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By Aine Belton www.GlobalLoveProject.com This free ebook contains 3 sections about gratitude: 1) Gratitude Magic, 2) Scientific Evidence, and 3) Gratitude Exercises.

Part 1 Gratitude Magic!

Gratitude is a wonderful abundance ally as it attracts more of anything you feel grateful for and more of everything in general! Feeling grateful aligns you to, and subsequently magnetizes, that which is for your highest good, inviting greater love, joy, success and blessings into your life. Gratitude opens your heart, raise your vibration, and can elevate you from even the darkest of states.

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Gratitude is the sweet fragrance of an opening heart. - Aine Belton

appreciating and feeling grateful for something, you essentially 'receive' the it and let it in, as well as give to it from your heart. You also direct your focus and attention towards the positive, as what you feel grateful for is always something beneficial so can lift your energy. Gratitude attunes your heart and mind to that which is great in your life in an effortless highly rewarding way! Thats why feeling GRATEFUL makes you feel GREAT! When you feel grateful you get to experience the beautiful qualities you feel grateful for all over again. Gratitude connects you to what you love, which enhances your energy in uplifting heartwarming ways. Gratitude is the sweet song of appreciation and turns any experience, person or event into a gift that is received. When you appreciate and feel grateful, you
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allow something to more fully touch you and let it in, as well as give to it from your heart. It is a wonderful exchange of positive energies. Gratitude is a light that dances from your heart, and blesses its subject whether near or far apart. Whatever you focus on grows, so when you appreciate someone, see their value and beauty and feel grateful, those qualities will expand and grow in your life. When you focus on everything in your life you have to feel grateful for, and all the wonderful things, experiences and people you appreciate, you will receive more of the same. It's a fantastic abundance expanding experience!

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Part 2 Scientific Evidence

Gratitude Increases Happiness & Goal Progress! Below I share some recent scientific findings on the amazing effects of gratitude. In one study that keeping a gratitude journal (listing at the end of the day 5 - 10 things you are grateful for over the last 24 hours), generated a 25% increase in happiness levels! It was also found to increase progress towards important goals. Robert Emmons and Mike McCullough are two leading researchers on this topic. Below are some of their findings: In their research, the group that did "gratitude intervention" (keeping a gratitude journal at the end of the day to list 5 - 10 things they were grateful of over the last 24 hours), were: * More likely to have made progress toward
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important personal goals (academic, interpersonal, and health-based) over a two-month period. * Reported higher levels of the positive states of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, attentiveness and energy. * Exercised more regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic.
Scientific Study References: Emmons, R.A., & McCullough, M.E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: Experimental studies of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 377-389. Seligman, M.E.P. (2002). Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. New York: Free Press. p. 75. Hardcover ISBN 0-7432-2297-0; Paperback (2004): ISBN 0-7432-2298-9.

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Part 3 Gratitude Exercises

Exercise 1 Keep a Gratitude Journal At the end of each day, write down (or say in your mind) at least 10 things you feel grateful for over the last 24 hours. In doing so you will open to and experience more of the wondrous, generating energy of gratitude. As studies have shown (discussed above), this alone has been found to generate a 25% increase in happiness levels, as well as a number of other positive benefits. When you do so, be sure to connect to the heart-felt feelings of gratitude; don't just make it a mental box-ticking process - really engage your emotions! Add to that list at least a few things you are grateful to YOURSELF for; the positive qualities, actions, traits and demeanours, how you've handled your day or any situations, how you've taken care of yourself or been kind to others, etc.

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Exercise 2 Transforming Problem Areas If theres an area of your life that feels blocked, is not going as you would like, or is causing pain or frustration, try applying gratitude as an anti-dote and transformer. To do this, in any challenging or problem area, such as one that is causing you pain, anguish, fear, or stress, look to anything you can feel grateful for in the person/ situation/circumstance surrounding your issue. Look to what is positive, light, or what can become such from the situation. This is not the same as being grateful for the situation per se, which is unrealistic if it is one that you are unhappy with, but it will pick out any gems, augment light, dispel darkness, and help to transmute and transform the experience into something new, possibly vanquishing the problem completely, or aiding in the dawning of a new perspective that will help to unhinge negative energy that may be keeping it alive. To help with this, you can try asking yourself any of the questions below:

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* What lessons have I learned? * What gifts have I received or has come from this person or situation that could be of benefit to me? * How might my life be better for this, and if not right now, in the future? * Have I become stronger, or wiser, or have the potential for doing so, through this situation? * How has this challenge helped me discover more about myself, or build resolve? * What positive qualities or experiences has this person or situation exhibited at any other time that I can be grateful for? * What good has come from this challenge, or could come from this experience, for myself/others/my future/ the world? * Am I now incentivized to change (for which I can feel grateful)? * What positive qualities have I demonstrated in

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dealing with this challenge (that I can feel grateful to myself for)? * Obviously you can do other things such as reflect on why you may have created or allowed this reality, love yourself more, forgive yourself and others, let go of limiting beliefs and stories that may be generating the experience, and so on. * Gratitude in itself, however, will begin to shift your energy and vibration for the better to help transform problem areas, accentuating the positive and diminishing the negative. The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best, therefore it will receive the best. Wallace Wattles Exercise 3 Future Causation Be grateful not only for your present reality but for the future realities and goals you are desiring and intent on manifesting. When visualizing a goal (by stepping into it and experiencing it with all your senses as tangibly as possible in your mind), feel all the positive feelings that would be there if that dream had come true, including GRATITUDE.

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Feel grateful for having manifested that reality ahead of time! This is a powerful technique! Your emotions are ways in which you communicate to your subconscious mind. Being grateful for what will be, ahead of time, as if it has already occurred, is a very powerful way to attract its manifestation into your life right now! Every now and then pause to send some thoughts of gratitude about future goals and dreams as if they have already come true and you will begin to magnify their materialization at an accelerated rate! Doing so at the beginning or end of a manifesting visualization meditation, for example, is a great idea! Get your free Love Pack courtesy of the Global Love Project at: www.GlobalLoveProject.com/Gifts

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