How thank you can change your life

Seeing the gratitude in everything can change your world around.

And giving thanks where it's due can change someones else's life around too.

However small a deed, a thank you, a gift or a smile, small tokens of love, acceptance and gratitude can mean the world.

And the best time to offer up these small helpings of thanks are now.

Not tomorrow when something more important takes it place, not when you next get time to pick up the phone, the courage, the words.
Not even when it's a socially acceptable time to pop round.

The power of the word thank you can heal broken hearts, boost co-workers appreciation and make you feel light and gracious.

It can help someone let go on their journey of life, knowing that they were loved, heard and honoured.

The gift of thank you mends bridges previously torn down by the floodgates of taking for granted. Thank you opens your heart and whispers love notes from your energy field to another.

Thank you takes the plaster off and kisses the wound.

Rebuilding neural connections, completely rewiring our brains thought patterns takes time, but putting gratitude into our daily life will recondition and tone our neural networks. Establishing new beliefs takes time, about thirty days it's believed ...

When crises looms and chaos reigns, when your world turns inside out and wrings you dry, that's the time to look for the small mercies, the little parcels of light, that when unwrapped, burst forth into pinpricks of hope and merge into a blanket of warmth and comfort.

I give thanks to my children for coming into my life when I kiss them into their dreams, I give thanks to the challenges that greet me during the day, for the messages of moving forward in my life. I give thanks to the difficulties in my past, let them go and learn from the lessons. I give thanks to a cashier packing my bags, a stranger smiling at me in the street, my beloved for working. I give thanks to the loggers who took down all the trees in a scared space, for clearing the path of danger and the new beginnings that will come forward. I give thanks to the sun drying us out, giving us life. I give thanks to the bellbird gifting me with it's song, for the children's laughter, love and courage. I give thanks to my mum, my family, my life.

I give thanks to me.

And I feel happy finding the little things. They stitch themselves together and blow away the clouds of grey. The dark days that overbear our hearts, weigh down our souls, don't need much to evaporate into skies of gold.

• When waking, before you throw the covers off your sleeping chamber, give thanks for your day and what it will bring. I love to thank the light, the warmth of my duvet, the love of my children who wake me with messages of adoration and starvation. I thank the firewood for keeping me warm and the activities in the day that will create opportunities for growth.

• Giving thanks over our food for the cook, the growers, the worms transforming the soil, the bees for pollinating the flowers, the shopkeeper, the transporter or even just great things that happened in your day can lift the worse days in memory up a notch, letting the light at the end of the tunnel shine through, transforming and healing your darkest thoughts.

• Thank you notes attached to well used areas of your workplace or home are great reminders. I have a sticker on my computer that asks me at every moment of distraction, what am I grateful for? The kitchen sink gives thanks for the water that flows freely from the taps and the alkaliser jug gives thanks for the health racing through my body. The night lamp by my bed gives thanks for the well deserved rest in dream land and the thank you note on the dashboard of my car gives thanks for the safe journey.

• Little cards kept in a drawer next to a box of stamps and a pen are perfect for when a quick note of hand written appreciation can be sent. There and then. Not tomorrow when you have time. Think it, write it, send it.

• A journal listing everything that you're grateful for at the end of a day is a gift of beauty in darker days.

• My children gift me the most precious stones, wild flowers and feathers in love and gratitude. I love to collect small items of wonder, sea shells, driftwood, rosebuds, unused nests and keep them on display until a time when they can be passed on as a token of gratitude.

• Smiling at a stranger, offering up a thank you to someone who troubles you, gifting a book with a bookmark of thank yous are other small ways to make someone else's day.

• When my beloved and I received our NZ residency, we personally delivered the biggest bunch of peonies to our immigration officer. The astonished smile that radiated from her was more than we could have ever asked for.

• Silent gratitude, being detached from the benefits of gratitude, is a path to inner liberation. Cleaning a friends home, delivering them a pre-prepared meal or dropping off an anonymous gift without the praise or recognition of the blessing can lift your joy higher.

• Hand held moments in the form of hugs, time to talk with little post it notes of acknowledgment allow moments of intimacy overflowing with gratitude to form bonds, raise your vibration and start seeing the best outa life.

• And when tucking yourself into your night dreams, giving thanks to everything that came your way will cast a hazy glow of light over your sleep, gifting you with a rest-full rejuvenation, sweet dreams and a key to unlock the door for a great tomorrow.

Giving thanks, blessing others will bring exactly what you want to experience into your life, saving your days for joy and harmony. By affirming gratitude in our lives and being thank-full for everything we let in, the more we will receive.