Happy Thanksgiving! Today, people across our country are giving thanks for the many blessings in our lives. It is a powerful spiritual practice to join together with like minded individuals and lean into the collective energy field that is available when many are on the same “spiritual page”, so to speak. I am grateful to join together with you in gratitude.
It’s easy to give thanks for that which we are grateful for and it’s important to do. Today, I encourage you to add a “twist” to this important spiritual practice. Have you ever thought about looking at the challenges in your life as potential gifts waiting to be opened, discovered and used to TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE?
Looking at a challenge, a set back, a nagging habit as a “GIFT with a MESSAGE INSIDE” allows you to embrace it, receive from it and transform it all at the same time. A challenge is an unopened gift seeking our attention.
Sometimes uncomfortable at first, becoming interested in the message that a challenge has for us allows us to receive the transformational value it has and that very challenge can catapult us into a great LEAP in our LIFE. Here’s how:
1. GIVE THANKS! Begin by giving thanks for that which you are grateful for in your life. Let yourself go… 5 things, 10 things, the smallest of things… your breath, your heartbeat, your health, your home, your friendships, 20 things … create an expansive, spacious field of gratitude. Feel your heart expand. Remember, what you appreciate appreciates. Create a large “container” of gratitude.
2. RECEIVE THE GIFT! Into the expanded feeling of gratitude in your heart, drop in a small challenge and rather than experiencing the feelings of “angst” that you may associate with the challenge, look at the challenge as a wrapped gift with a message for you inside. As you see yourself unwrapping the gift, become INTERESTED in the message that is inside for you. ASK the challenge, “What are you seeking to tell me about myself / my life?”, “What message do you bring for my life?”, “What is seeking to get my attention?”, “What am I not seeing?”
3. TRANSFORMATION WITH A TWIST! Once you receive the insight, the message that is available, you bring value to it. What was once a challenge standing in your way becomes a message with a key to catapult you forward on your path. The insight contains intuitive wisdom and prompts you into INSPIRED ACTION. A series of small, inspired practices and actions transforms your life!
Try it and let me know how it goes! You will be pleasantly surprised! Pass it forward individually or Share it on Facebook / Twitter if you know of someone who could use this practice in their life!