Practicing gratitude for everything in my life has been one of the most helpful things in my spiritual journey. Gratitude is a mindset, a choice to be happy. The magic of manifestation always starts in your mind. When you are genuinely and deeply thankful for everything you have in your life, your vibration is high. It is at this high vibration that the magic of manifestation happens. The law of attraction teaches us that like attracts like, so we can’t manifest positive things with a negative mindset.
While it’s easier to be grateful for the good things like the food on our table, our home, those who support us with love and kindness, sadly, many of us aren’t. As flawed human beings who have trauma and stress, we are all guilty of taking things for granted. Take the example of the food on your table; why should you give thanks for that or your home when you bust your ass to pay for these things? Well, there have been many times throughout history when people worked hard, or were willing to, but there were no jobs or food. This is still a reality for many people, even today. Sure, you had to work hard to get that food on your table, but the universe gave you the resources you needed. The promise of the universe is not that it will be easy or that you will have everything you want; it’s that if you trust, you will have what you need.
Since it’s easier to be grateful for the good things, many will want to start there first in building your gratitude practice. Be aware of what you are taking for granted. Develop the habit of saying thank you to the universe and/or the god/gods you worship. Personally, I try to wake up each morning and go to sleep each night with a thank you.
Now, I’m going to go one step further; be grateful for the struggle too, for the struggles help you discover wisdom. Creation happens in the darkness. And I know that is hard to swallow, I do. I was once at a place once where I would read things like that and feel angry. Clearly, some privileged asshole was behind that sentiment, because how else could someone suggest I be thankful for the bad things? The nights where I was woken up to a loud noise outside and lay there wondering if it was my car being repossessed. The agonizing months where my mother was dying, and the moment when she transitioned to spirit. The difficult relationships in my life. My seemingly endless list of medical issues. I was supposed to be grateful for those things? Yup; and you want to know why? Because struggles are opportunities to learn a lesson. Nothing happens to us randomly, for no reason; we are here to navigate the human experience. This means a million lessons that are delivered through experiences. Worrying about my car being repossessed taught me that, even though I never cared much about material things, I needed security. It wasn’t a want, it was a need, and that meant I had to find a way to attain it. Seeing my mother die taught me so many things that I don’t even know where to start. As painful as it was, I can honestly say that I would not have the spiritual strength I do today without that experience. The difficult relationships in my life have taught me that I need to do some hard work to relate to some people more and that I had to let others go for my own peace. My medical issues have taught me that I had to change my priorities and make drastically different choices.
When I wash my third load of dirty dishes for the day, even if I am tired and my back hurts like hell, I am grateful. Dirty dishes mean I had a meal. I also had the hot water and soap to accomplish the task, I was healthy enough to stand up to wash them, and when I remember to really tune in to that high vibration of gratitude during the task, my mom is standing right there beside every single time – the weirdo just loved doing dishes, and I can almost see her smirking at me and hear her saying, “see, I told you there is joy in doing dishes. Ok, mom, you’re right again.
~ Peace and Love, Tracey
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