Ep 441: Throwback To Ep154: Intrinsic Raditude Is The Attitude

Nov 6, 2025

Discover the fascinating concept of intrinsic ratitude, or radical gratitude, which can transform your life. Jim shares his personal journey, emphasizing deep, genuine appreciation for life's innate faculties rather than material possessions. He explores how gratitude can shift your emotional state and even reality itself. Engaging exercises, like covering your hand with a sock, highlight everyday abilities we often take for granted. Learn practical daily habits to embody gratitude, and explore reframing challenges as opportunities for growth.

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INSIGHT

Gratitude Changes Your Inner State

Living from deep, intrinsic gratitude (ratitude) transforms your internal state and how life responds to you.
Jim links consciousness and the double-slit idea to show gratitude bends physical experience toward what you hold in mind.

ANECDOTE

Bronco Moment Sparked Deeper Gratitude

Jim recounts buying a new Ford Bronco and immediately complaining about gas despite abundant blessings.
His brother-in-law's blunt response stunned him into deeper gratitude for his health and life.

INSIGHT

Gratitude For Inner Faculties

Intrinsic gratitude focuses on internal faculties like sight, heartbeat, breath, and movement rather than external possessions.
Cultivating gratitude for inner functions lets you 'commune' with life and access a deeper sense of power.

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As you read the headline you probably thought, “What…what the heck is intrinsic ratitude?” Right?

Totally understandable and “ratitude” is my word for ‘radical gratitude’ and intrinsic is what’s deep inside of you and inherent to your BEing.

When I say intrinsic to your being, I mean things like your ability to see, smell, taste, feel, and even your ability for your heart to beat and for you to breathe.

Oprah has said, “Gratitude is the attitude” and many of us have heard that before but how many of us truly live that? How many of us embody it? How many of us understand that to the core of our being? When we do, it changes everything in us and around us, and when we live it in our daily lives they radically transform.

In this episode, I talk about my journey to finding “intrinsic ratitude” in my life. And, I assure you, it has been a journey and all of us can do it if we commit just 5 minutes per day to having intrinsic ratitude.

The great thing about ratitude is that it’s literally an avenue to all that you want in life. It’s free and yet most of us overlook it in our lives or we’re tepidly and mildly grateful but we’re not really embodying it.

Let me ask you, do you take time during your days being immensely grateful for all that you have? I mean genuinely grateful, not perfunctory gratitude. I mean instead of just saying you’re grateful because you’re “supposed to” can you feel it in your bones, do you embody it. Do you savor your gratitude?
You’re not fully aware and alive until you can reach this place in yourself and all else is just being externally influenced. All else is not being fully present in life and not being fully immersed in life.

When we start immersing in life we start infusing with life. And, when we infuse it, it’s as if we are co habituating and living in communion with all of life…and that is power.

In this episode I discuss:
[7:04] How having gratitude will change your life
[13:57] How once you are living in gratitude the Universe will start reflecting that back
[18:55] Having gratitude for your breath, your heartbeat
[23:15] An exercise in being grateful for your hands

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Transformational Takeaway

What if you woke up today with everything you were genuinely and intrinsically grateful yesterday? Ponder that….

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With gratitude,
Jim