“Give thanks and improve your life” isn’t just a catchy phrase; it’s a profound truth that underscores the transformative power of gratitude. When we cultivate a genuine appreciation for what we have—for the simple blessings and everyday miracles—we shift our energy, raising our vibration to align with the flow of abundance.
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. Turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” asserts author Melody Beattie.
Why is This?
“Why is this? Perhaps because being grateful is a state of mind indicating elevated awareness. The more elevated one’s consciousness, the higher the vibration one expresses. The higher a vibration we express, the more likely we are to attract to us good people, things, and circumstances. (See more about the Law of Attraction in my work The Manifestation Book.)
Here are 4 ways to give thanks that might seem a little unusual. I will also offer a few stories to illustrate.
Thank You Supply Chain
Sometimes I am struck by how blessed I am and it makes me shiver. As I sat outside recently taking in the end of the day and having crackers, cheese, and wine, a feeling of overwhelming gratitude came over me. Gratitude for all the elements of the supply chain that culminated in my being able to eat well without having to go out in the fields and cultivate it. People, animals, trucks, forklifts, warehouses, stores, and credit card machines enabled me to relish a bit of Swiss cheese on a Triscuit cracker. Washed down with a nice Napa Valley Chardonnay.
Tears came to my eyes for the time, effort, care, and attention of the forces of the Universe that coalesced to nourish my body and mind. And ultimately my Spirit as I sat in a pool of intense thanksgiving. These nourishing things that I exchanged pieces of paper or electronic impulses for. Which manifested in my presence through the unfolding of events and circumstances. “What a fortunate guy am I!” I wrote in my journal.
And as I sit here writing this, and revisiting that moment, I am moved, again, at my good fortune.
Application of “Give Thanks”, Extended
Building on thanking the supply chain, it has helped me to simply offer thanks to everything around me. Frequently. More and more I realize the depth of the act of offering thanks and appreciation. I am surrounded by many things. Things I have placed in my house and things that just seem to show up. Molecules arranged in such a way as to serve some need that I have and serves that need well. Some examples, again from my journal:
“Today my Toshiba laptop, when I opened it, went through a 20-minute routine of informing me that there was trouble when I last closed it down. I asked it to do a preliminary diagnostic, an update, a disc repair, and finally a reboot. Back to good as new. “Good computer,” I said, like I say “good girl” to my dog, Maggie. And I meant it. My computer is a workhorse and a friend. It helped me write this piece.
All my surroundings have shown up for my benefit, in a way. And stand ready to serve me. They are part of the 3d reality that I occupy. Metaphysically, part of the 5D reality that surrounds and infuses 3d with its form and function. Today I threw away a razor and thanked it for its usefulness to me in my shaving endeavors. Make it a point to praise all things useful.
If you do, more stuff will want to be with you. This is also true of more/better circumstances and more/better people. To hang out with you. To be liked by you. I know that sounds strange, but it is not odd <strong>from a 5D perspective. From that perspective “stuff” is a metaphor. An idea that somebody had, designed, and made a prototype of. Then others had a hand in shaping it for my use and sending it to me. It could be a lamp, a bowl, a telephone, or a plant.
From Jim Rohn…..
To quote author and speaker Jim Rohn, “There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas and things to flow your way.”
Take the dangly mobile that hangs over my head as I sit here writing. A creative, artistic person dreamed up what a bit of copper could turn into and sketched it out. Then took the materials and formed them into something striking. But there was more to be done. Marketing, and selling, and shipping, and receiving, and finally getting hung up in my house. For my pleasure, which it gives. I thank The ALL for unfolding in this way so that at this exact moment I am sitting here writing about The ALL and how it unfolded.
As I open my heart more and more, my heart center gets bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger. I see how my thanking the people, the happenings, and the furnishings benefit my personhood. How it is a way to be more loving, heartfelt, and compassionate. A way to raise my Awareness. To experience Higher Consciousness more frequently and deeply.
Revere All Things/Beings
<p>Another story comes to mind taking this point to a deeper level. Here is what I wrote earlier this year. “This morning, just before beginning my yoga routine, a reverence of all the things that were in the room nearly overwhelmed me. All the things we have collected to surround us in our living room. Furniture, pillows, rugs, plants, an Amazon Echo that drives the wireless speaker, the ceiling fan, and the room itself that came with the house — all its parts. All waiting for me this morning to show up and envelop me in their embrace.
I returned the embrace by taking a deep breath and radiating love and appreciation back to my buddy atoms, cells, and electrons that welcomed me into their presence. Sounds a bit strange, I know, but that is the way of the mystic. <strong>As I b</strong>reathed a bit, the distinction be</strong>tween my surroundings and me faded a bit.</strong> I could feel my body sheath becoming more porous, blending slightly with my surroundings.
Reverence Dawns
Then as I broadened my view through my eye holes I took in the areas outside of the house through windows. I encompassed the total scene. No particular focus on any one particular thing. Pulling back into my Awareness, I listened to myself breathe. And I had a flash of being One with all of what I was perceiving. I was not focused in my head, but my Awareness had broadened out until there was no distinction between me inside the body and me outside the body.
Reverence dawned on me for the whole thing. The complete amalgamation of all the particles and space that danced in a unified whole. It seemed like a dance, a dance of those “things” outside of me. Gathered to serve and interact with me. Fusing with the “things” inside of me into a seamless Whole”.
This experience reminded me, yet again, of an earlier core realization I have had. “Revere all things, revere all beings, from the ant to my spouse, for what and who they are. A part of me”.
The phrase I came up with to capture this way of seeing is “Oneness Eyes”. Using my Oneness Eyes to see the Oneness of myself “in here” with the Oneness “out there”.
Appreciation To/For The ALL. Simply Give Thanks.
This sense of Oneness is not an unusual experience for me. It is the core purpose of the new meditation process I have developed. One in which I acknowledge The ALL. (My words for “God”, which for me has less “charge” than my childhood religious concept of the Divine). The process, if done with a sufficient level of mindfulness and awareness, naturally takes me to an experience of Omnipresence. (See The Meditation Book at Amazon Books.)
This Oneness experience that I speak of is one in which I am just “being”. And say to The ALL, “Thank you, Isness (another word for The ALL) for your Beingness. For your breath, in and out of Infinity. For your Omniscience, your all-knowingness of that which Is. For allowing me to participate in the dance of the stars and the microbes. To sense, incomprehensibly, all things in all directions.
(I use the word “incomprehensibly” because my human mind can not comprehend this experience. If it could, I could put better words to the experience. As it is, words at best provide metaphors for approximating the experience. The writer’s dilemma.)
I will delve more deeply into the practical application of gratitude in my next post. Stay tuned.
And when you are ready:
- Check out my chapter on Higher Consciousness Meditation in The Manifestation Book.
- And how to use the “Higher Consciousness Meditation” process in The Meditation Book to get quiet enough to allow Spirit to move.
Blair is an author, poet, YouTubist, and ordinary mystic. His 5 award-winning book series are available at Amazon Books, and his YouTube videos at “https://www.youtube.com/@blairabeehigherconsciousne781”: Blair Abee Higher Consciousness Channel