How Gratitude Changed My Life

A term I hear everywhere, all the time. It's on books in shops, on everyone's Instagram grids, Facebook posts the lot. But really, it's so underestimated! We all need to get on the gratitude train!

Hi, I'm Megan, the face behind Mindfulness with Megan, my passion that is growing and growing and I am so so grateful.

Here's the thing, it's took me a long time to finally nail this gratitude shiz and from this I can truly say I am doing frickin great. It's honestly changed my life. Now, I want to help you change yours.

I got sick of my own sh*t, I got sick of my own excuses and setting myself goals that weren't even what I wanted to achieve!! I saw everyone else acing them so felt I should be too. (I've never written a blog before so please bare with me!). I know I'm not alone in this, it was a mindset trap. Comparing ourselves to others is something we are literally conditioned to do by society, social media, family etc. But it's how we turn this from a negative to a positive that counts. We are so quick to compare ourselves and look at what other people have and point out what we don't without realising what we have at this moment in time, is enough. So I have learnt how to look at others successes as an amazing win for those people and take INSPIRATION from them as something that I could achieve. I answered the question, "why can't I have that?" with another question which fueled my "shift" as I call it...that question was, "why can't I?".

Naturally, my mind went down the negative self talk route where I was thinking things like, "she's prettier", "she's confident", "she's more followers than me". From this, I started following in "her" footsteps. Trying different things, failing. Putting myself through different events to get that wee spark lit inside of me..again, failed.

I remember sitting in my therapists room and saying, "I should be ...." and she asked me, "then why aren't you". My answer literally shocked me. It was because I didn't want to. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed spending time with different friends doing different things that brought us together and happiness at that time. But that was short lived and when that wee spark dimmed down, the shame and guilt and depression increased within me and made me miserable. I knew for sure that there was one thing I definitely wanted to invest in, and that was my mental health, my inner state of well-being..so my journey began.

I started practicing gratitude when I wanted something so bad, I was willing to try anything. I remember giving a major eye roll when it came to noting down "3 reasons why I am grateful" (p.s I am aware I have a hella lot of "'s but as I said, it's my first time!!) Long story short, this sh*t worked. I genuinely became more grateful for the little things in my life. I stopped looking for what I didn't have, what I wanted so bad and started looking at what I already had... within me!

My mindset changed. I got honest with myself and I started looking at what made me happy in life as it was NOW. I attracted so much more into my life from this.

I recently found my goals list I made at the start of 2020 and guess what, I achieved them all! I got what I wanted in the end. It wasn't when I wanted it, but when I needed it. When I needed her. My baby girl.

She has honestly been the making of me. I thank God every day (and night when we say our prayers before she falls asleep) for Fiadh choosing ME as her mummy. It was the most amazing experience of my life when my dreams started to come true and I realised that it's not in our time, but in God's/ the universe/ a higher power's.

My attitude for gratitude increased, I was literally BUZZING on life and vibrating at a whole different level. I found my niche, I found my tribe, I found my passion! I learnt about the Law of Attraction and it's now something that's ingrained in me and I practice it on the daily. I feel like a whole new woman and looking back on myself prior to this pandemic, I feel compassionate and love towards the lost soul she was. Looking externally for the peace that I had within the whole time.

Gratitude has taught me many things. It has taught me that I can achieve ANYTHING and I mean, ANYTHING. It has taught me to re-evaluate some of the decisions I have made, change the habits and go against the flow that serves others but not me. Practicing gratitude has shown me a whole new level of love for myself and life in general.

I can't wait to bring others on their journey too through Mindfulness with Megan.

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