50 Things to Be Grateful for in This Life

Raise Your Vibrational Frequency With the Highest Vibration There Is: Gratitude

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Gratitude is a powerful emotion that can positively enhance your life. A daily gratitude practice can help you find more happiness and peace. Despite knowing the benefits of practicing gratitude though, many of us struggle with expressing gratitude during life’s difficult moments. When life gets hard and it feels like you just keep taking a beating, it can feel impossible finding things to be thankful for. This is when we can use gratitude the most. 

The Science of Gratitude and Why it’s Important

Consistently practicing gratitude will have long-lasting effects on your happiness, health, and well-being. How exactly does gratitude make life better? By rewiring your brain! There actually is neuroscience behind gratitude and how it impacts you. Gratitude triggers the release of happy hormones, strengthening neural pathways towards feelings of joy and positivity, allowing us to become more disposed to experiencing these emotions.

Benefits of Practicing Gratitude:

  • Improves sleep

  • Reduces fear, anxiety, and depression

  • Enhances dopamine and serotonin

  • Boosts mood

  • Strengthens immune system

  • Builds self love

  • Improves interpersonal relationships

How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times

Practicing gratitude can be a way to shift your mindset to look beyond everything that seems to be going wrong in your life. It’ll help you focus on the good so that you don’t get trapped by those negative feelings that are so easy to indulge, feelings like grief, hopelessness, disappointment, sadness, and anxiety. Gratitude is what trains the mind to look for the good instead of focusing on the bad, so you can find positivity and happiness even in the darkest of times. 

Cultivating a State of Gratitude Will Shift You to a Higher Frequency

Gratitude vibrates at the frequency of 540 MHz, the same frequency as love, making it one of the highest vibrational frequencies we can resonate with. Practicing gratitude will raise your vibration and when you have a higher vibration, you’ll attract and manifest the things you want with more ease. You’ll feel lighter and become a magnet for positivity, so subsequently, you’ll have more to be grateful for! Choosing to be thankful when it feels like you have nothing is like faking it until you make it. Through practicing gratitude, you’ll not only begin to notice all the good that already surrounds you, but also draw more blessings into your life. 

50 Things to Be Grateful For

Practicing gratitude comes easy when things are going our way, but let’s be honest, life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. And so, we’ve created this list for you to  look back at whenever life feels heavy and you’re struggling with counting your blessings. This list of things to be grateful for will remind you of all the good that does exist in your life, even when it’s hard to see it for yourself.

  1. Being alive

  2. Laughter

  3. Your health

  4. Good health of the people you love

  5. Sunsets and sunrises

  6. Mother Earth

  7. Alone time

  8. Weekends

  9. Books

  10. Art

  11. Music

  12. Freedom of expression

  13. Opportunities to learn

  14. The ability to love and be loved

  15. Nature

  16. Having a home

  17. Travel

  18. Your strength

  19. Your resilience

  20. Memories

  21. Your bed

  22. Clean sheets

  23. Family

  24. Friends

  25. Technology

  26. The kindness of others

  27. Medicine

  28. Time

  29. Your personality

  30. Money in the bank

  31. Your spiritual practice

  32. Animals

  33. Our ancestors’ wisdom

  34. Home cooked meals

  35. The clothes on your back

  36. Your senses

  37. A relaxing bath

  38. Deep conversations

  39. Movement

  40. Safety

  41. Security

  42. The ability to dream

  43. A cup of coffee or tea

  44. Having a passion

  45. Old photos

  46. Your mind

  47. Your body

  48. Creativity 

  49. Access to basic necessities/resources

  50. Life’s challenges


Emphasis on that last one! Even the mistakes, set backs, and hard days are things to be grateful for because they give us the opportunity to grow. 


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