{"id":23,"date":"2007-11-23T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/23\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T03:07:10","slug":"how-do-i-thank-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/how-do-i-thank-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Thank Thee? Let Me Count The Ways…"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of days, at this blog, we’ve been telling you about the power of gratitude, and how you can incorporate it into your life to manifest more of what you want.<\/p>\n

We’ve shown you how being grateful, being thankful, and showing appreciation for what you have — and what you’re about to get<\/em> — will bring you more of your desires, and faster.<\/p>\n

Today we have another inspirational exercise and video for you… but first, a quote from our good friend, Guy Finley<\/a>, a neighbor of ours:<\/p>\n

Unlock the Secret of the Ages<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The only way a man or woman will ever know a life without conflict is when they see the Love behind everything that happens — not by imagination, but through direct participation, recognition. There is never a moment that God’s will isn’t actually pouring down on us in one shape or form of energy or another. It is never not taking place, which means that we can always be in alignment with a greater will by giving ourselves up to it.<\/p>\n

How do we give ourselves up to it? We have to recognize it in that moment where we are stirred, both positively and negatively. Have you ever noticed how little you think of God when things are fantastic? Real gratitude is born out of a certain substance created in the human heart whose very content is born out of recognizing that Love is actually behind everything that is happening to us — if only we recognized the story and the storyteller and gave ourselves to that will accordingly.”<\/p>\n

– Guy Finley,<\/strong> author of Secrets of Being Unstoppable<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the best ways to tap into that real gratitude that Guy is talking about here is revealed in the exercise that we have for you today.<\/p>\n

If you’re ready to discover it, just click below to continue reading…<\/p>\n

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Often we don’t show the gratitude we should because we get caught up in our day-to-day lives, confused by too much going on, and allow ourselves to become frustrated by little things. Then when we hear other people complaining about their lives, the tendency is to join in and start complaining, rather than expressing appreciation.<\/p>\n

Gregg Krech, author of “Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self Reflection<\/em>” and co-founder of the ToDo Institute<\/em> in Monkton, Vermont, says, “A powerful way to cultivate gratitude is to focus on what is really happening in our lives, rather than falling into the traps of complaining and drama.”<\/p>\n

Here is the practice he suggests in order to accomplish that:<\/p>\n

The basic practice of Naikan, which translates to “inside-looking,” consists of asking oneself three questions every day:<\/p>\n

1. What have I received today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. What have I given?<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. What trouble have I caused?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“While Naikan doesn’t deny the difficult parts of our lives, it puts things into perspective,” says Krech, who asks himself these three questions every evening.<\/p>\n

“When I list everything I received and then everything I gave each day, what I have in the giving column is always so much shorter than what’s in the receiving column,” he says. “As we become aware that we’ve received so much more than we’ve given, not only does that cultivate gratitude, it also cultivates often a sense of wanting to give something back to the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your parents probably told you to “count your blessings” when you were a child. Well, it turns out that making lists of things you have to be grateful for goes way beyond what they even thought possible.<\/p>\n

This short video explains why it’s so important to do this:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u0ru4gzBI-o[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

So get yourself a little notebook, a journal, or just some regular paper from your computer printer, and start today by answering those three questions and making yourself a list of what you’re grateful for.<\/p>\n

Here’s to being thankful, manifesting our desires, being thankful for that, manifesting more desires, and so on… a great snowball effect that, once it starts, you won’t want to stop.<\/p>\n

Happy giving of thanks!<\/p>\n

Your Partners in the Quest For
\nLiving a Life Without Limits,<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Barry<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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