I am here to tell you, remind you and activate that part within in you and me, to remember, know and act in love. As humans, we stray in our thoughts, words and actions. It is part of the duality of living on Mother Earth. As we return back to ourselves and remember to vibrate love in our thoughts, words and actions, we then are able to create only joy, happiness, health, wealth, personal fulfillment, spiritual realization and more.

In order to accomplish this, let us take the time to meditate and pray. How does one meditate? Stop. Breathe. Listen to and observe your breath. Try it right now. Breath in and breath out. Watch your breath and observe what it feels like to bring your breath into your body and what it feels like to breathe out of your body. As you do this for a while, you may find you get distracted. If you start thinking of other things, make a conscious choice to think the words Love and Gratitude to replace those thoughts. Bring your attention to how you are breathing in Love and Gratitude and exhaling Love and Gratitude. Watch how your belly expands into a full round belly on the inhalation and how it flattens out on the exhalation. Make a conscious choice to relax your mind and relax all of your body.

There are many wonderful guided meditation CDs to assist you in this process if you have challenges on quieting the incessant chatter in your mind. There is one CD I highly recommend. Actually, there are 6 Guided Meditation CDs that I have out expressly for this purpose. But the one I recommend in alignment with what I am writing here is Open Your Heart to Love by Margaret Ann Lembo. (Yep! That’s me!)

We also have many opportunities in our daily lives to be grateful. There is a practice of being grateful every time you spend money, write a check or use a credit card. When I write a check, I always write Thank You over my name which reminds me that I am grateful that there are funds in my checking account for the purchase. If I am paying someone in cash, I make a slight bow forward with my body in gratitude that I have those funds to use and also for the service that individual has provided. Everything is Energy, especially money. I also maintain a similar consciousness every time I use a credit card. I maintain a thought of gratitude that I have and maintain good credit and therefore, have that resource at my disposal.

As we drive in our car, whether we are stuck in traffic or not, we can use the time as we drive to think the words Love and Gratitude. Thinking Love and Gratitude will allow the feelings and other energies associated with them to expand in our consciousness. As we do this, it appears to provide many blessings in many forms in our lives. We will find that life runs smoothly and harmoniously. We will realize that all people are nice to us and willing to help us in a moments notice or without even asking for help. We will find we laugh more, smile more and that ALL IS WELL. LIFE IS GOOD.

To further this practice of maintaining a focus on Love and Gratitude, we must discern what we allow within our space. This “space” includes our friends, work associations, family matters, programs on TV, movies, music and more. Learning to set boundaries of what is permissible in your life, in your home, in your work and such will allow for only goodness and love to vibrate. When we discern and set boundaries, we are also helping others as we are then not enabling inappropriate words and actions to be put out to us and others. It stops that energy in its tracks.

A parent teaches a child by correcting or not allowing certain types of behavior. A parent teaches a child by example. It is time that we are parents for each other in the sense of not allowing inappropriate behavior from others in our lives. More importantly, we need to align ourselves with the goodness and Love that we are and therefore, be an example of Love and Gratitude.

Read more about the effects of our thoughts in The Secret Life of Water or the New York Times bestselling, The Hidden Messages in Water by the author, Masaru Emoto. These two books, along with others by Emoto, guide us along water’s remarkable journey through our planet and how his scientific work reveals so much. Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As we are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. Using pictures of frozen water crystals, Emoto provides us images to actually see the affects of our prayers, thoughts and words.

Everything is energy. All energy is vibration. All vibration has resonance to what it is in closest proximity to, be it sound, color, thoughts, words or actions. We are responsible for our own lives. We are responsible for all life here on Mother Earth. We create our future and our daily lives based on our thoughts and vibrations.

May we all choose to vibrate at a rate of Love and Gratitude.