Gratitude and Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I believe one of the most powerful ways I can improve the quality of my life, work, relationships, and attitude is to be grateful, and Thanksgiving is a time when that energy of gratitude is shared openly by so many. It’s a lovely time for me, a time of reflection and a little extra giving.
There are times (often!) in my work in particular, when it is very easy to forget how grateful I am. In this new age of incredibly flexible work environments, I am blessed with a really wonderful job that allows me to work from home and travel with a reasonable frequency, just enough for freshness and not so much that I get fatigued.
But sometimes, as is my nature, and I think human nature in general, I forget. I’ll grumble and moan and my ego will get large and in charge as it likes to do, and my attitude (and therefore the quality of my work and my spiritual condition) will start to suffer.
Nothing works faster on this than gratitude. Sometimes I get very simple about it — I am grateful that I have eyes, feet, hands, all five senses. That I can breathe. That shakes me loose enough that I can expand it to my home, pets, son, friends, and begin to really connect again with the glorious abundance of life.
My ego gets quieter and smaller then ….. proportions and reactions come back to normal … or close! I see a way clear.
Gratitude is powerful. It keeps us humble, in the present, positive, connected. It is for so much more than material prosperity. In fact, that is really the least of it. It is for hope, sanity, love, peace of mind … the awareness that the most routine facts of life are small miracles, everyday blessings.
Thank you and namaste.
Shift Happens
Deepak Chopra’s site has the original article here
Great food for thought about “Employee Future.”
