Gratitude!

The practice of gratitude has become an important part of my life lately. In fact it has become an important daily ritual for me. It helps me to stay in the present moment by asking myself “what can I be grateful for in this very moment?” It’s easy to be grateful for things when everything is going well. However, it is also very easy to take things for granted. Sometimes we don’t realize what we have or had until it’s gone and then we try with great desperation to get it back. When everything is seemingly falling apart it can also be hard to be grateful because it’s tempting to get stuck in that cycle of negativity. But being grateful is nothing more than a shift in perception. Like anything, it takes practice and the more you practice the easier it becomes. I believe gratitude should be unconditional just like love! As long as we are breathing we have something to be grateful for!!