Manifesting Made Easy: Gratitude | A Mayastar Energy Healing

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Manifesting is the process by which we create our lives in accordance with

our highest intentions. Manifesting is the conscious alignment of our material

reality with our hopes and desires, and it’s something we all do, all the time

and always. When we learn more about the process, we can make small

changes in our lives that will reap great rewards by helping us to bring more

of what we want into our reality.

There are many teachings available for manifesting effectively but this article

will cover some of the simplest techniques you can use, starting today, to

begin creating your dream life right now!

The Importance of Gratitude: What is Gratitude?

The most powerful practice you can begin today to increase your happiness,

peace and prosperity is the mindful expression of Gratitude. Let’s start by

understanding what Gratitude really is.

The Collins dictionary definition of Gratitude states that it is “the state of

feeling grateful”. This gives us an important clue! Gratitude isn’t something

you do, it’s something you feel. That’s what makes this technique one of the

simplest! There’s no special action you need to take; there’s no special

equipment to use and no special philosophy to study; rather, Gratitude is

likely to be a feeling you’ve experienced before, so you just need to remind

yourself of it and learn to choose Gratitude so often in your daily life that it

becomes a way of life.

Gratitude & the Power of Positive Emotion

When we feel Gratitude, we are bringing ourselves into the present moment

and creating energetic openness by expressing our inner joy. We are

recognising the good things in life and reminding ourselves of their

importance. Gratitude is a warm feeling so tapping into it can remind us of

feelings of love, security, hope and happiness. You can’t feel Gratitude when

you’re angry, jealous or fearful! And while it’s natural and healthy to

sometimes feel and express negative emotions or responses to the world,

there’s a tendency in the modern age to do this more often than is healthy!

Think about the things that evoke negative emotions in your life. Spending

too much time with toxic people, watching too much news or winding

yourself up by indulging your tendency to judge other people or gossip about

them can be negative practices you fall into that reinforce negative feelings

and negative outcomes. These daily habits can easily become detrimental to

our lives. They can create blocks to our happiness by restricting our ability to

experience Gratitude.

Gratitude, Toxic Positivity & Toxic Negativity

Choosing to make Gratitude your default emotional response might seem

like an exercise in toxic positivity to some people. But in my opinion,

conscious Gratitude is a very different philosophy to unconscious ingratitude!

If your time is devoted to judging others, forming and reciting opinions on

current affairs or being around those that don’t bring out the best in you (or

themselves!), you are making a choice even if you don’t consciously make

that choice. You are choosing to invest your energy in things that don’t bring

you joy. If watching the news for half an hour in the evening means you go

to bed worrying about world events and feeling powerless, perhaps that

routine is toxic to your health and well-being. Perhaps you could re-purpose

that time more effectively. Connecting with Gratitude can help you to

recognise your own toxic patterns. And when you realise that your own

negative habits are at the root of your suffering, you become empowered to

change them!

Daily Gratitude Practices to Take Your Manifesting to the Next Level

My recommendation is not to become over-analytical about your life though.

If you start trying to evaluate every single thought and interaction you have,

you’re liable to create a lot of unnecessary stress for yourself. And changing

your mindset to one of Gratitude can be done moment to moment - but to

start with, a good way to remind your unconscious mind that Gratitude is a

good feeling, is to dedicate some time each day to a Gratitude practice. This

is really the development of a personal ritual so it needs to be something

that works for you and fits in with your routine. Here are a few ideas that

you might want to consider:

1.

Gratitude baths or showers. Cleansing the body is something we do

every day and no matter what else is going on, we always remember to

make time for this ritual. As such, choosing your bathroom time as a

time for a particular spiritual practice can really help you stay consistent!

Not all practices are possible in a bath or shower but reciting affirmations

is one that can create big shifts in your consciousness. Choose an

affirmation for the week and use it every day during your ablutions to

see if it creates any positive results in your mood, mindset or

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2.

Gratitude journalling. Writing things down is a kind of magick in itself.

It’s a process of converting our thoughts and feelings into something

symbolic. What I mean by that is that a word is not the thing itself. If

you search your soul and find a good feeling you want to write about,

you first have to connect more deeply with that feeling and put a name

to it. When you put a name to it, you’re “owning it” in a sense and when

you repeat the word in future, you remember the feeling. The word is a

symbol of that experience. Gratitude journalling is a potent way of doing

this. Gratitude journalling doesn’t have to take long either. The important

part of this practice is consistency. Showing up every day to your journal

with the intention of expressing Gratitude sends a powerful message to

your conscious mind to bring your mental habits more into alignment

with a positive and expansive mindset; it also sends a message to your

unconscious mind, that you would like to bring more of this feeling into

your life; and by extension, that sends a powerful message to the

Universe about the life you wish to create. You might choose to list 3, 5

or 10 things you’re grateful for that day. Some days, you might find that

difficult. And other times you might find you have more than your

designated number to be grateful for. So allow some flexibility! The more

important part is that this habit become a daily one. Commit to doing

this for 1 month and see if you’re happier at the end of that month. If

you are, it might be a great habit to continue with.

3.

Gratitude meditation. Meditation is something we can do anywhere. You

don’t need to be sitting on a yoga mat, and you don’t need to have your

eyes closed. You just need to be in a position where you can bring your

focus inside yourself and not be distracted too much. When walking or

working out, you can meditate; or during other mundane tasks like

housework, washing up, walking the dog or taking the train to work.

Again, choosing to fit your spiritual practice into your life by building it

onto your regular routine can be a good way to start because it

encourages consistency! A Gratitude meditation can be simple. Perhaps

call to mind one thing you are grateful for. Perhaps it’s something that

happened that day, or the memory of someone who really helped you

out, or perhaps its just the colour of the sky. Whatever evokes a feeling

of Gratitude within you, lean into that thought and allow the feeling to

intensify for the duration of your meditation. If you often spent those

mundane moments intensifying your fears, stresses, worries or

judgements, changing your toxic habits could bring enormous shifts

towards positivity, creativity and bliss in your life.

These simple practices are just suggestions to get you started. When you

witness the magick of Gratitude in your manifesting work, you may want to

expand your practice by learning some energy healing techniques! These

Mayastar attunement courses are designed to do just that:

Constellation of Bliss

Archangelic Flames

Abundance Affinity Attunement

Lakshmi Golden Good Fortune

Attraction Reiki

Archangel Uriel’s Prosperity & Progress Activation

I also provide magickal ritual intensives to support you in your healing

journey and manifesting objectives. In particular, for those focusing on

drawing positive and progressive change into their lives, I recommend the

Luring Moon Abundance Alignment 30-Day Ritual Intensive which you can

read about on the Maya Magickal website.