Gratitude

The expression of gratitude releases a power in our life.

Gratitude opens the door to letting ourselves receive the blessings that surround us, right here, right now. Gratitude is an antidote to worry. It works on subtle energetic levels to invite into our life what we greet with gratitude.

Expressing our gratitude, turning our attention to all we already have for which to be grateful for opens our minds and our hearts to releasing joy in our life.”
– Genevieve Gerard

For just the next minute, the next 60 seconds of your life, see how many things you can find for which you are grateful and express that gratitude. It could be as simple as the cool caress of the air on your skin as the wind stirs, or the easy availability of clean water at your fingertips. It could be for the food that is available to you for today, or the rich smell of your coffee.

What you are grateful for need not be big or important. What is important is that you touch within your heat and within your mind the feelings of gratitude and appreciation. You might wish to make a list to just brainstorm as many things as you can find in your life that bless your life.

Time your minute and begin now. . .

You might notice how much more peaceful and calm you feel. You might notice a joyful fullness in your heart. You might notice how very full and blessed you are in your life and add that to your list of “Little Gratitude’s”.

As you go through your day be aware of the abundance of blessings that fill your life. Celebrate and give thanks for the abundance that is already yours.

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The Power to Forgive

Genevieve Gerard

Unlocking
The Power to Forgive

Deep within the recesses of the human heart, at a point of complete and utter peace, exists a power that has within it the essence of transformation that can heal the world.

Take a moment to open your heart and receive this power. It is the power to forgive. By being open to forgiveness, by being willing to give forgiveness, you become a participant in an active role that can transform the world.

The Divine Love that can flow through your life and flow into your life when you open yourself to the power to forgive is life changing. By opening yourself to forgiveness you create a place of peace deep within you that provides a fertile womb for a kind of love to grow that is so amazing, so Divine, so awe-inspiring that you may wonder how you ever lived without it.

To touch the magnitude of forgiveness and to share it with everyone who longs for it and needs forgiveness is to wield a magic wand of transformation that touches everyone everywhere.

The mystery of this power, the magic contained in the power of forgiveness was revealed as a hint in the healing miracles of Jesus when he used the phrase “Your sins are forgiven.” Luke 5:17

Who among us does not long in the secret sorrow of our heart to hear the words “your sins are forgiven”. We all harbor within us a longing to know and truly believe that our past mistakes, our past sins can be forgiven. There is little in life that is as healing and restorative as forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a double blessing because it blesses both he who receives it and him who gives it. Grace is the cloak that garbs forgiveness.

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.”
– Genevieve Gerard

The power, the peace and the transformation that is ours when we unlock the power of forgiveness is so profound and changes our life so completely that the real mystery is why we would ever choose to not forgive or fail to fully embrace being forgiven.

There is no sorrow that forgiveness cannot heal. There is no separation that forgiveness cannot bridge. Forgiveness is not earned. It is received by love through Grace. It is the most profound and most powerful of all spiritual gifts.

By unlocking the power to forgive you are bringing the power of God into your hands. You are demonstrating your unity with God and you are rewarded with a peace so tangible, so deep, that is passes understanding.

In quiet, in reflection, in meditation review those you could forgive and whatever you need to be forgiven. Call upon the Light of your Soul and in gratitude and joy let yourself accept the forgiveness that is available to you and give the forgiveness that is accessible to you.

Then go forth in life with a new opportunity to live the life you were meant to live in joy, in celebration of love for yourself and your fellow man.

Namaste

About the author: Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of the soul.” Browse her body of work at www.GenevieveGerard.com. Copyright © 2012-2018 by Genevieve Gerard. All rights reserved.

For more writings on forgiveness please go to my website and read my other posts on the importance of forgiveness.

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Counting Our Blessings

Genevieve Gerard

Counting Our Blessings

Calm your Mind, Open Your Heart, Invite the Light.

No matter what challenges we face in life, blessings surround us. Let us focus our mind and emotions on those blessings.

By expressing our gratitude we enrich our life and enhance the flow of abundance and joy.

As we experience Thanksgiving Day in the USA, this is a little exercise to help us be in touch with and appreciate the many blessings we have in our life.

