A few days back a girl called up, she was going through lots of job stress. she asked one line Mantra to improve her life. I asked to be thankful. Say a thank you to start the day and a thank you again before ending. She asked again, what shall I be grateful for and the answer was no reasons required. It is like we do not eat for a reason. We eat because we exist. We breathe because we exist. Similarly, we shall be grateful because we are alive. No other reason required. Still, if we look for reasons, there are millions. If you want to start counting for the things then there are millions every day. We have air to breathe, food to eat, clothes to wear, money to spend, house to live, a bed to sleep on, parents to take care of us, children to give us love and the list is endless.
She called up again after few days and asked if she can say more thanks in the whole day. Without asking the reason my answer was ofcourse and then I asked her the reason for this change. She shared that she used to wake up with a lot of stress and things she could not do last day and she used to go to bed also with lots of stress. In between that, she did not get a peaceful sleep also and this stress was spilling over in her sleep also. But since the time she started saying thank you, she feels that things are falling into place better and she is less stressful. She feels that she is sleeping better too. I asked her to start counting 100 things which she was grateful for everyday before going to bed and she shared that it was so much fun always and she could never count 100. She drifted to sleep before that. She also shared that lots of things which she was thinking that she needs to do, they are already done and she feels there was no effort in that.
Gratitude is my prayer, gratitude is my medicine, gratitude is the way. It heals, it nourishes and it takes care of everything. It brings surrender and it brings love.
Thank you!
