We are hearing so much about being grateful and how we need to be grateful for our lives to improve and for us to attract good to us, and this is so true, but what if you just don't feel any gratitude at all?

Well I totally get this, because I have been in the situation and more than once! and then I would bad and guilty that I couldn't feel any gratitude and would think I must be a really uncaring ungrateful person to not be grateful for anything in my life - but that's not quite true! Because of course I was grateful for many things in my life, my two beautiful daughters for a start, but being grateful and feeling grateful aren't quite the same thing. I am always grateful that I have my loving two girls in my life, but at times, when my life has been so bad and low and when I have felt so ill and stuck in low energies, I haven't been able to feel this gratitude, because . . . well, I was swamped and surrounded by bad energies.

First of all, I'd like to say if you don't feel any gratitude, then that is ok and it is honest! It is how you feel, and trying con yourself that you don't feel that way isn't the way out of how you feel.  Some of us have a very strong inner connection to ourselves and we know when we are trying to make ourselves feel or believe something that we don't and it just doesn't work! We need to be open and honest with ourselves to get to the route of the issue and move forwards.

I would try and find something to be grateful for, thinking about people who were worse off than me, more sick etc but then I would just feel angry and think why do any of us have to be ill, suffering and not feeling happy. Somehow feeling that my life was less miserable than someone else's just didn't resonate and work for me, because the Truth is that we all deserve to be happy and that is our inner core and connection to Divine source energy or God. So if we feel and know that connection then it is understandable to not feel grateful that you are so distant from being closely connected to inner happiness, peace, love and all that we are. We can't con our Divine connection!

So if we honestly don't feel gratitude, what do we do?

Well, I read a really good quote on twitter I think the other day that said something like:-