“Your thoughts and feelings come from your past memories. If you think and feel a certain way, you begin to create an attitude. An attitude is a cycle of short-term thoughts and feelings experienced over and over again. Attitudes are shortened states of being. If you string a series of attitudes together, you create a belief.
Beliefs are more elongated states of being and tend to become subconscious. When you add beliefs together, you create a perception. Your perceptions have everything to do with the choices you make, the behaviours you exhibit, the relationship you chose, and the realities you create.”
– Joe Dispenza, You Are The Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
Developing an attitude of gratitude is an ongoing daily practice. The power and practice of gratitude has been passed through thousands and thousands of years of life through many cultures, through most indigenous traditions and through religions including Christianity, Judaisim, Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Hiduisum, which all have gratitude at the core of their teachings.
Acting in gratitude means making a conscious effort and habit to express thankfulness for your life and the things within it.
Through gratitude, thankfulness & compassion we find our way to a lighter, happier life. To be grateful, is to be intentional about your attitude and your perspectives. Living an authentic life is a huge part of being able to be grateful, knowing that we are confidently standing in our truth and the choices we make every day to make up what our lives consist of. To be able to be thankful for the people in our lives and what they bring, to be grateful & compassionate for how we feel about ourselves when we wake up in the morning, when we are trigger, when we look at our bodies, when we move through any experience that presents itself. Our ability to show up within those experiences are hugely determined by our level of gratitude to what we have within our lives.
Patanjali’s 8 Limb Pathway in our lives. Many of the Yamas and Niyamas stem from a practice of gratitude and letting go of the ego, especially Santosha – contentment, which is the active practice of gratitude and appreciation for what is (check out one of our oldest and loveliest challenges within ‘The Practice’, the Chakra Series for more on this). This means of letting go, of striving for what you don’t have and accepting with joy what you do have now. How fitting for just leaving a month themed all around letting go and letting go of emotional baggage.
For many of us, thinking through the lens of gratitude and living through the heart space isn’t always our first inclination – often, it’s the opposite, and this is where a PRACTICE comes into play. Like anything you consistently practice and put your energy into, it will flourish and this is no different. You only need to start small and build on it from here – there is no ‘end point’ for practising gratitude, just like there is no end point in our Asana practice, it is something to weave into who we are every day so that it eventually becomes our default setting, our way of thinking and being. The practice of being intentionally mindful of how we integrate Gratitude into our daily rituals.
Let’s dive into this months theme on The Soul Practice and learn how we can invite in more joy, compassion & gratitude.
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