Thankful to Be Grateful for Gratitude

While I admittedly have many conflicting feelings about the history and celebration of Thanksgiving from the Native Indian perspective, I do honor the singular aspect of gratitude that is seldom remembered during this American holiday of selective-slaughtered feasting.

I apologize if my tone turns to disgust, but this Thanksgiving I dug deep to try to mask over the pain of truth thinking of a world of alter-egos fighting for domination, power and greed under the guise of gratitude.

And while I desperately tried to ignore the disdain in my heart for the overindulgence of an imbalanced sector of human society steeped in ignorance, I will go on to say that gratitude is undoubtedly a foundational element for the realization of our full human potential.

In addition, it is important to realize that all is exactly how it should be on earth so as many people as possible can awaken to change. Change is definitely the name of this new game.

Was this holiday a challenge to give thanks? Was this year even more difficult to turn a deaf ear or a blind eye?

If so, know that this is a very natural process of returning to full consciousness.

Having such a keen sense of the universal effects of energy can either hinder or help your experiences in life, greatly depending on how much discord you have released. And it is a difficult balance to uphold either way...no doubt.

You may also find at your particular stage of spiritual development that you are either completely capable of accepting others and situations for the way they are with detachment, or completely incapable of even being around any outworn remnants of the old paradigm. Maybe both....and what a better time to test your mettle than during the holidays.

Did you notice any played-out familial patterns or repeat cycles that may have glaringly emerged, tantalizing you to engage them? Did you bring any unresolved emotions to your turkey dinner? Did any one else? Did you find yourself swallowing swords of cutting truth for those who you knew could not handle it?

Notice any triggers ? Perhaps that one family member who's patterns of self-destruction became so obvious that you looked around the room wondering if anyone else was noticing the blatant transparency that you wish you could ignore? Did your past suddenly become very clear to you and the reason for all your own relentless results of unconscious karma?

Ahhh...the holiday mismatch of clashing frequencies.

On a less bitter note, the holidays are a great time to realize how far you've evolved when you notice how stuck others suddenly seem to be. Those people in our lives who choose to stay behind as pawns on our path mirroring our past behaviors suddenly seem revolting. Quite frankly, victimization is so 1990's and anyone who is still lacking the personal power to take hold of their own lives can leave the taste of sour yogurt in our mouths.

We are finally inhabiting a space of self-sovereignty and those energy rapists who lag behind and try to drain our life force can make us feel angry instead of compassionate. Frustrated instead of loving. Annoyed instead of forgiving. Why?

Because we are no where near this low vibration and density anymore and it is a natural process of selection that keeps us where we belong. It is the result of our new wiring and activated sensors of receptivity to what is aligned with our truth that keeps us in place. Anything that is out of alignment will feel downright awful as it should. Akin to an animal's instincts for survival, we need not mettle in any reality that is too dense for our well being.

There are so many misconceptions about "being spiritual" in spiritual communities....and one of my favorites to poke a stick at (aside from poverty consciousness) is the general consensus that a highly spiritual being will offer themselves piously to those who have not the strength to stand alone.

I touch on this in great detail in the 12 Steps to Discovering Your Divine Blueprint because the whole idea of selflessness has been misconstrued and designed to feed the religious, governmental and economic beast that inflated the outworn and patriarchal paradigm.

No more. The best thing you can do to help another in this new cycle penetrating our awareness is to become the truth, the power and to reflect what is possible for all in a detached way. When you do, those who see you...I mean really see you....will come rushing to understand your power. Those who don't see you will want to take it because they don't yet understand that it is their's to have.

Did you ever notice how you would give the shirt off your back to those who are living gratefully? Ever wonder why those who project themselves as needy turn you off?

It's pure science. In truth, gratitude is state of being, not an action. It is a rate of vibration that you inhabit when you have released mucho density. It is not a requirement to give thanks, it is the energetic result of achieving clarity and lightness of being.

Don't beat yourself up over your inability to reach out to those who smother you in victimization, it is not your job to save them. And each time you feel the urge to drop into density, ask yourself this...

Who helped you to find yourself?

If your being honest you will agree that only one person at a time can fit down the rabbit hole...but there are many who went before you and many who will follow.

This journey is singular one, but we do not travel it alone.

The facts are that the frequency of gratitude is the vibration of universal alignment. When you are living in this vibration the world and its inhabitants line up to greet you. When you are out of synch with this energy, you will be pressed to attract the resources required to achieve and maintain abundance.

The holidays give us an opportunity to see not only our level of gratitude, but also to see our growth clearly against the juxtaposition of all those limiting beliefs, people and situations we left behind in search of greater pursuits. Hopefully the holidays also remind us of our ability to love with detachment and in confidence that we are all on the same journey just traveling at different rates.

And contrarily, as we stretch over the canyon of those who still reside in the unruly rapids below, we are also more apt to open our hearts and minds to those people and situations who remind us of our new level of love...the love that most of us work to embrace daily with thanks.

Instead of celebrating Thanksgiving each year, I think we should celebrate Thanksbeing... Aquarian style.

This year I am thankful to BE grateful for gratitude.


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4 Key Qualities of High Performers

People rarely go out to work each morning with the intention of doing a bad job. The vast majority want to do the best job they can, secure a good pay rise and progress. So what is it that makes the high performers stand out?

Drive

The first key quality that high performers have is that they are highly driven to achieve. They are not happy with mediocrity and are always looking to improve things or achieve a standard of excellence. They thrive on moving beyond their current level of performance and testing themselves on new challenges. How driven are you to achieving excellence?

Commitment

High performers are committed to their own personal goals and to the common goals of their organisations. They are ready to make sacrifices to meet larger organisational goals and are actively seeking out ways of achieving a group mission.

How would you rate your commitment level?

Initiative

Initiative is grabbing the bull by the horns and making things happen. It might be spotting and seizing a new opportunity. Alternatively it might be cutting through red tape and getting things done. It might be mobilising others to get results. The common thing that they have is that they are not standing back waiting for others to tell them what to do. They are getting on and making things happen.

Optimism

You may have heard people being described as glass half full or glass half empty people. People who are glass half full are generally optimistic. They expend their energies on overcoming the obstacles and achieving the result. The glass half empty people focus all of their energy on what is not working and what is stopping them achieving. Some of this is to do with background and training. Many of the most successful people are not those that are academically gifted but have the positive outlook, mindset and self belief.

At the end of the day, the high performers share one overarching quality which is motivation. So what could you start working on to move your career, life or business towards high performance?

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements (G&A) works with professionals and progressive public and private sector organisations who want to develop their management and leadership capability in order to achieve more success.

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