Dear friends,
There has never been a better time to be grateful. It might seem like there are too many important issues facing us as a people to be grateful. Perhaps we ought to be angry or resigned. But grateful? Yes. Sincere gratitude is a state of mind that breaks up stuck energy. It is a catalyst for movement. It puts us back in charge of our immediate experience, which is what is required for proactive future-building. A mind that is resentful, churned up with anger or frustration is a mind that has lost power.
Think about it this way; When we are grateful for the breath we take now, for the meal we enjoy now, for the sun on our skin, for the water we drink, for the people we love, and so forth, we are in effect saying to the ugliness “you have no power. I see through you. The real world is still here. I live in a state of grace.” Of course, there are those who would say you are naïve or ignoring the facts. Exactly. Ignoring the facts is important in this sense. I am speaking about a spiritual practice that opens the mind to power and possibility. If we identify as downtrodden or controlled, we are in trouble. We are participating in creating a future no one would welcome.
Gratitude for what is real overrides appearances to the contrary, which are temporary and passing. Our leaders are all temporary. Dis-ease is temporary. All the terrible effects that we are now observing, are temporary. They are nothing in and of themselves. A change of consciousness will bring new effects. It is difficult to convey this principle without inciting resistance, but it is important that we revisit how things happen. Perhaps “we the people” is beginning to have real meaning in our collective mind. It begins with us and we are the way good happens.
Gratitude is step one. Rather than argue the point, try it and notice the shifts in your inner experience. What we are creating is a better point of departure for our vision of a loving and prosperous world.
Stay tuned in,
Carol Carnes www.carol-carnes.com
