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Namaste My Friends,
In the spirit of Thanksgiving here in
the USA,
focusing on gratitude this week (and beyond) seems appropriate. If you’re
putting a lot of attention on stress, fear, anger, sadness, or pain about
anything in your life you might be missing out on celebrating all that you
have that is meaningfull and brings richness to you life.
We can get so caught up in the
day-to-day activities and details of our lives that we forget to
slooooooooow down and look around at all that is right with us and in the
world.
So, stop for a moment. Take a deep
breath and count your blessings, gifts, and miracles that enrich your life.
Celebrate every one of them no matter how small. When you add them all up,
you might be surprised at how rich you truly are even if your bank account
isn’t as flush as you’d like it to be.
A
successful life requires ongoing growth, and gratitude ensures growth.
Gratitude heightens awareness and expands your interaction with the world.
Once gratitude becomes part of your nature you begin to see the connections
between your success and creature comforts, and the talents and
contributions of others.
Pause
for a moment and begin to think of the connections between people and you
will immediately understand how important a role gratitude plays in the
creation of a happy, productive life. We live in a world where we have much
to be grateful for if we would just stop and look around. It’s quite
humbling to think of all the roles that complete strangers play in our
daily existence. The sheer ingenuity and effort required of others is one
of the most compelling reasons why we must make gratitude a daily practice.
My list?
Here are 8 blessings
I’m grateful for:
1. Incredible family and friends who
unconditionally love me no matter how I show up, boost me up when I’m
shaky, and kick my butt when I’m dancing around things.
2. My home. I’ve created a nurturing
environment that is comforting, cozy and tranquil.
3. Living the life that is totally
purpose driven and LOVING it.
4. My two darling DAUGHTERS (Anjali
& Reena), SON-IN-LAW (Jaison) and FUTURE SON-IN-LAW (Todd) who make me
laugh and tickle my heartstrings every day. They are four of my
greatest teachers.
5. All the gifts, blessings, and
miracles that flow into my life every day, desired and undesired.
6. Nature in all of it’s beauty and
abilities to bring instant peace, calm, healing and rejuvenating.
7. My relationship with the Creator of
All That Is that brings me back to remembering who I am.
8. Lastly, for all of you who take the
trouble to read my articles.
What’s on your list? I have attached a
wonderful assessment of our blessings.
With
thanks and appreciation….
As
Always,
Reaching
out to make a difference....
Geeta
Thoughts
To Ponder:
1. THANKS—GIVING
One Sunday, at the discourse at my temple, I
learned a new perspective of the meaning of the word Thanksgiving. It has
twofold meaning when we separate it in two words…thanks and giving.
Hence, for me it is the DAY of thanks and giving. We give thanks for all
that we have received, are receiving and will receive and then we put
action to this gratitude by giving and sharing of our bounty with
others. It is not enough to acknowledge the gifts we have received
but we need to share the bounty.
2. Give Thanks because this time of
year is a wonderful time to transform difficulties into insights and
conflicts into genuine communication.
3. “Gratitude unlocks the
fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns
denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a
meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude
makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for
tomorrow”…Melody Beattie
4. “To speak gratitude is courteous and
pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live
gratitude is to touch Heaven”…Johannes A. Gurtner
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