We have seen how we can be grateful for countless things in our lives. But we must not forget that there are times we feel ungrateful as we may feel unrealistically or inappropriately entitled to something that we do not necessarily do. Also, we can feel ungrateful when we perceive things to not be good enough or to not have met our expectations. Today, instead of putting aside our ungrateful thoughts, let us embrace them, use them and transform them into grateful ones.
Jan 28, 2021•8 min
There is a verse in the Bhagavad Geeta that reads “na me bhakta pranashyati”. Shri Krishna promises that each one of us will be liberated, taken care of by him, and supported. So today, let us be grateful for promises. Whether it is His promise or any other promise you made, let us be thankful for it and appreciate how these promises have helped build our lives.
Jan 27, 2021•7 min
Music has a huge influence in our lives. It takes the role of not only the best psychologist when we feel like no one understands or the best motivational speaker when we feel like we need to get pumped up, but it also is the best friend we need during both happiness and sadness. Music can be linked to memories, facilitate social bonding and encourage celebrations. Let us appreciate the power of music and all the wonderful things it brings to us.
Jan 26, 2021•5 min
Money is a crucial part of our lives, but it is not the most important. Ironically, however, it touches many aspects of our lives in terms of quantity and quality and gives rise to more opportunities. Money has the power of disciplining us, inspiring us, and allowing us to give more. Most significantly, money can be used to fund the change we wish to see in the world. Today, we show gratitude for our money by sharing it.
Jan 25, 2021•6 min
Gratitude is like many important but non-urgent things that we put off. However, these are usually our life’s most valuable things! So today, let us make gratitude a priority by taking gratitude pauses in the day. Stop everything else and simply be guided in your focus. Meditate during these pauses to be grateful for money, places, technology, objects and more.
Jan 24, 2021•8 min
In our lives, it is inevitable that we face hardships, challenges, and difficulties. It could be through our dislikes, our fears, or our negative encounters. But all these struggles have shaped us into the people we are today. They push us out of our comfort zones, make us do things we would not normally do, and we come out as stronger individuals. These invaluable experiences are that for which we will be grateful today.
Jan 23, 2021•7 min
A common reality is that many of us do not like our body or manage to find imperfections that we consequently use to judge ourselves. But what we can realise is that the very thing we are dissatisfied with plays a significant role in serving us! And for that, we should be grateful. Today, we will embrace our entire body, both the parts we do like and do not like as much, and be thankful for all that it gives us.
Jan 22, 2021•7 min
As we have seen earlier, we can be grateful for our incredible sense of sight. But this is not the only sense for which we should be thankful for as all of our senses play an integral part in our lives. Without any one of them, we would feel a sense of incompleteness. Today, let us focus on showing gratitude to another one of our senses. Choose a sensation you wish to be completely aware of, and meditate on it with this session.
Jan 21, 2021•6 min
Gratitude knows no limits, be it duration, location or anything else! We often go through life perceiving our small moments as fleeting and separate from one another. But in reality, we are not a collection of separate moments; we are bound by time, to be connected. Time has the most valuable role as it allows us to create memories, to learn from experiences, and to try again. Its importance is more than worthy of our gratitude and deservingly calls for our thankfulness.
Jan 20, 2021•6 min
Like how a flower needs rain and how the ocean needs a shore to break, people need people. We all need each other, not only for us to be able to connect, relate and share, but also for our desire to be recognised and appreciated. Relationships are a key part of this! We have many relationships in our lives, some of which we may easily and unknowingly take for granted. As such, today we will be attentive and try to notice something different about them so we can sincerely be grateful for them....
Jan 19, 2021•7 min
Gratitude is the result of appreciation and free will. Our gratefulness comes first from our appreciation upon recognising that something is valuable to us. It then stems from the fact that all of this is freely given to us. We can choose to be grateful or we can choose to take our blessings for granted. When we want to start doing things differently, such as opting for the former option, we need our mind to be alert so that we can make these choices. Today we will focus on our choice to be grat...
Jan 18, 2021•6 min
Like we are grateful for the glass being half-full, we can be grateful for the glass itself. The more we feel thankful, the more we can start to express it in our lives. As we practice it more, this gratitude that we feel inside will shine brightly outside. But sometimes, we don’t realise that we appreciate something until we lose it. Today, we strengthen our minds by giving up something for the day and consequently, being grateful for it when we use it next.
Jan 17, 2021•7 min
In prayers, gratitude is shown in the various rituals through different ways. Since the Lord gives us everything, we try to offer the best we have to Him. We praise the Lord, sing meaningful phrases in the Aarti, or provide offerings as an expression of our gratitude. Often when we pray, we ask for something. Today, let us pray to really feel our gratitude for gratitude is, in fact, our best prayer. Follow this session to write your gratitude prayer so you may pray genuinely in gratitude....
Jan 16, 2021•7 min
Expand your gratitude with today’s session, for gratitude has no limit. There is nothing to stop us from being grateful and it is indeed easy to practice! What is needed is simply the opening up of your mind to find things to be thankful for. Beyond being grateful for the good that happens to us, today we realise how we can also be grateful for things and people that have enriched the lives of our loved ones.
Jan 15, 2021•6 min
In making us appreciate the value of things and people, gratitude not only empowers us to see the glass as half-full, but also prevents the half-full from leaking away. As we stop to notice that we are constantly getting more, the glass gets more and more full – a concept often overlooked since we tend to forget our previous gains. Today, we note that things are not lost, but simply, forgotten. As such, we must remember them with gratitude.
Jan 14, 2021•7 min
Our sense of gratitude grows when we understand just how much we have been given. It empowers us to be humble because we realise we are getting more than we give, more than we work for, and even more than we deserve! We have been taken care of since we were in our mothers’ womb, where everything had been provided for us without even asking for it. In noticing just how many things have come to us without our request or need for it, we should bask in gratitude for how we have so graciously been ta...
