The Art of Gratitude: Your awesome creative superpower that is hiding in plain sight.

The power of gratitude is spoken about so often that it almost feels boring—a virtuous practice, something we should do to be better, happier, more fulfilled. It’s not a new idea. Maybe you’ve heard it a thousand times before, nodded along, and then gone about your day without creating space for it.

I was the same way. I understood gratitude intellectually, but it wasn’t until I committed to practicing it—really practicing it—that I realized how profoundly creative it is. Because gratitude isn’t just about being thankful for what we have—it creates our reality.

I began an almost daily morning practice of meditation and gratitude several years ago that I am still dedicated to. When I do, I can feel my gratitude wrap around me, dissolving fear, washing away scarcity, and anchoring me in trust.

Now, I despise routine. If I don’t receive an immediate payoff of fun, creativity and satisfaction from consistent practice, my inner rebel rears up and puts it foot down with a big, fat not-gonna-do-it-you-can’t-make-me.

But it didn’t take long for me to experience a shift so real that I’ve come to treasure my morning routine as self-care that quickly and effortlessly rewards me. A practice that spirals me upwards on a warm thermal of gratitude for myself for gifting myself with such a lovingly beautiful start to my day.

The Magnetic Art of Gratitude

Gratitude is not just a feeling; it is alchemy. It dances with a core creative principle: What you appreciate, appreciates.

When we let it pulse through our bodies, when we let it unfurl in our hearts, it sends ripples into the universe. And those ripples? They call forth more. More love. More abundance. More creativity. The more, the more.

Gratitude doesn’t wait for my external world to change—it changes me, which changes the way life I respond to life, which changes the way life responds to me and- voila!- my external world changes.

As, miraculously, my gratitude began magnetizing what I love and desired with no effort at all. It’s as if gratitude radiates my frequency into the creative Universe that listens to and creates with us all.

When I sit with my gratitude, when I let it pour onto my journal or whisper through my meditations, something miraculous happens. My heart opens, my breath deepens, and a quiet knowing rises in my belly: I am safe. I am supported. I am already abundant. And as that knowing radiates outward, the world around me shifts to match it.

What once felt beyond my reach starts to open up, as if life has been waiting for me to notice just how much I am already held. This is not just mindset work—it is body work, heart work, soul work.

Scarcity vs. Gratitude

The cycle of giving is not complete without receivership. So many of us have an emaciated capacity to receive. I can still catch myself blocking the gifts of gratitude when I’m focused on scarcity instead of how I am already being provided for.

Scarcity contracts us. It is a fear-based mindset that keeps us small, restless, clenched. It makes us believe we must work harder, prove more, be more just to deserve a taste of abundance. Scarcity convinces us that joy and fulfillment are always just out of reach, belonging to someone else, some other time.

Gratitude expands us and makes us radiant. It reminds us that we are already enough, that we are already adorned in abundance when we open our eyes to see it and our hearts to receive it. It invites us to lean back, to trust, to know that life is already offering us everything we need.

And the moment we shift from chasing to receiving, from striving to being, we become a beacon, a magnet for all that is meant for us.