The Inner Journey
Getting Off the Roller Coaster

THE GRATITUDE PRINCIPLE.

As you learn to assert yourself by affirming your goodness and a willingness to grow, you need to continually support yourself by extracting the positive out of each and every situation that comes your way. This period of re-discovery and re-learning you are going through, will require constant alertness to the potential of wonderful learning experiences that will come your way.

Openness to all things being made new for you is the goal of your quest. You will throw open your arms and embrace all things that come your way. You will know that your future lies in newness. The old ways have made you sad, and you know you don't have to look back at bad times, yesterday's gone and tomorrow will bring the days that you've been waiting for. You are Loved, and You Will Love Again, and when you learn to Love unconditionally, you will Love perfectly. As you grow outwardly in Love, you will affect others who are close and dear to you. They will respond to your Love without fail, for they will be drawn to it as the Bee is to the Flower.

One part of learning to live and grow in Love is to understand gratitude. Our conditioned emotions have always tended to look at the negative aspects of situations, but once again through the cultivation of awareness, you will give yourself many chances to see an abundance of wonderful things that form the greater part of your life.

When you practice gratitude to all things in our life, you can't help but attract to your inner self, the quality of kindness that is associated with those thoughts.

As you have seen how like attracts like, a genuine expression of thanks for the things that are good for you will bring without fail a feeling of gentle contentment each time you act this way. When gratitude is practised on a regular basis, you can be sure of increasing your level of inner peace. It is through the positive efforts you put into your life, that you can begin to turn it around as many positive outcomes continue to provide assistance in the task of personal growth.

Another way to increase feelings of goodness and content within yourself is to acknowledge the good fortune of others. By bringing more and more positive values of life into your own life, you open up to an incredible amount of Love and Goodness that you may not have known existed. Regardless of the effect of another's good fortune upon yourself, gratitude will open your eyes to realities of living that you probably thought only belonged in movies or fables. There is so much goodness in this world that to think it doesn't exist, is to really say...

"My world does not contain these things because 
      My thinking does not attract these qualities into My life".

Start by saying to yourself...

"It is good that I have a roof over my head".
"It is good that I have somewhere to lay down and
rest my head at the end of the day".
"It is good that I was able to eat today".
"That few minutes of peace that I found today
as I walked through the Park was good".

Though these things might seem ordinary, they are in truth very Profound since they reside in the foundations of our everyday life.

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