Gratitude goes hand in hand with manifestation.

Feeling grateful truly is the first step towards seeing your desires materialize before you.

Gratefulness is not about grovelling to the Universe or pretending you are happy with what you have when you really hate your life!

Gratitude is about a present moment of high vibrational emotion. It’s a grounding, calming high-frequency emotion that centers you in the feeling of contentment for the things that are going well in your life.

When you genuinely feel gratitude for things in your life, be they events, people, parts of your own personality, the sun shining that day, whatever it may be – you resonate on a high level, which raises your energetic vibration and brings you into alignment with your desires.

In that way, you can use gratitude to boost your manifestations!

Gratitude is a present tense emotion. When you feel gratitude you are experiencing happiness in the present moment, and the Universe responds to that.

What’s even more helpful is if you can truly feel that gratitude physically in your body. The vibration of happiness that comes about from gratitude can actually lift your spirits, change your mood, and even affect you at a physiological level.

Dr Joe Dispenza says that you can teach your body chemically what your mind has understood already. When you experience your emotions physically in your body you condition your body over time to work in harmony with your mind.

When you do that repeatedly, through meditation, visualization or a gratitude journal, you change your reality, and you make this feeling innate to you. Combining a clear intention for your future with this strong emotion of gratitude draws that desired future into your life.

How does it work?

Start being grateful for the things you already have by looking for the good in everything that happens to you.

When you feel gratitude for something, let’s say a gift that someone has just given you or a situation that has occurred in your favor – you feel the sensation of appreciation and joy. Those positive feelings are occurring in the present.

What that gives off to the Universe is a very powerful vibration of happiness and appreciation in the NOW.

Let’s say you are hoping to find your life partner. If you can already create in your mind a feeling of gratitude for finding that love and friendship right now, you are evoking the same vibration as if it were already happening to you. When you do that, and the emotion is strong and you repeat it regularly, you will magnetize to you that life partner. The best way to do this is through meditation and visualization on a regular basis.

If you can reach a point during your visualization where you truly feel those sensations of gratitude for what you desire occurring, you will be vibrating at that frequency.

The best thing to do is to practice this often and try to remain in the emotional state for as long as possible after completing meditation or visualization.

The aim is really to finish your meditation with the feeling as though this has already happened. NOW, this does not mean that you are acting delusional! You are not supposed to be walking around telling people you have met someone you haven’t met yet.

It means that you feel the happiness of that emotion and carry it with you into your day. When you do this repeatedly you begin to cultivate a deep sense of knowing that your desire already exists and is making its way to you.

In fact, what actually happens is that when you already feel grateful for things that seemingly haven’t arrived (but to you it feels as though they already exist) you no longer experience a feeling of waiting for or searching for something you do not have. When you are not waiting or searching you are not giving off the vibration of “this hasn’t arrived yet” or lack.

You are vibrating at a frequency of already having it and the Law of Attraction will see to it that it comes.

Often when people reach this state of knowing their desires are coming, they no longer expend energy into wanting and waiting and hoping for things, they become more content with their present moment lives – and it becomes less important that they receive these desires (which ironically makes them come faster!).

So to recap:

1. Cultivate the strong emotion of gratitude as often as possible.
2. Start with things you already have experienced and move on to feeling sincere gratitude for the things yet to come.
3. Repeat and conjure these feelings often in your mind and feel them in your body when you meditate and visualize.
4. Watch your life transform!

Practice gratitude and take your manifesting to the next level!