Practicing gratitude is a simple, yet powerful way to raise your vibrations. Next to feeling unconditional love, being thankful is of the utmost importance to any spiritual practice. Everything is made of energy, and therefore has a certain frequency. Thoughts that carry similar frequencies stick together, forming a pattern that is spread throughout your energy field. By continuing to think the same thoughts, a pattern is created that is felt by the human body, and we call these feelings: emotions. When you think thoughts that feel low (sadness, anger, fear), it creates emotions that lower your vibrational frequency. Likewise, when you have thoughts that feel high (love, happiness, joy), it creates emotions that elevate your frequency. High frequency emotions feel better to you because they are closer in vibration to your true nature as a spiritual being of PURE LOVING ENERGY. How do we know this? Because we know it feels better to feel good, rather than to feel bad!

Gratitude is a feeling that feels good because of its high vibrational frequencies. Therefore, when you feel thankful, you feel a boost of positive energy geared towards that thought, and this elevates your energy and your emotions. This means that practicing gratitude raises your vibrations! And the more you do this, the more the high frequencies become your normal pattern of being. This is good because when it comes to energy, like attracts like. So, if you are living at high frequencies, you will attract people, circumstances and things that are also of high frequency. Thus, you will attract more things to be grateful for, creating a cycle of happiness. This cycle of happiness and high vibrations also helps you to: feel more alive, sleep better, express more compassion and kindness, and even build a stronger immune system!

How to Express Gratitude?

While it's great to think thoughts of gratitude throughout the day, there's something special about writing things down. One of the best ways to practice gratitude is to write a daily gratitude list.

The purpose of writing a daily gratitude list is to feel good about it, not to get it done and over with so you can get more experiences to feel good about. It helps you to feel good now, and appreciate what you already have. This shifts your perspective to a more feeling-oriented experience, helping you to feel deep appreciation for everything you have, and everything you've been through.

It is important to be thankful for every single experience in your life, because you are the creator that brought it into your life. Writing this daily list helps you to reflect on your experiences, whether good or "bad", because you were born with the amazing gift of awareness that helps you realize what vibes led you to what outcome. You will find that it is quite liberating to know that whatever thoughts you put into the universe, come back to you in physical manifestation. This means that you no longer have to be a victim of circumstance, because you realize that you are an all-powerful creator, creating your life as you go. That my friend, is definitely something to be grateful for.

Here's a tip: If you have the ability, the universe loves when you write things down. So go out and buy the most powerful feeling journal or notebook you can find, and put a pen to that pad!

- Amber