How to use Gratitude as a Leadership Tool for Business Growth?

Fads are inefficient because people pick them up more for their current flavour rather than the in-depth understanding to implement them to move their lives irrevocably to the next level. But the real problem is not so much that. The real problem is that the fads don’t shift us from the inside because their implementation is on the surface, only engaging the intellectual body. As a result, a very powerful habit that has the potential to uplift our life comes and goes; leaving us a little cynical about its value, lost to us forever.

Gratitude also seems to have become a fad. I am holding space for the power of this leadership habit to be experienced in its full-blown intensity as the source of business growth. Gratitude is the most powerful creative force in the world. I have known it to heal cancer in the body, heal relationships, create health and fitness, financial freedom, business growth.

What is Gratitude? It is being in the state of deep thankfulness. The most important word in the last sentence is BEING, as in the Human Being. The Being of the human being actually has five bodies - physical, energy, emotional, mental and spiritual. Therefore, to really bring on the power of gratitude in our life, we have to be engaged at all the five levels with all the five bodies of our Being experiencing deep thankfulness.

I recently observed from a distance the concept of Gratitude being implemented in an organization. I applaud the organization for this massive new thinking initiative for their employees. Though, unfortunately, only the intellectual mind seemed to have got engaged as I could see from the use of timers for regular gratitude moments and mastermind style group updates. I wonder if the BEING shifted for the people participating in this initiative. Did they feel different? Did they create different outcomes in their lives, personally and professionally? Did they experience being suffused by Divine Love and Intelligence. Till it is not this deep, Gratitude doesn’t work. It is not about thinking Gratitude, it is about feeling Gratitude viscerally beyond the level of the mind. Though, intellectually understanding Gratitude is the beginning of the journey.

My one-time teacher, Brandon Bays, used Gratitude to shift her body at a cellular level to heal and melt her basket-ball size tumour in her stomach that had her look like a fully-pregnant woman. She calls that process “The Journey”. I did a one-year program with her to understand and learn to deliver it to my coachees. I have had my coachees clear up emotional blocks from childhood to finally access Gratitude viscerally to heal themselves, heal their relationships and grow their businesses.

Here’s a true story for you to understand the steps to accessing Gratitude.

If you chant the magic mantra “I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”, nothing much may shift because the mantra actually captures the 4-step inner transformational journey that is required for the kind of magic that Dr Hew Len was able to create through what he called ‘Ho’oponopono’ and that Brandon Bays was able to create through ‘The Journey’ process. It is the same 4-step shift that a prayer or a spiritual practice can induce if it is intense and from the depths of one’s heart. I heard of a Sikh lady who healed her breast cancer by simply chanting ‘Wahe Guru’ with childlike trust and fate. It is the same 4-step inner process.

Here are the 4-steps:

1. The 1st step is to become aware of the emotional pain within. Turn towards that pain and say to that hurt part of you - I love you.

2. The 2nd step is to say to that hurt part within you - I am sorry for the pain that you are experiencing. Or, simply - I am sorry.

3. The 3rd step is to seek forgiveness from the hurt part within you for the experience of pain - Please forgive me.

4. The 4th step is to turn towards the Universal Consciousness and seek support in erasing all painful memories from one's consciousness that keep repeating the pattern of hurt and pain, again and again. Then, experiencing Gratitude in all the 5 bodies of our Being - viscerally in the physical body, energetically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually - for Universe' support in erasing all the memories of pain and hurt by saying - Thank you.

The important thing to remember is that to do these 4 steps require a higher order of awareness across all our 5 bodies, which can be achieved by dropping limiting habits and adopting Growth Habits.

Habits are like building blocks of who we are and what we can create. To shift what you can create in your life, you have to shift who you are. And, to shift who you are, you have to shift what your habits are across all the 5 bodies of your Being.

Wishing you the joy of this deeply fulfilling journey of growing yourself and your business.

Loving you,
j.
Original Article: 4-Feb-19
Updated on: 18-Aug-26