Gratitude

Gratitude

One of the aims of this yoga is keeping your heart full of joy. Joy is the panacea for all ailments of the heart. Gratitude will nurse and feed your heart, for it brings joy to the heart. It is a great tool to keep the light in your heart lit, when everything else seems to be lost. When you are extremely sad, bored, angry or full of negative emotions, and nothing seems to be able to change your mood, start feeling gratitude towards everything you possess. Your heart will begin to feel lighter.

You can start feeling gratitude for the very fact that you are alive. Be grateful to the very body that you possess, feel gratitude towards your parents for having sacrificed the best part of their lives so that you could grow. Be grateful to the house in which you live, the food you eat, the air you breathe. Show appreciation for your wife/husband, daughter/son, parents, relatives, friends, colleagues and associates.

When you feel gratitude towards someone, you become able to receive more love from the person you feel grateful. The channels of love between you and the person you feel gratitude are opened, enabling a more positive exchange of energy, making a stronger bond.

You can also feel gratitude for the objects you have. You will be simultaneously thanking the energy of everyone that helped in the process of making, acquiring and using the object. You can start by being grateful towards your personal belongings. Things and persons that are close to you are likely to affect your day-to-day energy.