Perhaps the main obstacle to gratitude is that it is difficult to be grateful for the problems that we all must
face in our lives. It's not easy being grateful for an adverse addiction, or for a divorce, or
the loss of a loved one, or even for having had lost a job.
After leaving, what I believe is the control matrix of religiosity, I began reading material that I felt had been
previously off limits to me. As I considered the material, such as The Law of One, The Talmud of Jmmanuel, The
Wave Series and other related texts (links to all can be found on my Ancient Wisdom page), I felt that I had
finally begun to discover why I am on this planet so far from the center of the universe.
If the material I read is factual, we are each a fragment of The Whole. Did the first to become conscious of itself,
that most choose, or are programed to call "God" become lonely, thus desiring companionship, or rather was it
based on the desire to learn, to experience, to grow and to progress?
If we are here by design to do the same, then the first to become conscious must be living vicariously through
us, its holographic images, now fragmented in order to gleam various experience. Think of the implications here!
There also appears to be a negative, or service-to-self energy that creates discontentment in us in order to feed
itself. Therefore, if we allow discontentment, allowing ourselves to create unrealistic expectations of ourselves
and others, we then feed this energy sucking vampire.
So how do we force ourselves to be happy? We can't! All we can do is realize that we are here to experience
and nothing more. If we allow ourselves to believe the material lies being promoted, i.e, a nicer home or car will
make us happy, we will never be happy. We must find happiness within ourselves, rather than outside of
ourselves. Seek to learn, and not be entertained by the controlled medias.
Youth appears to be our greatest threat to contentment. In our youth we often made permanent chooses based
on temporary situations, not realizing that nothing can force us to be happy.
Many of us have suffered some very real hurts and need to grieve significant losses. What we need to realize
is that in coping with problems our faith in the process is allowed to mature and grow. Often, problems signal a
need for change in our lives that leads us in a new direction. Directions that often force us into trials and
tribulations that eventually allow us to understand why things happen the way that they had.
Being grateful for the good, bad, and even for the indifferent must play a significant role as a daily practice. This
is where all of us can begin: gratitude for life itself, you are part of something so much bigger than just yourself.
Be grateful for the freedom from the lies you believed during your youth and the harmful addictions youth
demanded of us.
Once youth has passed us by, is no longer a threat, begin searching for every learning experience along the
way. Search for the good in all, for a returned smile, for an expression of care from someone, and understand
that which seems bad or distasteful to us today will become relevant for our growth tomorrow.
So when the car will not start, realize that the cosmos has a plan, maybe to test your resolve, or teach you
patients. If the guy at the gas station gives you a bad time, maybe you need to learn understanding for others.
Whatever happens has a reason, the event is teaching you a lesson you need. The lesson will repeat itself over
and over until it feels that you got it.
Or maybe that angry guy needs to learn a lesson about something you are not aware of. Therefore, do not take
it personal! Stop and get the bigger picture, maybe it’s not about you at all!
Many of us are all-or-nothing people. We are either on top of the world, or the world is on top of us. However, if
we wait only to be grateful for the good or big things, we sale ourselves short because the chances are that we
will never be grateful at all. A practice of gratitude helps us see that we are simply in the world as human beings,
in a Broadway play, if you will, of the first thought learning of itself.
Make a journal of your adventure to read later in life. You will be amazed by how events had shaped your
thought process. When you feel blue, when the world has shot you full of holes, or even when you feel on top,
write down your feelings. After some time has passed, you will begin to see a pattern in your life and soon you
will be able to use this pattern to your advantage. Just do it and you’ll see the results later on. You will have
written a chronology that will later cause you to feel a bit foolish for believing those self-taught lies.
If each day you make a list of everything that you have to be grateful for, not only will this habit of therapeutic
journaling speak to your heart, it will remind you to stop bitching about anything that seems bad in your life!
There is a power at work here that no one can explain. Write! Share your feelings! Talk about how you feel with
others!
There is no right, nor wrong here, there are only lesson to be learned. Therefore, be patient with yourself, do
your best to choose wisely and take the time to enjoy your journey.
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