Being grateful is not some new phenomenon to most of us. We all learn from a very young age to be grateful, to say thank you and count our blessings. However, have you ever thought of gratitude as a power you have? Have you ever thought that gratitude can be a practice that enables you to strengthen your resilience, your health, your mind and your quality of life?

Here’s a deeper way to think about gratitude and its benefits – and a different way to practice it and ignite it daily so you train your brain to make it a habit.

A deeper way to think about gratitude

Gratitude has been know to be the gateway into the heart to foster deeper emotional connections, enhance empathy, replace negativity, and increase positive emotions . This practice helps individuals connect with their true selves and others on a more profound level, leading to a more open and fulfilling emotional experience.. There has been a great deal of research in neuroscience, psychology, neurobiology, and spirituality that continue to show us how much the power gratitude has on our health and our life. But this power comes from more than just saying thank you or remembering to be grateful once in a while. It comes from truly feeling and living gratitude consciously and practicing it everyday!

Gratitude is an energy and a power that we can tap into at any time

• To remember not to take for granted the miracles within you and around you that give you life
• To intentionally acknowledge your positive achievements and all the little wins you’ve had
• To remember the challenges you’ve overcome that have built your strength and resilience
• To be grateful for new opportunities yet to come

Gratitude is mindset and a practice you train your mind to do daily

By practicing gratitude daily, you are reconditioned your mind as a result and making it part of your new mindset. You can use it in a powerful way to retrain your brain to focus on gratitude in three ways:

• Make it a practice to focus on being grateful on what is, what you have and what you’ve overcome – This replaces any thoughts or feelings about what is not, what you resent and what feels missing.
• Become more aware of the abundance within you and the endless possibilities and resources available all around you and it will replace any feeling of lack or scarcity.
• Be grateful for your future and visualize your vision as if it’s already here. Feel the gratitude of living it. This is a great way to build your inner trust, intuition and patience.

By creating such focus, you build a powerful mindset with the energy that aligns with your desires. This in turn ignites your power to take the action you need to achieve the vision you want.

Scientific evidence of the benefits of gratitude

Studies and research in gratitude have found the power of gratitude to have a great deal of benefits beyond what was known:

• Reduces stress and anxiety because it lowers the cortisol levels and the hormone responsible for stress
• Improves our overall health and helps us heal
• Strengthens our emotions and resilience because it helps us reframe challenges as opportunities
• Increases happiness, abundance and positive energy because it focuses on the good in our life even in tough times
• Strengthens social connections by recognizing the support and kindness of others
• Reignites our inspiration and reconnects us to our heart because it helps us create a deeper sense of meaning
• Reconnects us to our vision for the future because it realigns our mindset with our goals, fostering clarity, and boosting motivation
• Physically changes the structure of our brain so we can upgrade the way we think
• Resets our mindset to focus on growth, positivity and abundance rather than problems and worries
• Inspires creativity by clearing mental clutter and opening the mind to new possibilities

By accessing gratitude, we are first affirming that goodness exists in our life without things having to be perfect, and second, we are acknowledging that there is an abundant source from where that goodness comes.

How to ignite the power of gratitude

Access the deeper feeling of gratitude daily, and make it part of a daily meditation practice. What you will find is that the more you practice, the more it will grow and unfold exponentially. Authentic happiness surfaces from within and with time you will start to feel freer and lighter inside. As a result, stress and anxiety gets reduced, fear starts to disappear and negative emotions will dissipate. This helps strengthen your resiliency and increase your coping mechanism to deal with more in your life.

As you continue to intentionally focus on gratitude, you will no longer need to fight to be strong, instead, you just become stronger, calmer, more patient, and wiser. Things will start to feel less difficult and more effortless.

So remember to make gratitude part of your daily practice. Access the endless things to be thankful for and watch how things start to change in your life!

Listen to this powerful video below or on Youtube to get connected with all the endless things you can be grateful for!