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Why Gratitude Goes BEFORE Happiness And Abundance

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GRATITUDE - Why most people have it backwards, and why expressing
gratitude in words just isn't enough to get what you want.
Learn to harness one of the most Powerful Forces in the Universe
by understanding this paradox...it's one of the biggest keys to
genuine happiness, wealth, true joy, and success.


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Why Gratitude Goes BEFORE Happiness And Abundance
Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Margie Waters
The Universe Of Power
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Does that sound backwards? Does it seem like it ought to be
stated that once you are happy you can feel grateful? Sometimes
turning our assumptions upside down brings insight and discovery.
Gratitude felt before the happiness, before the manifestation of
something we want, before the fulfillment of our dreams is a
surprising idea, but in the energetic sense it's the most
logical thing we can do.

How grateful are you? In this sense, I don't mean just saying
thank you if somebody gives you a gift, or holds a door for you.
That's just politeness, or social convention. Gratitude isn't
words, it's emotion. It's an openness of heart to experience
that lets your spirit flow out in a particular way. If you think
of emotions as indicators of how you are expressing your spirit,
you can see that these emotions tell a lot about where you're
headed in your life - towards something great that you'll enjoy,
or something not so good, that you won't enjoy. Learning to
focus on emotions and seeing what they're telling you about your
energy is an important step in learning to create the life you
want. And learning to nurture and magnify the emotions that serve
you is an equally important step.

So if gratitude isn't about words, what is it?

Gratitude is an emotional position that makes it easier to
manifest those things that you want. This works in two ways. One
is just that feeling a positive feeling like gratitude puts you
in sync with things that you desire. By being in alignment with
your desires, you make it a lot easier to attract them.

The other is that by expressing gratitude you adopt a posture of
assuming that what you want is already here - how else could you
feel grateful for it, if it weren't here? In this way you
encourage it to move from the level of your spirit into your
physical life. To do that you have to become the person who
already has/is/does it. You have to become the finely tuned
receiver of that thing. You have to step into the reality where
you already have it. When you feel what that reality is like, to
the core of your being, including the gratitude, that thing or
experience can become a material reality. Once you do that with
any consistency at all, events, situations and objects will begin
to fall into place that reflect that new inner reality.

One of the best ways to begin this process is with gratitude.
Gratitude expresses trust in the process. It makes a leap across
time, and in a small way, puts us into the position of already
having received that which we've asked for. This opens the
energy circuits, so to speak, and allows that thing to come into
material form.




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