Thankfulness is the highway to happiness.
Positive virtues like humility, thankfulness, positive - action and joy are the reflections of your highest self. To bring or retain yourself in your best level of existence ensure that your current thoughts are of thankfulness, humility or joy or otherwise you are engrossed in a positive action. This will ensure that you are closest to God.
Out of all these virtues, thankfulness is the easiest to invoke, because you can find numerous reasons to be thankful. Your life, your body, your parents, all the skills that you possess, nature that surrounds you, your friends, water that refreshes you and air that enlivens and sustains you are few of the things that rush to the mind of a common man when he needs to be thankful.
So, being thankful is the easiest method to elevate yourself to your highest self. Do it every moment and you will find yourself in a state of eternal bliss. Be aware of your dominating thought and every time you become cognizant, ensure that you are in a thankful mode.
Thankfulness stimulates more gifts into your life. When you are thankful, things rush to you in further abundance. In thankful mood, you note every gift every opportunity without failure and all the good things keep coming to you.
Thankfulness helps you keep the negativities out of your thoughts and your life. When you are thankful, you don't judge, you don't dismiss or don't entertain wrong thoughts and bad words. Thankfulness is your key to enlightenment.
Be aware of your dominant stream of thought and replace it with thankfulness, whenever you find yourself wavering. When you be able to keep yourself in the thankful state continually, your life would have changed into a enlightened one.
Call for action : Morning is the best time to bring out the best from you. Your state of mind in the morning is the pointer to your day's progress. To make sure that your day would be bright, you need to start your mornings, the right way. Let thankfulness flow into your thoughts. In the mornings think of all the wonderful things that have been given to you by the heavens above. Be sincerely thankful for all the gifts. With a positive start to your morning, you day would likely to be a dazzling one.