Showing posts with label gratitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gratitude. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Was Today a Hard Day? Nine Ways to Find the Best in Life

Life is brilliant - just as it comes. Life have no demand for fancy clothes, or lipstick. Life is no pig. Our life is the top gift of all creation. When we are unhappy with life - when we are shocked by the stock market, or aghast by our pick of political candidates, let's not flog out in anger. But also, let's not seek to pretty up life with some lip rouge and some political party clothes. See life clearly - no rose colored spectacles - and then CHOOSE to love life. CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful, be forgiving of everyone and every of enactment we believe have ache us. Life just "IS." We acquire to CHOOSE our human relationship with life.

Today is a twenty-four hours to look at our life from different and broader perspectives. As we watch the stock marketplace plummet, existent estate values go on to decline, and our employment hereafter in question, today would be a good twenty-four hours to look at our lives from a position of gratefulness for what we have got and a position of wonderment at our very being and the impressiveness of the human race we dwell in.

"Unexpected events can put you back or set you up. It's all a substance of - perspective." - Virgin Mary Anne Radmacher

-Life tin look different from a distance: Put some distance between yourself and whatever is concerning you. Distance in space or clip always makes a new perspective.

-Get up-close-and-personal: Life looks different when you really acquire involved.

-Look astatine Life in a Different Light: Radiance a bright visible light on your issues, or bend off the limelight and take a broader view.

-Look from a Different Angle: Approach life from a new angle. Assume nothing.

-Pretend You Just Got to America: We just don't see what is familiar. When we travel to a foreign land we really see because we don't already ASSUME what will be there. Feign your community is a foreign land and really see it. see your blessings.

-See Life as Play: Who said that life have got to be serious?

-See How Blessed We Are: We have more than than comfort, more wealth, and better wellness than ever before in history or anywhere else in the world. If we are not happy, perhaps we should number our blessings.

-Choose to See Beauty and Joy: Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice. Why would we take to see any portion of life as ugly?

-Choose to Observe Life: Choose to see life from the position of Celebration. Observe family, observe friends, observe love, observe different perspectives, observe and give thanks for all of life.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Gratitude Comes in Different Shapes and Sizes and When You Lest Expect It

Gratitude usually happens after receiving something. It is not often that one believes about this after reflecting what went wrong.

Today, I suddenly establish myself driving on the incorrect street to travel to a metropolis title high school football game game for my school. I completely drove past the street without thought and went consecutive instead of turning. It was very surprising to me as I had been to this football game bowl many modern times before. When I finally arrived, I was15 proceedings late and I was upset that I had missed the opening. After all, it was a title game and I was faculty, the school nurse to be exact.

As I approached the gate, I noticed two of our Particular Education pupils standing by themselves at the ticket booth. I asked them why they were there and not at the game.

"We don't have got any tickets. Girl Michelle was supposed to ran into us here and give us our tickets. We don't cognize where she is".

My eyes got broad as I realized that Girl Michelle was the cheerleading teacher and that she was already in the game with all the cheerleaders. I was willing to pay the $10 each to acquire them through the Gates but after hearing the narrative the individual at the ticket booth signaled to the gate that these pupils were to acquire in free.

We quickly took a place next to the set and joined the merriment and bang of watching our football game squad radiance on the field. The game was televised and there was tons of electricity in the air as our squad was winning. Although very sunny, it was windy and very cold. One of the pupils that were with me did not have got a coat on; he only was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. As I looked down on the heap of things I brought with me, I gave the two pupils my portable place and the warm blanket.

"I'll just have got to be cold", I thought. It was more than of import that these two adolescents misplaced by happenstance, be taken attention of today.

We danced and cheered to the music to maintain warm and to demo our school spirit. I arranged for the football game squad director to acquire me two hot cocoas from the team's nutrient collapsible shelter to maintain them warm. I sacrificed my cheerleading pom-poms sol that they could hearten and be excited for their team.

Our squad won the metropolis title. I took my pupils onto the field to allow them bask the winning feeling with the players, and to be surrounded by all the exhilaration of their chap high school students, television cameras, high fives and so they could clinch our squad and coaches. It was electrifying and they had large smilings on their faces.

I had a large smiling on my bosom knowing that I had given a gift to these two teens as I drove them home. I could not assist but believe that they were the ground why I needed to be late today.

