How to Thank the Universe: The Ultimate Guide

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How to Thank the Universe: Practice Gratitude

The most powerful way to thank the Universe is through gratitude.

Gratitude is the conscious appreciation of the positives in life in the here and now. As we embrace the beauty of the abundance we already have now, gratitude opens us up to receive even more abundance and positivity.

Gratitude is one of the highest frequency vibrations that we can embody within our mind, heart, spirit, and self.

When we are in gratitude, the heart space magnifies an electromagnetic field that is 5000 times stronger than that of the brain.

Learning to understand little nuggets of heart math like this and what dr. Joe Dispenza calls the science of consciousness is a helpful pragmatic aid to ground the ethereal qualities of the spirit and awaken into tangible knowledge.

Beginning to observe gratitude from this tangible space of emitting physical material properties like a heightened electromagnetic field can help us better understand why the frequency and embodiment of gratitude can have such a tremendous impact within ourselves, our lives, and each other’s lives.

If you haven’t read some of Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work, I would highly recommend starting here. He has a marvelous way of helping you connect your consciousness to your physical body so you can better understand yourself as a living breathing vessel of divine consciousness and therefore go do amazing things with this awareness.

In any case, Gratitude is the space we arrive at within our hearts when we acknowledge what is, what has been, and what has not yet been in a moment of awareness.

 Gratitude is the arrival once again at the zero point within your heart center.

 Gratitude is the central state of being that we reset and re-calibrate our awareness unto. It is the space in which we return to as a sense of homecoming. Gratitude is elicited by a form of remembering how we are naturally are wired to be.

Where does Gratitude come from?

Our natural programming, if you will, unfettered by the reality of wakeful awareness and sense of reality is the vibration of gratitude. It is the default program of awareness in which we compound upon, yet often have trouble embodying.

Gratitude emanates from the space of your heart center, however, it among itself is not a place.

Gratitude is a frequency. It is a frequency that passes through each and every single thing including us, and from such sensitive spaces within ourselves, like the heart, we can access it and in a sense electrify our being-ness with this frequency. It is the frequency that is a continuous stream wanting to flow from your heart. It is the closest sensation to knowing who you truly are.

Gratitude among most vibrations requires your conscious acknowledgment in order to fully interact with you. Gratitude will make itself aware to you through your heart; however, you must consciously choose to acknowledge the presence of gratitude to have opportunity for its abundance to flow through you endlessly.

Whether we are aware of this fact or not, each and every single emotion and vibration that we experience and embody is something that we choose and consent on a level often deeper that our standard thought can recognize.

This goes for however you may define and perceive polarities such as good and bad.  You can learn much more about the awareness of perception here. This will help you better understand how we are programmed to perceive people, experiences, emotions, thoughts, and things as compartmentalized fragments of limitations we self-impose on top of our boundless selves.

The truth is…

There is no need to spend time and energy on what you feel is good and bad. But rather, you can greater expand your awareness by observing what feelings you choose to experience, where they arise from, and how you can work with them to create a higher reality for yourself.

Gratitude is a superpower in this sense because of two things.

Firstly, it in a sense is your awareness of your true self. So therefore it is the empowering moment of remembering your potential combined with the effortless being that we deserve to remember in this lifetime.

Secondly, as we consciously choose to acknowledge, embody, and express gratitude we welcome the nature of our being-ness in the state and frequency of gratitude much more often.

In other words, as we choose gratitude consciously we naturally will continue to choose gratitude consciously moving forward. From the moment you truly and deeply acknowledge gratitude and open the door of your heart, gratitude will always find a way to flow to you and ask to flow through you.

Despite how much we may try to repress gratitude, it will always be waiting for us right there behind the thin mystery of the heartspace. Gratitude really leaves us no other choice then to open to it, from time to time or as an embodied lifestyle.

HOW TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE TO THE UNIVERSE

Once you begin to understand how gratitude works within your body, what gratitude is asking for, and how to open to gratitude, how then can we express gratitude?

All gratitude is asking is awareness and collaboration. The funny part is that is feels more like we are collaborating with everything in existence at the same time as collaborating with just ourselves.

