{"id":3830,"date":"2013-01-08T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:35:21","slug":"law-of-attraction-in-action-taking-life-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2013\/01\/law-of-attraction-in-action-taking-life-for-granted.html","title":{"rendered":"Law of Attraction in Action: Taking Life for Granted"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today is Day 8 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month<\/a><\/strong> with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement<\/strong><\/a>\u2122.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is post 218 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your power to manifest your desires.. I do it every day! Read all the posts in my Law of Attraction in Action Serie<\/strong><\/a>s to see how.<\/p>\n

How often do you count your blessings? Showing gratitude is encouraged in many books and articles, including mine. You may write down what you\u2019re grateful for, and then move on. But true gratitude\u2014the most self-loving kind that attracts the most rewards\u2014is a mindset. Since gratitude is a great tool for manifesting desires, feeling grateful for your life on an ongoing basis will make you feel wonderful and attract more goodies\u2014a great loving combo!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more common to take your life for granted. You wake up to sunshine, eat your breakfast, get dressed and go out by rote, never consciously acknowledging how good it is to see or have any of it. It\u2019s just there, like so much of what you take for granted. How often do you consciously acknowledge your good health, the loving people in your world, having enough money, etc.? I don’t mean just expressing gratitude by rote. I mean with positive emotion that can up your vibration for manifesting. Compare that to how much you complain about what you don\u2019t like or don\u2019t have. Complaints create a negative vibration that attracts more negatives.<\/p>\n

Gratitude stokes your positive vibration and attracts more things to be grateful for. Not taking your life for granted makes sense on Law of Attraction terms. When you consciously feel grateful for something good in your life, you feel good. When you complain about something, you feel bad. Since the emotions behind your vibration determines what you attract, making an effort to not take life for granted\u2014to consciously feel happy about all the good you have\u2014sets your vibration up to manifest a lot more. Since it makes you feel good to notice all of your blessings every day, not taking your life for granted says, \u201cI love me!\u201d<\/p>\n

Pay attention to your environment, the good people you work with, your good health, and all the wonderful staples in your world that you become so used to having that you barely notice them, except when they\u2019re gone. Get into the habit of saying, \u201cthank you\u201d for everything that you\u2019re happy to have in your world. Join my Conscious Gratitude group on Yahoo<\/strong><\/a> and post what you\u2019re grateful for.\u00a0 The less you take your life for granted, the more you\u2019ll feel the good energy of appreciating what you have. That attracts more blessings into your life and keeps you smiling. It\u2019s a wonderful way to nourish self-love!<\/p>\n

See all the posts in my Law of Attraction in Action Series HERE<\/strong><\/a>.
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Join The <\/strong>Self-Love Movement\u2122<\/strong><\/a>! Take the 31 Days of Self-Love Commitment<\/strong><\/a> and get my book, How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways<\/a><\/strong> for free at http:\/\/howdoiloveme.com<\/a><\/strong>. Read my 2012 31 Days of Self-Love Posts HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Please leave comments under my posts so we can stay connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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