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Aloha Friends,                                           Nov. 12, 2009

I want to explore the concept of gratitude. Many of us know it is important to feel and be grateful for our health, our loved ones, our jobs, our home, our country, and our friends.

I want to give you the opportunity to be grateful for yourselves, just as you are right now. Yes, I am suggesting you don’t need to change, improve, lose or gain weight or get a different job.

Although self improvement may be very rewarding it can also be a subtle form of self rejection, in which, we are consistently judging ourselves with the intent to make ourselves better, or good enough. What we may not realize, is under this well intentioned activity is a the unconscious belief that we are not perfect just as we are.

Yes, that means with all our limitations, flaws and imperfections, we are perfect just as we are.

Close your eyes and imagine what it feels like in your body, in your heart and mind to feel you are perfect right now and so is everyone else. Nothing needs to change to experience perfection.

Our minds do not like this at all, because the first thing that happens is the mind starts saying “there is no way my thighs are perfect” or whatever else is on your  personal list of faults you want to change.

Let’s be playful and imagine feeling a deep heart felt gratitude and love for every area in our mind and body that we think is not good enough  or at least needs improvement before we could feel love and gratitude for it.

What magic would happen if we could see ourselves with  loving and grateful eyes rather than critical eyes, right now. How would you feel toward a friend who said I will love you and be grateful for having you in my life when and if you lose weight, or get a job, or are less shy?

We do this to ourselves very often, only we may not be aware of what we are doing. I am writing to you so you will be aware and may choose to have more compassion for yourselves and be kinder and more gentle with yourselves.

I love you just as you are and I am grateful you are in my life exactly as you are right now.

My prayer and blessing is that you feel that way about yourself,  Sheila Radha

www.lifemasteryskills.com

Tags: gratitude, inspirational

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