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Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms

Jen is Zen - Gratitude is Magic

January 15, 2025 • Jennifer Brubaker • Episode 177

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Thank you so much for being here! What’s the life that you want? If you suspend your disbelief and you take away the doubts and the excuses and narratives in your head telling you otherwise, what is the life that you want?

Now, if you were given that life right now, how would you feel? What would you do? How grateful would you be for that life?

And the hardest question of all – are you that grateful for your life now?

You can probably see a theme with me lately - I am emersed in gratitude as I'm reading the book "The Magic" by Rhonda Byrne. In the book, she says “Gratitude is something you must have before you receive , not simply something you feel after something good happens.” And I just love that. It’s really to feel gratitude when we receive what we want, but in order to even set ourselves up to receive it, we need to be thankful for what we already have.

It's basic law of attraction – manifestation. Envision what you want – and how you would feel having it – that gratitude. And the easiest way to do that is to feel that gratitude right now – gratitude for what you do have. Gratitude attracts gratitude. Like attracts like - Manifesting - Law of attraction.

Can you feel that gratitude for what you have now to attract what you want?

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