What exactly is an Attitude of Gratitude?

And why all this talk of an attitude of gratitude, one might wonder...............

Gratitude is a word that most of us use without giving it much thought, most of the time. Thank you! Most of us grew up with thankfulness conditioned in us as social etiquette that would make us look good.

But really, what is is the meaning of true gratefulness? And how does it feature in our quest for happiness, wealth, excellent health, love..... you know, success?

Let us explore the concept of gratitude and what personal develoment teachers are telling us is the impact of an attitude of gratitude on our success......

In your self-improvement journey, you will be hard pressed to come across a success mentor that takes the idea of an attitude of gratitude lightly. This is one of those concepts where teacher after personal development teacher will rave and rant that it is of paramount importance that we incorporate conscious gratitude into your personal growth practice.

So what does gratitude have to do with success?

Are you one of those people who have at one point said, "Yeah, if I had more money, sure, I'd be grateful". Or........(well, just replace money with whatever is usually lacking at the time that comment is made).

How is it possible to have an attitude of gratitude, even when you're down, depressed, just struggling?

In his fantastic audio program, Get The Edge, the well known Peak Performance guru, Tony Robbins puts emphasis on practicing gratefulness as an integral part of our daily personal time practice. Tony Robbins strongly suggests to spend at least 3 minutes everyday intensely focused on what we are grateful for.

"Fill yourself up with this emotion (attitude of gratitude), it'll get rid of the fear, it'll get rid of the the stress, it'll make you so happy. I've met so many people that seemed to have everything, but they are so unfulfilled, they're fearful and they're stressed, cuz they are not grateful.

And as I told you before, I've met so many people, who seemingly have nothing, but they are so happy, cuz they are grateful. When you are grateful, you are rich.

When you are ungrateful, you are not appreciative, you are poor, you are stressed............"

~ extract from Anthony Robbins, Get The Edge audio program.

How powerful is an attitude of gratitude in helping us achieve our goals?

What we are talking about however, in emphasizing an attitude of gratitude as an abundance mind mentality, is to actually feel and be connected to the emotion of gratitude, at a deep spiritual level.

The overnight-world-wide-success Secret DVD author Rhonda Byrne certainly emphasizes the use of gratitude as a powerful process of consciously working with The Law of Attraction.

"With all that I have read and with all that I have experienced in my own life using The Secret, the power of gratitude stands above everything else. If you do one thing with the knowledge of The Secret, use gratitude until it becomes your way of life....

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions."

~ Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

Having an attitude of gratitude creates such a feeling of absolute joy in us. In every situation, no matter how bad things look, there is always something to be grateful for. It could simply be the ability to breathe freely (especially if you've ever witnessed somebody who's desperate to breathe).

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