Jan 13, 2021•8 min
We first think gratitude means appreciating all the good. But what about the bad? Like all the positive things we can be thankful for, we can even be grateful for the things that have gone wrong in our life! Let’s see these unpleasant, past experiences as powerful lessons that have, in turn, shaped us into the people we are today. When we are ready to be grateful for everything, the good and the bad, we turn what was once our sufferings into blessings.
Jan 12, 2021•7 min
Awareness is the first step to gratitude. The more we expose yourself to gratitude, the easier it gets. Gratitude is a secret weapon that improves our lives drastically. The more we wield it, the stronger we become. It reduces stress while boosting our mood and self-esteem. By making us more giving and cooperative, gratitude naturally allows us to have healthier relationships and progress in our work.
Jan 11, 2021•6 min
Did you know that, on average, we blink around 15 to 20 times each minute, amounting to 10% of our day being spent on merely blinking? The act of blinking sounds so simple but its complex purpose serves many functions of protection. Similarly, our whole body is constantly working to serve and protect us, even when we are not aware of it. Today, we centre our concentration on showing gratitude for our body, the important roles it plays and the significantly determinative influence it has over our...
Jan 10, 2021•7 min
When we think of our desire for happiness, we tend to create thought patterns where we consequently postpone our happiness by saying, “I will be happy when…” But instead of delaying our happiness, we can be happy now by turning our attention away from what we do not have yet and focusing on all the things we currently already have. With gratitude, delve into your meditation by asking yourself “What am I grateful for?”, and let your thoughts drive you deeper within in your search for happiness....
Jan 09, 2021•6 min
Our ancestors, be it our immediate lineage or even the history of the city we are a part of, are pillars upon whom and what we make offerings to. They have worked to create the world we have been born into, and we merely benefit from it. Today, we focus our gratitude in remembrance of them and what they created, ensuring we do not destroy it, but rather, build on it.
Jan 08, 2021•7 min
When we ‘like’ others’ posts on social media to broaden networking, be effective in commercial professions and increase standards of living, albeit for different intentions, we do a similar thing within spirituality. The purpose of doing so in the spiritual world is to better people, create meaningful relationships and add value to our standard of life. Today, we focus on giving positive feedback and making people feel valued so that we can express our gratitude for others.
Jan 07, 2021•7 min
The saying “actions speak louder than words” could not hold more truth, especially in the case of gratitude. Gratitude can only be complete once it has been thought of, felt and expressed. Ponder upon times you have been treated with gratitude – it is usually a pleasant feeling. Now, reciprocate that feeling and express your gratitude by engaging with today’s task of volunteering. Once we realise how much we have received, we also see just how blessed we are and how expressive we can be with our...
Jan 06, 2021•7 min
Our eyes provide us with the blessing of sight and vision. Beyond observing the sunsets, landscapes, and physical features of our natural world, we can also be grateful for the more subtle yet extremely meaningful and potent sights, expressions, and quite significantly, colours. Notice the influence of colour, their ability to blend in or contrast with each other, their addition to beauty, dimension and structure. Express gratitude to one of our most valuable senses: sight.
Jan 05, 2021•7 min
We don’t normally meet most of the people that contribute to the finished products we consume. We only really meet the last person in the chain. Today, we focus on the people we do meet and acknowledge how we interact with them. How do we progress from automated, transactional interactions to actually showing our gratitude? The answer lies in making eye contact, being physically present, and while saying “thank you” is a start, more statements can be made to elevate our interactions.
Jan 04, 2021•9 min
The often-asked question, “Do you see the glass as half-empty or half-full?” stands for a few amazing things. While both options hold true, the one each one of us sees makes a tremendous difference in how we feel. Today, we will focus on how perceiving things as half-full can make us feel somewhat complete and content. Try to find your gratitude buddy and message each other three messages with three things you are grateful for in that moment or for that day, three times a day for the next three ...
Jan 04, 2021•8 min
Today, we focus on the chain of events that have occurred for us to use things. For instance, buying a cup of coffee appears a simple act, but behind the scenes, someone had to design the cup, someone had to source the material, someone had to build the coffee machine, someone had to keep it clean every day – and this is only just part of it! Remember the many hands that have helped you get the things you now enjoy. With sincerity, send out an acknowledgement of gratitude to all of them from you...
Jan 02, 2021•7 min
Welcome to this year’s health challenge on gratitude! There is a growing understanding of the concept of gratitude as being thankful; a readiness to show appreciation. Gratitude starts with the acknowledgement of receiving something or possessing something of value. Upon recognizing the value of something, we can be thankful and grateful for it. This 30-day challenge will progressively go deeper into the process of gratitude and involve a 2-to-3-minute meditation session to broaden our gratitude...
Jan 01, 2021•8 min
While acting, we often relive memories of the past and create desires for the future. Thoughts of failure or success create emotions that cloud thinking. We also compare the past or future with what’s now, thus, losing out on present opportunities. Similarly, in the present, confusion or physical distractions take us away from the current action. So take all of these thoughts, and surrender them at the feet of the Lord. Clear them all away and make space in the mind to be able to stay in the pre...
Dec 16, 2020•9 min
Efficiency and dexterity in action means acting fast with precision and perfect technique. There is very little waste of time, energy or resources. Also, we do the action in the spirit of Karma Yoga and build ourselves up. When we are present and single-pointed in our action, our mind is less cluttered and detached from the results. In a silent and purified mind, we can feel grace and divinity working through us. This inspires us to focus more on our spiritual growth, taking us closer to our ult...
Dec 09, 2020•8 min
