Life Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
Candice’s Gratitude Journal
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Basking in Today’s Vibrations

I am so grateful for this day. The sun is shining high in the sky and Portland is aglow with joyful faces. I love making eye contacting and sharing a smile with a stranger.

I appreciate the conversation that I had with my mom on the phone today. It was brief but full of love. We connected heart-to-heart, and I told her how happy I was that she was my mom. It was another special moment when we talked about her dad, my grandpa. We both smiled in awe of his spirit. I am grateful that he is my family... grateful that I share genes with a man who is healthy and happy at 93 years of life. He is a humble man who leads by example - through simple service and a peaceful disposition. He is a testament to the power of a simple existence and how it begets health and wholeness. I love him dearly.

I feel blessed with amazing friendships. Tonight I will have dinner with two of the most wonderful women that I know - Jasmine and Sylvia. I am grateful that we have the abundance to share a delicious meal together. I love that we talk to one another with such unconditional love and acceptance. I look forward to many magic moments between us.

I love my job! I am so happy to be doing work that allows me total freedom and flexibility. I spent the day writing about things that inspire me and bring me joy. It is easy for me to make money doing what I love! The greatest gift in my professional life in this moment is collaboration! I appreciate Christabel Zamor (I call her my co-creative soul mate) and the work that we are doing together. I am looking forward to the many successful co-creations before us. I know that I will make loads of money while helping millions to reconnect to who they really are... so that they can experience abundance of creativity and resources, too! I love my job!

Today a little girl (about 7 years old) said she liked my computer. It was so nice to receive her smile.

I walked through the park near my home today. I love the sound of children playing. I took a minute to soak it all in. It felt good to soak up the sounds and sensations of freedom and fun.

I am grateful for all of this and so much more!

Basking in my Vibrational Escrow

I know that my life is getting better and better each day. New opportunities continue to pleasantly surprise me.

I expect the unexpected... through the best possible outcomes for me in all areas of my life. I know that there is a Source of perpetual bliss that is guiding my life. When I feel good, I am connected to it. So I look for reasons to feel good, all day everyday.

Freedom is a sensation that I know well. It comes to me with ease and in many forms. Money flows freely into my life in more and more ways, reminding me that when I feel good, I attract goodness in all its forms. I am also blessed with opportunities to travel and connect with like-minded souls. I meet so many amazing and inspiring people!

I love that my work feels like play. I love that I make money being myself. My work is a montage of my many passions... dancing, playing, and sharing things that come naturally to me.

My business is growing so fast, and it is easy to keep up with and manage. I have aligned with the perfect people to assist me in the follow-through on a variety of projects simultaneously. I am surrounded by talented and resourceful SHiNE Agents who have helped to grow and share this message internationally. The work is touching lives beyond my wildest dreams.

I appreciate the relationships in my life, and how they continue to deepen and expand. I am now able to visit my family whenever I please, and spend time connecting, learning, and growing. My friendships are glorious and transformational environments of fun and sharing. I especially love the retreats I take often with my closest girlfriends. I fly us all to far off places for playtime. It is a blast!

And my new home by the water is dreamy! I even have a boat. Of course, my beloved partner is the captain... and that’s fine by me! I trust this beautiful and honorable man with my heart. We share such a wonderful life together... and we look forward to a family. I appreciate the way that he makes me laugh and grow each and every day.

Life is really magnificent. Thank you for all these blessings and more.

My practice of basking in gratitude is inspired by the teachings of Abraham-Hicks. (www.abraham-hicks.com)

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November 2007

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Jean Baptiste Massieu

I love the idea of a remniscent and grateful heart. I could reflect volumes on what the heart has led me to know in my short life. It is upon its urgings that I continually traverse the majestic mountain of my spirit's longing. And the ever-more expansive views continually take my breath away! This month, I sit in silent celebration of the imprints of self-love that gratitude has left deep within my heart.

I looked up the etymology of the word gratitude. There are many derivations listed...however, I am most struck by the root of the word as: grace, to welcome. How much of the time do we graciously welcome the remarkable conditions of our life? Do we fight with tooth and nail to change them so that we might find peace in our hearts (chasing the dragon for days, months, years at a time)? Or do we look deeply within out hearts, invite gratitude, and welcome the path that is revealing us one glorious petal at a time? I commit to choosing the latter more often. While I do understand gratitude to be an agent of creation (modern metaphysics teaches us to give thanks in advance for that which our heart desires)...I am more inclined to feel an authentic and divine buzz of appreciation when I allow my heart to remember, notice, and celebrate the many miracles of everyday magic in my current reality. It is in this space that I feel my heart SHiNE with gratitude and remembrance.

In coaching sessions and teacher trainings, I often hear myself reminding clients to reframe their perspectives. I witness that we are often cynical in our approach to our life circumstances. Yet, by consciously shifting our vantage point from one of critical perplexity and resistance to curious wonder and acceptance, we create a space for gratitude to emerge.

Invite Wonder. Embrace Gratitude.
Not for what it might bring you to do so,
but for all that your heart already possesses in the simple act of holding you close.

With Wonder-filled Gratitude,
Candice

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Today is my birthday. And I write to give thanks for each and every moment of my life. Yes, even the moments most painful... especially those. Someone in my family who loves me very much recently said, "I wish that I could take all these trials away from you." And for just a moment, I had a glimpse of my life without its current opportunities for growth. Without skipping a beat, I replied, "While I deeply appreciate the sentiment, I welcome my trials... as they make me able to love more in the end."

And that's just what has happened. I am bursting at the seams with an inspired and bountiful sensation of love this morning. Another year has passed... and it was a great year. It was a year that taught me how to love more than I ever knew possible.

I am able to love my friends and family with a new gratitude, as they have each held me so close to their hearts for the past few weeks. Realizing their love for me has helped me to see myself clearly again and again. May each of you know how much your graceful and persistent love is helping to shape me whole again.

I am able to love the dear man who blessed my life with his presence for the past year - to love him even more through the process of letting him go - so that with my blessings he may become the man that he is destined to be in the lives of so many others. May he be a better man having walked with me for a time.

I am able to hold a vaster space of love for my clients - as they pass from light into darkness and into the more luminous light on the other side - for I know what it is to make what is fragmented whole again by holding it to the light of truth. May you catch even a glimpse of the brilliance I know to be yours, and you will sense how the steady gaze of love's mirror works in your life.

And, most importantly, I am able to love myself more. I have learned to rest into my own embrace and welcome the intimacy of self-inquiry and forgiveness. This, thanks to my connection to the one relationship that lifts me highest... that with the Beloved. It is the most treasured love of them all. May I continue to walk in the midst of Your Love... knowing You is knowing that I am loved beyond measure. I commit to no longer keeping my love for You a secret. I commit to fearlessly bringing how You SHiNE Light through me out into the open in the coming year... so that I might inspire others to do the same.

Happy Birthday to me...
Happy Birthday to me....
Happy Birthday Dear Candice
Happy Birthday to me!

(why wait for someone else to do it? after all, I am dear to me too!)

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