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Gratitude Experiment: Day 32

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I wanted to continue with the theme from yesterday about celebrating (see last blog Gratitude Experiment Day 31) because celebration is such an important part of the practice of proactive gratitude.

First of all, understand that I’m not advocating drinking a bottle of champagne every time you have a win. The story I shared was to illustrate how I, and a lot of us, delay celebrating the little things in our lives. Most people tend not to even acknowledge the little blessings in our lives and, instead wait for the big, marching band moments to actually celebrate. Those moments sometimes never come, because we haven’t yet learned to celebrate the smaller blessings.

It’s important to give the experience you are grateful for some time, space and recognition…and then amplify the experience by infusing it with the energy of celebration. The energy of celebration brings that which you have just experienced, and are grateful for, to a level of creation. You are actually then aligning with the Creative Energy. And that is how you enter the vibration that attracts more good into your life.

How you choose to celebrate is up to you, but here are some ideas…

  • Play your favorite music and get up and dance with abandon (by yourself, with a friend or your partner)
  • Jump up and down pumping your arms like a football player whose just made a touchdown (now, those guys know how to celebrate a win!)
  • Allow the energy of excitement to bubble up inside of you and let it come out with a giant “Woo-hoo!!!”
  • Break open the good coffee, the good tea, the good chocolate, the gourmet treat of your choice you’ve been saving and enjoy.
  • Call a supportive friend and share the good news.
  • High five a friend with enthusiasm
  • Go for a run, a swim, a skate, a game of tennis,
  • Take yourself out to a favorite restaurant or movie and enjoy
  • Get a massage.
  • Get into a comfortable position, close your eyes and allow the joyous feeling of gratitude to wash through you and spill out into your life!

Okay…now it’s your turn! What’s your favorite way to celebrate? Let’s share this with each other and find various ways to celebrate…and build our celebration muscle!

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My gratitudes for today…

I am grateful for the inspiration that is constantly pouring through me to share with others.

I am grateful for the wonderful White Stone service today and the opportunity to listen to inner wisdom.

I am grateful for my husband and children who are on this adventure with me.

Gratitude Experiment: Day 31

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Ringing in the New Year with a champagne toast reminded me of a time  many years ago when my husband and I were first married. We were living in a small rented house, struggling to make ends meet and working jobs neither of us loved. On one anniversary, someone gave us a bottle of Perrier Jouet.  I remember thinking, “that’s $100 a bottle…a lovely gift, but that’s money we could have used to pay some bills.”

Consequently, the bottle stayed on our shelf, looking lovely, but we didn’t dare open it.  We were waiting for the right occasion to pop that cork.  And we waited, and waited…and waited.  Were there events to celebrate? Sure, but, no occasion seemed to be big enough to celebrate it with expensive champagne. 

When my husband finally got the “dream job” I said, I think now’s the time to celebrate with the good champagne.  “No,” he said, “let’s wait to see if they’re actually going to keep me. This could only last one season.”  Wow, that sounded fatalistic even to me.  But, we waited and waited. 

I think that bottle sat there for years.  We refused to celebrate the good stuff in our lives. Why? Because we were afraid they’d come to an end? Because they weren’t big enough for good champagne?  I think the moment I discovered I was pregnant, after trying for a very long time, we felt that might be the moment to really celebrate and open the good stuff.   So, we finally opened it. But of course, because I was now pregnant, I wasn’t supposed to drink.  I think I had a half a glass…guiltily.

I realize now, how limiting that was.  We were actually limiting the good that could come to us becuase we refused to celebrate the good we had. 

So, don’t wait to open the good stuff and celebrate…even the small things in life, the good moments…the love you feel…the relationship that has mended…the new client…the sale…the good news…a new hairdo! Heck, why not?  Life’s short.

And, the more you recognize and celebrate the small stuff, the more good things you’ll find to celebrate. 

So open the fine champagne, or the good tea, or the fine chocolates, or the fun music. Whatever it is that puts a smile on your face and makes you feel like this is a special moment…do it!   It is a special moment. Celebrate it!

Today, I am grateful for lessons learned and another change to begin again.

Gratitude Experiment: New Year’s Day

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I just finished my list of 100 gratitudes! Woo hoo! I did it over the course of a couple days and took my time with it.

Have you done yours yet?

It’s interesting that around 35 or 40 it felt like I wasn’t going to be able to come up with 100! But I just dug deeper and discovered so many things in the past year that I’m grateful for and by the time I got to 99, I thought I had about 50 more to add.

Anyway, if you haven’t done it yet, don’t worry it’s not too late!  Just start it and, before you know it, you’ll be swimming in gratitude.  You’ll be riding the top of the wave of an energy of love that has been moving in your life, and….by your recognition of it…will flood your life with more love, more joy, more prosperity and more blessings than you can image. 

So start your list of 100 things for which to be grateful in 2009 and get ready…the floodgates are opening!

Happy New Year and let’s affirm together that this year will be the best of our lives!