Gratefulness and Spirituality - Day 443

I found myself struggling with redefining the word 'Gratefulness' as a living expression of myself because at the moment, the word 'gratefulness' is conditioned to Rewards and Benefits on a Self-Interest Level, far more than I was willing to admit to myself.

 

The first step I applied was to remove the conditions as associations within the word 'Gratefulness' in terms of the ideas that I held onto the word 'Gratefulness' within myself and then I spoke the words: Unconditional Gratefulness. I asked myself - How can I practically live the words: 'Unconditional gratefulness' as a living expression of myself?

I started with: I'm Unconditional grateful for…

I'm Unconditional Grateful because…

However within the 'For' and the 'Because' I have already placed a condition which means that these statements are not valid.

So then, what is unconditional Gratefulness as a living expression of myself?

 

From here I went to "I'm grateful that I'm living, that I'm breathing" but speaking these words 'felt' empty inside myself. I remember speaking these words as a Spiritual person a while back, saying something like: "I'm Life, I'm breath" without understanding or conceptualizing what 'Life' in totality is.

 

As a spiritual person, I was "grateful" for the food that I have on my table, for the water that I was drinking, for the cloth that I was wearing and all of that 'gratefulness' came from the belief that I was a superior soul that had chosen to reincarnate into this world, I was grateful for the Karma I had - unlike the majority of the world that are facing their past lives' sins. This was always a friction and conflict that I had with Spirituality - I could go only so far with my spirituality process because even then, it felt empty because I couldn't let go of wondering - "but why do they have to suffer? What chance do they really have to change their past karma within their current living conditions? how can I really be grateful while  so many find themselves in a life of misery?"

 

So, I concluded that unconditional gratefulness within the current life conditions does not exists since the majority of this world cannot and will not be grateful as an absolute expression of themselves in any given moment because frankly, a life of survival is not a life that any of us would wish for ourselves so from that perspective, while the majority maybe on a limited dimension of 'gratefulness' are grateful for ending the day alive, us, the minority is grateful for having the life that we have in comparison to the lives the majority experience which in essence means, that we are grateful for having enough money or in other words, grateful for being born to the 'right' side of the equation.

 

Now, as a spiritual person, I could justify for myself that I did my part in my past lives and this is why I am rewarded now with the life that I've chosen for myself (which is again 'gratefulness' that is conditioned to the quality of the life that I have, as my rewards for my past lives, which  do not really have any recollection of) however, within the principle of Equality and Oneness, I've placed myself in the shoes of beings in this world and when standing in the shoes of each and every human/animal in this world, I'm really not grateful nor satisfied.

 

Thus, on the external level, Gratefulness as a living expression of ourselves can only manifest in a world system that is based on Equality where everyone are supported, taken cared for and  thus living a life that is worth living; until then, 'Gratefulness doesn't exists as a living expression that is applicable by all.

 

But on the individual level, can Gratefulness exists?

Will continue investigating this point...

 

Dependency, Independency, Interdependency and Gratefulness - Day 442

This is a continuation to my previous blog - Gratefulness as a living word - Day 441 where I discussed the word 'grateful' as how we currently live the word as a living expression of ourselves.

Within this blog, I will have a look at the 'Sounding' of the word 'Gratefulness' as a step to see what 'Gratefulness' as a Principle of Oneness and Equality, as an absolute living expression of ourselves really is.

 

Sounding of the word Gratefulness: Grate-Full-Ness.

Grate:  to reduce to small shreds by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface | To annoy.

Full: Complete; entire

Ness: indicating state, condition, or quality.

 

In the way the word 'Gratefulness' is currently spelled - it is how we are currently living the word 'gratefulness' as a living expression of ourselves wherein, we are walking as grated (separated) human beings that moves in Fulfillment of our own self-interested (state/condition). If you read my previous blog you would see how within the context of the sounding of the word, there is alignment in how we currently live the word 'gratefulness'.

 

The fascinating thing is that in the sounding of the word, lies a gift, a potential: Great-Full-Ness.

Let me explain the difference:

 

What we haven't yet understood is that at the moment, we live the word 'Gratefulness' in a narrow and limited expression where our gratefulness is dependent on another giving us benefits or rewards while Independency in relation to gratefulness seldom exists within oneself. 'Gratefulness' as a living word is unconditional to whomsoever is rewarding us in some way or another because within that, what we have missed is the Dependency, Independency and Interdependency within our relationships with ourselves and others. Thus to understand 'Gratefulness', we must first understand the relationship between   Dependency, Independency and Interdependency as within this relationship the word 'Gratefulness' as a living expression actually exists.

 

So, we will get to the sounding of the word 'Gratefulness' in a moment - first let's define in a nutshell what  Dependency, Independency and Interdependency is:

 

Independency - How one walk one's process alone because essentially, each one is alone within one's own mind, in what we accept and allow within ourselves. Gratefulness within that context would be one's gratefulness towards oneself for assisting and supporting self in any given moment in stepping out of one's mind and stepping into a physical correction in one's living application within the principle of Oneness and Equality. In other words, Gratefulness is linked/conditioned to a principle of Oneness and Equality rather than any specific rewards and/or benefits we get from something or someone as a point of self interest.

 

Dependency - How we are dependent on another within our own independent processes in terms of the other standing as the catalyst, the trigger that activates a point within ourselves that we must correct and align for/as ourselves. From that perspective, this is mostly where frictions and conflicts occur within our relationships to others but the problem is that we tend to take the other personally and perpetuate the conflict/friction with another instead of being grateful for the window of opportunity that had opened up in the friction/conflict when one is taking responsibility for one's independent process and accordingly face the point, investigate, align and correct within oneself.

 

Interdependency - How we then communicate and share with others our Independent process. Here interdependent process contain 2 fundamental dimensions:

1. In one's relationships to others in their direct environment: As was explained in the 'Dependent' Process where the other is standing as the catalyst/trigger for one's own independent process - sharing and discussing the points with the other from the starting point of taking self responsibility for one's participation in one's reaction/conflict/friction would assist and support the individuals in their relationship with one another in empowering and strengthening one another in one's independent process.
2. In one's relationship to others in the world: As one walk one's independent and dependent process and accordingly share one's realizations, solutions and practical physical consideration through the media of the global mind (internet), one is assisting and supporting others in the world in their independent process.

Here, Gratefulness exists within the opportunity we each have to assist and support ourselves in our independent process through the examples the others are sharing as this gives us the opportunity to investigate the point for ourselves and if necessary align, correct and change.

 

Will continue in my next blog

 

 

 

 

Gratefulness as a living word - Day 441

I was looking at the word Gratefulness lately and I have found that within the sounding of the word 'Grateful' a fascinating meaning lies. A meaning that seldom we actually apply in our lives; a meaning that  rarely we consider; a meaning that would change our lives as a whole if we cared enough to apply the physical principle of the word 'Gratefulness'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's start with the dictionary definition of the word 'Gratefulness':

 

1. warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received
2. expressing or actuated by gratitude

 

The dictionary definition is quite accurate in terms of how the majority of us live the word 'Gratefulness' as a living expression of ourselves. In fact, definition number one says it all - the way most of us lives the word Grateful is when we receive benefits of some sort.

We feel Grateful when our self-interest is fulfilled and we were rewarded.

 

The second definition is how in essence we express our gratefulness and if we look in self honesty - when we are grateful for the benefits we received, we will express our gratitude because we were taught (programmed) as children to say 'Thank you' when someone gives us something. We were explained times after times that when someone gives us something, we must be grateful.

 

As children, we could also see the energies involved with the person that gave us something and thus we conditioned ourselves to say "Thank You" because we saw how the Positive Energy within the other being is activated and how this energy motivate them to continue to give us benefits/rewards. This Program that we installed inside ourselves as children is now running in the background unconsciously, as who we are, without us being aware of our own starting point when we express Gratefulness. It is hardly ever that we are genuine when we express 'Gratefulness' as an expression of ourselves.

 

Because! Gratefulness is not about expressing gratitude when we receive benefits - Gratefulness as a living word is an absolute expression within the understanding of who we are, what we are and why we are.

 

For a moment, play with the sounding of the word Gratefulness and I will expand on the point in my next blog.