A healthy, happy life is one which experiences abundance. This doesn't refer only to material prosperity but also to strong and supportive relationships, good health, doing work you love and living a life in harmony with one's own beliefs and values. This sort of true abundance is never accidental. While it may certainly seem that there are those lucky individuals who appear to live a charmed life, true abundance is not accidental. Whether a person harnessing the laws of the universe to experience abundance is doing so unconsciously or otherwise doesn't really matter. The good news is that anyone can change their lives so they can attract abundance. For anyone who desires more abundance in their life, the starting place must be to be grateful for what they already have. Ingratitude can be a barrier that prevents someone receiving the blessings they desire. Some people are living such stressful and deprived lives that asking them to be grateful might well seem like a slap in the face. However, a thankful heart has a power of its own and looking for the positive in life opens the door to more positive experiences. One way to build a gratitude consciousness is to keep a gratitude journal. Before going to sleep at night, make a list of things that happened during the day that you can be grateful for. It can be helpful to have a minimum number of things you have to list before you can go to bed. For example, if you have decided to list five things you are thankful for every night before you go to sleep you will focus your attention on looking for them. Oftentimes, these things will seem minor to others but they are things that you appreciate. Another important step towards living an abundant life is the need to pay attention to one's emotional state. Ultimately everything is energy and our habitual emotions can attract things, people or even events that resonate with those emotions. In other words, if people are fearful, anxious or depressed they can attract the very experiences that keep them in those states. Emotions and thoughts are closely linked. So as well as guarding emotions, anyone who wants to attract abundance into their lives also needs to watch the thoughts they think and the words they speak. Changing emotions and thoughts usually involves changing beliefs. After a lifetime of living on autopilot, making these changes can be very challenging but the benefits are well worth it. There are various approaches to accomplishing this and different people will benefit from different methods. In fact, most people will need to use a combination of approaches to change their lives. However, the effort is well worth it. By establishing new beliefs along with mental and emotional habits, individuals can begin to attract new opportunities into their lives which resonate with their new selves. Hypnosis, self-hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, applied kinesiology, affirmations, BSFF (Be Set Free Fast) are just a few of the tools available to help people overcome unhealthy mental and emotional patterns and the beliefs that generate them. Before you can attract more abundance into your life, you must first develop awareness of,and gratitude for, the blessings you already have. If life is really difficult and stressful right now, that can be a challenge, no doubt about that. But this attitude of gratitude is powerful,and it's the first step to attracting more positives and abundance into your life. A gratitude journal is an excellent tool to help you develop your attitude of gratitude. Each evening, as your last action of the day, you could list a specific number of people, things, or situations you are thankful for from that day. Even if they seem like little things other people might find insignificant, write down anything that is meaningful to you. To develop a more abundant life, you also need to learn to govern your emotions. Sometimes emotions are habitual, and if you keep having the same recurring emotions, chances are you will attract the kinds of experiences that will keep you in this same recurrent state of emotion. So if your emotions are usually negative, like fear, depression, or anxiety, you will keep on experiencing the people and events that recreate that emotion. Your emotions are closely tied to your thoughts. What you think impacts your emotions. So if you want to change your emotions, you must first change your beliefs so you can change your thoughts, and your emotions will follow. Most of us spend our lifetime plugging along without conscious awareness of our thoughts and emotions, so this will require some work on your part, but it's worth it. You an approach and accomplish this in many ways, everyone is different and each will benefit while using various methods. You may wish to use combinations of approaches for changing your life. It is well worth the effort. When you establish new beliefs, as well as emotional and mental habits you can attract new experiences into your life, these things will be in harmony with your new self. If you want to change your unhealthy thoughts and feelings and the beliefs that led to them, you could try BSFF (Be Set Free Fast), affirmations, applied kinesiology, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, or neuro-linguistic programming. It will take some time, since you must relearn old habits, but the effects are cumulative, and as you transform, your life will, too. You'll attract more abundance much easier as a grateful, positive person than by wrestling with emotions that are negative. If won't happen immediately, though, so you need to keep going with the changes as you await more abundance. In addition to making these changes to become receptive to abundance, you also need to get ready to grab your good fortune when it comes. You need to prepare in advance. While you change internally, it's wise for you to learn new abilities and techniques to help you identify and embrace the great opportunities when they come to you. Despite any difficulties in your life, you can still achieve an abundant life. Keep a grateful attitude, a positive outlook, change your limiting beliefs to positive beliefs, conquer erroneous thinking and your emotions, and you, too, can discover the power of abundance thinking.