Start the day
Write down 10 new Blessings and why you are grateful for them. Read each one repeating “thank you, thank you, thank you“, feeling gratitude for each one.
Today’s practice is a simple one of saying “thank you” every time you take a step, as you walk around. After you’ve taken 100 footsteps you will have said “thank you” 100 times.
While this might seem to be a trivial exercise compared to some of the previous practices, what you are doing is making the act of saying “thank you” a natural habit. As natural as walking.
You don’t need to do this every single time you walk somewhere today (although that would be great), but make a decision when you walk to your car, the kitchen, the bathroom or while shopping, to make it a “thank you walk” of Magical Footsteps. Say “thank you” every time you place a foot on the floor.
Rhonda Byrne says to try and take about 100 “thank you footsteps” at least a few times during the day to increase the effectiveness of this practice. Work out the approximate distance you need to walk to take 100 footsteps and use that as a guide because counting your steps will get in the way of saying thank you.
Regardless of what you are feeling or thinking about, this will make you feel happier and will bring about the feeling of gratitude into your day.
End the day
When you go to bed tonight hold your Magic Rock in your hand. Close your fingers around it and feel it. Think of all the good things that have happened today. Choose the best good thing that happened and, feeling as grateful as you can, say “thank you, thank you, thank you“.
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Hi Amanda!
😃 This journey has taught me to live in a constant attitude of gratitude and to actually look for opportunities to be thankful.
It really places a person on a higher spiritual plane once you put it into practice. It literally lifts one’s spirit and cause a total change of mindset.
In fact, some years ago a landlady gave me Rhonda Byrne’s book “The Secret” and said “If you do it, it works”.
I was particularly stuck on the chapter of gratitude and from little I’d ask my kids daily to tell me something good that happened that day and when we prayed each one of us thanked God for at least 3 things. We still do this.
However, this Gratitude Journey has pushed it up a few notches and I feel light every day, wake up fresher and laugh daily. Things just don’t get to me easily since focusing on these things.
Thank you for sharing with everybody! God bless!
Thank you Belinda for the above message.
I understand 100% where you are coming from and couldn’t agree more.
A few days ago I felt like I was repeating the same thing but just in a different way. But I then remembered what Rhonda says in “The Magic” about how the brain works and how often we need to repeat something in order for it to become habitual. So I persevered and this morning it hit me and “Wow”. I was lying in bed, thinking about my blessings for the day and all of a sudden I could feel everything so intensely. The soft whisper of the air on my skin, the softness of the sheet below my body, the smoothness of the page of the book on my hand, the movement of my eye lashes as I blinked, my chest moving up and down with every breath……. It was an absolutely amazing experience.
Being thankful is one thing but actually feeling the gratitude has given me a new appreciation for every little thing.
I turned to Richard and as I watched him while he was deep in thought and writing down his daily blessings, I felt this overwhelming sense of thankfulness, gratitude and appreciation for him and for this life journey that we are on together.
I then started thinking about all the things we had in South Africa that we didn’t even think about giving thanks for. So many things that we had just accepted as part of life. And I realized that we were only appreciative of these things once we no longer had free access to them. Simple things like……… Biltong, Boerewors, Ouma Rusks, Rooibos Tea, Roast Lamb or Lamb chops, a South African braai with lamb chops and boerewors, Steer Burgers, sundowners at Doodles, good South African wine at a Wine Farm, those red wrapped Lindt balls, soft serve ice cream, assorted cheeses especially a good Blue Cheese with Fig Preserve
and then of course, the everyday things like a proper tarred road, garbage collection, closed drainage systems, driving on the left hand side of the road, traffic rules, traffic lights and stop streets, a motor vehicle, an oven to roast or bake, a cool breeze, a walk on the beach, free government medical care, and so the list goes on,
There is so much to be thankful for and to feel real gratitude for and to really really appreciate.
Our daily blessings and giving thanks and feeling gratitude, our walk of gratitude where we feel thanks and kiss the ground with our toes, our daily sprinkling of magic dust on each other and people who bless our lives, our thanks to Mother Earth and the resources and hands that provide the produce for our daily meals, giving thanks to our abundant Universe and the Universal Energy when we do our daily meditation, holding our gratitude stone at night and talking about our day and all our blessings has become such an important part of our daily lives.
We hope this Journey in Gratitude has had a profound an effect on our readers as it has had on us.
Thank you once again for joining us on this journey.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.