Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2016 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 19

CONTENTS divinity. These simple tools can provide you clarity and insight into helping shake those disruptions and keep yourself on the path to your higher self. 64 COURAGEOUS LIVING THROUGH THE POWER OF GRATITUDE by Di Riseborough The act and power of adopting an attitude of gratitude has a direct effect on our lives on a physical, spiritual, mental and emotional level. Di Riseborough shares how when her grandmother was “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” OPRAH WINFREY murdered, she came to grips with the emotional turmoil of what had happened. Finding the courage to face her pain and situation opened her heart to a place of gratitude, and ultimately to an experience of divine grace. In finding forgiveness for the man who had murdered her grandmother and holding him in her arms, she experienced awe, gratitude, and unconditional love. Health & Wellness 68 RECLAIMING BODY LOVE: WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR BODY? TRY GRATITUDE by Dr. Mary Pritchard If you don’t have a good relationship with your body, I encourage you to start a daily gratitude practice. Then write your own vow, your own love letter. Read them daily to yourself – preferably out loud, while looking at yourself naked in a mirror, but if that’s too much, just read them to yourself silently, fully clothed, in a place of your choosing. Consistency is more important than the specifics of how it’s done.uses with her clients and that also helped her heal her own body love issues. 19