How easy it is to complain, yet I find more and more often that it is just as easy and much more productive to count my blessings and turn every complaint into a thank you. This morning I say to my husband-to-be, "It drives me crazy to have so many leftovers" and he gently reminded me of our saying..."Bless the abundance."
You can do this for every single thing in your life. Bless the red light that keeps you from getting to work, bless the pain in your stomach that has you in bed today, bless the noise next door that keeps you awake, bless the cold, bless the heat, bless the day that you are alive on this earth.
I started out writing this to suggest making a gratitude list every day, something I try for every morning. I start by saying when I wake up "thank you for the breath I breathe, thank for hot showers and tea with honey, thank for my beloved, thank you for sunshine (or the lack of it!) the list can go on and on, like a string of mala beads throughout the day, like a mantram that plays continually in your head. But even better is being thankful for the things that annoy you, make you late, give you pain, or just plain get in your way. Just for today step back and says thanks.
Namaste
Rose
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