May 1,2025

M AY  2025   NEWSLETTER 

Acting As If..

​A few years back, I discovered another powerful gratitude practice. This goes above and beyond being grateful for what IS in your life, in the present moment. For several years, I have been applying this new idea in my life with great results. What it involves is writing a letter to Spirit or Your Higher Power, not only expressing thankfulness for the blessings in your life right now, also making sure
to include writing about what you are thankful for in the future, as if it has already happened. It is affirming to know that Spirit is listening, and watching things come to pass as imagined and written down. This gratitude practice definitely works!
 
Recently, I shared this practice with a friend who was fretting in advance about a future move to another place. She listened to me, and tried it, and feels much more peace about the move. And thanked me. I have told many others about writing about future things to be thankful for, and she is the one person I know about who tried it and feels completely grateful to have learned about it. Give it a try.

“Gratitude makes sense of our past,brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Melody Beattie

​In a search on amazon, I tried to find the author whose book I read that promoted this idea. I was unable to find her, yet I found out that there are many journals and books promoting being grateful in advance. You don’t really need a book though. Just a pen and paper. When I first heard the idea, I wrote a new letter every single day!
Now I write a letter about once a week, and read it almost every morning to let it sink in deeper. The author I read started her letters with “Dear CSO” (Chief Spiritual Operator). That makes me smile.
 
A similar idea is to make a Vision Board that you can look at all the time. Create it with pictures
of things you would like to manifest in your life, using magazine or web pictures or you can even draw pictures. On your Vision Board, you could put, for example, travel photos to faraway lands (if that tickles your fancy); a new partner/love in your life, or whatever you imagine for yourself! Once, when I was wishing to lose weight, I used a woman in a yoga pose with a body I really liked, and placed my own head on it instead of hers. I looked at her every day, and envisioned myself that way, and was able to lose weight. You could put qualities you would like more of in your life, such as Joy or Inner Peace. If it’s self love, you could put a picture of a person hugging him or her self, for instance. A Vision Board is a visual letter to the Universe, showing what you would like to see down the road. Be creative and have fun!

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“Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
​ Alice Walker

How completely grateful I am to watch what I am dreaming come to fruition.

There is such power in knowing we can manifest what we desire, if we don’t hang it up with conflicting thoughts, or a belief
that we don’t deserve.

I firmly believe in the potential of visualizing and visioning, and I delight in watching
as Life says an enthusiastic YES!

Deborah Perdue
from Daily Gratitude Reflections Vol. 2

“Thank the past for all the lessons it taught you; anticipate the future for all the blessings it has in store for you,”
Matshona Dhliwayo​

SONGS & MEDITATIONS TO ENJOY!
Remember Your Future, Dr. Joe Dispenza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfWkKGSZU0

Grateful, A Love Song to the World by Nimo/Daniel Nahmod:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2o98Zpzg8
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5 Min. Guided Meditation/The Future You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHlXMt82P_E​
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Wishing You All a Joyful and Most Amazing May!
Love and Light and Many Blessings to you, Deborah aka Gratitude Gal