Once you have shifted some of your anxiety you are ready to expand more positive emotions.
Did you know that every feeling has a vibration? Even if you don’t know that word, you’ve almost certainly had that experience. How do feelings like shame, guilt, and fear feel in your body? When we are experiencing those emotions we feel down. Our energy drops, we feel more like victims and less like powerful beings.
It’s easy to want to eliminate those feelings but they are just a part of the human condition and rejecting negative or low vibration feelings just makes us feel worse.
One of the most powerful steps you can take (though it takes practice!) is to accept our lower vibration feelings and to love or honor them. In fact, bringing in love and gratitude are exactly what will move us towards higher vibration and more positive feelings.
Gratitude is a very powerful state. It brings us up to love or above. When we are truly grateful, we are in the flow of abundance and appreciation.
The challenge is that stating things you are grateful for by rote doesn’t have a lot of impact. To get the benefits of gratitude requires that you really feel it.
To help your gratitude have more impact, try expressing WHY you are grateful. Take a few moments to list one or more things you are grateful for and why that matters to you. Notice how you feel in your body when you do that.
One way to experience more gratitude is to think about others who have challenges you don’t. Although I loved my kids when they were little, I’m grateful every day that they are teenagers. I think of all the parents trying to work from home while their kids are climbing all over them and I feel grateful!
Janet was feeling very stressed about so much time at home: When I asked her the benefits/gifts of this time at home she said, “Well I guess I have more time with my kids.” I could tell when she said the words that she didn’t really believe them. I helped her go deeper and identify what she was truly grateful for. Janet began to see that she was wasting this unique family time by focusing on what was wrong instead of what was right. She realized she needed to change both her schedule and her attitude. She set a time each day for gratitude and for being by herself. A few weeks later, Janet sent me an email. She was now feeling much more positive about her time at home.
Identify something you are grateful for and why:
