WISH LISTS



Wish Lists

I have been reconciling my wish list with being in a state of gratitude.

Being in an active present state of gratitude allows me to focus on what I am thankful for. There is beautiful and helpful experiences, people, situations, and things of which I am thankful. Gratitude also stops me from getting swept up by the issues that cause pain and suffering. I am not in denial of the financial and health crisis we are in. I am not in denial of how it has impacted my family personally and the stress and problems it has caused. I just know that when I am in gratitude nothing negative can affect me. I can only inhabit one state of being at a time. The challenges no matter how dire, simply are what they are, nothing more and nothing less. My experience, my state of being is my choice. It takes a lot of work to be in this state and I get thrown off course all too often, but I keep bringing myself back.

I do have a wish list though. It’s a good one too ha-ha. Focusing too much on what I want, creates a state of longing for the future (or past) and keeps me from being in the present moment where gratitude, insight and intuition exists. So, I imagine that wish list as if it already exists. Then the relief, peace, and happiness it will give me, is being brought into the present. I am experiencing my wish list in the “now”. Everything I need is with me right here in the current moment.

In the words of Eckhardt Tolle, “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough”. I catch myself moving away from that thankfulness and bring myself back to it, simply through sitting still, breathing slowly, and placing my consciousness and awareness on the peaceful, bliss of gratitude. I have my wish list, but I imagine it already existing so that I remain present with myself.