Gratitude

Be in a constant state of gratitude, this will start to bring a flow of blessings into your life. When you can be truly grateful for everything that happens, the good or the bad, you will find that your life will begin to improve. It may be challenging at first to find the positive in every situation, but once this habit of gratitude becomes a part of you, you will be surprised by what opens up for you. Begin by being grateful for the basics like food, shelter and for small things that you can easily acknowledge. From there, allow your gratitude to grow and then you will be ready for even better things to come your way.

I am grateful… for the gift of life and all my many blessings, for family and friends, for a place to live and food to eat, for the earth and the spirit of life, for the sun that shines every day and for life it creates, that I can learn and grow from experiences I may not even have wanted, but that allow me to open up to a greater awareness of myself and my world, for the love that flows to me and through me and for support for the journey that is my life.

What emotions are you creating?

Emotions are habits, and are actively created. It seems like they have a life of their own because we aren’t conscious of exactly how we create them. If we can bring more awareness into our emotional life then we can cultivate the emotions we want to experience (those that make us and others happy), and discourage the arising of those we don’t want (those that make us unhappy and generate conflict with others).

We cultivate emotions all the time. An example of how we unconsciously generate emotions is this: imagine you’re with a group of people, and you get to talking about all the things that are wrong with the world — hatred, war, intolerance, child-abuse, pollution etc. As the conversation goes on, and we get more and more involved, what happens? The chances are that we get angry, or depressed, or feel self-righteous. By focusing on things that anger or depress you (without creatively trying to see what you can actually do about these things), you cultivate these emotions.

Imagine if you did that with things that encouraged a sense of love and well-being in which we consciously set up the conditions for the arising of positive emotion.

What we resist persist

What does it really mean “What we resist persist” and how does this affect YOU?
Anytime you’re not feeling good you are resisting something.

If you feel unloved, you are resisting love.
If you feel betrayed, you are resisting trusting yourself.
If you feel abandoned, you are resisting accepting yourself fully, just the way you are.
It all comes back to you, to accepting yourself fully and completely.
It’s about being in conflict with who we really are, being in conflict with our true and abiding nature. It’s about us believing that we are limited and small when just the opposite is true. But we believe it anyway.
And then you break free from all the limiting beliefs.