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Gratitude Made Simple: 3 Ways to Start Today

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Gratitude Made Simple: 3 Ways to Start Today

Today, I want to share three simple steps to help you embrace gratitude not just this week, but every day. They’re easy, impactful, and best of all, they’ll leave you feeling lighter, happier, and more connected to the beauty of life.

Step 1: Open Your Eyes

This one’s all about seeing what’s already around you.

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to overlook the little things—like the way the morning sun glows through your window or the comforting hum of laughter from loved ones? Our brains are wired to notice the unusual, which means we often miss the magic in the familiar.

But those who live in gratitude daily have a secret: they intentionally look.

Take a moment today to open your eyes to the wonders around you. Notice the vibrant colors of fall leaves, a picture on your wall you walk past every day, or the smile of someone you care about. These small things are gifts, and when we pause to see them, we unlock a life filled with wonder and appreciation.

Step 2: Open Your Heart

Gratitude isn’t just about noticing—it’s about feeling.

Sometimes, we let negative emotions like disappointment or irritation take up valuable space in our hearts. But as we all know, those feelings don’t serve us. They block joy, peace, and connection.

It’s time to let them go.

Start by choosing one small thing to release today. Maybe it’s a grudge you’ve been holding or a moment of self-doubt that’s been dragging you down. Replace it with love, forgiveness, and gratitude for what you do have.

When you clear your heart of negativity, you make space for gratitude to shine—and trust me, it feels so good!

Step 3: Open Your Arms

Gratitude grows when we share it with others.

Think about someone in your life who has impacted you—a friend who’s always there, a family member who’s made sacrifices for you, or even a mentor who’s cheered you on. When was the last time you told them how much they mean to you?

A kind word, a heartfelt note, or even a simple hug can go a long way. Not only does it brighten their day, but it fills your heart with a deeper sense of connection and joy.

Gratitude in action is one of the most powerful ways to feel more fulfilled and aligned with the life you want to live.

 

As Robert Louis Stevenson so beautifully said:
​”The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

Let’s wake up to the beauty around us. This week, start with these three steps: open your eyes, open your heart, and open your arms. I promise you’ll feel the shift.

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Living Above the Line

Are You Living Above The Line?

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One of my favorite ways to explain about energy/emotions/frequency, whether I’m teaching a class or just explaining to one client in a private session, is to use the concept of living above or below the line.

This concept is used in a lot of different ways, but I talk about it referring to emotions.

We all get the “opportunity” to feel a broad range of emotions throughout our lives, throughout a week, or really it can be throughout one day!

Some emotions are heavy, and have a slower vibration. Emotions such as:

sadness / anger / fear / shame / doubt / anxiety / envy / disappointment / irritation / worry / impatience, and so many more.

Since these emotions are heavy and sluggish, they can literally make us feel heavy and sluggish when we are carrying them. These are what I call Below the Line.

On the flip side, emotions that make us feel light, lift us up, and feel so good are:

joy / peace / gratitude / hope / contentment / serenity / awe / relief / confidence / optimism / LOVE / enthusiasm, ETC. These I refer to as Above the Line.

Let’s say there’s an invisible line and all the negative emotions fall beneath it, and all the positive emotions float above it. With that visual it’s easy to see that we want to Live Above The Line. It feels so much better to live in the space of these higher vibrating emotions!

Living Above the Line

But let’s go back to what I said earlier, we all get the “opportunity” to experience all these emotions. So, yes our goal is to do what we can to live ABOVE the line, but it’s really ok if we occasionally sink below it while experiencing one or more of the heavy emotions.

After all…that’s part of this life’s experience. We’re not meant to only live above the line, but yes, life is much more pleasant when we pro-actively do what we can to live from the “up-side”.

Sometimes we carry heavy emotions temporarily while we’re going through some tough stuff, and sometimes those emotions get stuck in our tissues, in our energy, in our mind.

What SimplyAlign does is find the cause of the negative emotion and release it at its root.

You don’t have to remember the event or re-live what happened, often the energy just needs a witness…and a skilled practitioner.

The negative emotions we carry can be from situations we are currently experiencing, or can be stored and stagnating from years of layering these sluggish emotions without fully releasing and letting them go. Oh wow, that sounds heavy doesn’t it?

The good news is, we don’t have to carry them. There are ways to get to the root and clean it up, even if we don’t know the exact emotions, where they came from, or that they were even still lurking there.

Last week I worked with a new client and several times through the session she said, “I feel so light!” I told her, “Yes, that’s how SimplyAlign works.” That’s the statement I hear the most from clients, and it goes back to releasing the heavy vibrations.

So, here’s my invitation for you this week:

Pay attention to how you’re feeling. Check in with yourself during the day to notice what emotion you’re feeling at the time, and whether it’s ABOVE or BELOW the line. Of course the goal is to stay above the line, by keeping or shifting your thoughts to a positive state.

Just having this awareness will help raise your vibration. Yay You!

And if you’re ready to take it several steps further and learn how to use SimplyAlign to quickly and gracefully release heavy emotions (and oh so much more!) then click here to learn more about the upcoming SimplyAlign Training Oct 18-21st – all ONLINE

Having the desire to do this work is a gift, and being able to do it well is a skill.

I can’t give you the desire if it’s not there, but if it is, I can teach you the skills to help you live

ABOVE THE LINE more often and skills to help you help others live above the line too.

Shine On,