Thursday, November 03, 2005
Gratitude is far more than a “sweet” emotion.
Gratitude is a powerful, highly creative state of mind.
A colleague told me about having to facilitate a contentious meeting. He was looking for an effective way to start, process and facilitate a group toward a successful conclusion. He was feeling stressed, worried and apprehensive.
He was able to find his way to a grateful perspective. He FELT gratitude for the people he was working with. He really FELT gratitude for what they had contributed to the project at hand. He even found a grateful feeling that there was an opportunity in front of him to practice mediation skills. He could FEEL himself CALMING.
Almost instantly after finding a grateful state of mind, he SAW a new way to approach the meeting.
Finding gratitude involves:
QUIETING: Listening for the quiet BENEATH judgment and analysis;
APPRECIATING: becoming conscious of a beautiful feeling related to the situation at hand;
SAVORING: holding the beautiful feeling and quiet mind;
TRUSTING: the wisdom that comes effortlessly in a grateful state of mind, even and especially when it takes you in original directions.
A busy mind is a screen that inhibits the creative spirit. A grateful, quiet mind is a spacious doorway to it. It’s that simple.
Posted by Linda Sandel Pettit on 11/03 at 11:21 AM in |
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