Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you a beautiful day of gratitude however you’re spending it, allowing that gratitude to expand all that you love in your life.
Gratitude truly is the gift that keeps on giving. A free ebook “The Amazing Powers of Gratitude” is shared via the download link at the bottom of this post which explores more on that.
Here I share a less usual technique to harness gratitude for transforming problems.
Is there an area of your life that feels challenged or blocked, isn’t going as you would like, or causing pain, stress, or frustration?
Try applying gratitude as a transformer with the exercise below.
To do this, with any ‘issue’, look to anything you can feel grateful for in relation to that situation/person.Look to what is positive, or what can become such from the situation. When we’re caught up in a given challenge, our attention can be more focussed on the ‘what’s wrong’. There may be other perspectives available.
This is not the same as being grateful for the situation per se, ignoring or denying what you’re feeling, or covering that over with fake gratitude. What it will do is help you pick out any gems you may be blind to, spark potential epiphanies, and help to transmute and transform the experience into something new, possibly vanquishing the problem completely, or bringing a new perspective, or the unhinging of possible negativity that may be keeping it alive.
Ask yourself the questions below in relation to your problem area:
- What lessons have I learned/in what ways have I grown through this?
- What gifts have I received or have come from this person or situation that could be of benefit to me?
- How might my life be better becauses of this, if not right now, in the future?
- Have I become stronger, wiser, more compassionate, or any other quality (or have the potential for doing so) through this situation that I can feel grateful for?
- How has this challenge helped me discover more about myself, or build resolve?
- What positive qualities or experiences has this person or situation exhibited at any other time that I can be grateful for?
- What truths have I learned about myself or life through this (that I can be grateful for)?
Is there something I can discover about any limiting beliefs, patterns, thoughts or stories that may be holding me back through this? - What good has come from this challenge, or could come from this experience, for myself/others/my future/ the world?
- What positive qualities have I demonstrated in dealing with this challenge (that I can feel grateful to myself for)?
Obviously you can do other things such as reflect on why you may have created or allowed the reality, love and accept yourself just as you are and just as everything is, forgive yourself and others, let go of limiting beliefs and stories, and so on.
Gratitude in itself will begin to shift your energy and attitude and lend a hand in transforming problem areas.
Notice and shifts or insights asking the questions above?
This exercise is one of 3 shared in the “Amazing Powers of Gratitude” Free ebook you can download via these links:
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Much love,
Aine Belton