All rituals and all mantras are a technology for connecting to the subtle elements of our existence and expressing gratitude from our life to life itself. Every day we have to find a way to muster our resources to the degree that we cut through all of the smoke and dust that manifests in our mind to make contact with gratitude. We have to make contact and sustain it long enough that our hearts can be filled, that our minds can be cleared and nourished, and that our bodies can be relaxed. From that place, we can go forward in our life feeling and expressing gratitude and uplifting all of the circumstances that we move in.
As you might guess, this isn’t easy. If you try it, you are automatically going to attract obstacles–not because you have issues or problems, but because you are attempting something very powerful and important. The patterns of energy in your life will organize to resist change, and that resistance will manifest as obstacles. What you think of as issues are also your spiritual gifts, and you can be grateful for those as well. If you are, you can transform them, and those things that previously held you down become a source of tremendous energy and power.
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You have to understand that the profound transformation that will unleash an unimaginable possibility in your life isn’t free. You have to focus on it, nurture and nourish it, and persevere. It’s been many eons, many lifetimes, that you’ve been wandering around in confusion, and that confusion may take a while to dissolve. So persevere and come to a place where there is fullness in your heart, light in your head and magic happening all around you in your life.
Whatever else is going on for you, if you bring yourself to a state of gratitude every day, it won’t take long for the obstacles to be surmounted and the difficulties to be resolved. There will be increasing joy and beauty and more reasons to be grateful.
Thank you. J.
Perfect timing, perfect words. Thank you.
Beautiful. Is the picture an egg boiling in water?
No, it’s a tablet dissolving…evocative of the way obstacles dissolve in the presence of gratitude.
Hi! Thanks, that was helpful, I am changing and it feels crazy sometimes! I am going to preserve and keep going in the direction of desires:))
While transforming a life-threatening event of paralysis and blindness, I was told if I wanted to continue to live I could only do so if I promised to live in appreciation and gratitude while inspiring and empowering others to use their inner resources to transform the impossible to the possible. The doctors never expected me to live, then thought I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I knew with my life that I had to move to live and I had to live in this new way which is the wave of the future: gratitude and appreciation. Thanks for confirming and I hope my experience is encouraging to all who read it.