How can I find inner peace through gratefulness?
Our inner peace begins with counting our blessings, and fans out to include even the hardest challenges, those which we used to consider a curse. Let's start by looking at the good in our lives. Step by step, we can expand the picture to see how acceptance grows until all of your life is bathed in peace. Are you really present here and now? What are you thankful for? (Give yourself a few moments to reflect on this question.) Is there something you are not thankful for? What is it? Spell it out to yourself. Is it really in this present moment? If it's in the past (a painful memory), let go: You want to be present here and now. If it's in the future (an anxiety or fear), let go: You want to be present here and now. If there is something in the present that you can't be thankful for – pain, grief, confusion – accept it as given. What is, is. You are confronted with a given reality. You may not be able to be thankful for it, but you can obviously live with it: You do! -- at least in this one moment, and that's all you've got. Embrace this truth, not only with your intellect, which is too narrow, but with your whole heart. Let this experience sink in. Do you feel peace, a tiny bit, at least?
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