You never need to try to fake the feeling of gratitude. If you pretend to appreciate something that is making you upset, you’re sending mixed messages out into the Universe, and will attract more things that you feel you should be grateful for, but you genuinely don’t like.
Instead of pretending to be thankful for something you’re not genuinely happy about, redirect your attention to something you do appreciate. When you grow the genuine feeling of gratitude you have for something that brings you joy, you amplify that good feeling, and become magnetic to more energies that make you feel good.
Today’s Meditation: Create Room for Genuine Gratitude
There is never a need to pretend to be grateful for something you’re not genuinely thankful for. Visualize the false parts of yourself that lead you to believe you must pretend to feel differently than how you authentically feel as energetic baggage that you’re releasing out of your system.
Now that you’ve released the false parts of yourself that led you to pretend to feel grateful for things you weren’t enjoying, there is an abundance of energetic space ready to be filled with genuine gratitude.
Imagine that enormous amounts of beautiful golden energy are now being magnetically drawn to you. The golden energy coming toward you is the happiness that comes from living a life filled with authentic gratitude.
Today’s Journal Prompt:
How does it feel to release the need to practice gratitude for things I don’t genuinely enjoy?
This was an interesting action step. I found it easy to write down things I’m genuinely grateful for, but surprisingly hard to come up with a list of things I think I should be grateful for but I’m genuinely not. I believe it’s because I don’t want to admit to myself that I’m not genuinely grateful at this moment, for the things I wrote in that column.