Gratitude

Hey Guys,

Here We are again. Remember last time I asked you to do something ??..................

I hope You all did that., So, that was the first step i.e, to know what you actually want from life and now I am gonna tell you about the most important tool which can help you attain that.

Yes, It is THE GRATITUDE....

Gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a feeling or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.

It's mainly like thanking someone for something that you have in life.

Well, It has different concepts in different religions which of course have the same meanings like -

Jewish conceptions -

In Judaism, gratitude is an essential part of the act of worship and a part of every aspect of a worshiper’s life. According to the Hebrew worldview, all things come from God and because of this, gratitude is extremely important to the followers of Judaism. The Hebrew Scriptures are filled with the idea of gratitude. Two examples included in the psalms are "O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever," and "I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart" (Ps. 30:12; Ps. 9:1). The Jewish prayers also often incorporate gratitude beginning with the Shema, where the worshiper states that out of gratitude, "You shall love the Eternal, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might" (Deut. 6:5).

One of the crucial blessings in the central thrice-daily prayer, the "Amidah", is called "Modim" - "We give thanks to You"; this is also the only blessing which is recited by the congregation together with the leader during their repetition of the Amidah. The concluding prayer, the Alenu, also speaks of gratitude by thanking God for the particular destiny of the Jewish people. Along with these prayers, faithful worshipers recite more than one hundred blessings called berachot throughout the day.

In Judaism there is also a major emphasis on gratitude for acts of human kindness and goodness.

For Christian and Islamic Conceptions go to - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratitude

Now I am gonna tell you how would you actually have do it -

Look at the pictures given below -

Look at the kind of love and care these parents have for their kids.

So, the first thing you do as soon as you get up is thank your parents for kind of pain they took for growing you up, the kind of pain they had to bear when you are being rude to them or you are neglecting them.

Your Mom, keeps you in there for 9 months, She takes all the pain in giving birth to you. We can't even imagine the kind of pain she had to go through for bringing YOU in this world. But, as soon as you are born, She forgets everything picks you up with her hands which are still trembling with so much pain and then kisses you with tears in her eyes which are still not believing that 9 months of hardship has atlast come to an end.

As, You grow up, She plays with you, She allows you to feed on her and gives her all attention only to your well-being. And, When you get hurt, She cries the whole night, does everything she can in the world just to see a tiny smile on your face.

But then, You get into teenage - everything she says seems to be insane, you find some beautiful girl, fall in love with her, leave your mom for her or kill yourself for that fake love.

Now, Put yourself in her shoes and just imagine the kind of pain you would have to go through when you find that the kid who was with you for 20+ years decided to die for a girl he met just a few days back breaking all your dreams and expectations.

Read this poem -

'A Mother's Hurting Heart'

I had my heart truly broken today

By a man I call, “My Son.”

I knew when I talked with him

He wasn’t poking fun.

I asked him, “Why haven’t you called? ”

Or answered my emails? ”

His answer was so hurtful

Driving in deep the nails.

“I was busy doing something else

Didn’t have anytime for you.

And as far as those emails you send me

I blocked them now from my view.”

He drove those hurtful words in deep

Deep into my open loving mother’s heart.

Did he know what damage he was inflicting?

I think he knew it from the start.

But why would he feel this need, ” I wondered? ”

What was buried in his heart not shared?

Did I do something to hurt or anger him?

Or is it that he really doesn’t care?

I will give this burden up to God in prayer

And ask that He heal what is for me unseen.

To sooth my sons hurt and sin of pride

And take away evils mean.

By: Linda Winchell

You surely don't want to make your mom go through that much pain.

So, The first thing to do as soon as you get up is Thank your parents for giving you this beautiful life.

You must have seen that if you start your day, saying all those bad words to your LOUD ALARM, to your COLLEGE or to the MORNING then the whole day actually end up getting worse.

So, the second thing you need to do after you get up is thank god for this beautiful morning and decide that this day is gonna be the best of your life and you will see the magic.

As, I earlier said in one of my posts, You don't have to just say these things, Instead You have to feel them thus emitting all those positive frequencies and really making a day that you really wanna share with your Journal.

At the end of the day, Thank everyone you met in the whole day and say that you are really thankful to them for making this day a great one and allowing you learn some new things and if something went bad then remember -

So, Follow this guys and enjoy your life.

Tomorrow I will be telling you something on the idea of FORGIVENESS.