Gratitude (AKA Eating Your Spiritual Wheaties)

Nowadays Gratitude is a fashionable word. Like yoga, meditation, sending thoughts & prayers, love & light, these words, while well-intentioned, can be hollow and merely outward facing; the singsong tale of a good girl or good boy on the spiritual journey. However, consistent practice is another story as results can feel slow in coming sometimes.)

Premasudha reminds us that if we wait until we feel like doing these practices, we'll be waiting for lifetimes. Bottom line: the resistance comes from ego. Just keep going!!!

Transcript

If you want to grow, Focus on gratitude helps a lot. Do you know, Gratitude was always the hardest for me. It's like, There was so much for this one to be grateful for, And you know, I didn't see it. I didn't see it at all. It's only in retrospect where I see how totally taken care of this one was. You know, All the stuff that feels like hard work is very accelerative. So you know, Gratitude was hard for me to focus on, But you know, If I'd focused on it more, I might have grown faster. It's sort of like, You know, Doing the thousand names every day. You know, It's, It's very accelerative. It's, You know, Not always, Klan Amma says, You know, If you wait till your mind is happy doing spiritual practices, You'll wait forever. You know, There's a, There's just that, You know, Taking the medicine, You know, Swallowing the cod liver oil.