An Attitude of Gratitude

Motto for the week: your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
Kahlil Gibran.


Have you counted the blessings of your broken heart?
Most often we try to hide or deny our heartache because we believe that it would be just too painful to pull it out and look at it.
In accordance with our greatest spiritual truth, the times that held the most heartache also offered the greatest opportunities to learn and experience the unconditional love and Divine order of the Universe.


What is a broken heart really?
This emotion is a result of a shattering of illusions around a subject that has now left a void and we then feel we have lost something or someone.
These unbalanced emotions can lead to illness if we do not balance them with an attitude of gratitude and love.
As human beings, we all attach illusions to the people we love and when the physically depart from our lives, through a separation or death, our human nature causes us to feel shock, betrayal hurt, grief and pain. This is because we focus on what we believe we have lost.
However when we open up our hearts to the blessings of that experience and we look to see what we have gained in wisdom, strength or knowledge about ourselves, we begin to see the bigger picture.
Broken illusions are blessings…..
Yes , whether we believe this or not, illusions block the path to our innermost truth.
We live in a perfect and ordered Universe. Energy is never wasted and all of us live within this energy.
We need to understand that this world exists within two polarities, dark or light, negative or positive, grief and pain and love.


To experience the one, we need to understand that we will experience the other. We cannot deny this or hide from it. Embracing and accepting both sides enable us to live fulfilled lives, ride the waves of circumstance and we learn to live or truth with love.
Illusions hold us captive from living full lives and standing in our truth. Much like a co-dependent relationship, we are shackled to our illusions and many people cannot break free and stagnate. Stagnation is the death of our souls desire to learn and grow.
Illusions create much unhappiness until we experience the breaking of one. Through each broken illusion, we have the opportunity to experience a truth.
When we judge a person or situation, we label it good or bad and one or the other wins out. This lopsided view blocks our truth.
Emotional pain and physical illness exist because we believe that they are giving us something that we lack.
However we are created a whole and have those very things we believe we lack, within us but we need to discover this within ourselves first.
Circumstances are much like stones-you can use them to build on, or you can let them weigh you down.
For every sorrow there is an equal amount of joy. For every lesson there is an opportunity to experience unconditional love.
By rejecting the lesson, we get stuck in a destructive cycle of ingratitude and we block out the love and truth from our lives.


This week, make a list of the negative things that you have felt and experienced through a heartache and the look for the positive things that you have been shown through this experience. This may take some time. For some of you, your mind will initially shut down and tell you there is nothing positive in that experience. Persevere and look deeper, ask family or friends, as they are neutral and will be able to see both sides that you may not. Then think carefully about this. How have you grown?