GRATITUDE AND ABUNDANCE

Gratitude is not just counting your blessings and then following the mundane routine of the life with all its limitations and pain.

Gratitude is just not a word. It’s not a “feel good pop-up pill”.

Gratitude is a door-way that opens up a passage that leads one to limitless horizons of possibilities in life. It connects you to the chord of Bliss that would take you to the state of self-awareness.
It is the simplest technique that opens up your self to the abundance that’s all around you and within you.
Savor every incident / moment with gratitude (honestly and in toto!). It can be an act of just watching sunrise or sunset. Don’t Analyse. Don’t try to verbalise any feeling. Don’t even compare it with anything. Don’t do anything.

JUST BE WITH IT!

Feel the flood of bliss / joy that engulfs you all through the day. Flow with it. Walk through the day your normal way. At night, take stock of your day. How different was it from others? If just few seconds of “Beingness” can make so much difference in your day, imagine that state spilling over your every activity of your day!

This ‘Beingness’ or presence is all that I wish you all to experience and towards that end is the journey that we would make from now onwards. And the first step in this path starts with Gratitude!

Gratitude would then be understood as said by William Blake
“To see a world in a grain of sand,
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.”

as you go in search of a grain of sand...

i go into eternity. till we meet again i remain ever so

Healing and happiness

The best place to start is always the beginning. and the beginning is always OM the simplest remainder of gratitude for all that we are, for all that we have and for all that we seek to be.....

Yesterday, I met Nirmala who had been bitten by a dog few months back. she showed me that she couldn't fold all of her fingers completely. she is going for physio-therapy to have a hold on her fingers. and to think just 3-4 months back she must have thought it funny to go to a therapist to learn how to use your own fingers. "After loosing my ability to use my fingers at my will i knew how much i had then " she said. do we all need to lose something that we take for granted in life, be it usage of our body parts, normal functioning of our body, the people being alive in our lives, having 3 square meals a day not to forget the umpteen cups of chai (Hyderabadi can't live without one every hour u see) and like , to understand how much rich we are in reality? how much we have in abundance? 

Validating all that we have let's us to kneel down in gratitude for all that we have taken for granted. it also tells us the riches we are endowed with. it reminds us of the opulence that we did not experience because we got it unasked for and we never worked for it....

Goals help us to work towards all such needs and fulfillment that we wish to experience...but let us start from the sense of abundance, the right place where we are rather than start from the list of "not having things in life..."....just to understand the difference between the two statements let's make a small exercise....make a list of things that u have and are enjoying...all including the gift of computer, internet, eyes, literacy et all....think , think and then fill it... take others help in filling the list of things that u have....

now make a list of things that u don't have... compare them..........

as you seek to open up , i bid you farewell

revathi