You may have heard the phrase, “count your blessings” before, but how often do you actually do it? Do you pause to feel grateful when something good happens? How about when you need an emotional boost? Counting your blessings is one sure way to develop a constant mind-set of gratitude, which can turn a mundane life into a miraculous life.

You may have tried keeping a “gratitude journal” by recording the things you are grateful for each evening before bed, and that is one effective method, but there are other ways of focusing on gratitude if that didn’t work well for you.

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A daily practice of gratitude can help keep you feeling happy more often, simply because gratitude smooths the rough edges in your life and keeps you focused on the good stuff, rather than obsessing about things that might detract from your sense of happiness.

Below you’ll find three simple ways to use gratitude to be happier every day:

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We live with many rules about how we should feel. When we believe we have to feel a certain way given our circumstances, we are enslaved to our emotions. If we are stuck in traffic we think we should feel angry and anxious, so we do. If a loved one is sick we think we should feel worried and afraid. If it’s cloudy outside, we think we have to feel bad.

Now you may find that some of your reactions seem almost pre-programmed, beyond your control, and without a doubt you’re right. For our entire lives we’ve been told what to do and how to live, what’s more important and what to avoid, from family, caregivers, teachers, television, the list goes on and on. It is easy to mistake all these incoming signals as rules and guidelines for how to live. They are not. The moment you allow yourself to break free from outside dictates and embrace your own standards for happiness, you are free.

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by Mike England

So what does appreciation have to do with the Law of Attraction and money? The answer is everything, if you attract experiences into your life as a result of the way you feel then feeling appreciative is one of the most gratifying emotions you could ever wish to experience.

When you are appreciating you are basically being grateful for what you have, in other words by being appreciative you are being grateful for the things in your life which allow you to feel good. In order to attract the things you want you need to feel good so this means that appreciating is a very important key to getting what you want into your life.

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