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.
Journal Prompt:
What is something you believe you should be grateful for at this moment, but aren’t?
Love,
Eric John Campbell
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.