She calls this practice her “core.”
“What you focus on in your life expands, so focusing on what you’re grateful for increases positive vibrations and feelings of joy,” she explained. “One good feeling builds on another good feeling and another. If you actively appreciate all that you have in life, no matter how small it is, what you’ll notice is you will end up having more. And when you hone in on what you don’t have, you never have enough.
That’s not to say life is always rainbows and butterflies—even Winfrey struggles to come up with her five uplifting things on some days. “When things don’t easily come to mind, go back to your breath,” she wrote. “Because if you’re breathing, you ought to be grateful. Know that you have that, and simply opening your eyes in the morning and having that breath is a gift.”
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