Gratitude enables you to overcome your limiting beliefs.
Limiting thoughts and beliefs are false thoughts and beliefs that prevent you from pursuing your goals and desires. They can affect every aspect of your life from your wealth, health, relationships and emotional well-being. For example, if you believe you don’t deserve to be happy, you may never pursue your dreams or goals, and you will not be happy.
Gratitude in all things
Gratitude enables you to overcome and replace you limiting thoughts and beliefs with positive and abundant thoughts and beliefs. Further, your attitude, mood, behavior and thoughts improve when you practice gratitude.
The three keys to gratitude include :
- Emote – to feel emotionally grateful
- Extend – reach out and connect socially
- Exercise – practice until it’s instilled
Be grateful in all circumstances, no matter what, both in good times and dark times. Although, it is easier to be thankful during good times than during hard times. The trials and sufferings in your life are there to strengthen you. They’re there for you to learn and grow.
Dr. Robert Emmons, known as the “world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude”, andis a psychology profession from the University of California, Davis and also the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology, found that being more grateful can lead to increased levels of well-being and that being grateful towards a higher power may lead to increased physical health. Giving thanks to those you are in a relationship with (not only your family) will strengthen the relationship.
Studies found that persons practicing gratitude showed more optimism in life, reduced stress, depression, and anxiety levels. It is a continuous loop. The more you experience gratitude and say ‘thank you’ the more you will find in life to appreciate. When you choose gratitude over happiness even your self-control is stronger.
Research found that patients with heart failure showed reduced symptoms of heart failure and inflammation, improved sleep, and moods through keeping a gratitude journal.
Daily gratitude exercise
- Reflect on three things your grateful for
- Feel the gratitude in your body and
- Extend the gratitude to others
When you practice gratitude, you change your thoughts and beliefs about yourself. You are happier and experience greater joy in life. And, when you change yourself, you change your perception of the world.
Be thankful for everything that God has given you. Apostle Paul declared, “I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want” (Philippians 4:12, NIV).
An attitude of gratitude and a spirit of thankfulness make all the difference. Thus, to change your life and your world, change your attitude and in all things, practice gratitude.
References;
- https://www.virtuesforlife.com/33-gratitude-affirmations-to-transform-limiting-beliefs/
- https://billygraham.org/story/how-to-be-thankful-in-all-things/
- https://lovegodgreatly.com/be-thankful-in-all-things/
- http://www.thelife.digital/tl/articles/gratitude-is-the-best-attitude/
“I am grateful to feel stronger, wiser and more confident with each new day.”