Living A Life Of Gratitude: 11 You Are Here

Learn why we can only be exactly who we are, at this moment. Life is a series of experiences that will show us the way. As we journey from life's beginning to a sacred end, we will experience both suffering and radical heart-opening. No matter what is happening in your life, when we focus on gratitude for every little thing—the good, the bad, the all of it—we can experience soul awakening.

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Welcome to Living a Life of Gratitude. I'm Sarah Wiseman. You are here. Much of the self-help world doesn't address what we really need, What you need, What I need, What anyone needs in our lives. That's because our current state of evolution is so fast that what made sense even a few years ago is no longer current or relevant to where we can go today. Recently, I was invited to take part in a seminar that promised it would teach me how to access my authentic self. That sounded great! Who doesn't want to live authentically? But as I looked at all the list of all the things this seminar promised, All I could think was, I'm already there. In a nutshell, The seminar promised I would discover what's holding me back, How to love who I really was, How to live by my own rules, And how to come into full self-expression. Wow! Now these all sound wonderful, But at this point in my life, After many years of struggling and stumbling and wandering lost in the desert, I'm not there anymore. At this point in my life, Like Oprah's column, What I Know For Sure in her magazine, What I know is this. Nothing is holding me back. As soon as I feel something limiting me, I look at it and get rid of it. That sometimes takes time, But letting go of limits is an ongoing process, And I am myself fully at all moments, Good, Bad, Ugly, In all ways I am always myself. I don't expect perfection. In fact, I'm sure I won't ever achieve it. I'm okay with all my flaws and faults in addition to my more developed qualities. In fact, Even though I'm not perfect, I love myself in all ways, Full of acceptance of all parts of myself. What else can I do? I already believe my life is my own to create. How could it be otherwise? As an adult living in the time and culture where I live, Nobody else is in charge of me but me. Everything I do is my full self-expression. Again, How could it be otherwise? I fully inhabit myself, And I am a work in progress. This is the same for everyone. There's this myth that we aren't living who we really are, When in fact we are living exactly who we are every minute of the day. If we are in fear, We are living fear. If we are in anxiety, We are living anxiety. If we are in shame, We are living shame. If we are in anger, We are living anger. We are always living exactly the consciousness we have achieved in that moment. There's no falseness to this. In addition, We have the ability to move beyond where we are now from one stage of authenticity to another. For example, You can live in shame for decades and then suddenly just decide it's not your problem, It's not your story, You don't want to live there anymore. And in that moment of choice, You break free from that old image or idea of yourself and suddenly it all just dissipates and dissolves. After a few years, You can't even remember the problems you were dealing with back then. Your self is always shifting, Changing, And moving. Another way of putting it, Wherever you are, You are here. Be thankful for exactly who you are at this moment, With all your foibles and flaws, All your struggles. Life is a series of experiences that show us the way. At any moment, We can drop our story, Drop our old view, And move into a new state. We may do this today or it may take us years to do this. Wherever you are now is your absolute authentic self in this moment. Be grateful for this experience.