- So Robin, we both are very strong on gratitude.
We both know the effects of gratitude
and what it brings into our lives
and how important it is.
And I think a lot of people don't really understand
the effect that having a simple practice of gratitude
can bring into your life.
And would you like to share anything on that?
- Yeah, there's a lot
I'd love to share on that.
And I particularly liked that you said,
the practice of gratitude
and that it actually is a practice.
I remember one time when I was visiting you
and I was kind of... just in a challenging space.
I didn't feel like doing something.
And you wanted us to do some sort of ceremony
around gratitude.
It's the last thing I feel like doing.
And I remember that I kind of forced myself to go and do it.
And after I did it,
I couldn't believe how much lighter I felt doing it.
And I think that just emphasizes
why it's important to practice gratitude,
especially when you don't feel like it.
That's the most important.
It's easy to be thankful when your stomach is full,
when it counts most to be thankful
is when you think you've got nothing to be thankful for.
That's truly when you need to practice gratitude.
So for me,
gratitude is a practice in something that I do daily.
I have affirmations around gratitude,
but I even do five minutes snippets around being thankful.
What am I thankful for? And by the way,
I always think about you and Sylvia.
And how thankful I am to have you in my life.
The amazing gift that I've attracted you into my life.
That's been something that I always give thanks for that.
Always, always, always, I'm profoundly grateful for it.
- Thank you, Robin.
Gratitude is an energetic
and it is so empowering is that
when you spend time,
even a small amount of time, like five minutes,
and you say to yourself, for the next five minutes
I'm going to feel grateful
and I'm gonna feel grateful,
and the mind might say, grateful for what?
And then you can say to your mind,
well, let's think of all the things
that we have to be grateful for.
And the mind starts thinking, okay, I have my health,
I have my career,
I have my marriage,
I have my children,
I have my interests,
I have nature,
I have friends, and you start to
realize that actually you do have a lot
to be grateful for
and to spend just five minutes feeling gratitude.
I mean, it puts you in a really peaceful state, doesn't it?
- And I liked the way you say,
feeling gratitude, not thinking gratitude,
feeling gratitude, feeling how blessed we are,
feeling how blessed you and I are to have this friendship,
to have this relationship.
This is a unique friendship,
and I feel very grateful for it. I truly, truly am.
And so I love the way you say, feeling grateful,
feeling gratitude to live on this planet.
Feeling grateful to have these trees
and to have this magnificent view
and this amazing life and this career.
And there's just so much that you could be grateful for,
but be grateful and feel grateful.
- And the thing is
as we're speaking about it,
it brings to mind as well,
that gratitude is a success vibration
and that's what we teach of course,
is to build a success vibration
and gratitude is a success vibration
because when you're in gratitude,
you don't need anything.
In fact, you have everything that you need
in that moment of gratitude.
And so really it's a vibration that is helping to shift you.
And there's a little secret about gratitude,
and that is that whatever you give gratitude for
you increase.
So if you give gratitude for beauty,
more beauty will come into your life.
If you give gratitude for your business opportunities,
more business opportunities will come.
If you give gratitude for your health,
more health will come.
So it's almost magic gratitude.
It's so simple and so neglected.
And I would like to give gratitude right now
for these few moments that we've shared together.