This is the magic of gratitude because it reflects how we are perfectly belonging to everything as simply one thing. Remember gratitude is a frequency, not a place, so that which dwells upon the vibration is the vibration itself.

 To express this understanding requires nothing more than our awareness.

 Plain and simple.

To express gratitude is to simply be within gratitude.

There is no special action, no special thought, no special prayer upon which we ought to do in order to express gratitude to the universe. As we embody gratitude, we are expressing gratitude to everything that gratitude is - such as ourselves and the universe and everything inside the universe like the rocks and the flowers and the ladybugs and even the not so pleasant things like thistle and mosquitos, for everything existing within the universe is exactly as it should be in this exact moment.

There is nothing out of place in nature in this moment despite how it may look and feel, and we very much are apart of that. So despite our states of being and the realities than ensue with all the responsibilities and silliness of human nature, we too are exactly where we should be in this exact moment. Such an awareness surely is deserving of gratitude.

So we allow the gratitude to flow through us, to become us as we return to it once more, and we are in the effortless being of expressing gratitude to the universe.

From this vibration, any action or thought will naturally be aligned with grateful and therefore serve as an even deeper expression of gratitude to the universe.

Now remember, gratitude simply requires no more than delight in itself together with you. You don’t have to do anything.

Sometimes we may feel than we we are grateful we must go out and save the world by doing the good work of helping grandma cross the street, and feeding kittens, and so on and so forth. All of these sentiments are beautiful and amazing and you may choose to channel your gratitude into action, but remember, gratitude is the effortless being you experience from being in your heart center.

That alone is enough, always and forever.

Now, as humans, it is exciting and fun to express our gratitude in this life, so here are a few practices you can embody to really ground in your gratitude to create a lifestyle of awareness and effortless being.

Thank you universe affirmations.

Take whatever moment you may whether you currently are choosing to be within gratitude or you are wanting to return to gratitude and observe your reality.

Observe who you are, where you are, and how you are.

Observe what your senses. What are you seeing, what you hearing, what are you feeling, what are you smelling, maybe even what you are tasting?

Observe where you have been and where you are going, in a physical sense, emotional sense, and spiritual sense.

Everything you observe is worth thanking. The smell of salty air upon the wind is something to be thankful for. The feeling of wind upon your face is something to be thankful. The warm drink you started your day off with is something to be thankful for.

 Now practice grounding your gratitude and thankfulness through affirmations.

 You can address the affirmation to the universe, to yourself, or to the “itself.”

 The key is get very simple and subtle as much as grandiose and broad.

This can look like,

“Thank you universe for this moment, I am grateful.”

Thank you universe for my awareness, I am grateful.”

Thank you universe for the delicious piece of pizza that really made me feel warm, loved, and understood in that moment today, I am grateful.”

Thank you universe that I can see clouds in the sky today, I am grateful.”

Now, it doesn’t have to be as rigid of a structure as this, but it does provide a good template where you don’t need to think at all about how to format your  thoughts and feelings, its just more of a plug and chug method to get your gratitude flowing.

You can spice it up as much you want, the universe doesn’t care what you say, all that matters is the way you express and what energy is inside the expression. I personally like to weird and whacky because that’s kinda just who I am. For example,

 “Universe, I really appreciate that rock you placed right in front of me. It made me really grateful to express my voice in such a loud sensation that I don’t often experience. Im grateful that you always know how to get the best out of me. Yeehaw, goodnight.”

Keep saying as many affirmations until you arrive at space where you either recognize you can go on and on forever or until you arrive at silence. Say any thank you affirmations at any point and just develop a sense of open communication between you, gratitude, and the universe.

Truthfully, there comes a point when you realize that those three are all the same but that’s beside the point.

Thank you message to the universe.

 The universe wants to communicate to you through specific vibrations like gratitude, so naturally the universe will create experiences and moments for your awareness to acknowledge the universe and download the message via the frequency.

You can learn more about how to listen to the universe and divine source here to help you better become aware of the symphony of communication that is happening all around you and within you to help you become your highest self.

So, if the universe is constantly sending US messages, why cant we send messages back.

A message to the universe can be your gratitude spoken out load to the wind, guided by asking the wind to take these words back to source.

