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There's a powerful quote about perspective:

"When you change the way you look at things,

the things you look at change."

Gratitude is one of those very profound tools

that you can use to change your perspective on life

and thus change your entire life.

It helps you transform your life into one of more joy,

peace, positivity, and love.

It really is a perspective shift that can feel so simple

and yet can change everything.

It can really attract so much abundance into your life,

so much love, joy, and peace into your life.

Whatever you want more of,

simply find gratitude

for all the good things you already have,

and that in itself will attract more of what you want.

It will attract more good things.

Hello, my loves. Welcome back to Lavendaire.

It's Aileen.

And today we are talking about gratitude,

why it is so powerful.

And I'll share six gratitude practices

that can transform your perspective

and thus transform your life.

So if you're new here, this is the last video

in our "Transform Your Life Series."

We've been making videos since November

every single week on how to transform our lives

in all the areas.

And today I'm excited to wrap it all up

in a pretty bow with gratitude.

A very simple practice, but a very important practice.

Gratitude is essentially the foundation to happiness.

It's the foundation to a positive outlook on life.

And if you can simply change the way you see things,

you'd be surprised at how much of your life does change,

how much you change in the process.

Before we dive in, I wanna share that we have a free

Notion template worksheet that you can use

along with this video.

I'll be sharing a lot of gratitude practices,

and then you get to implement those practices

in the worksheet.

So that link to the worksheet is down below.

It's essentially a template on Notion

that you can duplicate.

And that page also has all the worksheets

to all of our other videos

in the "Transform Your Life Series."

If you haven't checked out the series already,

I'll link it here and down below

so you can watch the whole thing.

So let's start with why gratitude is so powerful

and why it's essentially necessary for a joyful

and abundant life.

So gratitude is living with the mindset

that you are grateful;

you are thankful for everything in your life.

The more that you find to be grateful for,

the more that you will find there is to be grateful for.

It's one of those things, like,

more will create more. (laughs)

Like, the more you focus on it, the more it grows.

So it's not just about learning to say thank you to people

or anything.

It's really like a way of being

where you are thankful for every single thing.

Like, literally as much as you can truly,

honestly, be thankful for, right?

You wake up, I'm thankful for the sun,

I'm thankful for the air I breathe,

or I'm thankful for this food that I get to eat.

I'm thankful for the people

and anything that went into preparing this food

so that I can eat it.

I'm thankful for my life.

I'm thankful for my family, my friends,

the things that I have, the clothes that I wear.

I'm thankful for where I live.

Like, there are so many things to be thankful for

and it really is unlimited.

But living in this way,

where you are practicing gratitude daily

as if it's a mindset, it's a way of being,

that perspective transforms completely

how you feel about yourself and your life

and the environment around you.

Because I think a lot of people live in the opposite states.

A lot of people live in the state of lack and criticism

and come complaining, right?

You might find that you are complaining

about all these things, or you're blaming things

for why you're unhappy with your life.

You're focusing on what's going wrong.

A lot of people tend to focus on

what they don't want in their life.

They're focusing on what's going wrong

instead of focusing on what's going right

or the things that they do want in their life

that they already have in their life.

So all it is is a perspective shift.

Instead of looking at the negative,

you're looking at the positive.

Of course, looking at the positive

doesn't erase the negative, right?

There's obviously things

that you're not completely happy with,

things that could be better.

Things happen, right?

Things exist in your life that are not ideal;

that's totally fine.

You don't have to ignore it.

Gratitude is not about ignoring

or avoiding what you don't like.

It's about appreciating all the things

that you do have in your life that you do like, right?

Things that you can be grateful for.

So simply, I'm grateful for functioning arms,

hands, legs, and feet, right?

Because not everyone has that privilege.

It's finding the things that you already have

that you're grateful for,

and that perspective shift is so powerful.

Okay, so now I'm gonna go into all the different ways,

like the practices and techniques

that you can use to implement gratitude in your everyday

so that you develop a gratitude mindset.

Essentially, we're trying to change the way you look at life

by doing these practices that you can do every single day.

The first practice is daily gratitude journaling.

And this is one of those easiest,

very popular ways to integrate gratitude into your life.

Every day, find some time to journal

just, like, a list of things that you're grateful for.

It could be a short list or a long list.

It's up to you.

I would say try to do at least three to five things

that you're grateful for every single day

and make them different every day.

And with those items that you list,

try to be as specific as possible.

Like, it's easy to be general.

I'm grateful for life, I'm grateful for my family,

but be specific.

What about life?

What about your family?

Like, get detailed because the more detailed you get,

the more you're gonna find things to be grateful for.

And it really feels endless and abundant.

And the goal really is to, like,

have that mindset of gratitude

so that you're attracting abundance,

attracting more abundance,

more of the good that you want in your life.

Practice number two: try going on gratitude walks.

So this is just combining gratitude with walking,

and you're getting some movement, right?

So it's like moving while being present with yourself

and your environment around you.

And as you're walking, you can start to reflect on

what you are grateful for in your life.

It can be something you're grateful for in the environment,

like I'm grateful for nature, the great weather,

or whatever.

Or it could be really reflective,

and you can think about all the areas of life,

all the specific things that you are grateful for.

So the fact that you're integrating multiple things,

movement, mindfulness, gratitude,

I feel like this is a great practice

for anyone who likes to utilize their body.

And, like, I feel like when you move your body,

you get the energy going, you get the blood circulating,

and then you just feel better overall, right?

After physically working out.

But also, like, mentally, emotionally,

like, you're focusing on gratitude, so you feel great.

Practice number three is to try sending gratitude letters

or messages to the people in your life that you really love

or people who have really impacted you in a positive way.

I think it's really rare for people to write kind messages

just out of the blue just because they felt like it, right?

