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There are practices that hold you,
and practices that transform you.
Gratitude does both.
But no one tells you that gratitude also aches.
That being grateful means looking at your story —unfiltered, unedited—
and choosing to open your heart where you once closed it.
It’s the moment you stop fighting your past
and realize that every chapter —the soft ones and the sharp ones—
shaped the person you are today.
There are things you’re grateful for because they went well,
and things you’re grateful for because they changed you…
even if they hurt, even if you didn’t understand them at the time,
even if they broke you open.
It took me a long time to understand this.
For years I only thanked the “acceptable” things:
the achievements, the good moments, the expected blessings.
But not the heavy parts.
Not the confusing ones.
Not the moments that cracked me open from the inside.
There were experiences that bent me in ways no one saw.
Moments that felt too big for my age,
too intense for my emotional capacity,
too abrupt for the stability I thought I had.
In those seasons nothing made sense.
It just hurt.
It felt heavy.
It shattered pieces of me I thought would never return.
But life has a very specific way of teaching:
first it breaks,
then it reveals.
Over time I realized that those very experiences
—the ones I would’ve never chosen—
were the ones that expanded my heart, my resilience, my awareness.
I understood this more deeply when I read
Your Soul’s Plan by Robert Schwartz.
He suggests that the most difficult experiences
are part of a deeper agreement:
that our soul chooses them before we’re born
as opportunities for growth, expansion,
and a refinement of self-love.
I don’t know if it’s literally true,
but I do know this:
when I began seeing my life through that lens,
everything rearranged itself.
And I could finally thank what once only hurt.
The question “Why did this happen to me?”
became
“What awakened in me because of this?”
Science now studies what spirituality intuited long ago:
Gratitude changes your electromagnetic field.
It literally shifts your frequency.
It changes your biology, your energy, your reality.
The HeartMath Institute found that when you practice gratitude,
the heart enters coherence —
a measurable state where
– your heart rhythm becomes more stable
– your heart rate variability increases
– your electromagnetic field becomes wider, clearer, more harmonious
– and the heart’s field can expand up to 3 meters around your body
That field shapes how you perceive the world
and how the world perceives you.
Joe Dispenza explains it simply:
“An elevated thought + an elevated emotion = a new energetic state.”
And gratitude is the emotion with the highest frequency.
Neuroscience agrees.
Harvard, UCLA, and Andrew Huberman’s lab show that gratitude:
– activates dopamine pathways → more motivation
– boosts serotonin → emotional wellbeing
– quiets the amygdala → less fear, less threat
– expands the prefrontal cortex → clarity and regulation
– builds neuroplasticity → new ways of perceiving
Huberman says it clearly:
“Every time you practice gratitude, you train your brain to notice more possibilities.”
Gratitude rewires your neural pathways.
It makes you capable of seeing blessings
where before you only saw lack.
Sustained gratitude = a more flexible, receptive, abundant brain.
What fascinates me most is this:
gratitude doesn’t just change how you think —
it changes how you vibrate.
Quantum physics calls it resonance:
you attract what you match.
Psychology calls it positive orientation:
your brain scans for what you appreciate.
Spirituality calls it abundance:
the energy you send out is the energy you receive.
Yoga calls it Santosha:
the inner contentment that doesn’t depend on anything outside you.
Patanjali wrote that Santosha “purifies perception.”
You see life from a higher place,
with more openness and less resistance.
And as Mark Nepo says:
“Gratitude is the most humble way to honor life.”
Joe Dispenza adds:
“When you’re grateful for a future that hasn’t arrived yet,
you’re teaching your body to believe in a reality not yet seen.”
And energy responds.
Your frequency becomes magnetic.
What you embody, you attract.
What you thank, expands.
For me, gratitude became a compass —
the way back to myself
when my mind got lost in everything that wasn’t working
or everything that didn’t go the way I hoped.
There were experiences that only revealed their purpose
when I stopped resisting
and finally chose to give thanks.
Being grateful for the beautiful things is easy.
Being grateful for what broke you…
that’s a different practice.
It lives in thanking
what you didn’t understand,
what hurt,
what transformed you without asking for permission.
Thanking what holds you today
even if yesterday it shook you.
That’s when I learned that gratitude requires courage.
Courage to look at your story without shame.
Courage to accept that many things you didn’t understand
were shaping you from the inside.
Courage to thank the versions of you
who acted from fear —
because they were just trying to keep you safe.
Today I’m grateful for things I once wished had never happened.
For moments that felt unfair
because they made me more human, more awake, more grounded.
I’m grateful to every decision —all of them—
for bringing me right here.
To every version of me that did the best she could
with the awareness she had.
And I’m grateful for who I’ve become
because of all of it.
Gratitude is a return.
An expansion.
A vibrational alignment.
A neurological training that prepares you
to receive more,
to perceive more,
to hold more,
to become more.
Life changes when you understand this:
What you thank, expands.
What you thank, returns.
What you thank, elevates you.
Gratitude doesn’t erase your story —
it illuminates it.
It gives it meaning.
It gives it place.
And when your gratitude comes from the body,
from your energy,
from your awareness,
you don’t just change what you see:
You change what you attract.
You change what you create.
You change you.
Krishnamacharya taught
that the purpose of practice is “to refine the way you see life.”
Gratitude does exactly that.
It sharpens your vision.
It lifts your energy.
It steadies your nervous system.
It opens your heart.
It returns you to yourself.
Because abundance doesn’t come from outside —
you train it from within.
Gratitude is the portal.
Frequency is the key.
It always was.
It always will be.
Gratitude doesn’t change what happened,
but it changes what you can build from here.
It doesn’t change the world,
but it transforms the way you inhabit it.
And that changes everything.
