How grateful are you?

Gratitude Goes BEFORE Happiness And Abundance.

Does that sound backwards?

Does it seem as if once you are happy then you can feel grateful?

Often turning your assumptions upside down will bring insight and discovery. Gratitude felt before the happiness, before the manifestation of that which you want, before the fulfillment of your dreams for many is a surprising idea, however, I have discovered it’s how the Universe works.

How grateful are you? In this sense, I don't mean just saying thank you if somebody gives you a gift, or holds a door for you. That's just politeness, or social convention.

Gratitude isn't words, it is emotion. It's an openness of heart to experience that lets your spirit express in a particular way. When you think of emotions as indicators of how you are expressing your spirit, you can see that these emotions tell a lot about where you're headed in your life - towards something great that you'll enjoy, or something not so good, that you won't enjoy. Learning to focus on emotions and seeing what they're telling you about your world is an important step in learning to form the life you want. Learning to nurture and magnify the emotions that serve you is an equally important step.

So if gratitude isn't about words, what is it?

Gratitude is an emotional position that makes it easier to manifest those things that you want. This works in two ways.

First is just that feeling a positive feeling like gratitude puts you in sync with things that you desire. By being in alignment with your desires, you effortlessly, easily attract them. And second is that by expressing gratitude you adopt a posture of knowing that what you want is already here. In this way you encourage the want or desire to move from the level of thought into expression.

We are all in the process of Spiritual growth. One of the best ways to enhance this process is with gratitude. Gratitude expresses trust in the process. It makes a leap across time, and in its unique way, puts us into the position of already having received that for which you have asked.

Take a moment… breathe… be grateful for living… be grateful for the presence working in and through you…

Lovinly in His service,
Rob