Does the World Need more Gratitude for Sustainability?
Absolutely. The world can always use more gratitude.
These are, I believe, the three most powerful phrases anyone can employ:
- I am
- I love you
- Thank you
All three are empowering. Each of them is an ultimate generator of conscious reality creation. And all three can create positivity and good feelings both for you as the speaker and those who you share them with.
Whatever follows I am generates incredible manifestation power. Said with conviction, I am can make or break you. I am amazing creates your reality in exactly the same way I am worthless does. And from that statement, your interactions with other people – and how they react to you – gets created, too.
I love you tends to get overloaded, misdirected, and thus misunderstood. But love is the most powerful force in the Universe. Love is far deeper than romance or interpersonal relationships in general. It is the rain on the grass, the bees pollinating flowers, the sun rising and setting every single day. When you express love with I love you – inside or outside – it’s an amazing manifester of your life experience.
When you say thank you and express gratitude – real, genuine, sincere gratitude – you empower. This is not just about that which you are giving thanks to or for – but yourself.
Being grateful and stating that gratitude builds bridges within and without. Gratitude, and thank you, is the ultimate tool of empowerment.
I cannot overstate just how powerful saying thank you and being grateful can be.
Thank you is a two-way street
When you do something for someone – big or small – how does it feel to get told “thank you” for the action?
Have you ever watched someone else’s face light up because you thanked them? Gained cooperation and a better relationship with someone because you thanked them?
Giving gratitude is just as powerful as getting it. And there is no other force in the entire Universe that has such power. This is why thank you is one of the three most powerful phrases you can employ.
Genuine, real, thought and feeling gratitude is always positive. ALWAYS. I think it might be the only thing in the Universe that is not negative.
That’s not to say you can’t turn it into a negative. Sarcastic thanks, saying the words without emotion, and begrudging gratitude is not positive at all. Used in that way, they’re not meant to be positive. Being disingenuous in your use of gratitude or giving untrue, faux thanks will disempower you in lots of terrible ways.
Look at some of the most powerful people on Earth. I am not going to name names here, but you can tell which are grateful and express genuine gratitude regularly – and which are not and don’t. Those who strive to lift others up tend to work with thanks and give as much as they receive. Meanwhile, those who tear down and work selfishly only take, give nothing of real value, and tend to damn with faint praise at best. They might generate cult followings – but the foundation they are built upon will ultimately crumble from beneath them.
In other words – gratitude both given and received builds sustainability. Working without thanks is unsustainable.
The sustainability of gratitude
Why do you think so many businesses are having issues getting and retaining workers? Lack of gratitude. That’s reflected in lousy working conditions, an imbalance of work/life, crap pay, insufficient or no benefits, and treating employees like dirt beneath their feet or worse.
This is also reflected in a corporate culture that puts shareholders ahead of consumers. When you make a product or offer a service – but only see those you make them for as numbers rather than the people behind them – you lack thankfulness. And in time, those people will come to see that – and stop patronizing you.
That’s why all these places where giving thanks and being grateful are neglected are unsustainable. Because, ultimately, when you don’t give gratitude, you don’t get it, either.
How do you feel when you call customer service and get treated like you are a problem? No thanks for buying their product or service – just a complainer who they couldn’t care less is having some issue or other? I’m going to presume you feel lousy.
How likely are you to buy from them again if they treat you that way? I’m certain the answer is not very.
Conversely, how do you feel when you call customer service and are treated with respect? They thank you for buying the product or service – and take your concern or issue seriously, striving to fix whatever issue you are having? You probably feel thankful for them being grateful for you and showing it.
How likely are you to buy from them again if they treat you that way? I’m certain the answer is very.
That is the sustainability of gratitude.
Give to get
When you give thanks, you get thanks.
It doesn’t matter if you give thanks for a person, place, thing, or whatever. Tangible or intangible, gratitude empowers. When you give more, you get more.
Genuine, real, thought and feeling thankfulness is not just a tool of positivity. It’s a tool of ultimate empowerment. You feel just as powerful and content giving it as receiving it.
If your life is lacking in some way, focusing on that lack disempowers you. Gratitude for what you do have – rather than lamenting what you don’t – opens the door to empower you to get more and better. Give thanks, get thanks.
And most of the time – gratitude costs you nothing. It is an act of kindness, compassion, and empathy that empowers when genuine.
That is why gratitude is the key to the sustainability of anything and everything material and immaterial in the world. Give it to get it and empower both yourself and those around you.
Be mindful and grateful, offer it as often as you can. This employs one of the three most powerful phrases you have available to you to build a more sustainable, widely empowered, and more content, better for all world.
Think globally, act locally. Be grateful for anything and everything that you can.
Thank you. Merci. Danke. Gracias. Dyakuyu.
Recognizing the sustainability of gratitude isn’t hard
It’s all about working with mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions.
When you say thank you, it empowers both you and who or whatever you are thanking. Knowing that genuine, real, thought and feeling thanks is a source of empowerment both given and received, you can employ thank you and gratitude to positively expand your life experience. That empowers me – and it can empower you, too. We can make use of this to stay more neutral subconsciously, while consciously choosing things leaning towards the positive end of life’s extremes.
Taking an approach to positivity and negativity – from the vast space that exists between them – shifts the concept in a way to open more dialogue. In that form, we can explore and share where we are between those extremes and how that impacts us here and now.
Lastly, I believe the better aware we are of ourselves in the now, the more we can do to choose and decide how our life experience will be. If that empowers us, it can also open those around us to their own empowerment. And that is, to me, a worthwhile endeavor to explore and share.
Thank you for coming along on this ride with me.
This is the four hundred and twenty-ninth entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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