For Thanksgiving - Gratitude

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhart

So early on this Thanksgiving Day, I turn to Gratitude. It's both a wonderful experience and a powerful spiritual tool. I'll keep it short and pithy, as I am sure you want to turn to family, football, and food. :-)

There's never a bad time to turn to gratitude - to list and focus on what is in your life that you are grateful for, and to give thanks for it - to Source, to Spirit, to God (whatever word works for you). On the basis of the idea that we draw to us what is inside us, we should and do draw to us more to be grateful for.

My wife is teaching a class right now, and one of the homework assignments was to track unexpected income, and give thanks for it. I had a strange, wonderful result of that. Two different "lost" clients - people who had no-showed their last appointment, then didn't answer emails, and then ignore multiple mailed bills for the cancellation fee (one 3 months ago, one 6 MONTHS AGO) - both of them sent in checks to me!!! I was quite flabbergasted, but gave thanks. It was unexpected. It can happen, folks!

I've got lots more to be grateful for right now, including:
* two healthy businesses
* many of my year's intentions coming to fruition (this blog being part)
* a continually deepening marriage
* a return to the gym and working out

I welcome comments of your gratitudes too! Happy Thanksgiving! Go Lions! Go Seahawks!

Best, Your Grateful Guy

Gratitude - the spiritual tool for this Thanksgiving weekend

Meister Eckhart said "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." For reasons both spiritual and psychological, focusing on gratitude makes sense in experiencing a fuller life.

For a private practice, this can mean actively giving thanks each time a new client contact happens, each time you make a deposit, each time you connect with a possible referral source.

It can also mean starting each day by making a gratitude list, of things currently in your life that you are grateful for.

I am grateful for this career which allows me to do what I was really born to do, and be financially supported for doing it.

Yours, Peter