Each morning when I awaken I try to remember to say a little prayer. It is the same prayer that I have been saying to myself for many years now.
Thank you, God, for another day, and another chance to be my Highest Self. Thank you for this life and for the wonder of this moment. Thank you for everything that has ever happened to me, is happening now, and ever will happen. For all of it has produced the perfection of this next breath, and the glory of Who I Am now going to be. Amen, and amen.
It is good for me to begin each day with gratitude. And then, as I get into the shower, I break into song. Usually, Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!, which is, I believe, from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma! The lyrics are...
Oh, what a beautiful morning!
Oh, what a beautiful day!
I've got a wonderful feeling
everything's goin' my way...
Oh, what a beautiful day!
Then, when I get to the mirror to shave and comb my hair, I smile. That's right, I throw a big smile at myself! Do know that you are physically unable to hold onto negative energy of any kind if you smile? Smiling disintegrates it. Do you know it's impossible to remain grouchy if you sing? Singing disallows it! Do you know that you cannot express true anger when you are expressing true gratitude? The two are mutually exclusive.
Use this simple little formula and you will start off every day with a mindset that will change what occurs in the hours that follow. This is important to understand. What you experience in your life is a direct result of the energy you call in.
Here's something else I try to do each morning that has profoundly affected my quality of life. I try to read or write something sacred and holy. Something meaningful and important. Something soft and warm and wonderful. Something about God and Life and Love, and how to experience all three at the highest level ever. Then I put down my reading or writing and I take a moment to quietly forgive. I forgive everybody for everything. And I include myself in that forgiveness circle.
This is my five step formula for opening each day:
1. Gratitude
2. Song
3. Smile
4. Sacred Nourishment
5. Forgiveness
Not necessarily in that order. But touch all five if you can. If you do, I dare you to walk out of the bedroom in a dark space or a bad mood or in a grumpy state of mind. Dare you, dare you, double dare you! You can't! You won't! It's impossible!
Now I want you to do two more things and your relationship with your Significant Other will become once again the territory for bliss and growth and love abounding that it was at the beginning and was meant to be always.
1. Think of your Beloved Other, whoever is closest to you right now, and prepare a present for that person in your heart and mind, offering it to him or her before the day is out. One every day.
2. Close each day with a recital to your Beloved: "What I am grateful to you for this day...", and offer a verbal list of those items, describing each in detail.
Now I want you to do three final things each day and your whole life will change, not just your morning or your relationship.
1. Move through your day knowing that you walk with God and that God walks with you, and that another human being is going to be coming to you this day for whom you will have a gift in your hands. You do not know what that gift is right now, but it doesn’t matter. You will know when God brings that person to you.
2. Do something courageous and outrageous in the next 12 hours, and do one courageous/outrageous thing every day. Then reach out and get whatever life has to offer this day. Take it with gusto, for it is your gift from life!
3. Be good to yourself this evening. Give yourself some small treat, whatever it may be, and pamper yourself in this way, saying “thanks” to you and to God for the wonderful experience of living fully this day.
This is my Ten Step Method for Achieving Daily Happiness. I don’t worry about setting long range goals or meeting daily objectives or driving projects forward and using my time wisely or any of those things we hear about from motivational speakers and success trainers. I just use Gratitude, Giving, Getting, and God – the Four G’s – as my pathway to fulfillment and joy, and they take me there every time.
(NOTE: This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The “New Spirituality” is defined by the author as “a new way to experience and express our natural impulse toward the Divine without making others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.”)
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Hello neale, I feel so honored to be in direct contact with you by email. I have to tell you that, six years ago a friend of mine loaned me his copy of conversations with god #1. He told me I had to read it, and when I finished it, he would loan me book #2. When I began reading, I knew it was going to be hard to put the book down. I took it to work with me everyday until I finished the entire series, including friendship, communion, and revalations. Through you god showed me himself, and thats what I'd been praying for. I finally found the answers to all my questions and more. Conversations with god changed my life for ever. I've given the books to many people over the years, and about 90% of then said the books were inspiring, and life changing. The other 10% said no way is god talking to a man here on earth, and asked me how could I possibly believe that it's could be true. I truly believe that messengers are sent by god to make great change in the world. I love you and am very grateful for your work. Aray!
Hello,
Just wanted to say thank you for your books and that I am constantly checking to see if you have a new one out. When I lend my books to some one I always tell them "if their is a fire in your home, get my books out first" lol That is how much I love them.
u don't need em, edna...saving books over saving people?
I was obsessed with finishing the entire collection, which i did. i always try to think back to a quote or line that particularly stuck with me, when things go bad. the problem with knowing too much is wanting to know more. perhaps this soul is in the wrong place at the wrong time on purpose. perhaps i'll one day join you at one of your conventions and that might ease my fears, aprehentions and restlesness. or perhaps the word 'perhaps'shall become perminently banished from my mental frame of mind, cause it does no good living in limbo now does it :)
Hi Neale,
This "Great way to start each day" has been a great inspiration to me at this particular time of my life. I wrote it out on a queue card and read it every morning and I feel good. My life changed this summer and I am still sometimes saying why, I read almost all of your books and many more by many authors and I too said ok what now. Life just happens and has a way of taking you to the next stage right on time. I think the key is trying to stay focused and never to feel sorry for yourself and go on to be the best that you can imagine yourself to become. I tend to forget some of the things that I read, but it is really great and refreshing to read a book all over again. This is the best part of my life, a bit sad sometimes, a bit lonely sometimes, somewhat still lots of questions, but I am happy to be here and with so much help. I was a bit scared when "Home with God" said a final conversation, now I am ok because I know the conversation will continue another way.
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