DSF 009: The Gratitude Effect

DAYnamics Show Fundamentals 009: The Gratitude Effect. GRATITUDE Dynamics:. We welcome our guest Makoda for a Discussion on the transformative power of gratitude and how making it a daily practice can fundamentally shift your entire life experience by attracting more positive circumstances.

• Gratitude versus appreciation - both valuable but appreciation connects more deeply to feelings
• Finding gratitude in small, everyday things we take for granted like electricity, breath, and basic abilities
• The importance of acknowledging that we co-create everything in our lives, even difficult situations
• Using challenging experiences to clarify what we don't want, which helps define what we do want
• Simple ways to implement daily gratitude practices like morning "thank you" rituals or bedtime reflection
• How focusing on gratitude signals to the universe to bring more positive experiences
• The challenge to identify five things you're truly grateful for right now
• Creating reminders or alerts to maintain consistent gratitude practice

DynaTools and other resources mentioned in the Show:

Blog: GRATITUDE Dynamics: A Gateway to More

Blog: How Does Gratitude and Appreciation Fit Into Your Life

Blog: What Are You Taking For Granted

Blog: The Importance of Having a Morning and Evening Practice

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Speaker 1 0:15

Welcome to the Daynamics Show . I'm Marianna , your host and guide on this empowering journey , to remind you about the life that you were meant to live , aligned with your dynamic well-being every single day

Welcome to the Daynamics Show

Speaker 1 0:30

. That's why the day in Daynamics Show is capitalized . It's a reminder that embracing your ever-evolving , vibrant nature is not just a momentary choice but a daily commitment to yourself . So here on the dynamic show , we believe that there's no one-size-fits-all path to life . You are here for a reason , and together we'll uncover what that is . Are you ready to step boldly into your new dynamic life ? Today we are doing an off-the-cuff , but it's also combined with a discussion recording , because I do have a guest here as well , and that guest

Introduction to Gratitude Dynamics

Speaker 1 1:18

is Makoda .

Speaker 2 1:23

Hi , Thanks for being here .

Speaker 1 1:24

Makoda , thank you for having me . We will be talking about gratitude dynamics . So we spent a whole month on gratitude and we wanted to ensure that we got a podcast that is included in this month of gratitude . To ensure that we got a podcast that is included in this month of gratitude . Just off the cuff , makota , before I get into who you are and what you do and all that stuff , what are you grateful for right now ?

Speaker 2 1:48

I'm grateful for this podcast and being able to spend the time and do it and to talk about gratitude .

Speaker 1 1:55

Thank you . I am too , because I think , the more you are grateful in your life about everything , which we'll talk about in just a little bit , it's because if you believe in the co-creation of your life , then everything that comes into your life you've co-created in some way . So into your life , you've co-created in some way . So it's about being grateful for what you created and going okay . Well , I created this for some reason . What is going on ? Do I need to get clear with my intentions ? Do I need to clean up my vibe about something ? Is this showing me something ? Is this helping me move to infinite possibilities ? Is this helping me grow about something ? What do you feel about that thought ?

Speaker 2 2:43

I think that's exactly right . If you know that you're co-creating something , and even us co-creating this podcast , you know we're here for a reason to talk about it and to make it knowledgeable to everyone else .

Speaker 1 2:55

Right and to just maybe people just might need a reminder that go to gratitude , even when life seems like you don't want to be grateful for anything , because things aren't flowing right , they're not feeling 100% , and that could be momentarily things , or that could be days or months of something that you're going through or something that happened . But if you can find the gratitude in that or gratitude about something else , then that really can shift your energy around what is happening in your whole life . So why this subject ? Why would we want to talk about gratitude , makota ?

Speaker 2 3:41

well , there's a bunch of different reasons .

Speaker 1 3:43

I mean , it's a weekend for us and that's the best time to spend with family , I think , and being grateful for the time that you can spend with family yes , being grateful for time with family , anytime you can be with friends , family , or even just , if you don't have a lot of close family and or friends , necessarily just being grateful for what you're around , whether that's nature , whether that's watching a great movie , whether that's talking to someone on the phone or on the computer . I mean , there's so many things to be grateful for . So if you haven't heard a podcast from us , let us introduce myself , mariana , and our guest Makoda . Makoda has been with us throughout the whole time , started with Kid Dynamics into Dynamic Series . She's been a youth advisor . She was a help with the creation . She helped with the creation of the program of Kid Dynamics , not

Five Things to Be Grateful For

Speaker 1 4:49

only being as a participant but also being a junior facilitator , and then , like I said , went to advisor and creator for us and now she does some social media stuff for us creation of some of our social media posts too right grateful for you , makota thank you

Speaker 1 5:13

yeah , we wrote actually before we . Let's just set the tone , which we already did a little bit by just being what are you grateful for ? We ask you to just like , fully be here with us , focus your attention on the here and now and listen with an open heart and mind . It may sound a little bit different because we are recording in a different area and you may still hear we have chickens . So once in a while you may hear a rooster roosting in the background and I know if you've listened to any of our stuff , you understand that you have heard the rooster before . Once in a while he just wants to chime in to go hey , here , here I am , and then bring my attention right to this moment again .

