Gratitude Can Play a Vital Role in Your Self Healing

When you are really feeling poorly, it is difficult to feel grateful, and yet it is one of the most important times to count your blessings. Why?

When you allow the pain to cause you to be worried or upset, your energy field closes down and it is difficult for any treatment to get through your fears. Gratitude opens the heart and when the heart is open, self-healing energy is most effective.

Gratitude also has a magical way of lifting you out of your discomfort, at the very least—for a little while. Have you ever noticed how it can lift your spirits and take your mind off your pain when you receive a gift from someone that stimulates your gratefulness? Your own experiences can demonstrate the positive impact gratitude can have on your wellness, plus studies are demonstrating that gratitude, or an open-hearted state, can actually improve physical health.

The science behind gratitude…

Institute of HeartMath biologist, Glen Rein, conducted a study in which people went into a state of heartfelt appreciation for unconditional love. He discovered that these people were able to affect DNA in a test tube, altering the winding and unwinding of the DNA. Further, they were able to affect their electrocardiograms (ECGs). When they were holding loving or appreciative thoughts, their heart rhythms became more coherent.

If you focus on gratitude rather than on complaints, you are likely to find that you have a more positive outlook on your life. And this has been studied too. Robert Emmons, from the University of California at Davis, has conducted studies on positive psychology and discovered that people focusing on gratitude were more optimistic about their future and felt better about their lives. He and his colleagues discovered that gratitude focused people suffering from neuromuscular diseases got more sleep, got to sleep sooner and felt more refreshed in the morning.

So what can you do to introduce more gratitude for self healing into your life?

Write down what you are grateful for every day.
When you are writing it down you are affirming it twice–first when the event happened and secondly when you write it down. Write down three to five things. Write at the same time every day so it becomes a part of your regular routine to focus on gratitude.

Keep your language positive.
When you hear yourself start to complain, stop yourself, whether you are complaining quietly inside or outwardly. Stop yourself whether you are putting yourself down or someone else, or a situation. Focus your attention on the lesson you are learning instead. Then state and feel gratitude for the lesson you are learning.

Give yourself and others the benefit of the doubt.
Most of the time people are doing their best, even if “best” doesn’t seem like enough to you. All of us are challenged, and we often keep the biggest challenges hidden from view. So let go of your assumptions about what is good enough and give everybody the benefit of the doubt. You’ll feel better about yourself and everyone around you.

Take a gratitude walk.
This is one of my personal favorites. Schedule a time every day to get outside, where you can enjoy the soothing, harmonious nature of Mother Earth. This means putting yourself in the proximity of plants, trees, water, or grass. Breathe in deeply with gratitude for the beauty of earth. Then reflect on everything else you are grateful for in that moment. Do so until you feel at ease and positively charged.

Give thanks for your healing.
Even if it has been a rough day, be grateful for any moments that were pain-free, fun, meaningful, or life giving. If you aren’t seeing a lot of progress yet, you can be grateful for the treatment you are using and for the way that it is helping you in unseen ways. You can write your gratitude in your journal, acknowledge it during your gratitude walk, or include it in your prayers of thanks before your meals.

Find reasons to be grateful throughout the day.
Little moment throughout our days provide lots of reasons to be grateful. A kiss, a hug, sunshine, rain, a pleasant phone call, a cheerful cashier, a good night’s rest, a great movie, a cup of hot tea, the food you are preparing to eat…you get the idea. Life is full of lovely moments when you encourage yourself to notice them.

Give yourself daily reminders and opportunities to practice, so that gratitude becomes a natural part of your life

In my Breakthrough Healing System online video course, we explore new ways to look at your life and healing, especially by developing your capacity for self-love through the healing process itself. Gratitude is is a powerful and effective pathway to self-love that we explore in the online course.

Gratitude is a doorway to heaven on earth, and we explore it at length with our free gift, Prescriptions From Heaven, daily e-postcards with reminders to let the healing journey restore, revive and awaken you. The more grateful you become, the more you enjoy life. Your body responds to the enjoyment that gratitude provides, rewarding you with greater health and well-being, and in the process self healing becomes a beautiful, light-hearted journey.

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