Gratitude Opens the Door

When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.”
Abraham - Hicks
 
How do we make inspired, guided choices in our lives in full alignment with our higher-selves? How best do we answer the questions in our lives, big and small?
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These are the questions I have been asking myself for several days now. I wanted a specific formula, a structure to work with for asking and getting answers from my higher-self and from my spiritual support team.

I knew that it began with asking the question. I knew the next step was to take it into meditation and wait for the answer. This is where I bogged down. My mind would keep worrying at the question, even as I tried to meditate. I’d see a fleeting visual image and wonder, is that my answer? Then I’d bring myself back to quiet and have a thought about something unrelated. Maybe that’s my answer, I’d think, and so on. Letting go and allowing was hard work.

The answers are all there for us, accompanied by such LOVE. You have only to ask and allow. But how do we allow?

Today, I began again. I asked my question out loud to focus my subconscious on my intention. I closed my eyes and quieted my mind, thinking ‘allow.’

But, how do I allow? 

A feeling of deep gratitude filled me. Gratitude for the love of Spirit. Gratitude for the asking and the answering. Gratitude for connection. I breathed deeply of that feeling of gratitude and said internally, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” Love filled me tingling right down my legs, tears filling my eyes. “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” Breathing in gratitude and love. “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”

I got it. Gratitude opens the door to allowing. Gratitude is the magic, the path opener. Gratitude opens the floodgates of inspiration.

Imagine if you will an enormous spiral, a vortex of loving energy with the tip surrounding your whole body, and the wider part extending high above your head stretching upward into the heavens. This is YOU, in alignment with your higher self.

As you allow, through gratitude, all that is your higher self, all the energy, knowledge, inspiration and guidance funnels downward to and through you, allowing you to live in clarity, inspired action and the daily joy of gratitude.

Gratitude opens the door to allowing and guidance because it raises your vibration, to the level where you are able to connect with the energy of your higher self and your spiritual support team. They cannot come down in energy to you, you must raise your energy to meet theirs to receive guidance and the answers to your questions. Your higher-self and your spiritual support team are as delighted to communicate with you as you are to communicate with them, but you must make yourself energetically available.

Your higher self and spiritual support team are always with you, offering support and guidance, but as much as we want answers when we are feeling sad, angry, hurt, depressed or any of the negative emotions, the energy with which we are vibrating when we are feeling that way closes the door to receiving communication from loving Spirit.
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We must raise our energy first, and one way to do that is through gratitude. Gratitude for even the simplest things is a place to start. Then work your way up from there. Gratitude tunes your radio dial to receive guidance from loving Spirit through your higher self.  


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Your Spiritual Toolbox

​Here’s the formula. Choose a quiet place and time in which you will not be disturbed.

Write out your questions. This serves three purposes. It gives your mind a job to do. It clears the clutter of your thoughts allowing you to calm your mind. It communicates your conscious questions with your subconscious mind.

Choose the question that is foremost in your mind. This is the question that feels most important or urgent, the one that is right in your face at this moment.

Ask your question out loud. By doing so you are communicating your intention to receive an answer to this particular question at this time, with your subconscious mind. Remember it is your subconscious mind that communicates directly with your superconscious.

Close your eyes and calm your mind, preparing yourself to open the door to guidance.

Focus upon gratitude, say out loud, “Thank you for guidance.” Think and feel and breathe the mantra, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” This opens the door to allowing your answers to come.

As you breathe in mentally say, “Thank you.” As you breathe out mentally say, “Thank you.” Feel gratitude for guidance. Feel gratitude for your higher self and for Spirit. Feel gratitude for connection and inspiration. Keep repeating and breathing the inner mantra of, “Thank you,” and allowing yourself to feel gratitude.

Your answer will come in the language and timing of your higher self. The answer may come immediately or it may come later on. It may come as a visual image accompanied by an understanding of what this means. Or, you may need to ask what this image means and open yourself through gratitude for the answer. Your answer may come as a feeling. Your answer may come in a dream as you sleep that night. Your answer may come in symbols that you see or hear throughout the day.

Stay focused on gratitude. Your answer will come. If you sense an answer but do not understand the symbolism ask for clarity, then again focus upon gratitude. “Thank you for giving me clarity about the answer to my question. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”

Needing answers on the fly. Ask your question, out loud if possible. Then focus fully upon gratitude for guidance using your mantra, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,” allowing your answer to come.