I feel like most people feel like they need a reason to,

but why do you need a reason to say something nice?

Why do you need a reason to thank someone

after how they've helped you?

And I think no matter what,

just the intention of doing this

it already will make someone so happy.

Like, it'll literally make their day.

And it's such an act of kindness and an act of love

to spend some of your energy

and your time to be grateful for a person

for whatever reason that you're grateful for.

So yeah, this is a very beautiful practice to try

because not only does it involve you and how you feel

and shifting your perspective

on how you see the people in your life,

but you're helping someone else shift

into that energy of gratitude as well.

Because when someone receives gratitude, they feel grateful,

and then that gratitude is reciprocated oftentimes,

and that's love, right?

Like, that connection, and it's a beautiful thing.

So don't underestimate writing kind messages of gratitude

to the people who deserve it.

Practice number four is gratitude reframe.

So this is for if you are going through

a challenge in your life or you're meeting some resistance

or something is just difficult, right?

It's not flowing smoothly.

And your natural response would be to get negative,

would be to complain, or get frustrated, or whatever, right?

But a gratitude reframe

is simply to acknowledge the situation

and to find the gratitude in it, right?

Whether it is, "Oh, this challenging situation

is teaching me resilience,

and so I am grateful for that," right?

Like, there's always some silver lining,

there's always some lesson

that can come out of a challenging experience.

I'm not saying ignore the challenge,

or I'm not saying that it's not difficult

or it's not painful, because it is, right?

But there is pain, but there is also, like, the joy,

the lesson, the resilience, the strength,

whatever it is, you can find something good

out of any terrible situation.

And so I think that is, like, really helpful

to help you reframe the experiences of your life,

whether it's looking at something in the past

where you looked at it in a negative light.

Well, what can you be grateful for in that situation?

Yeah, it was shitty,

but what part of it can you be grateful for?

Because it's not completely bad, right?

There's a spectrum of experiences.

I don't even know if you wanna call things good or bad

because it's not black and white that way,

but it's what can you be grateful for?

Or what is this teaching you?

Like, for example,

you can simply look at a difficult situation

and be like, "Thank you for teaching me patience.

Thank you for teaching me strength and resilience.

Thank you for building me into

a stronger version of myself."

I think no matter what,

there's some good that comes out of it.

Something that you can find to be grateful for.

Practice number five is gratitude visualization.

So this is where you take some time to close your eyes

and visualize and feel all the things

that you are grateful for.

And this could be everything

that you're grateful for in the now.

And it can also be everything

that you're grateful for in the future that is coming

and it's on its way to you.

So this is a way to manifest

the future life that you want.

The future you that you wanna bring to the current reality

is to visualize and feel with your body,

that feeling of gratitude for all the things that you have,

all the things that you are so grateful for in your life.

The more you can do this, the faster you kind of attract

those things in your life.

'Cause you'll notice that if you focus on

certain things that you're grateful for,

as you go about life,

you're gonna notice that more in your life.

Like, "Oh, I'm grateful for my friendships.

Oh, they're so supportive and kind and loving."

And then, if you focus on that,

you're gonna go about your life and you're gonna notice,

"Oh, my gosh, like, I do have friends who care about me.

I do have friends who are so kind and supportive."

Like, you start to see more of it

because that's just how our brains are wired.

Like, the more we focus on something

and we make it known that we're aware of it,

the more we see it.

Practice number six: gratitude anchors.

So this is where you pick one moment

or multiple moments from your day,

and when you're doing that thing,

you take a moment to be grateful for something.

So, for example, you can pick brushing my teeth.

So if that's your gratitude anchor,

every time I brush my teeth, I am taking that time

to think of what I'm grateful for.

You can do this at any point of your day,

anything that is recurring

because you want to kind of, like, tack it on.

It's kind of like habit stacking,

like you're picking an activity or a habit,

and then you're stacking the gratitude perspective

and the gratitude practice on top of it.

So it could be while you're making your bed,

it could be before your meals or during your meals.

It could be when you see nature,

then, like, every time I see nature,

I think about what I'm grateful for.

Every time I see a sunset,

I think about what I'm grateful for.

And really, you can do this at any point of your day.

The more you incorporate gratitude into your day,

into your lifestyle, the more that mindset

and perspective is going to be ingrained in you.

And the more of a grateful person you are,

the more beautiful, positive things you're going to attract.

Like, you're literally gonna be a very powerful manifester

the more grateful you are.

I think those two things are directly correlated

because, again, law of attraction

is that like energy attracts like energy.

So if you have the energy of gratitude,

then you're gonna attract more things in your life

for you to be grateful for.

So that's the basic concept.

I shared six practices today

that you can try to integrate gratitude into your life.

Let me know down below in the comments

which practice are you going to try next?

Which one appeals to you?

Which one seems like it's doable or fun?

Let me know down below.

So don't forget that we have this Notion template worksheet

that you can do along with this video

to help you start to try these gratitude practices.

And also, if you haven't seen

the other videos in the "Transform Your Life Series,"

definitely go back to the beginning

and watch through the whole series

because this series is so good.

Literally, we covered all the different angles.

Like, so many angles

on how to transform your life this year.

And honestly, tell me if you watched all the videos;

tell me if you worked on all the exercises

and the worksheets.

I wanna know because I wanna know,

has your life been transforming?

Like, I literally wanna know what are your feedback?

What are your results?

How do you feel about your life right now

after going through these videos and these exercises?

I really hope that it helped.

Let me know down below

what other videos you'd like to see from me.

I think I'm gonna try to do monthly series,

so maybe, like, each month, I'll focus on,

like, videos in a certain theme.

Thanks so much for watching, sending you so much love,

and I will see you in the next one.

Bye.

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