Saanams Mind

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.”-Brother David Steindl-Rast

If we have to attract abundance of happiness we have to learn the power of gratitude, because  gratitude is a whole lot of positive energy which  speaks of happiness, satisfaction, acceptance and  harmony.Its easy to be grateful when things go right but how many of us still look at the good in bad situations and show gratitude then? Gratitude is a show of  high positive vibrations or energy that focusses on our goals and helps it happen.

A lot of times when stuck in a bad situation in life, we wind up resisting it and emitting  negative energy. That in turn makes our life so much more difficult and we attract more untoward incidents towards ourselves by focussing on what went wrong. There is no gratitude but the energy is all focussed on what we lost .We do not look at what good came out of it.So we are going against what is reality . Non resistance to what happens means you dont argue against what is reality. If you look at every situation, it has equal of good and bad in it. So you make a choice of choosing the good and being grateful for it.

If you lost out on something , you know there is something better waiting for you at the end of it all.There is one more thing that should come along with gratitude for it to work positively for us. Forgiveness toward all that worked against us, people who hurt us, people who cheated us. For gratitude to work its magic on our lives we have to learn to forgive easily. The easy way to go about it is to thank the person for teaching you some valuable lessons in life instead of cursing them for situations that happen due to them. If you forgive them its easier to cut chains of resentment, be grateful to them for teaching you life lessons and then move on.Forgiveness also means forgiving yourself too for all things that dont go your way. Unless you forgive yourself, you cant forgive others, you cannot support them. Gratitude and forgiveness is  a big gift you can give yourself ,because it makes life so much more peaceful and stress free.It makes one fulfilled with their life. It teaches you to Give more and more thus again focussing on the positives of life.

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”  So maybe we should all start looking at life and take each step  of life with gratitude .

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