Daily Gratitude

Daily Gratitude: This is a process but an important one. As 2025 draws to a close, why not practice going through the doors of your mind?

Scary huh?

Yes but it’s totally worth it and jt becomes so clear when you reach the other side. If you actually can reach that point at least once, the joy you experience might just be the incentive and impetus for doing it again.

Use the visual of being in a room. You feel a draft and you’re not comfortable at all in that draft. It’s cold, it’s windy, there’s allergens blowing into your face and nose, there’s an odor that’s extremely noxious.

You don’t like it, you don’t like how it makes you feel, you just WISH it would stop. “Why can’t I be warm and cozy?” “What can I do?” “This sucks!”

Well, for starters, you can close the door. That’s the door of negativity by the way.

“Wow it’s stuffy in here. What can I do?”

In your mind see yourself walking over to the other door – it’s the one opposite the door you just closed.

See yourself grabbing the handle and turning it. Do this slowly. Now pull the door open. You can be brave and stand right in the middle of the doorway or if you’re a bit timid, you can back away a bit to feel safe.

Open your arms and feel the gentle breeze. Take a deep breath and feel the sweet smell of your favorite flower or herb (or any other odor that turns you on). Feel the warm air in your lungs and imagine the powerful oxygen flowing through your body. Spreading energy to all your organs.

Which door do you prefer and why? One is the portal through which the negativity in your life comes boisterously blowing into and through your life making everything seem yucky and miserable. The other door is the opening that bathes your body in positive energy.

Whenever you have a negative thought trying to take residence in your mind, go to this visualization and intentionally shut one door and open the other. Make yourself think of something that makes you happy or that you think is good!

Keep working at it and eventually your mind will be wired enough that you’ll be able to use the remote instead of having to walk across the room to the doors. Those of us old enough to know will remember that a right of passage in our childhood was “being the remote” – “Joey! Go change the channel”. This is no different


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