Gratitude and Abundance - A Daily Practice

Life is full of challenges that are designed to make us grow as spiritual beings and appreciate the goodness we have in our lives. Without the dark how can we see the light?

When times seem tougher than usual, I like to do the toast of gratitude game. I open a bottle of fine wine and fill 2 glasses for myself and my husband. Then we take turns toasting what we are grateful for in our lives.

I also do something similar with my son before he goes to bed. I say … “What are you grateful for today?” and he says things like the sunshine, my friends, good food, playing with mommy, etc. Sometimes when he can’t think of anything he asks me; “Mommy what am I grateful for today?” I then refresh his memory what he enjoyed doing that day.

During dinner time, we often go around the table and ask each other - What was the best part of your day? This helps remind us that there is goodness in every day.

Times when I am feeling a bit lower than usual, I look around and find everything that makes me happy; sunshine, green grass, no traffic, beautiful music, time to reflect, financial abundance, healthy family, wonderful friends, etc. After 10 minutes doing this I usually raise my self up to a much higher level.

I believe there is a reason that Sunday was originally designed as a day spiritual for focus and reflection. As a human race we need to take time out to think about our lives. Ruminating on what we are thankful for will help attract even more abundance into our life. Not just abundance in the financial sense (though that is worthy goal), but also abundance of love, abundance of health, and all other types of abundance.

When I take time away from my spiritual practice, I find myself getting caught up in the world and can lean towards cynicism and short term thinking. Just watch how your mood is prone to plummet after watching a typical news broadcast. At times when the spiral seems to be going only one way, downward, I can find solace in reading my spiritual books. They get me back on track and the negativity is cleansed away.

Take time out of your life for a daily or weekly practice that can keep you spiritual grounded. To sign up for a weekly inspiration message on prosperity, which I receive in email from a friend of mine and love to read every week, go to www.receiveyourlife.com

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Founder Janice Campbell has an extensive background with money having first worked as a CPA and Certified Financial Planner for fifteen years. In 1993 she took her business further, tackling the prosperity issues underlying symptomatic money concerns. That work -- assisting individuals and businesses to uncover and share their full potential and unique gifts -- has culminated in the launching of SPIRIT DRIVEN, INC.

In addition to her CPA and CFP credentials, Janice is also a licensed Minister with the Center for Spiritual Healing.

Here is an example of Janice’s Weekly Messages:

Giving thanks is an important state of your consciousness that keeps you in an awareness of oneness with divine flow.
-From the book Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth

When we think of giving thanks it is usually because something has come into our awareness and we give thanks for it. In this way gratitude is treated as an effect, an energy we express after an event occurs. But Butterworth says, gratitude is not just a reactionary emotion, it is a causative energy.

We don't have to wait for something to happen before we choose to activate our good from within. Living in a state of gratitude is a very powerful prosperity principle. It aligns us with the flow of Spirit's abundance. When we are in the current of gratitude our consciousness is raised to see beyond our perception of lack. The practice of gratitude strengthens our ability to see.

Make a conscious choice to spend some time looking through the lens of gratitude. Then notice the abundance that begins to flow your way.

Affirmation: I choose to give myself the gift of gratitude.

One other way to keep abundance and prosperity top of mind is to carry it with you all the time - literally. Another friend of mine, Judith Gruber has created a deck of Abundance and Prosperity cards that you can carry in your pocket and pull out when needed to look at the message each card contains.

Here are a few of my favorites from the cards:

As I save money, I am a magnet for more possibilities and more money.

I follow my passion and the money follows me.

I go for progress not perfection

As I release my resistance to money … money flows into my life

You can buy them the Abundance and Prosperity Cards
www.moneyandempowerment.com/cards.html

Visit Judith’s site at and learn more about her practice:
www.moneyandempowerment.com