 Or it could look like you seeing a bird and thinking of a phrase to attach to that little birds wing and envisioning yourself tying that little message to the bird.

The universe doesn’t work in the sense of it only receiving the message if the bird flies far far away and out of sight to make it directly to source to where then an only then the message is delivered. No. It doesn’t quite matter where the bird goes, because the universe only cares about the expression and the energy inside the expression.

All the little things we do in order to help ourselves express and to be in positive energy is simply the theatrics we like to delight in as humans that do actually help us get to that energy and expression although is not required by universal law. Rituals and ceremonies are simply spaces we create energetically to guide us deeper into the energy and the expression that we wish to create within ourselves and to offer to the universe.

On Earth, we aren’t always in our highest vibration so ceremony is way we help ourselves get back there and to create healing and growth and awareness. Im sure there’s other worlds out there that don’t use these expressions because the beings are simply naturally always in that intimate communion with self and universe, but that’s besides the point.

But speaking of ceremonies, another great way to send a thank you message to the universe is by physically creating a ceremonial moment in space.

I am a fan of fire and burning things as a means of sending them on their way, so a great way to send a message to universe is to write universe a heartfelt thank you letter and offer it to her by burning it in fire.

You can take a less flame induced approach and utilize other elements such as earth, or water. You can bury your little message in a special little spot or you give your message to a body of water like a creek or the ocean. In the latter, maybe don’t make a habit of doing it with thousands of people each and every day, that might start to pollute up your body of water a little bit.

How to thank the universe for manifestations.

 I will go deeper into this in a separate blog post, but for the time being we can talk briefly about thanking the universe for collaborating on our manifestations.

 I especially love the idea of gratitude when it comes to manifestation because when our manifestations ground into reality it is nothing short of magic, and magic that we are made of that we can use and embody at any moment in our reality.

Saying thank you to the universe for helping create your manifestations is like slow dancing with magic… where do you even begin to discuss it?

 Our manifestations are our love songs to earth.

They are substance of creating from the heart center in this life.

Your manifestations become reality through the you proving to the universe that you have arrived at the vibration of what you what to bring into this world through your manifestation. Your manifestation grounding into reality is the universe saying, “Well done! I support you in creating this.”

In this light, the universe is so generous how can we ever say thank you?

Well the best way to say thank you is dive into what you’ve created and have been offered by the universe and continue to grow with your manifestation. All the universe asks is that you honor the path you have chosen and proposed to universe until your next manifestation is deserving of your frequency.

Manifestation are the stepping stones our vibration rising. Each one is a moment in space and time that celebrates your awareness and vibration in that exact moment.

To say thank you to the universe for your manifestations is to ground the gifts of what you manifested and get to work on them.

Earth is a project. This is a space where you undergo tremendous transformation and growth. Every manifestation you bring into reality the universe is your opportunity to create transformation and growth for yourself, first and foremost, in order to utilize that manifestation to help others out on their journey via your soul mission.

To dive deeper into unraveling the mystery of your soul mission and expressing you creativity to the fullest, check out this blog post.

By getting your hands dirty and your heart forward into your manifestation project, you are thanking the universe with action. This is a form of expressing gratitude in the most high, because your manifestations are only provided for when you align to a higher purpose beyond yourself to create new earth, and therefore, your action and involvement in your manifestation shows to universe, “ Thank You! Let’s do this, I am ready!”

That is the sweetest sensation of gratitude you can express to the universe.

Living with Gratitude.  A gratitude prayer to the universe.

When you are dwelling upon the frequency of gratitude, you are in the substance of effortless being. From this nature being, you are aligning more and more clearly with your true self, your true presence, your highest self.

 Gratitude transforms your life into a living prayer to the universe. Your gratitude prayer to the universe becomes the light in which you live.

 Here you simply are. You are aware of yourself as you are aware of the gratitude passing through you. You know that this gratitude is not yours, nor owned by anyone, so you begin to share it freely others and channel through the heart’s of others simply be being as you are.

 This is the power of your life as a gratitude prayer to the universe.

 Life becomes a prayer carrying the highest frequency of gratitude straight to source, and straight back to you, through you, and for you.