Awareness

How do you start your day? Do you frown or are you happy to move into a new adventure? Make a change, start your day with gratitude.

Even while you are lying in bed, when you open your eyes, thank your bed for a good quality sleep, then be grateful that you woke up and have one more day to create exactly the way you want, because you really can!

We often forget how important it is to be grateful, even when someone does something nice for us, when we thank them, we say it without attaching any special significance and meaning. But gratitude has a great healing power, strength and positive vibrations.

What are you grateful for? Try to make a list of things for which you are grateful, I’m sure you will stop very soon and ask yourself what should you be grateful for?
I reacted similarly at the beginning, when I was first introduced to the issue. We always see things that are not good, the things that make us angry, disappointed, hurt, humiliated and why we don’t feel good, but we should be grateful for those things too, because we learn from them, they are our reminders and lessons on which we still have to work on that next time we will not fall, because of these things and situations we are what we are today.

Practice gratitude. Take a pen and paper and every day make a list of ten things that you are grateful for. It may seem difficult, but you’ll see how this exercise helps to understand how you are present in your life, and that indeed you have many things to be grateful for. As your list expands you will become aware of more and more things to be grateful for and that will surely boost your confidence to do even more things that you’ll be grateful for.

Gratitude teaches us a new dimension and opens our eyes to new experience of the world, it teaches us to trust life, your intuition, yourself. By being grateful every day in everything we do, even things that seem insignificant, we learn to trust in life and in turn that will give us confidence.

When you start and end the day with gratitude, you’ll notice how many blessings you get during the day, but you were never aware. Gratitude reminds us that we are what we are – worthy of love and loved. Gratitude brings us back to the present moment and teaches us that happiness is always in the present.

The modern way of life is filled with stress , the main reasons are the rapid lifestyle and general financial uncertainty due to the uncertain future. Unfortunately, there is a gap between what the circumstances of our lifes require from us and what is required by human nature, so it is no surprise that people are looking for ways to cope with stress.

One way to accomplish this is to slow down the pace of life so that worry about the past and the future will be replaced with more attention to the present. Here are the ways we propose to achieve this goal.

Focus on what happens to the current moment – Thinking about unpleasant moments of the past is actually returning them to the present, which mean you go again through the same bitter experience. It will make to look at the future filed with pessimism and you will meet the stress. You should spare from such a view, because no one can predict the future and instead of that concentrate on what is just happening here and now.

Full presence – Be aware of what you experience in the present. What you see, hear or smell now? How do you feel about it? Openness to new experiences allow you to be curious. Instead of thinking that you will not succeed because of bad experiences, accept new challenges of the present and curiously wait to see what experience you will get this time.

Do not judge – The way you accept new things depend on the feelings that protect you from something or make you act to do something. Try to accept things with an open mind without judging.

Accept the things as they are – Do not get fooled that reality is or should be in the way that suits you. So you finish with the feeling that you are a victim and the claim that life was not fair to you. Look the reality and become aware of it, you can adapt and tolerate it or you can fight to change something.

Awareness of the connection with nature – The environment is something that we should defend. We are part of it and we get things that we need from there: food, beauty, opportunities… All living beings in the nature want to be satisfied, and therefore we are not alone in dealing with stress and problems in the endless quest for pleasure.

No attachments – Do not attach too much to people, objects or experiences, because in these modern lifestyles you will hardly be able to save all the things that you like and still want. Stay independent of them, because excessive attachment to things springs from the fear and it is the basis of suffering. Everything goes away, everything changes. A door is closed, the other opens.

Stay calm – Life has its ups and downs. At any stage you are in, you know that it will end. When you are going through a bad time, stay consistent with your values and attitudes and calmly continue to achieve your goals.

Compassion – Treat yourself, and other people with kindness and compassion. Instead of condemning, be open to other people’s problems, try to understand them and do not hesitate to sympathize. Compassion is one of the basic human needs that are accomplished through relationships with others. Thus quickly you realize that you are not alone in the mud of problems.

The power of gratitude

Say “YES” to the present moment