Your Daily Dose of Gratitude ~ Day 649

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I Cherish The Experience Of Life

"I choose to be grateful." As those words roll off your tongue, and as you feel it deeply within your heart, you create ripples of gratitude that cannot help but to return to you exactly what you are feeling. This, friends, is a masterful mantra, and one can extend it further and say "I choose to be grateful for _______." And you can insert whatever comes to mind. Because you are the chooser, you are the decider. You are the one that affirms, "This is my reality," through your choices, and you reaffirm those choices through your reactions. So what, then, are you grateful for? You get to decide! It's better to start small than not to start at all. There may be a particular flower in your garden that you are drawn to, and you may gaze at that flower, and touch it, and love it, and perhaps feel a sense of peace. You've just said, "I choose to be grateful" through your love for that flower. That flower (let us suppose it is a violet) is there in your garden because you wanted it to be there. It is your garden. It is your violet. Wherever you find yourself in the moment is where you have chosen to be.

Your actions prove where you are, mentally and emotionally. The quality of your actions do this. If you are emotionally in the dumps, it is because you have forgotten to feel gratitude. This is why quality is so important, and not quantity. Because it matters not how many times one affirms that they are grateful, but what really matters is the inner quality that is expressed. You can only express what you actually feel.

Whenever you find yourself in need of a solution, and you happen to remember that you have the power of choice, you can find the clarity that you seek through beginning where you are. Where else can you begin, anyhow? You can acknowledge where you are, mentally and emotionally, and you can forgive yourself for getting in whatever predicament you find yourself in. Whatever it is, it really doesn't matter, because you have the power to remove yourself from it through choosing something, anything, to be grateful for. And you go from there. Because when you forgive, you are grateful. When you love yourself despite your past actions, you are grateful and you are free. (SimonNightstarr) â€" www.groups.yahoo.com/group/justchannelings/message/30441

I Cherish My Challenges & Challengers

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire, for if you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times, during those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes, they will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.

It is easy to be thankful for the good things. A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks. GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive. Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become your blessing. (Author Unknown)

I Cherish The Moments ~ I See WOWs In More NOWs

I love the earth. I love being outdoors and I do give thanks for the beauty we have been gifted with. The angels once said, "Ann look at the riches humanity has been given - the grasses, the trees, the birds, the waters, the blue of the night sky, the clouds, the passionate orange sunburst of sunrise and sunset. Look at the soft berries, the ripe fruits, the crisp vegetables. Look at the majestic mountains, the ever-changing seas. Look. Look around you and behold true wealth." I almost cried when they said that because its true. In our society we measure wealth by our bank accounts, our stuff, and hopefully by the people in our lives as well, and yet wealth is here the minute we arrive on earth.

It is so important to take time to be in nature, whether you camp, walk, drive, or travel out of body at night, because when you are there, you are reminded of God's love. You can't help it. The miraculous surrounds us. I'll never forget a walk in a meadow right after a rain. I looked down and could have sworn I saw a diamond sitting there on a leaf. The diamonds were all over. I was dumfounded. When I looked closer I was even more overwhelmed. The "diamonds" were water droplets from the rain that had landed inside these beautiful leaves. The way the leaves reflected through the water made each little drop look like a multifaceted diamond. I could hear the angels in the background delighting in my discovery of nature's gems.

Try this. Pick up a rock and look at it. Ask it to tell you a story about where it came from. Shut your eyes and connect with this rock in your heart. Watch its birth as it originally travelled out of the earth as molten lava perhaps, or was pressurized by millions of years of ocean pressing down on it, or perhaps it grew as a result of condensation forming crystals in the cracks of another rock. A simple rock becomes a tool for travelling outside of time and space. Learn it with this rock, and you can do it anywhere.

Pick up another rock, and ask a question. Look at the rock and see how it answers you - maybe its shape, or markings upon it, or colors, answer your question. God is everywhere, in every aspect of creation. A simple rock can train you in your psychic abilities. When I visited the Indian saint Sri Karunamayi, her gift to me was a rock and her telepathic message was simple... pray for Earth. She exists in every pebble and stream. Mother nature is awe inspiring and awesome. I love her. (Ann Albers) - www.visionsofheaven.com

I Embrace Who I Am

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think. (Emerson)

What I Say, Be, & See - I Become

You can't experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild! ( Sorrell)

I Neutralize Negativity ~ I Prefer Positivity

And so, Beloved Lightworkers, in this time of Cosmic Radiance, as the Light increases, you will begin to "see" ever more clearly. And you will find that your perception becomes clearer and finer. And you will see the old energies of shadow and illusion that still exist even as the New Earth of Light is being born. It is important, dearest Lightworkers, that at this time you do not allow yourself to be drawn into old energies of fear, superstition and manipulation, and that you do not get caught up in patterns of "re-cycling" old energies and dramas as a way of avoiding the creative challenges of the New Energies.

We will offer you this suggestion, dearest ones, as you deal with the shifts and changes. Rely on your Heart and your Feelings at this time, rather than your mind and its judgements. Know that the New Energy creates feelings of Love, Support and Joy. If you experience fear, anxiety or anger, then you are dealing with old energies, and these may be created by "illusions" that you are still holding, including the "illusion" of what the Ascension process should be and how it should feel and how you should deal with it. (Archangel through Celia Fenn) - www.starchildascension.org

Kindness Is My Favourite Way To Display My Gratitude

Always be a little kinder than necessary. (Sir M. Barrie)

Today's Praise Perception

I dearly value the free will of others, choosing not to judge the life they wish to learn

My Daily Phrase Of Praise

(1) Apply this "phrase of praise" to all the nouns you encounter throughout your day. Write it on a piece of paper & keep it where you'll repeatedly see it & it'll re-mind you to remember to "spend your days in praise." You will feel yourself filling up with the energy of gratitude as you consistently use this phrase throughout your day. Fill your nows with "wows" by routinely using this phrase of praise.

I dearly value all the ???? in my life

(2) Use this "phrase of praise" as a mantra in the "nows" throughout your day. Concentrate on your breath as you visualize filling up with the essence of this phrase and then breathe out and imagine releasing all that is NOT who you truly are - returning it to Source with gratitude, for all the lessons attained and the many strengths gained from the polarity initiation process of its passing presence as a chapter in your life. Now breathe in your next chapter, breathe in this "phrase of praise," turn the page and let it all in.

As You Breathe In, Affirm and Believe "I dearly value" Now Breathe Out

As You Breathe In, Affirm and Believe "I dearly value" Now Breathe Out

As You Breathe In, Affirm and Believe "I dearly value" Now Breathe Out

As You Breathe In, Affirm and Believe "I dearly value" Now Breathe Out