Being Grateful in the Midst of a Challenge

As strange at it might seem even in the midst of a major life challenge most people can still find something to be thankful for or something for which they can express gratitude, if only that the situation isn't worse.

Comedian-actor Jim Carrey, who has faced his own series of personal difficulties, challenges anyone in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

Maintaining a sense of gratitude will not only help us survive, but can help us to thrive when facing difficulties. Remember as St. Paul wrote, When the heart is full of gratitude, there is little room left for despair. Try and think back on a difficult time. Is there anything that you could have been grateful for during that time?

Gratitude Attracts More of What You Desire

Gratitude speeds along the manifestation of your desires. Gratitude attracts what we desire. The universal law of attraction says that we will attract into our life the things we think about and focus on. When you are consciously aware of your blessings, and are grateful for them, you are focusing more clearly on what you do want in your life and are attracting more of those things into your life.

Gratitude is a very powerful emotional energy that you must project in the course of manifesting your desires. When you find things that you appreciate and you use them as your point of focus, your world has to get better in every area of your life. Every time you flood your mind with appreciation or gratitude you attract more of what you desire. Look around you right now. What can you be grateful for? Get into the authentic feeling of true gratitude. Find something, anything, to be grateful for right now. When you are grateful, you’re in a high energy vibration that will attract more things to be grateful for and more good things will come to you magically, drawn in by your feelings of gratitude. The emotion of joy attracts conditions of joy.