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.
Giving thanks for our food before meals is a tradition that has been practiced by all peoples and societies of earth dating back to ancient times.
These thanks can be a simple thank you to the person who prepared the food. In other examples people give thanks to the god or higher power they worship. Some thanks are directed to the source of the food or ingredients.
As we all eat meals and snacks throughout the day, this is a perfect reminder to practice gratitude often, making gratitude a life-habit.
Before you eat be grateful for any or all of the following:-
- For having something to eat and not go hungry. Think of those who are not as fortunate.
- All the work, effort and time which went into the ingredients. Think of the farmers, the harvesters, the fishermen, the transportation, the packaging.
- Nature, for providing the environment to grow crops, land and seas for animals to thrive.
- Those responsible for preparing what you are about to eat. Their time, energy, care and creativity.
- When you are enjoying something you are eating, think of the wonderful taste, the aroma and be grateful for that.
- When you take a sip of water, be thankful, for without water there would be no life on this planet.
Add your own reasons to be thankful for your food. As you repeat each one, feel the thankfulness and say “thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Remember, every time you say “thank you” you are using the Magic of Gratitude. You are attracting more into your life for which to be grateful.
Gratitude for water
Currently, South Africa, specifically Cape Town, is experiencing a severe water shortage.
Rhonda Byrne has the following to say about water, in The Magic.
“Without water, there would be no food, vegetation, animals, or human life. We use water to cook our meals, grow our food, maintain our gardens, supply our bathrooms, sustain every vehicle that moves, support our hospitals, fuel, mining, and manufacturing industries, enable transportation, make our roads, make clothes and every consumer product and appliance on the planet, make plastic, glass, and metal, make life-saving medications, and build our homes and every other building and structure. And water keeps our bodies alive.
Water, water, water, glorious water!”
Are we only grateful and thankful for water when there is a water shortage?
So, for our South Africa friends and family, let us all across the world make a conscious effort to be thankful and grateful for water. Every time you use water for anything say thank you. When you open a tap, make a cup of coffee, put water in your car, wash your hands, flush a toilet, bath or shower, have a drink, cook food, eat anything that required water to grow or be produced, etc. Every time, say “thank you, thank you, thank you, for the gift of water which is enabling me to . . . . . / for the gift of water which helped grow this apple I am eating, . . . “
Rhonda goes on to say “The incredible thing is that when you are grateful for food and water, it doesn’t just affect your life; your gratitude also impacts the world’s supply. If enough people felt gratitude for food and water, it would actually help the people who are starving and in great need. By the law of the attraction, and Newton’s law of action and reaction, the action of mass gratitude must produce an equal mass reaction, which would change the circumstances of scarcity of food and water for everyone on the planet.”
While preparing this post we realised that we have not been thankful enough for our water and food.
We found this wonderful Native American prayer before eating which totally resonates with us and encompasses many aspects of our food for which to be thankful.
We thank Great Spirit for the resources that made this food possible; we thank the Earth Mother for producing it, and we thank all those who labored to bring it to us. May the wholesomeness of the food before us, bring out the wholeness of the Spirit within us.
– Rev. White Eagle
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“.
Our quote for the day.
Namasté
Amethyst and Sapphire