May 2018 Newsletter

Dear friend,

Gratitude is the key. Develop your attitude of gratitude.

How about this: Spend one full day responding to EVERYTHING with gratitude. Wake up and be thankful for the roof over your head and for that comfortable mattress. Be thankful for your family. Don't have a family? Feel gratitude for the opportunity to live more quietly, so you can focus inside. Do you have a family that challenges you all the time? Be grateful for this chance to burn through the karma previously accrued. If instead, you get angry about it, you are not burning the karma. You will have to face those challenges repeatedly until you do.

Keep at it through the entire day. Thank you for this food. Thank you for this chance to lose weight. Thank you for this job. Got fired? Feel grateful for this door closing, so another can open. Admit it, you sort of wanted to get out of there anyway.

Getting good at anything takes practice. It you are not able to truly feel grateful, then try. Think about feeling grateful. Quiet yourself and try to open your heart so you can feel grateful. If you keep trying, there is a guaranteed result: You will feel gratitude.

If you do this one time, I expect that you will find yourself having better thoughts. You'll feel more calm and happy. Other people will become easier for you to work with. You will probably like yourself better. That will make it easier for others to be with you. It's a virtuous cycle.

How about tomorrow?
With deep gratitude for my opportunity to write these eNotes letters,
Nityananda