This month I share the practice of 'gratitude ' to cultivate happiness and contentment wherever you are. Next month, how to practice 'daily self appreciation' .......

Dearest yogi & yogini,

 
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt 


There are three ways to cultivate happiness and correcting the negativities bias in our mind: the practice of savoring, gratitude and self appreciation. This month I'll talk a little bit about the practice of gratitude and how to bring it into your life.

Gratitude: means appreciating the good things that life has given us. If we just focus on what we want but don’t have, we will remain in a negative state of mind. There is abundant research that shows  gratitude practice enhances our physical and emotional well-being.

Gratitude is also a wisdom practice. One component of wisdom is understanding the complexity of the situation or recognizing how every event is inter-dependent with other events. When we practice gratitude, we are acknowledging the many factors, large and small, that contribute to our lives. We can see that gratitude is the texture of wisdom, it is how wisdom feels.

Moreover, gratitude is a relational practice and a connection practice. The joy that arises from gratitude may be attributed, in part, to freedom from the illusion of separateness and insight into interdependence.

Take a moment to bring to mind one or two things you’re grateful for in your life.

If you experience any uneasiness in this practice, please make some space for whatever you’re feeling and let yourself be just as you are.

Let yourself savor, just for this moment, feeling good about the postive things in your life– let it soak in.  Give yourself permission to recognize and enjoy the best in your life.


All Love,