-Out strengthens your connection to the Divine.  Each one of us is an individual manifestation of the Divine.  Isn’t that what is meant by: “Man is made in the image and likeness of God?”

    The qualities of the Divine are also within in the individual. Think of it this way:  The Divine is the ocean. You are a drop of water from that ocean.  That drop of water contains the same properties found in the ocean.  The droplet is not as powerful as the ocean but contains similar qualities.  So the argument follows that if you express appreciation for what is within you, you are also expressing appreciation for the Divine.

    Additionally, the highest energy vibration is love.  Love is the energy that brings you closest to the Divine.  Gratitude from the Inside-Out is an expression of self- love.  Love of self is just as important as love of another.

    Self Love should not be confused with selfishness.  The latter is a derivative of the ego while the former derives from the heart.  The Gratitude from the Inside-Out is not about boasting and bragging. This gratitude list is about acknowledging and accentuating this truth:
    There is good in each one of us.

    Sample Gratitude from Inside-Out List
    So what might such a list look like? Here is a snippet of my Gratitude from the Inside Out List:

    •    I give thanks for my compassion for others
    •    I am grateful I am a good listener
    •    I am thankful I am caring
    •    I am grateful that my mind and body are strong
    •    I am thankful I am a good provider for my daughter

    To intensify the transformative energy that this gratitude list can create in your life, write the list and then speak it aloud while looking in a mirror.  Be sure to look directly into your eyes as you recite the list aloud.  This exercise often can be very moving and healing.

    Here again are the benefits of the Gratitude from the Inside-Out List:

    •    Activates the Law of Attraction
    •    Attracts More Abundance
    •    Quiets Negative Internal Voice
    •    Reinforces your Connection to the Divine
    •    Promotes Self Love

    In gratitude,

    T. Dorsey is an author, performing and teaching artist who uses stories, poetry and songs to inspire and heal others. After many years in corporate America, she followed her heart and stepped out on faith. T. Dorsey’s e-book, Journey to Purpose: Simple Guide to Discovering Your Life Purpose (http://www.JourneytoPurpose.net) is powerful tool that can help you find your life calling. 

  • Gratitude Affirmations!

    To summarize all the powerful effects of gratitude, these are:

    • Puts you in the vibration or energy of your desires fulfilled, making you a stronger point of attraction for their manifestation

    • Brings completion in advance, convincing the subconscious mind to deliver this imagined reality (recall that the subconscious mind makes no distinction between the actual and the imagined)

    • Dissolves internal resistances that lock in dysfunction and what is not wanted, so that change is made possible

    • Confers inner freedom to your being, as you are accepting and a ‘fluid’ energy able to move easily with life

    • Speeds up learning so you can move on in life

    • Puts you in vibrational harmony with the best outcomes in all situations, so that you’re choosing blessings rather than lessons

    • Harmonizes you with the Thinking Substance and the Mind the God, drawing you near to the source of all blessings

    • Gives back to the universe so that balance is maintained at all times (leaving you free of involvement to restore balance, i.e. karma)

    • Confers wholeness and a state of inner peace, which promotes healing

    • As a force of unconditional love, it activates the hidden workings of the cause and effect of love that operate in the universe, which is expressed in life as being in the grace of God

    Below is a set of gratitude affirmations that will help you develop an attitude of gratitude, which can accelerate the manifestation cycle for you.  These affirmations may be enhanced with the Affirmation Enhancer Tool, which is like ‘etheric software’ that contains clearing and rescripting protocols that clears all that stands in the way of integrating an affirmation energetically and awakening to the co-creative power inherent in the divine self and to a deep understanding of our divine right and our responsibility to manifest our life according to our true desires. The Tool enables a person to embody the energy of the affirmation instantaneously, at deep levels of being. It does this by dissolving the back-wash of opposing thoughts, hidden agendas and unmet needs that often underlie affirmations, cleansing the subconscious mind of all memories, programs and patterns that do not support the affirmation, releasing emotional and mental body patterns and programs that support the denial of the affirmation, and infusing the body, heart, mind and soul with divine ideal traits that will support deep integration of the truth of the affirmation. Accelerated manifestation is further enhanced by the creation of an imagination in the auric field that acts as future potential drawing a person to that affirmed reality that has been purified of hidden intent.

    Gratitude Affirmations:.

