Gratitude

When I look at my life I am overawed by the contribution of so many people who must have all come together in certain fashion to make it possible for me to live the way I do. The clothes that  I wear must have been a work of many right from some one sowing a seed of cotton to someone transporting it somewhere to then people working to stitch and to then making it be in a shop. Indeed so  many people were a part of it and I wear it so unaware.. Similarly with food.- someone grows,looks after it puts his sweat  and toil to it, reaps and buyers buying, packaging, transporting and finally in supermarket to which I go in my car again a product that I use due to many people involved to get me my food so that I can live and I eat it so unaware.

Gratitude is not a refined, cultural behavior. Gratitude is the sense of being over awed and over whelmed by how life bring to you so much and you do not even pay attention to it. It is not what " you must" feel but it is a force that makes your heart want to revere this cosmos of making you be in a space time of this Universe where you have so many work for you invisibly so that you can do and think other things..

A thirsty given water may become over whelmed with kindness and that is gratitude

A hungry having not eaten food for days may become overwhelmed with kindness and that is gratitude

A girl given an education when she comes from a country that does not allow it may become overwhelmed and that is gratitude.. ...

A war torn family just given assurance  of safety for family may become over whelmed and in gratitude

The ones who may not have experienced such extremes must try to at least live in the awareness of it all. When one becomes aware of  how the invisible makes things happen for you one lives in a sense of becoming very receptive.

Unless you are not dazed by your own life you live in a "cultivated" gratitude- a learnt behavior. And when you realize you can only be stunned by sheer blessings you have around you, for you and to keep you the way you are.

War, Work and Worry Molecule

It is my summer break. And as it happens with others it happens with me too- losing track of time and day, going for dinners or inviting friends on weekdays.  

I love what I do. I love teaching, I love what I gain in the process- helping students out the best I can. I enjoy how I am evolving in my own self because everything is a two way game. The only strain is the countdown of going back to work and to get accustomed to a clock routine and lack free time to dwell and introspect and time to write.  A stress that most people on holiday go through I am sure.

Taking a right turn here to another idea- not a newspaper person however fb has enough information to let us know the happenings of the world. Read that there had been a terrorist attack in Pathankot Air base in India and many soldiers lost their lives. Stress of a soldier- can one even comprehend?.

A stress comparison? 

One could laugh if one was to even try to compare the pressures that a soldier goes through on the line of fire over anxieties that a person goes through when holidays end. Infact there is a real possibility that some people who do death defying jobs are less stressed than the ones who are too accustomed to comforts- it is all about that threshold.

What makes us restless or anxious?

Not the nature of job I am sure. It is the nature of one’s mind. It is the lack of alignment of our heart with what we do. A soldier who consciously chose that career would be brave enough to know that death can happen in his work. If not then he must live a dreadful life of worry most of the time. An educator who sees her work as a joyful inspiration to herself would certainly look forward to it. If not then she certainly cannot do that job well enough. This would apply to all professions.  

The “worry molecule” stays the same for anyone and everyone.  One can worry over a cake not baked properly or not worry about losing all money in a business. One may worry about painting the house wit that right colour that one wants or not worry about a cancer scare- it is always your call.

When one is aligned consciously with cosmos – in body, mind and spirit and when one knows oneself in the larger picture of things then one stops worrying. One acts with full heart and one does what one needs to do. Worry is a byproduct of lack of alignment of your mind with what you do.

It is all in the mind is a cliché but the only one ultimate truth. We hear it, we read it but we never ever dwell on it enough!