Tag: gratitude

Is your self-love cup half empty?

On By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Body-Physical Health, Guest Posts5 Comments

Is your self-love cup half empty?Could you use some easy tips to show yourself some much needed lovin’?

It’s not as hard as you may think. All it takes is a bit of time and a lot of openness and willingness: to change, to receive, to see and to love.

You’ve clouded your mind with attacks and comparisons for way too long. You’ve bombarded yourself with messages of “not being good enough, strong enough, thin enough, beautiful enough and powerful enough” and you’ve long forgotten that this is not the way you are supposed to live your life. This is not the way you’re supposed to feel.

But you’re here today, reading this article and ready for change, right?

You’re ready for a life lived with more inner peace and outer comfort. You’re ready to embrace yourself with all your vulnerable sides and powerful gifts. Continue reading “Is your self-love cup half empty?” →

Celebrating World Gratitude Day with a Positive Gratitude Ritual

On By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Mind, Heart& Soul-Motivation&Inspiration, Mind-Mental Health34 Comments

Special Note: Over the past 3.5 years since I have been writing on Positive Provocations, I’ve written about Gratitude many times in great detail. I love how gratitude has transformed my life. Below is an article/post I wrote 2 years back, which fits perfectly in the celebration of World Gratitude Day which is on 21st September 2012(today!). 

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” ~Johannes A. Gaertner~

Being in a state of gratitude can completely transform one’s disposition. The more we pause to consider the things we have to be grateful for, the more we begin to focus on those things. And the things we focus on, we tend to draw toward ourselves. Therefore, the act of focusing on our blessings tends to bring more blessings into our lives. Continue reading “Celebrating World Gratitude Day with a Positive Gratitude Ritual” →

3 Powerful Steps that WILL Fill Your Life with Miracles

On By Zeenat Merchant Syal-Counseling Psychologist|Spiritual CounselorIn Mind, Heart& Soul-Motivation&Inspiration36 Comments
Do you (or anyone you know) need your own miracle right now in any area of your life? Or do you feel like you could actually use several miracles now in many different areas?

What is a miracle?

The word “miracle” comes from a Latin word meaning “something wonderful.”
Wikipedia defines a “miracle” as a “striking interposition of divine intervention by a god in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of nature is overruled, suspended, or modified.” In other words, we get “hooked up” in some really cool way by the “Big G” (God). 

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For most people however, a miracle can also be something that is unlikely but really good and beneficial or it can be virtually anything else that is seen and regarded as “wonderful.” For example, to many, winning the lottery is a miracle. Continue reading “3 Powerful Steps that WILL Fill Your Life with Miracles” →