Sometimes we don’t like our experience. And that’s ok. We don’t have to. We don’t have to impose something that in that moment is not true to our experience.
But we can move from there toward opening and releasing; have a grumble or a cry to help our emotional energy be expressed in a healthy way and to move itself through. This is when gratitude might become more available to us again.
If we just condemn ourselves further for being too negative or ungrateful, we just dig the state deeper. We entrench ourselves in our funk. We give it power by opposing it.
If we feel crappy, we feel crappy. It’s already there, so allow it, be honest about it, then move it with expression and compassion and then in a bit of time we can recognise ourselves in the space beyond it.
We can also add another layer.. by recognising our relationship with our experiences and seeing that we can have gratitude in that we have space and are free and safe enough to feel however we are feeling in any moment of time, good or bad.
RATNA DYER 