In my first Self-Care Sunday post, I talked about how important it is to start your day from a place of gratitude.
We live in a culture where we are constantly bombarded by things. What people are doing, what they have, where they are going, etc. I often refer to social media as someone’s highlight reel. What you see is curated and manufactured content that doesn’t tell the whole story. Often it doesn’t even tell the real story. But we spend so much time looking at snapshots of others, with very limited context and we torture ourselves by comparing our lives to theirs.
When we don’t consciously practice gratitude, we come from a place of lack and we enter situations with scarcity mindset. As a culture, we tend to focus on what we don’t have. If I had more time, when I’m happy with my weight or when I have enough money, then I will be happy. We base how we feel about ourselves or our situation from a place of not feeling good enough or that we have enough. We become dependent on outcomes that are theoretically going to make us happy – outcomes which we may or may not have much control over at all. When we become dependent on these things, we begin to create these expectations from others or from life in general. And like Shakespeare said, expectation is the root of all heartache. The danger of this kind of mindset is that you start living your life from a victim mentality.
If we approach our day from a place of being grateful for all that we have, we are already living our life from an abundance mindset. When we see things as abundant, we are more in control of our experience. When we feel like our world is abundant and we are open to the world and all its possibilities, a funny thing happens – we begin to attract everything we want.
