Each one of us wants to live a LIFE which is full of happiness,
peace and contentment. Is this asking for more? Why is it so difficult to live
this state of life? As I start questioning this, I start getting my answers…
You have only control on your feelings and thoughts which
again are very much influenced by your social conditioning so start with just
understanding this fact and start observing your feelings, thoughts and
actions.
While I started doing this, I realized that whatever you
have plenty, you do not care and ignore and chances are that you would not have
enjoy it.
In due course of time it will go from you or you may just
die before you would realize it .In either case it may be late to re-live your
life and re-do things again and change the course or live differently.
Whatever you have scarce, you hold it and continue struggle
to get more of it .You hold/struggle so that you can have it as much as you had
always wanted it so as to enjoy it. Chances here are that you would not have
enjoyed it as well.
Some of you would have been determined, hardworking and
lucky enough to achieve what you had always wanted but you may still wonder if
it was a good bargain and worth for your life spent.
This is problem half solved as understanding the core issue does
not equals to solving the issue. So the point was how to address this.
I started to observe my thankless attitude to have a thankful
attitude which is nothing but a feeling of gratitude by thanking the nature, my
higher consciousness and people around me .Make a note of same in a diary of Gratitude.
Even just “living” is a great reason to feel gratitude for. Ask someone who is on
death bed from a critical illness. Having someone whom you love is a great
reason to feel gratitude about; you may realize when you have no one .Start writing
5 things which you want to be thankful about. If you are into prayer every day,
prayer should consist of gratitude rather than asking for more. You can be
thankful about anything and everything….basically the best things which
happened that day…It will help develop a different attitude in you and will
attract more of what you appreciate.
Life has already given us everything .Do not compare with
others and with our past .Do not ask, work on it and work for it with a
conscious mind rather than sleeping mind. Most important enjoy the process of
working and feel contentment with our actions rather than results from our actions.
There are expectations and standard set by the world before us where our mind
gets trapped. Come out of it. It’s the foolish nature of our mind that always
wants more and does not appreciate what we already have. It makes you feel
incomplete and we crave for things which we feel you do not have enough.
As you start practicing a shift from being thankless to thankful
attitude, your craving will reduce and contentment with life will improve...You
will be more alive, happy and at peace
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