The Spiritual Practice that will Change Your Life

There is a foolproof way to get more love, happiness, peace and joy in your life. And while it is simple, it is not always easy. We are talking about gratitude. This becomes a spiritual practice when we move from simply showing appreciation or returning kindnesses to feeling and expressing gratitude for all the wonderful things, big and small, in our lives. What we focus on grows. When we focus on how grateful for the love, happiness, peace and joy already in our lives, we send a message to the universe: More of this, please. What do you want more of in your life? Focus on in with great gratitude and watch it grow.

Take the 30-Day Mental Challenge

Are you ready to radically improve your life? Try the month-long mental challenge that Mitch Horowitz describes in his “Real Positivity” column in our November issue. To participate,

• Choose your start date.

• Write: I resolve to impose definite restrictions on my thoughts. In thinking of the past, I will dwell only on its pleasing incidents. In thinking of the present, I will direct attention to its desirable elements. I thinking of the future, I will regard every worthy and possible ambition as within reach. I dedicate myself on this day (date it) to focus on all that is nourishing, advancing and promising for 30 days.

• Sign it.

Email your results or questions to 30DayMentalChallenge@gmail.com.

Today I bestow the essence of love upon everything
—Ernest Holmes & Raymond Charles Barker

I desire that everything I think shall be from the heart as well as from the head. I wish to release kindness and love, sympathy and understanding, peace and joy. No condemnation, judgment or fear shall go from me to anyone or anything.

Today I bestow the essence of love upon everything. Everyone shall be lovely to me. My soul meets the soul of the universe in everyone. Nothing is ugly; everything is beautiful, everything is meaningful. This love is a healing power touching everything into wholeness, healing the wounds of experience with its divine balm. I know that this Love Essence, the very substance of life, the creative principle back of everything, flows through my whole being, spiritual, emotional, mental and physical. It flows in transcendent loveliness in my world of thought and form, ever renewing, vitalizing, and bringing joy and harmony and blessings to everything and everyone it touches.

“Richer Living,” page 327.

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