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Love and gratitude is NOT so much emotion/feeling but a choice

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We mistake love and gratitude as emotions and feelings. I believe this is unhealthy and unrealistic as both emotions and feelings are heavily reliant on circumstances. It is similar to chasing a high, chasing a moment which can be so fleeting it may be depressing without it.


What we fundamentally have control over is our actions, the decision making we do in our day to day lives. I say fundamentally because making choices is a very difficult task. As I often say decision making is often 50/50 and picking the one that 51 to 49 ratio better.


Anyway. Love and gratitude is deliberate. It is all about your mindset. I'll list things that are quite readily available. Being able to wake up. Having access to food and water. The people you care about are alive. It is your choice to look at this. And I mean 'look at it'. Or you may dismiss it and think nothing of it. Which many of us, including myself do all the time. The gratitude and love come when you look at the fact of the matter. When you pause, look at it, think about it and enter the zone. This, I think is commitment and loyalty. You CHOOSE what your brain thinks about and how its angled. As a result you are choosing what emotions come up. The quality of your life is based around the quality of your thoughts. "With your mind, you create the world."


Ok. Now the difficult task. How does this message get conveyed without sounding over the top. Other than saying unlearning the way you currently think... I'd say, look at your life. The things that make up YOUR WEEK. The things you do, the activities you partake in, your workplace, your social circle, your family. I'm not saying to love endlessly and anything. I'm not saying to lower the benchmark. I'm saying, do you know what matters most at the end of the day? Do you have the eyes to be able to tell what truly matters? This takes time, experience and failures.

Love and gratitude is not about fearing for what you have disappearing and clinging onto it for dear life. Love and gratitude is a CHOICE you make in the present moment. If you love what you have right now, appreciate it gently. Sometimes with intensity. It is in the present. But it must be done in the moment. As it is in the present moment, you are shaping your life/reshaping your life.

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