The Grace Space

It can be hard to feel grateful when you don't feel worthy. Many of us unconsciously come from a place of unworthiness, including people who appear to be high-achievers. We can't outperform our self-esteem; however, we can increase it by understanding what our true sense of self-worth is derived from.

In this episode of The Grace Space, I share with you a story about the time my poverty in gratitude was exposed. It wasn't easy to face, but it revealed the connection between my sense of self-worth and my ability to be grateful, and helped me to heal a lot of shame.

The grace of gratitude is that it's like a magnet that attracts abundance into our experience, and the truth is we may unconsciously resist feeling gratitude because we feel unworthy of all the good that it brings.

During those difficult moments where we feel isolated, abandoned or unworthy, like we have to go it alone, we disconnect from the power of gratitude. But it's a simple matter to to be reminded of and connect with the Power that's breathing us, which is the Source of all gratitude.

This episode will help you tune into and discover

I also remind you that Life is never withholding from you, EVER. We have a choice to make with each new day, with each moment, and especially at those moments that offer us more starkly the opportunity to create a life of gratitude and abundance, or a life of resentment, or blame, or playing small. This is what operates the valve on how much goodness we allow in our lives at any given moment.

I give you a 'mantra' for growing your intrinsic sense of worthiness, and invite you to journal on 3 questions that will open you up to the possibilities for what you can create in your life, because you are worthy of all good.

Gratitude as a way of life is an evolving, growing, life-giving relationship with all that is. A gratitude that simply IS.

This constant interactive gratitude in relationship to the Power that breathes us is based on our focus. We’re focused on giving thanks, no matter what. When we get to a certain level of fluency (that just means ‘flow’ right?), we flow with gratitude.

When we enter into the flow of gratitude, it leads to perpetual increase, because gratitude is on the same frequency as abundance! The more you give thanks to the spirit of life, the more the spirit of life will give you to be thankful for.

We often think of gratitude in terms of receiving, but actually, we can come to realize a deeper truth about gratitude: gratitude is giving.

In this episode, we explore together one of Wallace Wattles' key power quotes from his classic, The Science of Getting Rich, and what this has to do with the practice of gratitude. You'll learn:

And, I lead you through a process of how to supercharge with gratitude an experience many of us call a chore, or downright hate doing -- paying the bills! You'll learn a new way to approach this seemingly mundane and necessary activity that will radically change your relationship to it!

Then I challenge you to a step-by-step process that will transform your relationship to anything you normally consider a pain, and that has been difficult for you - up until now - to cultivate gratitude in.

Don't miss this power-packed episode. It will galvanize your relationship with abundance!

In this episode of The Grace Space, we're looking at gratitude as the access portal to abundance.

Most of us are familiar with the kind of ordinary gratitude we’re taught as children as a matter of etiquette and politeness – the importance of saying thank you when we receive something, like a gift or a compliment, for example.

But there's a whole other level of gratitude that is generative, literally creative. It has the power to open our hearts and expand our lives. It can literally change the reality that we experience. We could call this Transformative Gratitude.

In this episode, I share a personal memory of my own spontaneous experience of transformative gratitude, and how to access that level of gratitude. You'll discover:

And... I bust the myth of 'hope' as an elevated emotion or a positive state. That's right! It ain't!

I also provide you with 3 powerful questions to ask yourself that will help you make welcome the feeling of spontaneous, transformative gratitude.

[00:59] The difference between ordinary gratitude and transformative gratitude

[02:24] That moment in Corsica when I felt the touch of the Infinite
[06:42] How transformative gratitude helps us break the bonds of limitation and literally transcend the form
[07:38] The practice of 'generating state', and how it moves us from the stress response of the nervous system to the relaxation response of the nervous system
[11:32] Why 'hope' doesn't help
[12:35] Replacing hope with gratitude to empower yourself
[13:45] Building your spiritual power as a Master Mind
[14:20] Journaling questions

Related Episodes:

The Grace of Gratitude: Turning Up the Volume on Gratitude
The Grace of Gratitude: Everything Is Freely Given
The Grace of Forg

Consciously making the effort to practice gratitude regardless of our circumstances is like placing a magnifying lens on all that is good in our life, and causing that good to grow.
 
The truth is we all have the opportunity to choose who we’re going to be, what we’re going to focus on and where we’re going to place our attention in every moment, even though sometimes it may be difficult to choose gratitude when we only see what's missing, or wrong, or wishing things could be different.

In victim consciousness, which is a consciousness of separation, we tend to be convinced by appearances and mistake them for Truth. Gratitude helps us come back into unity consciousness, the felt understanding that we are one with creation, and that a higher order prevails, no matter what we are presented with on the level of facts.

