With the Holiday Season in full swing, we thought the following excerpt about gratitude from Life’s Healing Setups might be helpful.

“Gratitude is the greatest magnet for happiness. Feeling grateful places us in an emotional position to experience blessings by attracting to us people, circumstances, and events that will make our hearts sing. We might not feel grateful in a certain situation, but intentionally focusing on appreciation will give us practice in reducing ego’s message of dissatisfaction. This is one of the few instances in which “fake it until we make it” is helpful.”

“Because we can only take the next step from where we are at the moment, we likely will feel deceitful about or dismissive of such initial efforts to change our view. The way to dance around this dilemma is to first admit, verbally or silently, how we really feel about something. We need to tell and remind ourselves that we want to interpret situations differently, even if we don’t know what or how to do that yet. Then we will end up with an improved version of the experience that takes us closer and closer to genuine gratitude and opens the gates to receive more gifts from God.”

Wishing you a very Happy & Joyous Holiday Season!

Blessings,
D’Ann and Kathy