start monday with gratitude

Think of time when you felt afraid to voice your opinion about something.

Perhaps a number of people around you were in a discussion, and you had a point to make. But you felt afraid to speak up.

Or perhaps someone was chastising you about something or wrongly accusing you of something, and you were afraid to voice your side.

How did you feel in that situation? How did you feel as that situation played out?

Lean into and really feel those emotions.

And, then after the event, how did you feel? Did you regret not saying anything? Did you think of something that you could have or should have said to get your point across?

And what happened as a result of not speaking up?

What did you lose out on as a result? Did you, perhaps, lose out on people hearing and considering your opinion? Did you, perhaps, lose out on the feeling of pride that you stood up for yourself, your beliefs, your principles?

Would you have felt grateful for the outcome?

The outcome probably didn’t go your way, it wasn’t the outcome you would have wished, so you wouldn’t have had much to be grateful for, right?

Take the example from yesterday and replay the scenario in your mind, only this time, you speak up in a respectful and loving yet strong and determined way.

You can never know how things would have played out if you had spoken up. However, I want you to focus on the best-case scenario.

What could have been the most positive thing that could have happened as a result of you facing your fear and speaking up? How would you have felt as a result? What would you have gained as a result?

Can you see how much better you would have felt? How much lighter and higher your energy would have become, an energy closer in vibration to that of gratitude than that of fear? How much more abundant you would have felt? How grateful would you feel if that had had been the result you achieved?

Think back to a situation where you were afraid, where fear felt like it was controlling you from taking action. However, you dug deep, you gave yourself a pep-talk, and you took action. You looked fear in the face, took it on, and successfully pushed it aside.

Can you remember how you felt as a result? Can you remember being grateful for having the courage to say ‘no’ to fear? If you can’t, looking back, can you see what you had to be grateful for?

And, as a result of taking action, of not being stopped by fear, how much more did you gain and receive in comparison with if you’d given into the emotion of fear and not taken action? How much fuller, how much more freeing, how much better was the outcome because you faced fear and stood up to it?

Think of something that you really wanted to receive, something that you knew would change your life if you received it.

Something that was a ‘make-or-break’ kind of thing, that so much depended on you receiving it.

Something that, when you reflected on it, your head was full of thoughts like “What if it doesn’t happen or I don’t receive it?” or “I wish I could receive it but what if I don’t”.

Do you know that “what if” type thoughts are actually fear-based thoughts?

Now, whether you did receive that thing in the end or not, think back to how much effort you put in to try to receive it. I’m guessing it would have been a lot.

Because on one side you were saying “I really want that” and on the other side you were pushing it away by saying, “but what if?” So, it was a real tug-of-war for you to attract that thing into your life. And it would have taken great effort.

When we come from a fear-based perspective, it’s difficult to manifest the things we want because fear and lack go hand in hand.

We are manifesting all the time.

However, many of us think we can’t manifest because we’re not normally manifesting the great and positive things into our life.

However, manifesting works in both ways – you manifest both the good and the not-so-pleasant into your life. You create everything in your life.

The only difference is that when you manifest something good and positive into your life, you have done so from a place of expansion, a place of abundance, a place of gratitude.

And when you have manifested something not-so-pleasant into your life, you’ve done so by being consumed by lack and fear.

Take a moment to think about all the not-so-pleasant things you have manifested into your life.

Can you trace back to how you were thinking or how you were feeling at that time?

It’s unlikely that you were in an abundant and grateful mindset. More likely you were embodied by lack and fear at that time.

We are manifesting all the time.

However, many of us think we can’t manifest because we’re not normally manifesting the great and positive things into our life.

However, manifesting works in both ways – you manifest both the good and the not-so-pleasant into your life. You create everything in your life.

The only difference is that when you manifest something good and positive into your life, you have done so from a place of expansion, a place of abundance, a place of gratitude.

And when you have manifested something not-so-pleasant into your life, you’ve done so by being consumed by lack and fear.

Take a moment to think about all the not-so-pleasant things you have manifested into your life.

Can you trace back to how you were thinking or how you were feeling at that time?

It’s unlikely that you were in an abundant and grateful mindset. More likely you were embodied by lack and fear at that time.

Do you have a fear that you really don’t want to happen in your life? It could be small, or it could be big.

When you think of that fear, how do you feel? What thoughts run through your head?

You now know that we manifest both positive and negative things into our life.

If your thoughts are fear-based, which they will be if you fear something might happen in your life, then what do you think you’re going to manifest? You’re going to manifest the very thing you fear.

But what could happen if you took that fear and turned it around and into something you could be grateful for?

What would happen if you took the fear and the lack and changed it into something abundant to be grateful for?

You have a better likelihood of attracting something positive instead, right?

So, now when you focus on that far that you really don’t want to happen in your life, I invite you to change your thinking, change how you view the situation, and flip it into something to be grateful for.