In this episode, I go more deeply into how the practice of gratitude, as a way of life, connects us with Divine Grace. Here's what you'll discover:

And much more.

I also start you out with a simple but powerfully effective gratitude practice to use for the next 7 days, and a list of questions to journal on.

The grace of gratitude is that feeling of being overwhelmed by the goodness of life. We have a sense of being divinely guided, and that everything we’ve ever experienced has led us to this moment of grace. We know that all’s right with the world and that we are truly blessed.

But even so, there are moments when things get more challenging and our rhythms are out of sync, where feeling grateful seems more difficult.

And yet, as we learn to lean into spiritual law, we recognize that the moments of discord in our lives are always a golden opportunity to transform our consciousness. And one way we can leverage these moments is through the practice of gratitude.

In this first episode in our series on the Grace of Gratitude, I give you ways to make it an active practice for yourself, so you can experience the magic and miracles that occur when we live gratefully as our basic attitude.

Here are some of the things I cover in this episode:

I also give you a simple yet powerful formula to inspire your own daily gratitude practice!

The act and process of forgiveness really boils down to one of the basic, fundamental skills we develop with spiritual maturity, which is the ability to consciously choose the frequency we are broadcasting at any given time, knowing that that frequency creates the reality we experience.

In this episode, I talk first about the physics behind the process of forgiveness, and then share a practice you can use to generate and maintain a powerful field of compassion which can transform your relationship to people and situations from the past or in the present.

Here are some of the key points you'll learn:

I'lll share with you how to work with the energy of lovingkindness to help you in your practice of forgiveness, as a specific frequency of feeling that raises our vibration, and I give you a practice for generating a powerful field of compassion that can include your past and present.

You'll come to understand that the grace and power of forgiveness cannot be understood through the intellect, nor does it take place there. Forgiveness must be experienced to be experienced, and it really is all about you and your capacity for more and more aliveness. 

Then it’s no longer a question of whether to forgive or not to forgive. You will automatically forgive because you recognize that beyond the concepts of wrongdoing and rightdoing is a field where all is One.

There are things that require an even greater space to forgive.

The term 'sacred friend' was coined by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to describe those people or situations in life that are hardest to love and hardest to forgive. 

Even though you may have consciously tried to forgive a sacred friend, for whatever reason, every time that person, or that situation, comes up in your mind, you feel that pinch of contraction inside yourself that tells you 'you are not yet free'.

A sacred friend can be another person. But it can also be a situation, or a condition. 

In this episode, you'll learn why having a sacred friend is a major spiritual opportunity, and that with the help ofthe Power that’s breathing you, you can forgive anything. The grace of being able to forgive actually comes from this Power within you.

In fact, the greater the seeming adversity or obstacle to forgiveness, the greater the benefit to us when we dissolve it.

We can shift our perspective 

When we feel the most stuck in negativity, our best option is to find something we are more interested in than the negativity we are carrying. This is where having a vision for the life we would really love living can help us to release the past.

I also share a process with you to help you dissolve and transcend the negative emotional charge associated with your sacred friend, so that you can move on to the life and destiny that await you.

What gift could you receive by transforming your relationship to your sacred friend?

Self-forgiveness is the beginning of true self-love and self-compassion.

In this episode, you'll learn why many of us carry a substantial amount of baggage when it comes to our self-esteem, and how forgiving yourself heals inner divisions.  Here are some of the highlights:

Many of the painful events and conditions of our lives have been magnetized to us by our unconscious programs, or belief systems; when we are not yet conscious, we often act out of this conditioning in ways we later regret.

You'll learn one powerful question you can ask to start the process of self-forgiveness, and 5 important points to keep in mind when it comes to your past, your journey and your growth.

Forgiveness can free us from reactive patterns that prevent us from gleaning true wisdom from an experience.

Instead of running to the opposite extreme in reaction to a hurt we’ve suffered in order to avoid being hurt again, we can learn to expand and to grow in love. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong and spiritually mature.

So, how do we forgive the deepest hurts? The ones that feel so personal. How do we deal with the deepest wounds and the things that seem unforgivable, even diabolical?

This is where the rubber meets the road, spiritually speaking.

In this episode, I'll share with you a proposition that can enable you to forgive anything.  Plus, you'll learn:

I'll also share a powerful question you can ask to flip the script on any situation and instantly enlarge your perspective and empower yourself.

And I give you an experiment you can commit to for a specified period of time that can transform your relationship with the most painful wounds of your life.

Welcome to the first in a series about the Grace of Forgiveness.

You'll learn about 

I'll also give you 3 key points to help you work through any resistance you may have to forgiving something or someone, even if you don't believe they deserve your forgiveness.