What is Gratitude?
What is Gratitude?
Gratitude can change your life.
When we feel gratitude it can be a step into another way of being.
When we feel gratitude we open our hearts and being and then there’s expansion.
What is Gratitude?
Gratitude can change your life.
When we feel gratitude it can be a step into another way of being.
When we feel gratitude we open our hearts and being and then there’s expansion.
I want to tell you a story of a couple that thought they were on their way out of love. They were not living in their truth and love, really…but what they perceived as love. Join me as I take you back to a defining moment in their relationship that changed the course of their lives.
“A miracle is done with Knowingness. All it takes is a knowingness in your mind and it is done.” ~ Lester Levenson
“All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.” ~ Lester Levenson
As you speak to your friends and family this holiday season, can you imagine your reactions and feelings to what they are saying? Are you speaking to them in love and gratitude? Are you reacting to their thoughts and being relaxed in your reaction?
I learned a deep lesson in gratitude when I was five years old. Our neighbor and her little boy took my mom, brother and me to town. We all were having a nice little day together.
I never made my children say thank you because from an early age I knew that it had to come from a deep place inside: true gratitude. I would always encourage them to be grateful. Always.
And just to clarify, wanting approval is wanting love, wanting respect or wanting friendship; wanting to be liked. It is wanting our friends and family to think well of us. It is the sense of lacking the love or approval. Lack = want.
As we embark on what will surely be a unique holiday season, I cannot help but start to think about gratitude. From what I am daily grateful for to how I came about being grateful in the first place. Somehow, it always comes back to my kids. I am grateful for my kids….
One of the Heart of Releasing students wrote to me recently and asked about wanting approval.
And just to clarify, wanting approval is wanting love, wanting respect or wanting friendship; wanting to be liked. It is wanting our friends and family to think well of us. It is the sense of lacking the love or approval. Lack = want.