If you are on a life changing path and have been transforming into the best version of yourself, I am sure you have heard all the benefits of making gratitude a daily practise.

I always knew we should all be thankful for all we have but until I made gratitude a daily practise, I had never understood the magnitude of change that practising gratitude would have on my life.

Since adding gratitude into my daily routine my life has completely changed, guys. 

We all know we should be thankful. It’s something I have been trying to instil in my children since they were born, to be thankful and grateful. It’s an unspoken parental duty or ethical responsibility to teach our children to be grateful so they become beautiful happy people.

They are many benefits to making gratitude a daily practise in your life, to make it a ritual and a wellness habit. And it has nothing to do with mannerisms.

Since practising gratitude nearly daily, our life has completely changed! It was when I started consciously practising gratitude that we sold all our stuff, bought a camper, and became debt-free travelling nomads. Basically, dreams came clear and then they came true.

Here are a few benefits we noticed when we started taking note of what we have to be grateful for.

Reality check!

You have a lot to be grateful for, even when it seems like you don’t. There may be times when you are feeling indifferent or down about where you are in your story, but you take note of all the things you’ve got going for yourself, the list is long!

Your thoughts create your reality..

When you practise gratitude and are focusing on all the wonderful things in your life, you are happier and will attract more things to be grateful for.

Have you ever heard of the expression ‘your vibe attracts your tribe’? Well, it works the same with any emotion or energy you throw out there.

And have you noticed people in your life who always seem to be stuck on a negativity train? If they switched their tune and focused on what they have to be grateful for, the would be happier and can stop that train!

You can retrain your brain...

When you are so focused on all the good in your life and suddenly life throws you a curveball, your mind will begin to automatically find the good in the situation and you are able to handle what life throws your way!

It feels good to be grateful!

Practising gratitude daily forces you to be a more positive person. You cannot be negative about gratitude! So when you are taking a gratitude moment or filling out a gratitude journal you will uplift your mood and vibration!

Lowers stress level!

Lowering your stress kind of goes hand in hand with being happier and focusing on the positive but you fret less over the small stuff that would otherwise get you down because you have a lot to be grateful for!

Meditation can be a very simple practise of sitting with yourself, quieting your mind and focusing on your breathing to reduce stress and anxiety, uplift our mood and to feel more grounded or tranquil.

But it can also be a spiritual practise to connect with the Universe, or Source Energy to raise your vibration, listen to your soul’s calling and intuition. Either way, meditation is something anyone can do to fill their cup, reduce stress and give them self a little love.

I am a total newb at meditation and believe meditation needs to be a daily ritual or spiritual practise in my life. But in the little time I have been meditating I have learned a few things..

Baggage, guys. And not actual baggage but emotional baggage. We all have it, in one way or another. and the weight of it really brings us down and makes living life more difficult.

I had all kinds of baggage but after I unloaded it, I became minimalist nomad wandering the Canadian East Coast, literally living my dream while we build our tiny homestead.

I want to share with you 5 kinds of baggage you need to let go of now so you can start living your life for you, honouring your soul and ultimately, find your wild.

Bad relationships!

I let a person manipulate me for years, throw myself into a deep depression and feel like my life was ruined. If you are in any kind of bad relationship that makes your feel bad more than it feels good, let it go!

Toxic people have a way of spreading that negative energy into other peoples lives and the cord needs to be cut for your survival. Whatever is going on with that person to make your relationship bad, has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with them. So I hereby, give you that permission you need to let that bad relationship go! 

Our minimal book shelf.

We have been on this amazing journey over the last several years of removing things from our life. And not just actual tangible things but also the people, places, commitments, and feelings that just no longer serve us or make us feel uncomfortable.