    1. I AM blessed in so many ways and am deeply grateful
    2. I AM grateful for my life and growing consciousness within it
    3. I AM profoundly grateful for the power granted me to command the formless intelligence all around me.
    4. The more grateful I am, the more my soul may live in close touch with God.
    5. My soul continuously rejoices and unites with my experience as I engage in gratitude.
    6. Gratitude opens the door for my essence to flow through my life, and spirit blessings to pour into all that I choose to create.
    7. Gratefulness is how I return energy to the universe for the bounty I am blessed with.
    8. The more grateful I am, the more blessed I am.
    9. The more grateful I am, the more connected I am to the source and power of creation.
    10. I am deeply grateful to the Creator who wants me to thrive in life.
    11. I now immerse in gratitude and cultivate it as a habit.
    12. In profound gratitude, I am in a harmonious relationship with the formless Substance out of which my life emerges. 
    13. By my gratitude, I am close to the source of abundance.
    14. My subconscious mind is continually finding things that I am grateful for.
    15. In my sleep, I am continually fed inspirations to support me to develop a habit of gratitude in life.
    16. I am able and willing to embrace all experiences and derive the gifts they hold for me. 
    17. I am grateful for life hugging me in a perfect reflective way.
    18. I release all resistance to any part of my life and accept it all, knowing it is there as ‘love in action’.
    19. I release all bitterness, resentment and dissatisfaction that I may see the blessings I’ve missed.
    20. In gratitude I am at peace with my life and able to withdraw from non-serving energies and focus wholly on creating wonderful things in great joy and expectancy.
    21. In gratitude I am fluid energy able to move easily with life and direct it according to my desires born of love.
    22. In gratitude I am inwardly free and unattached to specific outcomes; everything that comes to me is imbued with divine wisdom.
    23. With a grateful heart I see opportunities for growth and joy everywhere.
    24. My gratitude reaches God and God moves towards me.
    25. My gratitude reaches the source of abundance and the source rushes towards me.
    26. In gratitude, I love unconditionally and become infinite being with infinite potential.
    27. I am capable of doing what I do because others have come before me. I am grateful for the world I see.
    28. I engage and enjoy the luminous divine Essence in all who enter my life.
    29. I am grateful for all the players in my life. Everyone in my life is “love in action”.
    30. I appreciate all people in my life, for each one brings an opportunity for learning to me.
    31. I now experience being fully supported by everyone in my life.
    32. I am strongly and constantly grateful for all that is in my life.
    33. Gratitude keeps me connected to the power of the universe.
    34. Gratitude is love, and my heart opens to receive all the blessings coming my way.
    35. The grateful mind focuses on the best.
    36. I focus on the best in everything and everyone, and the best appears abundantly for me.
    37. My life is the image of what I give attention to. What a wonderful experience!
    38. I am thinking Substance taking the form of what I think about.
    39. I am a lucid dreamer, dreaming wonderful possibilities and potentials.
    40. The grateful mind expects the best.
    41. I continually expect the best in everything and everyone who enters my life.
    42. I am profoundly connected to the source and power of life through the love that I am.
    43. I am profoundly connected to the source and power of life through continual gratitude.
    44. I breathe in the beauty, abundance and goodness of life; it abounds.
    45. I see only abundance and supply all around me; how wonderful to be alive.
    46. I am loved my God and in deep gratefulness, I allow myself to take this love in deeply.
    47. Before going to sleep, I release all idle thoughts and focus on all my blessings.
    48. As I count my blessings, my blessings grow.
    49. As I am grateful to others, they are gracious to me.
    50. In gratefulness, I give back to the universe and I am fulfilled.
    51. Being in gratitude is heavenly.
    52. In gratitude I am in harmony with the creative energies of the universe.
    53. By continual gratitude, I am open to receiving God’s grace.
    54. I am deeply and continuously grateful, and thereby I align to the outcomes of greatest blessing.
    55. I am grateful and thereby allow more supply into my life for which to be grateful!
    56. I release all concern as to how to feed, clothe, or supply my world, and turn all my thoughts to expressing the love that I am in freedom and joy.
    57. The grateful mind expands to embrace even more of the blessings of life—I am continuously grateful and expanding.
    58. I dwell only on the best and the blessings, and I become the best, blessed, and a blessing unto others.
    59. Faith is born of gratitude; I have faith and am filled with joyous expectancy.
    60. I continuously expect great things and am deeply grateful in advance.
    61. I am so grateful to be alive!

    Anita Briggs writes articles about The Spirituality of Wealth, a program to develop the consciousness of abundance that contains activations of the Inner Mastery Tools and the Affirmation Enhancer Tool. Other articles written by the author related to affirmation can be found on the web.