Gratitude again is a foundation that I use when I began to teach myself how to get my head and my heart in alignment. I found the challenge being that many programs we trying to teach me to use positive self affirmations but I needed first to learn how to word them in a way so my head and heart would walk away from me and say "ya right, you don't believe that how should we?" But using progressive statements, sentences that made it sound like I was beginning something new or headed down a new path or at least another new attempt to grow and change, that was something we (my head, my heart and myself) could all agree on as possible.