Short - Gratitude

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Something happened the other day that I
got to share with you. It really

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helped put things into perspective in my
mind, and I thought someone out there

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might benefit from it as well.
See, a friend of mine very recently

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told me how things are going so
poorly in her life. She's constantly having

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things happen to her that you could
define as bad. She's been mixed up

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with men that have treated her poorly. Her family life is going through some

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very serious challenges. Financially, she's
not doing as well as she'd like.

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So I asked her how much time
and every day she spends focusing on that.

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Now. I don't pretend to be
any kind of spiritual guru or wise

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sage or anything like that. God
knows I'm not one of those. But

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every once in a while, if
I get myself out of the way,

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will gets out of the way,
some words will come out of me somehow,

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and these words sometimes have some wisdom
inside them. And when she was

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talking to me about what I was
going on in her life, suddenly that

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happened. Something inside me stepped out
of the way, and what came through

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was so inspiring to me personally that
I thought I should share it with you

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as well. I asked her how
often she focused on the good versus the

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bad, and she said, oh, all the time. I think about

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good things all the time. I
know how important it is to stay positive

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and focus on the good, so
I make sure that I do that all

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the time. So then I asked
her, well, how many times how

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often do you focus on the bad? And she said, well, I

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try not to focus on the bad, but you know, bad stuff keeps

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happening to me, so of course
it derails my good thoughts, and I'm

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always starting to feel like, oh, woe is me? Why is this

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always happening to me? So then
my advice, or the advice of whatever

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was speaking through me came through,
and they said that every morning, when

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she got up, for just ten
minutes every day, all she had to

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do is just sit there and think
about what she was grateful for. Now,

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I know we've all heard about gratitude
practices and all that kind of stuff,

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but really, I invite you to
really think about that. She said.

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I don't know that I can focus
on things i'm grateful for when there's

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nothing really good going on for me
right now. So then I invited her

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to think about her life and compare
it to someone in another country, for

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example, who isn't sure if they're
going to survive from one day to the

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next. Look at the people in
Ukraine her being bombed every single day,

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who don't know whether they'll have a
house or their lives. Look at these

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people who are starving across the world, who barely make ends meet. Think

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of the homeless folks on the street
that are forced to stand in the street

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corner asking for money. She has
a house that she should be grateful for.

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She has a family, a loving
family that she should be grateful for.

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She has a great job that she
should be grateful for. She has

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wonderful health. She has food to
eat anytime she wants it. She has

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friends here to support her anytime she
needs us. She turned to me and

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she said, you know what,
You're so right. You're so right.

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I don't think about those things because
I'm so concerned about the bed. I'm

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always focused on what is not going
well, But the good stuff. There's

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so important to think about what you
actually have. And I bet that if

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you took a minute to think about
all the things that you take for granted,

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I think you'd be grateful for them
too. Be grateful for the air

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that you read, the water that
you drink, everything around you, the

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bird just sing in the morning for
you. The most important part is this,

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I told her, don't just think
about it, thinking about something good

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all the time just to replace something
bad. That's super easy. Oh nope,

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I don't want to think about how
I can't pay my bills this month.

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Instead, I'm going to think about
how wonderful French toast is this morning.

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Folks, it's not the thought that
makes it happen. It's the emotions.

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You need to feel the emotion of
gratitude. It's emotions attract things to

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you, good or bad. The
more you feel gratitude for all the things

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that you really should be grateful for, the more the universe is going to

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decide to give you the things to
be grateful. Out on the flip side,

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the more you feel pain, sorrow, trouble, negativity, the more

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the universe is going to go,
Okay, that's what this person wants,

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so let's give them more of that
because that is what they're feeling right now.

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We're more aligned with the vibrational aspects
of emotions, So my advice take

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it or leave it to sit in
the morning for ten minutes. It's all

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it takes. Focus on your heart, Breathe in and out through your heart,

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open that heart chakra and feel grateful. Feel grateful for all the things

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that you have that you should be
grateful for that so many people in the

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world don't have. It's the feeling, it's the emotions that count, not

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just the thoughts of the words.
And right now I feel grateful that you

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are still here listening to these words.