Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2016 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 58
your resolve. Ultimately, it’s a small shift in
perception. Gratitude is about appreciating
your self during a challenge. You recognize
that you are utilizing your power of choice
to empower yourself through difficult times.
Gratitude does not necessarily mean
that you feel thankful for someone else’s
behavior, which may have been harmful.
However, you can be grateful for how you
held up and responded in the situation.
“Between stimulus and
response, there is a space.
In that space lies our
freedom and power to
choose our response. In our
response lies our growth
and freedom.”
– VICTOR FRANKL
This year was the most difficult time I have
experienced in my life. I was in the process
of ending my marriage. In the whirlwind
of pain and confusion, I was able to find
gratitude. I had set a powerful intention on
how I wanted to conduct myself through
the process although it was gut wrenching.
I wanted to be able to look back on it and
know I did everything I could and that I did it
with love. Today I am so grateful that I could
look beyond my own ego and the wounds
I felt so as to bring the situation to closure
with grace. I did have to advocate for myself
but I did it as a self-loving woman and not as
some enraged betrayed and wounded soul.
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In challenging times, you can choose to
react or you can choose to respond. When
you react your turning your power over to
the other party and your behavior is usually
heated, not well planned and ultimately a low
vibration. If you choose to respond you have
taken time to think about what you want to
do. You’ve prepared yourself emotionally
and you are in a higher vibration. When
you respond you’re staying in your feminine
power. When you react your standing in your
masculine energy, which is more combative
and aggressive. Therefore, what you will
get back is also combative and aggressive.
Imagine pushing against a wall and you are
pushing really, really hard. What does that
feel like to your body? It’s exhausting and
reacting does the exact same thing to you
physically. It drains you of your good energy.
It attacks you mentally and emotionally.
When you’re in a lower vibration, it will be
impossible to see a higher purpose to a
situation and to develop gratitude which is
so healing.
Here are three powerful but easy steps you
can utilize to connect you with gratitude.
Emotional Freedom
Technique:
There has been so much conversation
the last few years regarding the Emotional
Freedom Technique. What you do is tap on
specified points on your wrist, head, face
and body to shift your emotional state. I must
admit I wasn’t a strong believer until I tried
it and worked with the technique for several
days. It is so easy to do and you script your
own statements that you utilize through the
process. There are several great resources
to help you with this. Go to YouTube and
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