Open Yourself to Receiving
How Gratitude Transforms Your Life
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I struggled with this week’s newsletter. I know that gratitude is important but I think I failed to fully grasp its full weight and subconsciously, I was avoiding taking it on.
In this day and age, it’s so easy to focus on what we don’t have, what we’re striving for, our goals, and if I’m being honest, I often neglect to give thanks for what I have.
As I lay in bed yesterday thinking about the topic of gratitude, I had a few insights about gratitude that I’d like to share with you now.
Gratitude is an immensely powerful emotion. It's a high-vibration energy that has the power to shift your consciousness from a state of scarcity and lack to a state of joy and abundance. It turns a seemingly negative event into one of possibility, opportunity, and growth.
Gratitude is an energy state – a vibration – and when we align ourselves to this vibration, we enter into the energy of abundance. From this place, we open ourselves up to receiving from life.
Alternatively, when we’re in a state of lack and wanting, we vibrate at a much lower frequency and close ourselves off to the potentiality of life. Our lack of gratitude leaves no room for anything new to come in because our focus is on “not enough”, our energy is negative and repelling, not attracting.
There is something called the Mirror Principle. This principle states that the world will reflect back to you who you are. You first have to form the image – your internal state – and the world will reflect back to you this state.
As Neville Goddard says, “You get what you are, not what you want”. This is also what Jesus meant when he said, “As within, so without”.
So how does this relate to gratitude?
Well, gratitude puts you into the state of being that which you desire. When you feel grateful for something, as if you already had it, you are the version of yourself that already has it. From that state of being, your actions become aligned with the version of you that already has that which you desire; when you act from this place of being, life will “give you what you are”.
When you are not in alignment with the version of yourself that already has what you desire, you will not be able to see the “bridge of incidents” – or the steps you need to take – to realize your desires; it is only through receiving it first, through the act of feeling and imagination, that you will be open to receiving it in your life.
If what you want is not coming to you it’s because you are not currently the version of yourself that is open to receiving it, you are not in alignment with that thing. Part of you is saying no to it, and so you are rejecting it energetically.
If you are dissatisfied with your life and feel that you don’t have enough, practice giving thanks for what you do have. This is the quickest way to feel more abundant, and so attract more to you. For why would life give you more if you don’t want what you already have?
If there is an issue in your life that you are struggling with, practice using your mind to put yourself into the state of already being the version of you that has what you want. Yes, this will require concentration but try it and see for yourself how this transforms your mood and behavior. See what possibilities arise from this energetic state.
Once you begin to fully grasp the importance of being in the state of gratitude – and see it as a channel for receiving – you start looking for things to be grateful for. You make the conscious choice to focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have.
It’s true that gratitude doesn’t always come easily, even if you think it should. Gratitude is therefore a practice. And the more you practice gratitude, the more you have to be grateful for.
Thank you for reading,
-Dave
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