A powerful way to create abundance is easier than you think!  Incorporating a simple daily practice in your life will invite more goodness and abundance into your life.  Something so simple, you can start today! 

A powerful way to create abundance is Appreciation

Appreciate: to be thankful

The word Appreciate actually has two meanings. The first meaning is to be thankful that it is the opposite of taking something for granted. Okay. So that’s the first meaning that we appreciate what we have, and that’s what we talked about last week. And now the second meeting. Really will help you to understand how it can actually create abundance in your life.

Tapping into Appreciation

It’s a powerful principle. Gratitude is a virtue. Appreciating what we have is a virtue and virtues are meant to be cultivated. That also means that they require mental discipline.

That it’s something that we simply need to practice virtues don’t come easily and we do have to really work on them because sometimes they don’t come as natural tendencies to us. We know that gratitude plays a huge part in our lives, in so many different ways and specifically how it invites abundance into our lives.

Research is clear that cultivating gratitude in our lives allows us to flourish. And yet it may be a little bit difficult to accomplish. Because it’s a virtue that we must cultivate and it’s something that we need to practice and doesn’t always come really naturally to us.

So how can we cultivate appreciation and gratitude so that what we have can grow in abundance here is the most powerful way. There’s a couple of different. Options, but I’m going to really focus on the top way. The number one thing to do is consistently keeping a gratitude journal.That is how you emerge empowered is starting a gratitude journal.

The “How”

Robert Emmons, researcher and author of “Gratitude Works!” tells us this: “One of the best ways to cultivate gratitude is to establish a daily practice in which you remind yourselves of the gifts, the grace. Benefits and good things that you enjoy when we are grateful, we affirm that sources of goodness exist in our lives by writing each day, we magnify and expand on these sources of goodness, setting aside time on a daily basis to recall moments of gratitude. Associated even with mundane or ordinary events, personal attributes, one has, or valued people want encounters has the potential to weave together a sustainable life theme of gratefulness, just as it nourishes a fundamentally affirming life stance, gratitude journaling promotes the savory. Of positive life experiences and situations so that we can distill the maximum satisfaction and enjoyment from them. This promotes a shift in consciousness from what we are lacking to the abundance that surrounds. Gratitude leads us to affirm and acknowledge the good things in our lives. And because you can’t be grateful and negative at the same time, it counteracts feelings of envy, anger, greed, and other states that are harmful to happiness.”

Magnify & Expand on sources of goodness

I feel grateful abundance for what I have and for what I’ve been given. And that opens me up to receiving even more abundance in my life. The same is true for you. When you are grateful and you appreciate what you have, then what you have appreciate, and it grows. So those things, some of my favorite parts were that Robert points out that we can magnify and expand on those sources of goodness.

Isn’t that the true definition of abundance? To magnify and expand on sources of goodness. And then he also points out that we go from this mindset of lacking that we lack what we have or lack what we need in this life, too. The abundance that does surround us. And we go from that closed posturing of lack to the open posturing of abundance, and that can be accomplished with a simple gratitude practice.

His first research study over 10 weeks, people who did a weekly gratitude. , practice increased in happiness by 25{845c495dc00ac885fceaf0923b974883c8d3cc4438e1ad89d6a5e8fd6cb5e1f8} over 10 weeks. And that was a weekly gratitude practice, not a daily one. Do you want to be 25{845c495dc00ac885fceaf0923b974883c8d3cc4438e1ad89d6a5e8fd6cb5e1f8} happier? Do you want to invite abundance into your life? Being appreciative and cultivating?

The virtue of gratitude allows you to be. So, some key things that he suggests because of his research and that’s why I’m relying heavily on his work today is to make sure that this is founded in research and study. Okay. First of all, writing the simple act of writing helps. Actually feel the gratitude more intensely.

Keep a Gratitude Journal

The act of writing down your blessings translates your thoughts into actual words, and then it has been shown to have increased advantages over just thinking what you’re grateful for. So writing it down is key. It will help you to actually formulate it and actually soak in those feelings of gratitude.

Robert also suggests five to 10 minutes every other day. Like I said, I do a daily gratitude practice. I write down three things and he suggests not just a little, but why, why are you grateful for that? So not just a list of things that you happen to be gratitude or grateful for that day, what you appreciate, but why?

Because then it actually internalizes those feelings of appreciation, thankfulness, gratitude, as we explore why we’re grateful for those things in our lives, he tells us, seek gratitude, density, be specific, go for depth. Over breadth. I love that and give details for each entry. The journal is more than just a list of stuff.

Keeping a list of things you are grateful for is definitely, a beginning. It’s a start and then we need to seek gratitude, density, really immerse ourselves in that feeling and be specific. What will really help you sit in those feelings of abundance and gratefulness and thankfulness?

It also suggests to include some surprises. What did you find today that was surprising to you? That you are grateful? And, or maybe some unexpected blessings that you had that day, or even what you were dreading that didn’t happen many times where you think we work ourselves up into thinking this is going to happen and then maybe it didn’t and how you can be grateful for those types of things.

Relish & Savor the Feelings of Appreciation & Gratitude

I really want you to focus on in your gratitude practice is to really relish and saver that feeling of gratitude, sit in that feeling of appreciation of thankfulness, of gratitude. And as you really sit there to savor and relish that because that’s when we really can open ourselves.

Up to more abundance and more appreciation in both sense of the word. So if you don’t already have a gratitude journaling practice, I encourage you to start one. And then there are benefits by doing it weekly. If daily is overwhelming to you, then. Try a weekly practice of gratitude and see if you fit in the research study to that, you can be twenty-five percent happier!

I invite you to really sit in that moment of gratitude and savor it and relish it as a powerful way to create abundance in your life!