This technique is to be approached in contact with our Higher Self from the unity between our personality and Soul.

Begin by taking a deep breath, breathing in the energy of Life and abundance. As you exhale, consciously release stress and fear.

Take a moment to let yourself appreciate the beauty of the world around you.

Take another deep breath, charging your energy with the life all around you. Again, as you exhale, consciously release any anxiety, any fear, and any stress. Let your energy come to a quiet, receptive center.

In a meditative open state of being, consider the world around you.

Take 3 minutes, to ponder upon 10 ways that your life is enriched and enhanced by little blessings and joys that do not require money to experience.

As you look over your list, express your heartfelt gratitude for these little blessings that are in your life. Let gratitude flow out from your heart. Be aware of the feelings of joy that accompany your expression of gratitude.

Claim the joy and celebration these blessing give to your life as your birthright.

Next, focus your attention on the people in your life for 3 minutes.

List 10 people for whom you are grateful in your life. Focus upon how these people have helped you grow and become who you are today.

Imagine a connection of energy from your heart to theirs, and from your Soul to theirs.

Allow gratitude to flow freely from your heart to theirs and from your Soul to theirs, knowing and trusting that your gratitude and love are experienced on a subtle energetic level.

Know and trust that as energy follows thought the gratitude you send out with your thoughts is received as a blessing in their life on a subtle, energetic level.

Last, spend 3 minutes pondering 10 ways in which you can be more of a blessing in the lives of others.

Imagine how blessing and enriching the lives of others can bring greater joy and celebration to your life. Be grateful that you are able to give these little blessings to others as a way of celebrating you abundance and joy. These little blessings do not require money. They may be a kindness or deed, a little courtesy that helps lighten the load of others who journey with you through life.

Then resolve to act upon those deeds over the next week as a celebration and affirmation of your blessings, received and passed on.

Resolve to live your life, aware of the many blessings that surround you.”

Finally draw into your heart the joy of giving and the joy of receiving and for the last minute of this exercise imagine gratitude pouring forth from you into the world, blessing you and blessing others along its way.

Sit quietly before you return to the chatter of the world around you allowing all that your have realized and touched in this exercise to permeate your being, on this Thanksgiving Day.

Namaste’

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Power of Intention

Genevieve Gerard

The Power of Intention

Within your mind and within your personal will, lies the power of intention. Intention is a key to transforming your life. Most of us have clearly and powerfully expressed a desire, only to find unexpected opportunities open up before us to bring us exactly what we desired. It may come through an unexpected random meeting with someone. It could come, as a thought to re-connect with an old friend, who knows a person who has a need for someone to do the exact work you want. It could manifest as making a “wrong turn” to find a sale, on exactly the item you need but thought out of reach. The details are unimportant.

What is important is that when these strange events of synchronicity occur in your life, you recognize them as the power of intention at work. By understanding this power and beginning to harness it, by disciplining your mind to use it to benefit your life and the lives of others, you start to understand a very important life principle that energy follows thought, and “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

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The Community Transformation Blog

Genevieve Gerard

Transformational Stories From Our Readers

Please use this blog as a place to share your insights and transformations. Although I want this blog to be about your experience and journey – if there is some specific meditation, idea, or product you found here that helped you create a transformation in your life, please share specifically what worked for you, so that others can find their way to it. Your growth and your journey can be an inspiration to others.

Every step upon the path is important. Each event on our journey offers its own challenges and its own blessings. Everyone has the potential to teach us something. The slightest insight or understanding can lighten the burden for others. We are all in the adventure of life together and, more alike than different. This blog site is being offered to provide the opportunity for what you are learning in life to be a beacon of light to others. Please share what you have found to be most helpful, so others may find their way to it. This section of the website is devoted to giving you the chance to share your growth with others on the path. It is my hope that this blog becomes a way you can connect and share, as we all light the way for one another.

Disclaimer: The purpose of this blog is to be of service to one another along the way. I ask that you be guided by the principles of right-speech and harmlessness in your posts. I reserve the right to remove any posts that seem to violate these principles.

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