Speaker 1 6:04

So there's a question to our listeners Given the title of the show Gratitude Dynamics can you relate with being grateful ? I mean , have you ever found yourself wondering what do I need to be grateful for or how do I be grateful Like , how does grateful feel and are you willing to be grateful for the little things in your life , not just the big things that you've been wanting to unfold or manifest or bring into your life ? Unfold or manifest or bring into your life , but can you be grateful for the little eeny beeny things like power in your house and , makota , we can talk about not having power correct .

Speaker 2 6:54

Yes , it's happened quite a few times .

Speaker 1 6:57

We're in a present area that has spring and fall slash winter storms , so we tend to get a lot of thunderstorms , lightning . We are also around a national forest , so we have in our yard many tall trees , yard many tall trees , and in that whole area where the electric company services we also have tons of big trees , and so what happens sometimes if lightning strikes ?

Speaker 1 7:31

I lose power yeah , but not only that the lightning because if you've listened to our podcast before , we've got hit by lightning , by our chicken coop and beside us , and if you haven't heard that podcast , we invite you to go back and listen to that , because we are very grateful at the end that it only affected a little bit big trees by the lake , all that stuff . So we're just happy that again . We bought a generator , yeah , and that certainly helps because we have humid summers and we have not super cold winters . But we are so grateful for the generator because we know that when we don't have electricity , at least we have the stove will still work , the fridge will still work , some lights will still work , and we're grateful for that .

Speaker 2 8:22

Very grateful .

Speaker 1 8:23

Yes . So , makota , we asked you a few questions and again , welcome to the show . Thanks for being here . What , off the top of your head ? Five things that you want to be grateful or not want to be , but are grateful for .

Speaker 2 8:43

Well , I would say one of the things would be my job . I'm very grateful that , after a year of graduating , that I was able to find a really good job that has good benefits and that I'm able to learn for . Number two would be my family and being able to see them go on trips to actually to spend time with them . Number three would be the animals and being able to see them go on trips to actually to spend time with them . Number three would be the animals in our house . Even though sometimes they can be quite loud , they're always there for us and always provide us with some joy . Number four would be my friends and being able to have times with them as many times as I want . And number five would be myself and being grateful for the fact that I'm here and I'm learning things and evolving every day .

Speaker 1 9:24

Perfect Thank you , because you know what it is a little things to be grateful for , and we mentioned that we had done a blog on it . Now the blog points are there's so many of them that you don't even understand sometimes like even the little things , and I'm just going to like say a few of them and see if you're on the same wavelength as us as far as being grateful . Now , being grateful , you can just say thank you for something or you can actually be like appreciation . I think great gratitude and appreciation are the same family , but two different things . Like you can say thank you and be grateful for something , but you can really appreciate that . I think the appreciation goes more to the feeling side of stuff , where you tend to stay in complete appreciation of something , where someone can just do something for you and then you say thank you , right , same family . One just lingers more and has again

The Little Things: Unseen Gratitude

Speaker 1 10:32

to me , have more of a feeling . So here's a few your breath and the ability to breathe .

Speaker 1 10:38

Now you think of some people need help with that being able to see all the beauty in this world . Wherever you're listening to this at , look around or go outside or go wherever you , just wherever you are and just see the beauty in this world Because it's there the ability to hear so many sounds . Some people can't or have a muffled or whatever it might be in their situation , but being grateful that you can hear so many sounds , the way your body works Now , regardless of what's happening in your body , whether it's healthy or whether you're going through something , it's still working on some capacity for you and so just being grateful for that , all the cells in your body know what to do the sun coming up every day , the moon cycles , the different weather that balances out this earth , nature and all that entails . The planets , the oceans , electricity that we already talked about , the photos and pictures you have , heat and air conditioning , family expression , creativity , food , music , feeling of love , videos , health , exploring your career , your best friend's art , peace , meditations , home bed , a fan at night you know again , you're getting the gist .

Speaker 1 12:11

I can go on and on about this . It's the little things that when you plug in , you have the electricity to maybe have your morning coffee or tea . That's something to be grateful for . There are people in this world still that do not have electricity and we take it for granted a lot , and we know what that's like when your power does go out , or you can't , or there's a storm that's gone through or something that's happened in your world that you don't have electricity for , but you really do appreciate it when it comes back .

Speaker 2 12:47

Yes .

Speaker 1 12:48

Very much so . So what do you feel about some of those Makota ? What do you feel about being grateful for those little things , some unseen and some seen ?

