Wisdom for the Wise

The power of Gratitude

My question for you today is, “Why is gratitude important?”

Gratitude is one of the very first principles that any person learns in life, because I do not know of a mother or father who did not teach there children to say those two words, “thank you“.  The sad part is that not a lot of people teach their children the power principle behind these two words.

I believe that if people were to simply teach their children this one simple principal and the power behind it, the whole world would be a much better place.

I never see a grateful person who doesn’t seem to always have a smile on their face.  Even when bad things happen, they are still grateful.  You might ask, Why?  The answer is because that person has learned lessons from their misfortune that can be applied in the future to prevent those things from happening again.  If you are a grateful person, you are a happy person, and I don’t know a happy person who does bad things to other people; and that is why I say the world could be a much better place if people just taught their children this one simple principal.

But this is only one piece of the gratitude puzzle.  The other piece has to do with the Law of Giving — or Sowing and Reaping.  One cannot exist without the other.  We cannot give gratitude without something good coming back to us.  If you are grateful towards somebody for what they have done for you, then chance are they will continue to do kind things for you.  But the opposite is also true.  If someone does not show gratitude for something you have done for them, then you are going to be less likely to do good things for them in the future out of your own free will, and thus diminishing the flow of good going toward that person.

Let’s look at it from another angle and put God, or the Universe, in the picture.

Is there any person to whom you can say “thank you” for the air that you breath or the water you drink every day?  These are two things for which you can say thank you only to God or the Universe, because they were there from the beginning of time.

Or have you expressed thanks for people who acted on their ideas and did not say to themselves, “It will not work” or “people will think I am mad”?  I am talking about the Henry Fords and Thomas Edisons of this world, because without people like them we would still be without  cars, telephones, and even this computer you are sitting in front of.  You may have never known them, but God, or the Universe, created them; and by expressing gratitude for them, it is as if you have thanked that person in person, and you have unlocked the law of Gratitude in your life and opened the floodgates of good things coming to you.

A grateful heart and attitude tells the universe, “this person is grateful for what you have given him.  And the Universe responds by saying, “I will give him more”.  How big it will be or how fast it will happen, we do not know, but what I do know is that if you throw a ball into the air ,it will come down because of the Law of Gravity, and the same is true with the Law of Gratitude.  It always works the same way — what you give will come back to you.

The great Roman statesman, Cicero, once said “Gratitude is the mother of all virtues.”  James Arthur Ray, in his book “The Science of Success” says, “Gratitude is not only the mother of virtues, it is the mother of all life’s benefits.  It brings love, health, happiness, and prosperity.  Gratitude sets up a field of attraction more powerful than any other—attraction so strong that it cannot help but bring your vision to into reality.”

I think we all are familiar with the Law of Gratitude, but we sometimes just need a reminder and new insight into how important it is and what will happen if we apply it every day.

So, I encourage you to begin developing a genuine “Attitude of Gratitude”, and enjoy this movie I have put together for you about attitude.  All the photos were taken by me in South Africa.  If you like it, I would greatly appreciate it if you would please share your comments on “You Tube”.  Enjoy

Regards Theuns

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