Celebrating 150 years of Swami Vivekanand

Would you like to be plugged into the superhighway for Awakening?

The BEST practice that you can do for yourself is that of Gratitude!  And you can do it anytime anywhere. Being grateful is the connector to your Divine Intelligence.  It’s the  fertilizer to grow your Soul’s deepest desire, the ancient longing to merge into our Authentic Self.  Experiencing and expressing gratitude is a crucial part of every spiritual path.  Simply, gratitude opens your heart.

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears” Tony Robbins

Gratitude is the emotion of connectedness so you can know your very unique and personal relationship with Spirit, Grace, Cosmic Consciousness, your Essential Self or whatever name you call it.

Here are 3 things for you to explore to open your heart and unleash gratitude in your world everyday:

1. Contemplate a higher power.  What does that mean in your life?  What do you believe and what do you feel about it?  How often do you Pray?  What do you have faith in?  Do you Trust that a higher power exists? Through prayer you can intimately access the tapestry of life and acknowledge your interconnection to ALL things.  There is No religion involved, just a direct connect to Source.

2. Acknowledge the Gift of Gratitude.  How do you feel when someone expresses gratitude toward you?  How do you feel when you offer gratitude to another? How often do you offer Gratitude each day even for the smallest of things? Gratitude helps you to open your heart to experience your most prized and precious relationship.

3. Count your Blessings.  Do you notice the miracles that are happening to you and do you give thanks?  Are you noticing what you don’t have rather than appreciating what you do have?  Are you able to really soak in the feelings for being deeply thankful for the many gifts you experience everyday? Did you know that Giving gratitude rather than Taking for granite completely rewires your world?  There are so, so many freedoms and advantages we experience all the time, and we just expect them to show up.  Do you know that everything that happens to you is a Gift?  Take notice each day give thanks.  That is the glue that makes it all possible in our connection to Self.

Gratitude is the language of infinite Grace. Get into the habit of blessing everything.  Express your appreciation to everything and everyone you encounter. By blessing, you are blessed, and you affirm your link to the Divine and to every other part of creation. There’s no easier way to access your heart, experience the awesomeness of who you truly are and allow this power of gratitude to explode blessings in your life.

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy