Photo of Blanca Peak by Jeffrey Beall
Mystic Magazine invited me to write a piece on gratitude in 300 words or less for an excellent article titled “Gratitude as a Path to Positivity: Holistic Approaches to Clearing Negative Thoughts.” The below message is the result. You can read all contributions to the article here.
Our Gratitude Holds the Key
When we look deeply through mystical eyes into the essence of gratitude, we see that gratitude is always appreciation and thankfulness for the Divine – the Divine within us, the Divine in the world, the Divine everywhere. To be grateful for the Divine is to open ourselves more fully to life and to the source of life. By practicing gratitude, we strengthen our connection to the sacred life force and we become more receptive to the energy and consciousness of aliveness.
The root cause of any lack of health or well-being is always disconnection from life and from the Source. To be disconnected from life is to be disconnected from the Source. To be disconnected from the Source is to be disconnected from our true, loving, divine nature. To be disconnected in any way from who and what we really are is to be profoundly sick. Therefore, the reconnective power of gratitude is fundamentally healing. Over time, the consistent practice of gratitude heals our personal and professional relationships, our communities, and our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health down to the cellular and subcellular levels.
In my own experience, I have found that life responds rapidly to gratitude. As just one example, on a clear day a few years ago I made a tobacco offering on Blanca Peak, in the U.S. state of Colorado, to express my gratitude for the land in that area. Within seconds a single clap of thunder came seemingly from out of nowhere – or, rather, from the benevolent forces of nature reciprocating my gratitude. On that day I learned that once enough of us are living in gratitude, we will be amazed by how quickly and potently life responds. Life will heal each of us and the world as a whole. Our gratitude holds the key.
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