Learning Gratitude

I started learning gratitude at a time in my life when I had nothing but huge debts and was seriously depressed. I'll describe the situation to you.I'd been away for 18 years. Yes, a real Odyssey. In fact, I feel as though I was Ulysses and had gone to fight a more spiritual battle with myself. I had been lured into all sorts of enticing and physically and materially engulfing experiences.

Instead of the vision I had of returning home in the glory and splendor of European success and glamor, I returned only with the shirt on my back (and a pair of pants). I certainly had achieved success and glamor in Europe, but it had somehow been swept away, in what I call, an act of the Gods.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was in the pits, in a country that showed no mercy, where dog eats dog and if you have nothing to show you're beaten into the ground. What to do.

I remembered one of my favorite books by Voltaire, Candide. Where, after going through the most horrid of tortures and pains, in the end, the philosopher came to the conclusion that to tend to ones own garden is the simplest and sturdiest way to live your life.

I began doing thus. I read, educated myself and learned self-development. I also got into serious debt by trying to return to my former glory by taking credit cards and trying to buy my way into all sorts of business ventures, only to be ripped off by sleeze merchants and greedy small time thinkers.

There had to be a better way. So what I did, I began to develop my psychic income . Yes, it's very altruistic, but somehow it works.

I stopped thinking about me. I began to think about higher ideals and what I could do to help others. I began learning gratitude for the small things in life. My partner and I, we're now expecting a young boy, again a blessing.

My soul mate and I, we think on similar planes. We developed an idea . We don't know where it's going, but we had an intuitive idea. We started a project to bring people together through collaborative art projects and their stories. Our vision is to generate funds through the sale of art projects for charity.

Not so long ago I was introduced to a really interesting but unusual club of people that, surprisingly enough, were all searching for something similar to what we were. It was at one of these club meetings that I met a guy who used to be a little lazy and unfocused until he started learning gratitude.

It wasn't until he began learning gratitude that his life began to change. Every morning he would wake at 4.15 am, yes I know, a bit early for some of us, but he disciplined himself to do it.

Did you know, that if you'd like to change a bad habit, that psychologists say, that it takes 21 days of focused attention to something else to break a bad habit.

Anyway he forced himself to carpe diem and be up with the birds. He would then practice his gratitude exercises and list all the things that he was grateful for and all the things that he was going to be grateful for before he received them.

He would also recite certain affirmations . He said it transformed his life. His yearly income is slowly becoming his monthly income, he's happier than ever and can do good for others.

I have since begun writing out all the things I am grateful for before I've received them. This has given me a positive and optimistic attitude towards everything I see. I'm now in a much more positive head space and the world is so much more joyous for all those little things.

Learning gratitude is something that everyone can do. Try doing this gratitude exercise yourself. Every night before you go to sleep or every morning at breakfast, list five things that you're either grateful for that day or that you are grateful for, even before they happen, and notice how you feel. A grateful heart can send your happiness level soaring, attracting abundance into your life.

You can learn much more about learning gratitude from the following book by Marci Shimoff.

Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out

Go to - PSYCHIC INCOME

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