Grateful Living

Me and my friends have this ritual, where we type couple of things we are grateful for. We use whats app to chat and put it on our group. We don’t ask for anything. We just activate the grateful mode.

That is the first thing I mention on the group. It sets my tone for the day. Has any miracle happened? I believe “yes”. Does it mean, I don’t have a regular day or blessings keep happening every day?

Well to some this may sound cheesy, blessings happen every day. Every easy day is a blessing. Every day that I face a situation, I take away something from it.

Apart from this, a very profound thing happened in my life.

I have always been a carefree (irresponsible to some) kind of person. My job or the bigger pictures of life never bothered me. That was just how I was.

Then I started noticing other peoples definition of success.  I started to think I was complacent. I started to believe I should be more ambitious and earn more money, more power or titles. I was in that zone.

It clearly was not my zone. I wasn’t activating my best vibrations, because I was not being meSince years I have been reading about “Purpose of life”: “How to find purpose of life”: “Is your job in alignment with “Purpose of life”: so on and so forth

I have also claimed stuff like “I am lazy”, how does that align?

I hit a home run today.

I am here for a vacation. I found my life’s purpose: I am here to have fun, relax.

So, apparently, everyone incarnates with an intention. (I believe in this. You can choose to ignore this whole post).  I incarnated with an intention of just a vacation.

Why am I so sure? I am kicked with that idea. I am having goose bumps.

The best part about being incarnated for vacation, I could try heaps of stuff without any intention at all.

I be like: “This is so cool, I will try”: then I be like “Now this one please”: then I go have fun, sleep, relax.

Perfect!!!           

And when I go back and “God” asks me: “Did you have fun?”. I be like: “What a vacation. I am planning another one soon. But, me being essentially a sucker for being happy, I was always close to those vibrations.

We started being grateful a while back; I can’t be sure when or how long back. For a while now I was inclining towards being unhappy, stressed or just not liking people. I assigned it to growing up. I was spiralling towards being unnecessarily unhappy. It started affecting me as a wife and as a mother.

But I kept up being grateful. Because amidst all the chaos in my head; I was still grateful for a lot of things and people in my life.

One evening I just had a shift of vibration. I didn’t have to do a thing, it felt like I moved from the edge right into the happy vibration; the vibration that works for me. I have been on a roll since.

This blog was an outcome of the shift. My patience as a mom has skyrocketed. I see my daughter as she needs to be seen. I am able to work on my professional stuff with ease. I am suddenly again a people person. I am laughing at lunches with my girls, instead of walking away alone to read a book.

It might not seem life altering or my earlier situation life threatening to any one; but for me it was a change and a change that was needed soon. I was spiraling into this whirlwind of negative thoughts, questioning every decision I made in my life. Not able to reach the happy feeling I am right now in.

My Conclusion:

Practice being grateful; even if at the moment you can find a 100 faults. Pick that one thing and feel grateful.

Make it a habit. Do it every day. Write it. Say it to yourself while having a bath. Just do it.

You will see a shift. It might not be as obvious right away or it might be aha in that moment. But it will be uplifting.

Also, I see no harm in doing it.