Speaker 2 13:00

Well , I think that's the best things to be grateful for . I mean , it's easy to be grateful for big things , like you know having a birthday party , or being able to spend time with your family at Christmas maybe things that are more common or not but being able to just be happy that you can put a certain color of nail polish on that you really like , or that you get to have your favorite food , or that maybe that thing that you bit into when you're eating it actually tasted good and it wasn't horrible . It's just those little moments of oh , that was awesome and that make your brain go all happy and that you get happy for and you can say thank you for yes .

Speaker 1 13:38

So this is just a reminder for everyone right now too , is to learn to say thank you again and if you say thank you , thank you , thank you three times , like there's just there has always been just more of an energy of saying something three times Thank you , thank you . Thank you , or I appreciate you , I appreciate what you've done , or I appreciate who you are , or something like that Appreciate three things in a row . Appreciate who you are , or something like that Appreciate three things in a row . You know , do it whatever . If you can do one , that's even better , but if you can do 10 , that's even greater . But I usually stick with the three cycle . What do you think about that ?

Speaker 2 14:16

The three cycle yeah .

Speaker 1 14:19

How do you want to go through life ? Do you want to go through life grateful and looking for things and appreciating things that is already right in front of you right now , or that you're co-creating and manifesting for yourself ? Or do you want to look and go through life ? I don't know what's the word Unhappy , unhappy , not feeling good . I don't know what's the word Unhappy , unhappy , not feeling good , not appreciating and actually truly being grateful for what you do have .

Speaker 1 14:54

Yeah , it's just the little things that you've got to be thankful for and the things that you're able to do , because you're thankful Right , and the ability that you can talk , like I said , and hear and see and walk and move your body and go places and like all these little things . We have that morning and evening practices and it's a blog and a podcast that you can listen to dynamics seriescom Sorry , dynamics seriescom and you can look it up . Actually , a lot of our blogs and podcasts are really about empowering you to live the dynamic life that you want to live by design . By design means co-creating . You're designing how you want it to be , you have intentions set forward for it and gratitude will always help you , because gratitude always takes you to that place of feeling good and when you feel good , the universe will bring more things for you to feel good about , right , exactly . So listeners rate this moment .

Speaker 1 16:01

Take a moment , even if you have to stop this podcast and go , like we did with Makota , name five things that you are truly grateful for and , if you want to do the appreciation side of it , not only be thankful for it , but why are you thankful for it ? How does it feel ? You know , really be in appreciation with it , those things that you are grateful for . So the who , what , when , where , why of it , and then the feeling part of it , and then that again will make you feel better and then tell the universe yeah , that's what she likes . So let's give her more things to be grateful for Pretty simple law of attraction . Stuff here now we've done vehicle videos , like I said , blogs , podcasts and all that stuff about being grateful , and there's lots of things going on in this world , do you agree ?

Speaker 2 17:03

Yes .

Speaker 1 17:04

Especially at this given time that we're doing this recording . But there'll always be things going on in this world and that's a thing that you'll always have . The unknown in this world . You'll always have things I don't know . Can you still be grateful for the things that don't feel good ?

Speaker 2 17:25

Yeah , because then it shows you what you don't want and that you can choose to do other things and to be better .

Speaker 1 17:32

Yeah , and to focus on , like Makota brought up , a good point is , when you know what you don't want , you absolutely know what you do want . So , instead of staying in that side of I don't know what I want and I'm not grateful for this and I don't like what's going on and that , going down the rabbit hole of negativity and not feel good , can you stop yourself and just go ? Hey , I've just been shown , I've co-created a bit of this on some level . It's in my life . I don't prefer it . What do I prefer now ? What do I

Making Gratitude a Daily Practice

Speaker 1 18:10

prefer that I can be grateful for ? That I can have on my list of things that I can be grateful for Every day .

Speaker 1 18:18

It's an everyday thing , you know , if you don't do it , if you do it twice a week , or three times , or when you're having a shower , when you're drinking your morning hot drink , whatever cold drink , whatever that might be , when you're driving somewhere , you know , instead of having music blasting , which you could have , or a cold drink , whatever that might be , when you're driving somewhere , you know , instead of having music blasting , which you could have , or a podcast going , which you can have , of course , but just taking that moment , I did it the other day I was driving and I just shut everything off and I was just driving and I was like I just looked around and I go , what am I grateful for ?

Speaker 1 18:56

So that's our challenge to you is just take that moment and go . What are you grateful for ? For me , it was the fact that I had a vehicle to drive , that I had a full tank of gas at that point , that there was like nice nature around me , that the weather was good , that everyone was being like safe drivers around me as I co-created myself to get from my point A to my point B and then home again . The very fact that I could hear the sounds , that I could see the colors that were all around me . That are you guys getting the gist of this .