Gratitude come ups in different bundles and in different forms and sizes. Iodine realized how thankful I am that I am not perfect (I was late) and that if I just look around me there are many ways I can give to others if I just unfastened myself to doing so. The more than than we are grateful, the more we have got to be thankful for in our lives. Each clip I gave these two Particular Erectile Dysfunction pupils a gift, I got back more than in tax return than I gave. Now that is winning. Woo-Hoo!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Revisiting the Past With Today's Perceptions

We all have got got past experiences we would rather bury and have derived many ways of doing so. Some seek psychiatrical help. Others "blank" such as experience out. Still others "reshape the original" world into something more palatable and less painful. The most common attack we have got been taught is to "learn" from the experience, allow it travel and move on. I believe I have got tried them all. Much of my childhood and calendar months of my Viet Nam armed combat experience is blank. Both contained very painful experiences I strived to forget. A few old age ago, I decided to seek something different.

The human head is "wired" to bury pain. A few old age ago, I had a very serious bike accident and nearly died. I can remember the incident in minute item . . . except for the pain. Sure, I am aware there was intense hurting but that realisation is not nearly as clear as the other details, which are still as clear as crystal.

The fact is that every experience, good or bad, incorporates lessons. For example, from my bike accident, I certainly learned the benefit of wearing a helmet! The inquiry is, why would we desire to revisit them? Ah! This is one of the keys I have got discovered through Transformational Thinking to expanding awareness, and this is what I desire to share with you in this article.

Usually, when we revisit (remember) an experience, we be given to make so with our perceptual experience of that time, like an old tape replaying. A few old age ago, I began to inquire what it would it would be like if I revisited past experiences, good or bad, with today's perceptual experience and began to make so with unbelievable results. In fact, I am beginning to understand that this is the cardinal to the door leading from cognition and experience to wisdom.

We are able to "see" inside information that were always there but that we were simply not able to concentrate upon at the clip because of our head focusing only on those factors centered upon endurance or pleasure. In other words, we are able to spread out our consciousness of the event when we look at it with our current perception.

The first thing to see is that, no substance how painful the experience was, it is over. We are imperviable to additional pain! That takes attention of the fearfulness factor, often a hard barrier to acquire through. Once past that, we can now look around and "notice" all the other things that were happening at the clip and such as an experience have always been rewarding for me ever since I began applying this technique. It is, I suppose, very similar to what some depict as an out-of organic structure or near-death experience. Through emotional non-attachment, we can happen much to larn from the original experience we may have got missed on the first clip through.

Many claim that we should concentrate on the hereafter rather than the past. I differ for a good reason. In order to make a better future, we must understand the present and, in order to make that, we necessitate to cognize how we got here from there. We necessitate to develop our heads to clearly concentrate on all three: the past, present and future, in order to go more than adaptable and successful. It is only through this enlargement of consciousness that we can grow.

Let me set it into perspective. I lived much of my life with choler and that limited my ability to spread out my perception. Every clip I revisited an "bad" experience of the past, I did so with that anger. Later on in life, I was able to take that component of choler but it was a piece before I decided to revisit those events or experiences. When I did, I had a totally different outlook! I was also able to larn so much more than that I had missed during the original happening.

Although this may be a hard conception for some, see the following: As I revisit an old experience with new perception, I change the original event because I change the existent experience (or at least my perceptual experience of it). Now, I continue to the adjacent event with that changed perceptual experience and the consequence is equally or more than so different. We are talking about expanding one's life experience here and nil less. Think about what that means!

That is precisely what Iodine have got done and, the more than I make it, the greater the parametric quantities of my perceptual experience expands. Every revisit is more than expanding. It is a coiling rhythm achieved with nil more than the mind. It is something we are all capable of doing.

If you really desire to better your life, this is a great starting point. Can we really change the past? No, but we can change or spread out our perceptual experience of it. You have got that powerfulness right now. Start right now. Pick an experience and live over it, not with the purpose of re-experiencing what you did then, but with what you cognize now. Look at it with the intent of discovering all the acquisition points you put have got missed the first clip through. Bash so without fearfulness or anger, but with love and a desire to larn more. You will be amazed at the results.

The past, present and future are all interconnected. They are not the additive journeying we have got all been taught to accept. Learning is not a one-time event. Not if you larn ow to revisit the way with your current perceptual experience to make a better hereafter and recognize that volition be a different experience every clip you do. It will change you current perceptual experience and the rhythm simply goes on to spread out into true consciousness and wisdom.