Grateful for all things
Each emotion we carry holds a frequency. Negative emotions like anger, fear, and sadness carry lower vibrations. If these emotions are held onto for too long, it can very much impact your outer world attracting lower vibrational experiences. Positive emotions like love, joy, and happiness carry a higher frequency. Just as with negative emotions, positive emotions can raise your overall vibrational frequency.
My very favorite positive emotion, one which quickly manifests in the outer world, is gratitude. This emotion exudes a frequency of 540MHz. It’s a wonderful boost to our souls and our bodies if we allow it.
As I was preparing to write this, I remembered something that carried me through a hard time. A gratitude list I’d written just 6 years ago. My son was born 10 weeks early and spent 66 days in the NICU before he was ready to come home. It was a very difficult and scary time and as a new momma, just not quite how I’d pictured his life to begin. Each day I spent 12 hours in his room watching him and holding him. I played soft music for him on my phone, read him stories, told him stories…it was as much as I could do. In the times when I was not able to hold him, I sat in his company, scrolling Pinterest and Facebook, AND I also created a gratitude list on my phone and added to it each day.
Reading it after so long, after I’d forgotten about it, the words brought me to tears. Tears of more gratitude and so much joy! Somehow, in this very challenging time, I knew it was important to acknowledge all the little things that were good. I read it each day, sometimes having to try really hard to find more to add to it. Little did I know at the time, I was vibrationally impacting us both.
Gratitude is an emotion that comes from the heart chakra. It’s rooted in love.
I use an essential oil called Gratitude every day. I simply rub a drop (or five!) on my heart each morning, taking just a few moments to express what I am grateful for. On busy mornings, which is most of them, this is very much needed. It helps me to gain perspective and ground myself in love. Yes, bad days happen. Negative emotions happen too. This ritual allows me to refocus on what needs to be done and not get stuck in negative thought patterns. It’s a wonderful thing to pass on to children and the things they are grateful for can often bring joy to hear (“I am SO grateful for orange Jello, momma!”).
At the start of this year I began a gratitude jar in my home. A mason jar with little slips of colorful paper and a pen. On New Year’s Eve, we plan to dump it out and read through all the wonderful things from 2024. So much to be grateful for, and even more that is yet to come. If it’s not something you do, I challenge you to start. Keep it going year after year and allow yourself to bask in that beautiful emotion and all the love behind it. Not only will you feel amazing, but you will begin to see the impact of it on the outside. The simple practice of gratitude strengthens and expands your heart chakra, allowing you to manifest the outer life that you desire with greater ease.
Life can be really hard. At my lowest points I recall hearing “If you’re not sure what to be grateful for, start with the fact that there is breath in your lungs.” However long it takes you, a week, a month, years even….start with that. Then try to expand on it by looking around the place where you are and find appreciation for it.
When we express gratitude to another person, even if it’s a seemingly mindless interaction at Tim Horton’s (“Here’s your coffee.” “Thank you!”), not only are you calling in the frequency of gratitude for yourself, but you’ve also gifted it to someone else. BEST. GIFT. EVER!!! It has a positive impact.
Try it and allow yourself to grow in gratitude, even when it’s hard. I promise, it will change your perspective on so many things. You may even receive comments like “there’s something different about you, but I don’t know what it is.” Gratitude glows and radiates to everything around you!
If you are reading this, I am grateful for YOU!
✨Bright Light Betsy✨
