gratitude
Mondays aren't always bright
Some days, you lose the fight
But life can be beautiful if you let it be
Tomorrow keeps taunting you
With all kinds of mystery
It's a blank page for your poetry
If you let it be
“Look Up” - Joy Oladokun
The amount of gratitude that is pulsing through my veins lately is almost unfathomable. Quite possibly even unhealthy. What does gratitude do to the bloodstream after prolonged use? I’m sure it has to cause an autoimmune disease of some sort. This high is so good it MUST fill my liver with toxins, no?!?
Ok, kidding, obvi. My brain has never felt healthier, thank you, gratitude, you wonderful little substance, you. Have you ever felt that way? Where every situation imaginable is looked at with nothing but gratitude. Like … fuck, I just stepped on my dogs paw, tripped and fell to the ground with my hot coffee, which is now dripping down my clothes and slowly weeping down my now third degree burn. Cool, Cool. Ok but like wow the overwhelming feeling of love and sympathy I have for my living breathing dog, who literally loves me more than anything and was just staying close to me for every last second he could before he knows I’m leaving again and won’t be back for hours. How great does it feel that I am loved by something that much… and vice versa! How blessed am I that I have the ability to love something so much. This feeling of love is unbelievable. And the coffee is now drying and it actually can’t even be seen on my clothes and alright cool now I’ll get whiffs of my favorite coffee all throughout the day, lol. And then I leave the house in a great mood still because I feel so much love and humor out of the situation. Anddddd what do you know, there is a tree that fell down right on the road that I take every morning. And it’s a fresh fall because cars are backed up, nobody is hurt, and the tree is now getting comfy on the pavement. Wow … I could have been driving right under that tree if my morning didn’t take an unexpected turn. So now I literally can’t even help but to burst out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter at how well the universe is conspiring in my favor. Like …. whats next universe?!?!? You want me to win the lottery?!?! Fine, let my car break down at the gas station with the winning ticket, would ya?!
The thought that everything is happening against you is 100% created by your brain. The thought that everything is happening for you is also 100% created by your brain. If you walk around living your life in the mindset that everything that goes wrong that day is just yet another thing that is here to irritate you, then your days are going to be filled with irritating moments. Living every day jumping from one irritation / aggravation to the next. When will it freaking endddddddddd???
Hmmmmm ok I have an idea. What’s the harm in starting to look at irritating moments from an outside perspective that it happened for a reason. Oooooh, OK! A fun little real life mystery now of figuring out and / or writing the script of why that annoying thing happened to you and what is it leading me to or distracting me from? And then you will slowly find that the universe truly does have your back and is always working in your favor, all you have to do is recognize that. How very Leo of you universe, I see you! ;)
But there are feelings of hopelessness, fear, dread, stress, anxiety, disgust, etc. that are designed to be heavy enough to keep you down and low vibrational. They are meant to keep you in defense mode, which could mean defense mode emotionally or actively, neither are healthy to be in for long periods of time. But like attracts like so … if you’re feeling hopeless, your brain is going to keep searching for the next thing to keep that feeling alive. Same goes with fear, dread, stress, etc. Everything wants itself to thrive. Even negative emotions. They are an energy after all, and energy only knows how to hold its specific frequency. However, that energy can be triggered or enhanced by another energy. Or another emotion, let’s say. So the emotion of hopelessness is triggered and enhanced by fear. And fear is triggered and enhanced by anxiety. And anxiety triggers and enhances stress and depression and back to hopelessness… Make sense?
BUT! On the other side of the coin, those energies can all be balanced or equalized by an opposing energy. Such as happiness, admiration, understanding, compassion, gratitude, etc. And on the higher octave of that coin, all of those energies can be enhanced or stimulated (stimulated = triggered’s higher self) by other positive emotions. Happiness is enhanced by admiration and compassion. Compassion is stimulated by gratitude. Gratitude leads to joy and happiness. See how it works?
Point is, try to find gratitude in every single moment, even if it seems as if that moment happened SOLELY to ruin your day. Because maybe it ruined your day for the tricky little reason that the next day is going to be the absolute best day of your freaking life and now you will appreciate it to the highest extent. Which will then lead to an unbelievable gratitude high and every moment following that is matching your high vibe contagious energy until it wears off! Which, FYI, it doesn’t have to wear off unless you let it. And … if it doesn’t turn out that that’s the case… then it’s most definitely, without a doubt, somewhere in between. It has to be. And the more able you are to fine tune those energetic frequency of positive emotions the more it is going to spark the next positive / high frequency situation, and eventually you’re just going to gravitate toward alllll the highest timelines because that’s all you’re giving your energy to. Because it feels so freaking good. Especially when the world outside of you is chaotic and scary and unknown … at least you are calm, safe, and confident in the light you hold and of the universe’s intentions for you. Every moment is a new moment to find more gratitude in this game called life. I can’t wait to see what the next best thing is going to be, for me, and the collective. What an epic time it is to be alive :).
