Yes, thank you!
By Leslie Sann
My gratitude for this breath is not about the breath.
It’s that I am breathing, that I recognize it comes
from a higher source, and that I am alive.~ John-Roger
I invite you to beam up with me to Planet Joy. Oh Boy! On Planet Joy, there is no such thing as right-wrong-good-bad. We have experiences, evaluate the results, grow in awareness, and choose our next actions. Judgments are irrelevant. Planet Joy is a place where the residents enjoy living life while learning, growing, and using everything for their upliftment.
And — it is a land of gratitude.
My guess is you may have once lived on Planet Joy and have forgotten where your true home is. That is okay because now is now, and you have a chance to remember.
People who dwell on Planet Joy are grateful for their lives. No matter what happens, they find a way to shift, lift, and choose something next, which could turn out to be better than they had imagined was possible. Yes, thank you! Contrast this to Planet Earth, where people seem to love their upset. They pay attention to the misery-making mechanism of the mind (a.k.a. Crazy Brain). If it isn’t blah blahing inside their heads, it’s on the news, or the queue at the grocery store … or …
Since you have been on Earth for a bit of time, you may have developed a few self-upsetting patterns. It happens. Live on a Crazy Planet and develop a case of Crazy Brain.
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Life is what it is. Those of us living in human bodies on Planet Earth find it is easier to see what is not going the way we want and what is missing. It’s not a bad thing, it is a human thing. The human survival brain is designed to focus on the horizon and notice what is out of order so that it can move into action … is that flurry of movement something I can eat … or is it something that wants to eat me? Important questions if you are living in a savannah with your only companion a pointy stick. This sorting of information is useful if you are out for a stroll looking for dinner. Yet at the same time this brain function contributes to filtering out good news almost as soon as it occurs.
What to do?
Cultivate a Yes, Thank You practice. Appreciating yourself and how you show up in your life in ways that contribute to your well-being. Look for blessings everywhere. How are good things happening showing up in your life? How is life providing for you?
Seek and you shall find. Yes, thank you, I receive. It is possible you will discover that not only do you have loads to be grateful for … you may recognize unexpected blessings, more than you knew to ask for and … even greater … than you could have imagined.
Yes, thank you … and I open to receiving even greater!
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I invite you participate in a 33-day adventure, my gift to you, where you will have an opportunity to leave the misery-making-mechanism of the mind behind by choosing an attitude of gratitude. Yup, that is what can happen when we make a conscious choice to be grateful. Shifting our focus alters the structure of our brains. We can change the programs that were implanted in the past by upgrading the operating system of the amazing computer called our brain.
If you are interested, click HERE to be taken to a page containing:
- a gratitude journal which includes an introduction to the process
- tracking sheet for you to record your daily participation and
- a short audio to listen to as a set up for your gratitude focus.
Are you willing to have more joy in your life? Are you open to living a Yes, Thank You Life resulting in more joy and upliftment. Well, click here and begin your journey now: https://lesliesann.com/thankyouyes/
Blessings and Gratitude,
