Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Researchers have found that the virtues of gratitude include good health… If you can achieve good health by a repetition of simple actions, wouldn’t life be so much easier? In this week’s newsletter let’s see if we can prove that theory!
By: Wisdom-and-Philosophy.com
 
May 13, 2011 - PRLog -- Gratitude, and how this resembles standing on the shoulders of giants!

If people admired you, wouldn’t that fill your soul with joy? Gratitude attracts this admiration

QUOTE: “Through my years of teaching, I have met people whose lives  work and those whose lives don't.  The one’s whose lives don't  work, all seem to have something in common - a lack of gratitude  for what they have already!  It is impossible for us to gain more  in life if we are ambivalent with what we already do have.”

QUOTE: “Even if a person is living on the street, there is still always  something to be grateful for.  And, they had better find it because  appreciation is the power that will expand them right off of the street!”

QUOTE: “Gratitude can create a major turning point in your life!  It is one  of the fastest, simplest, and most powerful ways to expand  energy IMMEDIATELY!”

(All quotes by Carole Doré)

Everyone we meet, whether the result of this meeting is good or bad is a messenger. Why? They are sent to enlighten us.

Let me give you an example. This last weekend I have had some 48 hour bug, which has left me a little short tempered. My two children have been testing me a treat, pushing me until I raised my voice in correcting their behaviour. To their surprise it was sooner than normal. Short tempered as I was through a short bout of illness they had chosen the wrong time to test my compassion, love and I guess stupidity.

“Go sit DOWN in the lounge,” I demanded. “A lesson in courtesy, politeness and gratitude is about to happen,” I rumbled in my deep voice. I looked at my two children, albeit with a headache, stomach ache and back ache and noticed one was hiding behind a cushion and the other behind her hands awaiting their destiny.

I was meeting a new set of circumstances… so what message had my children for me? The message was clear. Had I not allowed a handful of incidences to be accumulated so I erupted with fury, I should have tackled the first and second in sequence as they happened.

The emotion of pain had made my tools of comprehension falter. Had I been perfectly healthy I would have corrected my children each time a problem arose. I must therefore acknowledge that some form of gratitude must be shown for my 48 hour illness, to confirm the need to resolve each unsavoury circumstance as soon as it arises, if at all possible.

Any emotional interference will not help your power to decide. You must be able to see this play in action. Any high emotion, including pain, will diminish your senses from supplying the information you require, plus it appears to block your intuition from operating successfully.

Gratitude allows you to draw strength and wisdom from everyday life. When you encounter a darker moment, gratitude would show you the shining light, it would illuminate the way out of your problem.

Gratitude can do this! And thus in doing so prevents the pain, anguish and stress involved in the depths of despair.

If you are grateful for what you have you will not suffer the mood swings that occur in moments of jealousy or in times of anger. The next time you feel grumpy could be the perfect moment to show gratitude for that discomfort; because it is a sign. A sign that implies that not too many minutes earlier there is a confirmation that you had made the wrong decision. Accept it was wrong and try and correct it.

Andria Bolton
from: http:// wisdom-and-philosophy.com

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