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Gratitude Practice

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Something woke me from my sleep,.....so what else is new right? It was a sensation coming from my subconscious self. I stirred and pulled myself fully awake, the feeling was unfamiliar and so of course I wanted to decode it.

The only words I can use to describe the emotion was one of gratitude and well-being. It is not that I do not show gratitude every day given that I have a lot to be grateful for, but this time, there was a feeling of gratitude that did not come from my effort. The only example I can think is being good because you knew there was a prize at the end of the day as opposed to being good because that is who you are and what you do and you do not know how to be any different. This means that if I bring this analogy to be about myself, it means that up until this time, I was only mouthing gratitude; I was looking for some reward for my being grateful, like being thankful for what you have while saying, “See, Universe, I am being grateful so give me more.”

How many of us are truly grateful or just go through the motion of showing gratitude; lip-servicing our gratitude practice and missing out on the true emotion?
We cannot fool the Universe, so when we speak the words with our mouths but there is no match up to our Higher Self, we end up missing out on our gifts and blessings.

Perhaps we can leave the lip-service for when we have to placate the Ego and allow ourselves the true feeling of feeling gratitude.