Being Grateful is Good for Your Health

Dated: date January 11, 2011 – 12:20 pm

So it turns out that giving thanks is actually good for your health. According to Robert Emmons, a professor of psychology at the University of California-Davis, adults who frequently feel grateful have more energy, more optimism, more social connections, and more happiness than those who do not, according to studies conducted over the past decade.

What are you waiting for? I recommend that you do two things. One, do the ten-ten visualization. I like to, every day, spend a moment visualizing 10 things that I’m grateful for. And then, 10 of my goals and dreams. I just visualize. I just close my eyes, think about all the things I’m grateful for, and instantly, I start to feel happy.

And then, I take that happiness, and I put it into my goals and dreams, and it accelerates the accomplishment of my goals and dreams, which makes me more optimistic. I am operating optimally. Do you get that? Gratitude is a great thing. Another thing I like to do is just make a little, short gratitude list. I like to have a group of people that I send my gratitude list to. I have a little e-mail chain, and we all send our gratitude to each other. You know, it’s just, “I’m grateful for this. I’m grateful for that. I’m grateful for this.” And I make a list of just three or four things every single day. Try it, and notice how much more optimistic, powerful, and resourceful you become.

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How Can You Shape Your Own Destiny?

Dated: date August 11, 2010 – 3:34 pm

How can you shape your own destiny? Well, the answer is very simple. Practice gratitude. The rule is you become what you think about. So, if you’re focused on what is working in your life, then more of that is going to come into your life. You need to focus on what you like, what is right, what is working, who loves you. Basically, think about what makes you happy and what makes you feel grateful! If you think about these things, more of those things will come into your life. So your future becomes more and more what you like about your life.

Now let’s look at the other side of it. The drunk monkey in your head is doing all of that talking and all of that thinking. The drunk monkey is focused on what is not working, what you need to be afraid of and what you need to avoid. When you allow the drunk monkey to focus on all that stuff, it attracts more of it into your life. It’s attracting more of what you don’t want, so your life becomes progressively more difficult to deal with. What gratitude does is it literally turns your life in a direction that is more of what you want. It will shape your destiny in ways that you can’t even imagine. Your life is gonna become progressively more joyous as you are practicing gratitude.

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Powerful Gratitude Exercise

Dated: date August 5, 2010 – 2:13 pm

So what actions can you take today to immediately take advantage of the power of gratitude? The first thing that I’d recommend is something that I recommend to all of my coaching students when they come to me. That is the 10/10 visualization process.

I’ve coached 8,000 people over the years, and most of them have come to me in some sort of stuck state. That’s generally where people come to me. They’re stuck in some way, and one of the quickest ways to get unstuck is through a process of gratitude and visioning, and that’s what the 10/10 visualization is.

So here’s what I want you to do. I want you to make a list of 10 things that you love about your life today right now; go in your life and look at everything you’re grateful for. Then I want you to make a list of 10 goals and dreams that you want to accomplish. I like to look in 10 different categories. You can look in your family, your primary relationship,your spiritual life, your mental, emotional life, your physical body, your children. You can look in your financial life, your business life; contributions that you’re making, social life, recreation, hobbies. There are so many areas that you can set goals in.

So make a list of 10 things you’re grateful; 10 goals and dreams, and then every night before you go to bed so leave this list on your night stand next to your bed. Every night before you go to bed review both lists; 10 things I’m grateful for; 10 things that I want to accomplish. Then close your eyes and as you’re drifting off to sleep I want to visualize the things that you are grateful for and get into that grateful state. Now this is not easy to do. It may take 21 times of doing this before you actually get to that place where you are moved to tears of joy. If you’re not moved to tears of joy, don’t even worry about that; just you want to get focused in on what you’re grateful for.

When you visualize things you’re grateful for your mind starts to say, “Wait a second my life is good,” and so you don’t get the monkey coming in saying, “You’re so stupid, and you’ll never accomplish that, and what about all these things and you’re fat and you’re ugly, and this doesn’t work right.” That’s what happens a lot of times when we go to visualize our goals and dreams. So, by going to what you’re grateful for first, you give yourself a basis with which to then you can build upon, and your mind will more easily accept your goals and dreams.

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Bring Gratitude Into Your Life

Dated: date July 1, 2010 – 1:15 pm

Why is focusing on being grateful so powerful?

And the answer is- nobody really knows. But all of the evidence, both in anecdotes and with science, provides us with an established notion that being grateful is extremely powerful in your life.

One of the things that I noticed happens when you start putting gratitude into your life on a daily basis, is that you begin to engage those happy chemicals. You start to feel the endorphins and the dopamine and the serotonin really start to kick in, and you can feel that. You feel your happiness start to increase. Why?

Your natural state is happiness, joy, peace, bliss. That is your natural state. But when you let your mind run the show, the mind’s job is to focus in on all those things that are currently going wrong in your life, and trying to either avoid them, fix them, kill them, whatever. So, if you listen to the thinking in your head, the thinking in your head’s job is to move you away from what could potentially be dangerous and then have you either avoid it, kill it, or fix it.

And so when you go into gratitude, you’re actually going beyond what your mind is thinking. You get focused in on how now is good. Now is right. Now works. And that’s a non-fearful state. And when you’re not fearful, guess what? You’re happy. You’re fulfilled. You’re satisfied. And I highly recommend that you take a daily dose of gratitude, and you utilize that in your life.

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Wow! What an amazing thing you have!

Dated: date February 27, 2009 – 10:16 am

istock_000006603014mediumYou were born!  Amazing!  You are reading these words on a computer!  Totally awesome.  Do you realize how lucky you are?  Do you get how fortunate you are?

You are concerned with personal development.  Hello!  That means you are interested in evolving yourself.  That is a very sophisticated pursuit.  That is one of the highest pursuits a person can undertake.  To be in the pursuit of higher awareness means you are not trying to survive.  80% of the world is just concerned with staying alive.  That’s not you.  Do you get how lucky you are?

Today just count your blessings, okay?

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