Does Practicing Gratitude Really Change Your Life?

Today is a great day! It marks one month writing in a #gratitude journal. I got the idea initially from a book written by Esther and Jerry Hicks called Money and the Law of #Attraction. There were so many golden nuggets that caused me to chew on my mindset about life, and how my health had been effected as a result. It’s a game changer, and I would recommend this book to anyone who can get their hands on it. The next thing I started to read was called The #Magic, which basically takes all of the power of positive thinking and gratitude nuggets from the first book and puts them into a daily practice for 28 days. 

As recommended I wrote ten things I am grateful for everyday. Here’s how my life changed. 

1. I started habitually looking for things to feel good about. It’s a fun scavenger hunt that results in more smiles and easy moments.

2. I realized how important #relationships are in my life, because that’s what I found myself writing about the most, so I prioritized them.

3. I dramatically decreased the amount of complaining, and as such became aware when I was in a victim mode of thinking. 

4. I stopped spiraling down worst case scenarios. Apparently I did that more often than I thought. ;)

5. I feel physically so much better by shifting my internal thinking. It took me out of coping mode. My moods are lighter and playful. 

6. When I focus on the positive, solutions just come to me. A new supplement to increase my energy, celery juice soothed my stomach, B12 stopped my dizziness. I really stressed about these things, and now the ailments are easing to disappear.

7. I’m focused on my #strengths and capabilities instead of my differences from other people and what they will think of me. 

8. I’m planning to move to California and I’m actively imagining what it will be like to, cook my feet on the cement and shop at Whole Foods again. I’m excited and it’s changed how I tell my #story from an account of symptoms to what’s working and what I’m planning. 

9. Awesome people are showing up in my life, whether I meet them on social media, or it’s a friend I haven’t heard from messaging out of the blue for a visit. 

10. I’ve replaced nearly all of my furniture and rearranged my living room! Out with the old, in with the new! It wasn’t planned, it just happened. 

11. I made my first sale with an $1130 commission and switched my days from watching tv to #learning about social media and blogging.

I unexpectedly love writing every night! It makes me feel good, and connected to what’s important to me. It’s something to realize just how much I have to be grateful for, and it’s a lot. I also really like that this practice teaches me to “let go”. Even if I’m working through a physical symptom, I find myself choosing to enjoy a part of the moment, like being close to my partner, and this alone stops me from that spiral I mentioned earlier. Anyways, if this is 30 days, I’m excited for 60. “It gets better the better it gets” according to #Esther Hicks, and I believe her now.