Speaker 2 19:35

Yeah , I am .

Speaker 1 19:36

You know you can take that time instead of whatever you do . This is just one example . You know where to go , what to do . You know there's your top 10 feel-good things . You can take that and be grateful for it . You can use that as a gratitude or appreciation thing . You can use that as a gratitude or appreciation thing , which , again , we have done through our podcast and through our blogs dynamicsseriescom Did I mention that yet , yes .

Speaker 1 20:03

So that's a challenge that we want to send out to you guys is just to take a moment , if you can , even if you have to put it in your watch or your phone and have an alert . The question is what are you , what am I grateful for right now ? Find a way to bring gratitude into your life . It's a very simple concept You're here in this world , being here , that's something to be grateful for right there . I think so too . How are you going to remind yourself every day to be grateful ? How are you going to ? Is it a sticky ? Is it a put an alert on your phone , on your watch ? Is it going to be something that you're going to have near your computer ? Is it going to be something , because you're a teacher , that you have on the board you do with your students ? You know , what can I be grateful Like ? What is it that you ? How are you going to remind yourself to have that gratitude practice every day ?

Speaker 2 21:02

That's a really good question , because there can be so many different ways . I think , at the very least , whenever I know that I'm smiling or something or that I feel good about something , that I should take a moment to say thank you and to be grateful for that thing because of my reaction to it , and sometimes it's not always going to be the easiest thing to do so . If there's days where that doesn't happen , I think just taking a few moments at the end of every day before I go to sleep , and recounting my days and all the things that happened during that day and being thankful that I'm still here , that I'm all right and that I can have a good sleep that night , knowing that .

Speaker 1 21:35

Yeah , that's a good point . And to know that , like we said in the beginning , okay , that's the end of the day . I co-created this day . If I don't prefer things that happen , then I will be more intentional tomorrow . Yeah , and to start off like when I wake up in the morning , the first thing I say is thank you , thank you , thank you .

Speaker 1 21:58

When I have more time , I go into meditation , I do yoga , I do stretching . We have animals in the house , so sometimes I have to do that later , not first thing , but I can still say thank you , thank you , thank you . I still usually go to the washroom , restroom , whatever people call it . When I first wake up . I can have those moments where I can say thank you , thank you , thank you . What do I want to appreciate , universe ? Show me what I can appreciate today in my life . Show me , along with the things that I have taken for granted . You know that I actually have a place to go to the washroom . You know . So , again , you know these little things that we take for granted that we can spend more than enough time being grateful for . I remember going out and you know , looking at the trees in our yard and going . You're a beautiful tree , looking at the trees in our yard and going you're a beautiful tree , I'm so

Challenge and Final Thoughts

Speaker 1 22:57

grateful the tree , we have some fruit trees and go to the garden that we plant . I'm so grateful that you're going to produce food for us in all these little things that you can do . Yes , exactly .

Speaker 1 23:09

So to end up our show , I want you to ask yourself what resonated with you the most in today's episode . So did you find that reason why you're here and that you've listened so far ? And again , we challenge you to take the action , not only from the challenge that we put out in some of the Dynatools that we've shared , but share this episode with someone right now , or dive into any of the other past recordings and keep the discussion going Again . Remember what you focus on will expand . That's either good stuff or not-so-good-feeling stuff , so it's whatever you put your attention on will expand .

Speaker 1 23:57

Gratitude may be something that you want to have in your wheelhouse of things that are important to you every day , and again we spoke about some of the things in your life don't feel good , but you can still find gratitude in it because you've made that preference and , like Makota said , you know what you don't want anymore , and so you can now focus on what you do want instead . Life is a journey , it's dynamic , it's yeah , there's so much more compelling content ahead . So visit day in amic show , dot info or , like we mentioned , dynamic series , dot com , our multimedia , and then podcasts , to explore what catches your attention . And don't forget to dive deeper into what it truly means to be a dynamic person and live a dynamic life . Makota , we do have to say , as always , thank you , thank you , thank you for being part of this podcast and any last words that you would like to say around gratitude , dynamics .

Speaker 2 25:08

Well , I'm grateful that you wanted me to do this with you and that we were able to do it right there .

Speaker 1 25:14

So simple to our listeners being grateful for even an invitation to do something , whether or not you can do it or not , but the fact that someone wanted you to be a part of it or you want someone else to be a part of something Just little little things . And if you have an issue with not having the ability to find something to be grateful for , please go read our blog . There's the one blog that we had about gratitude dynamics and then recommendations . Under that just says that list that I shared some with you to be grateful for A quick reminder that all materials shared are copyrighted and intended for informational purposes only . So until we meet again , thank you , thank you , thank you for tuning in to this dynamic show and remember to make it a dynamic day .

Speaker 2 26:15

Make it a dynamic day .