The Law of Gratitude

A few weeks ago I taught a corporate meditation session to a big company. The topic?

Gratitude.

This is not a new concept. It’s not a new focus. And yet, it’s a feeling - if cultivated consistently - that can lead one to peace, contentment, and prosperity no matter what.

In the yogic philosophy, there is actually a law called the law of gratitude. And since we live on a polarity planet (north and south, light and dark, etc) everything - every single thing that happens in our experience has two currents, positive and negative.

If something comes at us - it doesn’t matter what it is - good, bad, neutral, if we do not have the strength to find gratitude for it, it automatically flips on the negative current.

However, if we can garner enough energy and physiological fitness (as I truly believe gratitude is a body-state as well), then we can activate the positive current and further amplify the good.

This is not an easy task on a gravity-well planet in our current media broadcast world.

How can I be grateful when x, y, and z are happening?

But the law of gratitude says how can you NOT be grateful.

It challenges you to remember you can’t afford to waste your energy on the negative currents.

You’re here for a reason and you have to deliver the goods.

Gratitude keeps us on mission and on an energy current that can maneuver through the booby-traps of this opaque world.

Complaint or other destructive emotions flips the switch in the opposite direction.

If you can catalyze the elevated energy to find grace in the graceless, grit in the weakness, and gratitude in the darkness you will create an invincible and magnetic spirit.

How do you do it? By getting your breath and all of your layers of self activated and organized. By using ancient techniques of moving the body to awaken its greatest potential. By strength-training the mind to find the neutral place no matter what.

If you can do this, you will surf the greatest waves on the positive current and you will live in a state of victory.