Thanksgiving for your body
By Sean | November 29, 2008
Giving thanks for your body is a must. If you carefully go through your various body parts, you will notice that over a lifetime you have attached all kinds of little ‘curses’ to your body.
“Oh I just hate my teeth… I look so darn goofy!”
“My feet are too big, and my toes are ugly.”
“My skin is so dry and old looking.”
and so on…
Consider the alternative of not having that body part. Would you prefer to lose all your teeth, have your feet amputated, or have no skin? Didn’t think so. Try loving and appreciating your body, it deserves your thanks and you will feel great.
To explore this subject further, Matt Furey has written a great blog post about it here:
http://www.mattfurey.com/mattfurey_uncensored/2008/11/26/giving_thanks/
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Thanksgiving - finding your gratitude and giving thanks
By Sean | November 27, 2008
On this Thanksgiving, you have an opportunity to look beyond the economy and all the problems, wars and challenges facing people around the world. Set that all aside for today.
Today is a day for getting still, and reflecting on your life. But your reflections are not those of the bitter, the disappointed, the jealous or the judgemental. Today is the day to appreciate, to find the silver lining, to see the blessings in your life wherever and whatever they may be.
We never know how much time we have. Remember that. And then cast your eyes over your life and ask yourself what is REALLY most important to you? The cast of characters who make up your day to day life are there for a reason. Find the reason, and then express gratitude for it.
Do you know what it means to give thanks? It’s more than lip service. Allow yourself to be touched by gratitude. I assure you, you will enjoy it. Allow it to saturate and soften your heart again. Feel the pleasure of knowing and feeling that you are blessed.
Let go of your tensions and stresses. Let them drop away. Thanksgiving is a time for you to make a special form of prayer — the celebration of what you have and who you are. There are blessings in every life. Life conforms to your expectations, be they positive or negative. That is it’s gift…to you.
Find your heart. Put a smile on your lips. And experience what it is to be deeply grateful — that is, full of gratitude. Feel the fullness of that joyful, acknowledging consciousness of all that is good and wonderful in your life.
Effort Required
It takes YOU to feel grateful. You have to put some effort into it, just like LOVE. Being thankful is an action that you do. And the rewards that come when you put in the effort are immeasurable. Let today be the day you deeply experience your thanksgiving. And perhaps then you will want to give some acknowledgement for your blessings every day. This is the path to thank and grow rich. Take it!
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Instant manifestation through thankfulness
By Sean | July 7, 2008
Here’ s how you can achieve instant manifestation through expressing thankfulness.
First of all, look at your desires. The things you want.
Let’s say you want a red Ferrari.
Why do you want that car? What will it do for you? How will owning and driving that car make you feel?
We can have thousands of different desires, but each desire serves to fulfil a few basic needs.
You might answer the Ferrari question:
I want to look cool!
We then apply a desire reduction process to reduce the desire to it’s core need.
And so we then ask, why do you want to look cool?
… because I want people to admire me.
Why do you want to be admired by others?
…well, I want people to like and respect me.
Why do you others to like and respect you?
…so I feel special.
Why do you want to feel special?
…so that I know that I am worthwhile.
Why do you want to feel worthwhile?
…so that I am loveable.
Why do you want to be loveable?
Isn’t it interesting that a desire for something so tangible as a Ferrari, is actually an attempt to feed the core desire for love?
Look at your desires and goals and ask yourself why you want them. Keep asking why until you get back to the core desire.
Once you have your core desire you can then work on feeding that need.
Let’s say you want to feel loved.
You can immediately give yourself the gift of love and fulfil that core need.
Simply go into a meditation, breathe and relax. Breathe love in and out, imagining the feeling of warmth and affection growing within you. And then start directing that love at the part of you that feels the need for love. You can imagine this as your child self, and that you are the older self looking after it and giving it the love that it always craved. Really get into this and use your creative power to fill your inner emptiness with love.
You may say that love requires someone else outside of you.
Incorrect.
Unconditional Love is indiscriminate. It shines in all directions. So if you start creating a loving feeling inside you (you can kickstart this by thinking of someone or something that you DO love, or COULD love and directing that love first to them and then to yourself), notice how feeling love for others makes you feel good too. As you love others you feel good, this shows the love is shining on you too. With this realization, then get into the feeling and ‘turn up the dial’ on that good inner feeling, and really shine it on yourself too, and revel in that feeling.
All kinds of religions have versions of the ‘ask and it is given’ message. This tells us that the means to your instant fulfilment is within you and always at hand.
You can take that to heart. Think what it is that you really crave, and then simply go within to the ’source and substance of all your good’. The very energy of your being is the source of your prosperity. The energy is the core fulfilment that you desire. It can take on all forms. It is infinite potential. It has what you need. Simply go within and feel that energy and feel it as the fulfilment of your desire.
This is a HIGHLY CREATIVE act.
The fundamental energy of your being is in a state of infinite potential, until you activate it one way or another with a thought or series of thoughts. Most people squander this and ruin their lives by habitually activating that energy to feel negative and unhappy. The energy responds to whatever way you use it.
You can consciously choose to activate that energy so that you feel immense unending love, joy, happiness, fulfilment, strength, health, power, prosperity etc.
Choose to see your inner energy as that which can instantly fulfil you whenever and wherever you decide.
Give yourself the experience of feeling great and having your desires instantly fulfilled by creating the joyous inner feeling of that fulfilment.
Revel in the mix of joy and thankfulness, and allow your inner experience to soar.
Does this all sound strange? Go and have a go at this. Experience what it means to be the architect of your own inner experience. Transform your life with enriched experiences of deep emotional fulfilment, launched through the creative use of your mind and gratitude.
Thank and grow rich!
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