Guide for Living: The Great Secret of Gratitude - Why Being Grateful Will Change Your Life

by David R. Hooper

Why should you be thankful for everything in your life? In the book, you'll learn the secret to attracting everything you've ever wanted in life. And it all starts with being thankful for what you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975436163
• ISBN13: 9780975436165
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Boldthoughts.com
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

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If The Only Prayer You Ever Had to Pray Was, 'Thanks', It Would Be Enough...

The title of my review comes from the great Catholic Mystic/Theologian Meister Eckhart who said those words in the 13nth century. Proof positive that there have always been those who have known about 'the Secret'. I think we all do in the deepest part of our hearts and souls. But part of being human is having that rather nasty habit of forgetting. We forget that there can be no sides on a round planet. We forget that we shouldn't do things to others that we wouldn't like done to ourselves. We forget that we don't just have a Soul, we are the Soul. And the thing that we forget the most is to be grateful and appreciative. This incredibly small, but detailed book, explains why being grateful and appreciative for everything that is going on in your life could be the catalyst for major change. There's a New Thought aphorism that's been around forever that says, "Whatever we think about, we bring about." I like that. I really like that. But one of the teachers in the movie, The Secret, put his own little twist on it, "Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about." Think about that one for awhile. This book stresses the Truth that whatever we focus on becomes our reality. That is a hard thing for most of us to swallow. But again, these deeper Truths are, I believe, 'hardwired' into us. It is impossible to separate the perceiver from the thing perceived. It's impossible to seperate the creator from the created. As Henry David Thoreau brilliantly observed, "We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are..." So when we remember to focus on gratitude and appreciation, a funny thing begins to happen, we begin to experience even more things to be thankful about. Pretty soon we not only become more grateful, we actually "become" gratitude Itself. I have this one exercise in one of my classes where on the first day of beginning this exercise you think of two things you are grateful for and you write them down. Then on the second day, you double that amount and so on. By the seventh day you are writing down 128 things you are grateful for. There are some people who balk and complain about this exercise and who claim they don't have a 128 things to be thankful about. I just sit there in my chair and listen and after they're through ranting I'll say, "Of course you don't have 128 things to be thankful about, you have a million and one things to be thankful about..." You can be grateful for EVERYTHING that is in your life right now. I do mean, EVERYTHING. My beautiful Aunt who I love deeply was diagnosed with 'an inoperable brain tumor' this last September. I've noticed that since she's been diagnosed with this, she's gotten a lot softer, a lot more appreciative, a lot more grateful for the simplest things. She knows that she's been given the gift of life and every day she breathes in and every day she breathes out is a gentle reminder of this precious gift that we all take for granted. Maybe what we've really forgotten in this highl