Gratitude is the most powerful practice you can do for manifesting and also to increase your vibrations. Every action has equal and opposite reaction. The more you feel grateful, the more reasons you'll get to be grateful!!!
I'm so thankful we're alive to watch the sunrise, feel the warmth of a campfire, listen to the rain, take deep breaths, cook meals with love, dance, laugh, move, wake up, feel the grass under our feet, taste fresh foods, paint, reminisce, sing, joke, walk through familiar paths, and find meaning. We are so lucky to be able to experience, feel, and continue on.
The fact that you can just walk into a Tumblr writer's ask box and basically order yourself a custom story and then get a high-quality product for FREE after a relatively short wait is WILD. Especially considering these writers have professional-level talent and by all accounts should be published and paid.
The concept is still so wonderfully novel and bizarre to me that I'm holding myself back from dropping requests in the boxes of the many amazing writers I've come across, simply because I know how much effort and time it takes to craft stories. It somehow feels wrong to just ask and take advantage of the offered generosity. 😅🙊
Let's take a moment to appreciate how GIVING the Tumblr fanfiction writer community is, because I don't think this sort of culture exists on any other social media platform. It's simply amazing.
“Any moment that you’re really allowing everything to be as it is and your personal will is out of the picture, you’re happy.”
~ Adyashanti
This is the reason often great Master and teacher said - Happiness is Simple.
Then why finding it is a quest for many. Why do we drown ourselves in additives behaviour , dip into depression and flare up in madness ? Let’s look simply -
What we try to find was never lost , it was staring at you , while we were looking everywhere, exhausting ourselves and not taking a pause to rest on it. This looking outside is the conditioning that we have been wired. The belief that tomorrow will be better, the next day is brighter, the next job is more fulfilling, the next relationship is your soulmate, the next life is an enlightened one and the next never comes . Life after life we are circling in a spiral where the exit is dropping everything down , taking that leap of faith, sitting and witness.
When you look into a flower or tree or a rock how often we want to change it . We don’t look in Lily flowers and say If it looked like Rose it would have been better. When accept that Lily in totality. So acceptance is our true nature. We know this already, you have experienced it. One has to replicate it in all aspects of life. Ego will be our biggest detriment, you will keep yourself comparing with others and hold on to the cactus which is bleeding out.
Accept where you are , what you are, how you are . Exactly the way it is . That’s enough. As you read this for the next 1 minute, say to yourself I love myself exactly the way i am . This is my gift to myself. Feel it , smile . And you open your eyes you will see that your heart is softer, breathing is kinder and you are relaxed. That is 1 minute of happiness. Just imagine if you increase your dose what it could do to you !!
Gratitude is a way for people to appreciate what they have instead of always reaching for something new in the hopes it will make them happier or thinking they can't feel satisfied until every physical and material need is met. Gratitude helps people refocus on what they have instead of what they lack 🙏🙏🙏🙏
You don't need to have it all figured out by a certain age. You don't need to have met "the one" by now. The grass is greener where you water it and you're on your own perfect journey. Appreciate it, even if it's not where you hoped you'd be right now. Because soon it'll be just another distant memory.