The Living Journal – What Live Among Us ?

You can choose to walk passed,

You can choose to ignore,

But you are always having a choice,

Choose your compassion and kindness wisely,

Gratitude is simple yet so mighty.

Have you ever looked for things to be grateful for? Have you always looked for the bad things that happened to you or perhaps you have rather than looking at all the good things that were happening in your life every single day.

Many of us want to be happier, live better, and experience inner peace. Personal development and transformation involve self-discovery your life from within your heart. Thinking that life just isn’t happening to us the way it corresponds to and naturally we start making judgments and blaming others. “Why do these things keep emerging from my life?

If you think the causes of your unhappiness are the people and events surrounding you, you will conclude searching for the explanations. How the external world affects your daily living isn’t the issue, but what you believe and feel about yourself in the relationship to what is going on around you.

The power of gratitude is a feeling of gratitude makes you conscious of what you hold dear and are committed to in your heart. Appreciating the blessings in your life helps you cope with stress and unease by re-structuring life’s problems, putting them within a perception of your destiny. What is more, when you live your life with gratitude, you experience more joyfulness, self-worth and feel more connected to others.

Gratitude doesn’t mean being contented with everything around you. Authenticity requires you recognizing and coming to a place of peace with yourself. Acknowledging the ridged parts of your nature and the shadows of your character and accepting flaws, and letting go of impractical expectations will free you to experience more gratification.

The path of personal growth always involves change. Your journey to life is a dynamic process which includes releasing the tight grip on the past, letting go and moving on from everything that is no longer serving you.

The Power of self-gratitude is when accepting yourself as whom you are, and then you can make a change. Before you can change the events surrounding you, you have to act wisely to embark on changing yourself first. The example will be the life and the teachings of the Buddha.

A simple way you can do is writing a list of gratitude that you are grateful and ungrateful for everyday and stick it into two separate boxes or jars daily for a week. This able to cultivate a profound sense of gratitude and well-being through the act of list making and to observe and scrutinize what are the grateful and ungrateful lists that you have collected and contemplate and reflect upon it. 

This contemplation and reflection are very functional methods that alight your thoughts and positive energy with love and compassion to overcoming your negative emotions and fears of insecurity in your life.   

This helped you to realize that when you are grateful, fear to disappear and abundance appears. When you focus on the things that you are grateful for, it opens you to the source of all those things that came into your life. Gratitude allows you to come into full harmony with the Universe.

The better ways to predict life are to create it and if you are not thankful for what you have, why should you get anything more? Remember these sayings are being authentic included sense of worth and sense of responsibility that helps to nurturing the life that you have chosen. Your authenticity evolves from your obligation, determination and diligence in creating the best individual you are capable of becoming from the impossible to the “I m possible”

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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