A Rampage of Gratitude

RAMPAGES OF APPRECIATION.
I love this call to action.
Tied to The Law of Attraction.

That energy of THANK YOU counts for a lot.

It’s not about cementing ourselves into a forced, fixed GRATITUDE.

It’s a gentle acknowledging of HAVING.

An on-going remembrance that we have so much… even if we are, in certain areas of our lives, “in need.”

Yes, many times, GRATITUDE is a missing link.
It moves the needle.

It’s the rightful honoring of that which we’ve been blessed with.

GRATITUDE doubles as properly *receiving*.
Owning and claiming our blessings.

CELEBRATING the bounty that’s been bestowed upon us.

Generally AND specifically.

Generally: taking stock of our incredible good fortune… even in the face of life’s inevitable hardships.

Specifically: literally COUNTING those blessings. Taking stock. Noticing. Attuning to them.

GRATITUDE means not taking things for granted.
Not wantonly “expecting.”
Not assuming or presuming.
Not being *entitled* while not even being aware of being entitled.
Not being bratty, while having no idea of it.

GRATITUDE makes sacred and meaningful our relationship to what we have.

So that we don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

So that we don’t ignore the bounty we are already heaped with…
instead fixating on what’s missing and on what we don’t have.

GRATITUDE done right remains in balance. Integrated and healthy.

It need not be overdramatic, ramped-up, as if a hyperbolic “OMG”…
Ideally it’s just present, palpable, and discernible.

Yes, we should feel organically “deserving” of more and better…
And healthily aware that miracles are the natural order of things.

But the sense of deserving is tarnished if it’s held greedily, stubbornly, and egoistically.

And so…
We are wise to immerse in rampages of gratitude.
Swells of appreciation.
Thank you’s streaming forth from within, a subtle starburst of pixie dust.

Privately.
Within ourselves.
And letting it emanate outward.

GRATITUDE…
For our family… friends… beloved… even strangers.
For the roof over our head…
our means of transportation.
For our sources of income…
and of education.

For our LIFE.
This grand adventure.
This tangle of having and not-having.

Love + Oneness,
Naomi