HOW GRATITUDE HEALED ME

I would like to share a personal story with you.

When I was in my 30s (and I just turned 70),
I was a single mother with two daughters growing
through their challenging teenage years,
not to mention an antagonist ex-husband,
and many, many things in my life
had not turned out the way I thought they would.

I found myself struggling in a swirl of sadness,
disappointment, heartache, and despair.

I was a yoga teacher and had my own yoga studio.
Teaching yoga carried me through the turbulence like a life-raft
and brought me much good feeling, solace, and peace.

But still, I found myself struggling not to drown.
I tried many ways to find meaning, purpose, and love.
But there seemed to be an endless unfolding of painful
disappointments. And I just kept getting more
and more depressed.

I found myself trying not to cry
whenever anyone asked me how I was feeling
or how I was doing. I was really struggling.
It was a very dark time for me.

And I became determined to help myself
and to show up with love and light for my daughters.
I decided I was not going to give in to being depressed.
I became very attentive to what I was feeling,
so I could catch that feeling when it started to stir within me.
And I made a comprehensive list of things I would do
to make myself feel better when I felt myself getting drawn
into that dark, miserable, unbearable place.

Let’s all take a few deep breaths together.

Feel your body.

And relax.

One of the things that saved my life
was discovering the miracle of gratitude.

In that dark, desperate place that I would find myself,
I began to ask myself, “What am I grateful for in this moment?
What am I genuinely grateful for right now?”
And I would always be able to find something.
Mostly, it was something very simple or obvious.

I had hot water to take a bath.
The feelings of gratitude that came with that
awareness were so powerful,
it made me cry.

I had a bed to sleep in,
a comfortable, clean bed to sleep in.
My gratitude for this filled me with waves of emotion
that flooded my heart.

I was so grateful I could make a cup of tea!
I was so grateful that there were trees that I could hug
and flowers that I could see their beauty.
I was so grateful that I could love my children.
I was so grateful that I had a close friend
with whom I could share my heart.

I discovered that as I found just one thing I was
genuinely grateful for, my whole being shifted.
And that shifted my whole life.

I felt my being flooded
with the soothing,
loving vibrations of gratitude.
I didn’t use those words in those days.
I didn’t use the words frequency and vibration.
But now I can see that as I brought my awareness
to the feelings of gratitude, it was the energetic frequencies
of gratitude that vibrated like waves flowing through me,
flooding me with so much goodness,
in such a deep way, that it healed me.

The miracle of gratitude.

Once I found one thing I was grateful for,
I could find two, and then a third,
and once I had found three, everything had shifted
and there were hundreds of things, thousands of things
cascading through my awareness that I felt
genuinely grateful for in my life.

The miracle of gratitude.

It still heals me.
In any moment, I can ask myself,
“What am I grateful for right now?”
And as I find one thing, I instantly shift
into a higher frequency field.

Gratitude floods me with light, joy, and relief!
It shifts me into a higher perspective
and a higher consciousness reality.
I literally start to vibrate
at a higher frequency.

And I do this all the time,
both when I am feeling upset and when
I’m feeling wonderful.
It just gets better and better.

Feeling gratitude moves through me in such a powerful way,
it literally uplifts me, and I feel that I am expanding
into my infinite being.

So let me offer you that same opportunity to ask yourself,
“What are you grateful for right now?”

Find just one thing you feel genuinely grateful for
in this moment.
Breathe deeply and feel your body.
Feel what happens.

Think of another thing you’re grateful for right now.
Keep consciously breathing and
feel how the frequencies of gratitude
vibrate within you.

Now think of a third thing you’re grateful for.
And notice how that feels for you.

Breathe 3 long, slow, calming breaths.
And enjoy the journey
into a higher frequency
experience.

And no need to stop here,
we can keep bringing in the
awareness of what you feel grateful for,
and how you feel gratefulfor what you have,
all day long.

How the feeling of gratitude
meets whatever shows up
in your life.

Feeling gratitude allows me to love myself,
to love my life, and to love this blessed moment
more and more and more.

As I embrace the perspective of gratitude,
I find ten thousand things
to be grateful for.

And I’ve noticed that gratitude infuses each
of my relationships with meaning,
truth, presence, love, and light.

This month, over the equinox, we are hosting our
UPLIFT 7 DAYS OF GRATITUDE
And everyone is invited to discover the gifts
and the miracles of gratitude.

And no matter what you are feeling
or what is happening in your life, you will always
be able to find something to be grateful for.
And discover the living miracle
of gratitude for yourself.

There’s nothing to sign up for.
We will send out our 7 DAYS OF GRATITUDE offerings
each day from the 16th to the 22nd of September.

And as we do this together as a community,
because our UPLIFT community is a collective
of millions of people, we will be living into being
a higher consciousness reality.

And, we don’t need to wait.

You can ask yourself all day long,
“What am I grateful for right now?”
Then find one thing,
and feel what happens.

We hope you enjoy your journey
into a higher frequency experience as you start to feel
the frequencies of gratitude vibrating in your body,
and uplifting your heart, as you live into being
a higher consciousness reality
for yourself.

You matter more than you might imagine.

So let’s have fun experiencing the glorious
frequency field of gratitude
together.

Truly, we all have so much to be grateful for.

Much Love And Gratitude To YOU!

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