Gratitude

the holiday vibes are here and i am obsessed. i can already sense the wonder, joy, peace, and excitement the entire holiday season brings.

 

but yawl.

 

anyone else getting inundated with Black Friday sales?!?!

 

it's overwhelming. there's one part of me that wants to dive into all the deals, all the things, and save money…not only for myself, the farm, the horses, but on gifts for the family; and then there's this other part where i'm like…really? do you really have to already be marketing to me? the black friday emails and ads started about two weeks ago. i'm thinking…we will be advertising black friday at halloween next year. it gets earlier and earlier every year.

 

and why not? we eat it up.
the people are there to buy (demand)…so let's hit them up and make some money!

 

i think the whole marketing thing will continue to be obnoxious as long as we humans continue to buy in that more things will make us happy, or bring us peace, or get us organized, or make us look better…

 

all the while, the disconnect is within us.

 

you don't have to hang out in my world long enough to know, i'm always gonna bring it back to us. me. you. our sovereignty. our ownership. our authority. our inner compass. our individuality. our personal healing. and yes, our gratitude.

 

i don't attend church anymore, and every once in a while, on a sunday morning, i'll hop online and check out my family's church. this past sunday my brother was speaking on gratitude. he highlighted that humans focus most on gratitude this week instead of every day of every month of every year. i appreciated his point and wanted to bring my own reflections and experiences with gratitude.

 

years ago, i was that person that focused on gratitude on thanksgiving day, and then moved onto the entire week of thanksgiving, and then the month of november. (30 days of gratitude i'd journal on or talk about)

 

gratitude was a feeling…that when i focused on all the blessings in my life, i would then “feel” grateful.

until i started to learn about energy and frequency.

that different emotions of, say, love, joy, peace, and gratitude were actual “states” of being and not necessarily moments of a feeling. it was a game changer for me.

 

and while i “feel” grateful many times throughout the week, being in a state of gratitude, connecting to the energetic frequency of gratitude, is an absolute game changer AND it requires ultimate presentness. i have found i only truly tap in, when i take a moment to shut off my mind, shut off my worry, shut off my endless to-do list and connect to the present moment with silence. and when i align with the frequency of gratitude, chills race all over my body, i breathe in the satiating breath of god deep within my being, and in that moment nothing, absolute nothing else is needed in my life. not a thing. everything i have, everything i am is simply enough.

 

i invite you to join me this week, in curating a space to connect to the frequency of gratitude. and let's do so, with the intention that this practice will remain in our lives moving forward.

 

i'm grateful we have a day, a week, a month where gratitude is highlighted. all kind of reminders are welcomed by me when it brings me to remembrance.

 

last thing, if at any point in this writing, you're like me and have felt guilt for not being more grateful, or guilt for only being grateful during this time or that…or the incessant need to “do” more in order to be better, do better, the freakin' rat race our minds go through because we believe we are not enough. let's just stop that…right here, right now…and celebrate exactly who we are today in gratitude.
 
i love you always.