Re-remembering to be Thankful or seeing the Elephant in the Room

These few days leading up to Mabon all this thinking about thanking for the harvest of the world and in our lives was annoying me, for in my personal life I am frustrated by pressing money problems that are paramount in my thoughts.
Thanks to some fellow witches and thanks to listening to a blogtalk radio show about Mabon I realized my short-sightedness. I was focusing on some of the harvest of the Earth, forgetting all the gifts of all the elements including Spirit! 

Duh! I was so stressed that I didn't realize my other blessings! And I have read a few books about thankfulness!

In Air we have the blessings of knowledge, of education, of learning, of imagination and creativity.
With Fire we receive the blessings of courage, of protection, of passion, of sex and of purpose
In Water we find the blessings of love, of compassion, of friendships, and of purification
In Earth we do no only discover financial prosperity, but also health, stability and calm among other things
In Spirit we find the blessings of the Divine, our spiritual growth and prosperity


I also read a quote from Epicurus that gave me food for thought: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

While most of us love to desire what I have not, there's a lot to be said for just sitting back and be thankful and appreciating what we already have. Without wanting things, or experiences or feelings these things would never have been ours, but without thankfulness enjoyment and more things and experience and feelings we want will never be ours.
As stated in another much more recent quote: “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”
 Oprah Winfrey

I am no Buddhist who is just content with things as they are, I am a Witch, and creating is part of my purpose in life, but I realize that a great part of this creation has to do with happiness and contentment as well, and without thankfulness and appreciation we won't be happy in the present which is the time that most matters.

In witchcraft it also makes sense to be thankful, since that's how the Principle of Vibration (renamed the law of attraction) works, by attracting more of the same of what we are feeling. If we want more things we will attract wanting more things and never being satisfied. If we are thankful and appreciative we will attract more things to be thankful for and appreciative of. 

If when wanting more things we feel like we already have them and we feel the feelings we would feel if we already had them then we attract them.

It's all about the feelings in the end. It's useless to say "I am thankful for (insert thing or experience or feeling here)" if we do not feel it in our heart. Words have power, but only when they are backed up by the fuel of our feelings.

How do you feel thankful truly thankful? Re-remember a time when you had received what you wanted and you were thankful for it, or remember a time when you witnessed something amazing like a wonderful sunset or thunderstorm or a particularly moving song or speech and feel the feelings of thankfulness and appreciation you felt. Use these to power up your words and to kindle the fire of thankfulness and appreciation in your heart until it becomes alive and roaring again, until you feel alive and full of happiness and passion again.

There are two books I feel to recommend that have personally helped me in the past : Feel it Real by Denise Coates and  the 15 Minute Miracle by Jacquelyn Aldana. 
The first is about the power of the feelings in your life and what the "law of Attraction" is really about and is chock-full of exercises , and the second is an an amazing exercise in thankfulness and in attracting what you want. You can check them out clicking below. I am so amazed that these two books are not more popular!


Blessed Thankful Mabon everyone!