Everyday you should give thanks...lots and lots of THANKS for everything around you. These are not just words I think I should say, but that I actually do say. I do say it and I do try to live each day gratefully. It is not always easy to give thanks when we are experiencing loss, devastation or destruction or just feeling sadness. However, if we fail to say Thanks today then we most likely will forget tomorrow too and before long it is just one more habit that we have created for not being mindful of our thoughts and behaviors. So take any random day and let that be your starting point. It is easy, I promise.
Today will do I think. Today has plenty within it that I could bitch about. I am wise enough to know that this is counterintuitive to my real dreams for my life. I never grow when I complain. I never succeed when I compain. Just like no one can eat only one of Lays potato chips, I can never just complain once. There is always a string of complaints in a row. So instead, today, when conflicts arise, I will say THANKS. I am glad that I have people in my life who care to be botherd by me or to bother me. I am thankful that I do not live all alone by myself with no one to see everyday. I am Thankful and grateful for the fact that I am able to earn a living and contribute to my household not only in financial ways but by being here for the people who live here. I am Thankful that I get to clean the toilets, match the socks, vaccuum the floors and watch the children. I am Thankful that I do not have a perfect body because that fact motivates me to get down on the floor and play with the kids and burn off a few extra calories! I am glad to be here.
Sometimes I want to mentally "check-out". We all feel that way and some of us feel it often which means we really have separated ourselves from our gratitude. I wished it was sunny out today but it isn't...a fact over which I have no control and neither do you. But perhaps this is the perfect time to feel grateful for not being overly hot from the sun or to be grateful we do not need to apply sunblock. If it rains outside, well, maybe I needed to really focus on some of my household chores, right? Let me set my mind and body and spirit to what I have been given to do, use, have and appreciate and attend to that fully and without the distraction of a negative mindset. No one is perfect...maybe you, like myself, experienced a minor setback today. It's fine to admit it. Just say it! I HAD A MINOR SETBACK. It could have dragged me down all day. But instead, I turned it around. Some people would say, "one day at a time"...they would be right. Live in the moment. What a brilliant idea. I tried it and here were my results:
I stayed in the moment with the kids and observed their patterns of activity. This will help me to intervene when I hear an argument arise later over the same toys or activities...because now I know which child favors which item and what they are likely to argue over. Thank you! And then when my son, who slept late this morning was fighting his usual nap, I decided to live life in the moment. He isn't going to be my baby boy forever, so I picked him up and rocked him like I use to do when he was an infant. He fell asleep in my arms as I watched his little eyes drfit and droop. THANK YOU! There really is no way to top that...that will be the best part of my day. I had an argument this morning with someone. I could have spent my day getting more angry with that person or about the things they had to say. But I chose instead to meditate on thoughts of them and I being in agreement. I asked myself if I was really thinking of that person's needs at all? Was I of any service to them at all? Could I be more so? The more I considered the question, the more revelations came to me about how I could be more generous, helpful, attentive, kind and loving to that person. Before long I was eager to do those kind things for them. Thank you for that change of heart.
You can do this in your life too. Just believe that you are powerful, and strong. Your ability (mentally) to overcome any obstacle is absolute and infathomable. No one is more equipped to deal with your problems, your life or your situations than you. You are the one and the only who can relate, although you are not alone in experiencing troubles. But your troubles truly are temporary and fleeting if you allow them to be. any attitude that you sit too long in, begins to take on it's own life form and physical form. Get rid of all that worry, it does not serve you! It is meaningless. It is all meaningless. Live for today. Embrace it. I will be there too, living in day-tight compartments and believeing in the Law of Attraction and it's resulting goodness in my life.
~Namaste
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