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Why a gratitude Practice?
Dear Creatrix,
I think we’ve all heard, that knowing how to find balance, or inner peace, is the highest good in today’s world.
It’s actually valued higher than money because no money in the world can buy you inner peace.
Yet, we can all have it for free.
All we have to do for it is to stop trying to please others and just be ourselves and listen to our heart’s desires.
I feel extremely grateful that I figured out a way for myself to live in balance and experience inner peace, if not at all times, then at least at most times.
And I’d like to share with you, today, how you can have that as well.
For it, it doesn’t matter how you feel now, what you’ve experienced in the past or what you believe in, all it takes is a desire to live a balanced and happy life.
I wasn’t born and raised to live in a state of inner peace, or be in balance – far from it.
I also had my reasons to go look for it, and it took me many years to get here. But it doesn’t have to take you as long, if you are willing to accept some help.
Why are our lives so busy and stressful?
If we take a low estimate, people say 60% of our diseases are caused by our lifestyle. Which means that those diseases can be prevented and healed if people change their way of life.
I would go even further and say that almost every disease can be healed by a change of lifestyle, as I had a chance to see myself heal diseases and my body in ways that no doctor expected or thought possible, simply by changing how I think about them.
We often think that this world is so complicated, when it is really very simple.
What makes life stressful and keeps us busy is that we don’t know what we are doing and why.
But we can take the time to figure it out, and once we do, we can come back to inner balance and peace with ease.
In the same way, what makes us sick, is fear. And fear comes from not trusting, not knowing and uncertainty.
So if we want to start living healthy and happy lives, find balance and come to a state of inner peace, strength and certainty, we have to begin to trust that everything is and will always be good – and do our part in making all decisions for the greatest good of all.
How far can you stretch your mind?
I know that when we look around, it often seems difficult to imagine that all is well.
And believe me when I say, that I did not always think this way.
I was so angry for most of my life. I couldn’t stand the fact that there was inequality, that there were people suffering, and I thought that I did not want to be happy as long as there were other people who were not.
A lot has changed since then, but I first had to reach a point in my life, where I felt so bad, that I did not want to continue in the way I lived, thinking, fearing, that if I don’t start treating my body better, it might give up at some point.
And this seems true for many. At some point in our lives, we realize that something has to change, or we ruin ourselves.
Constant stress, constant worry, trying to make ends meet or live a fulfilled and happy life, without really knowing how and seemingly too many balls in the air.
So, what can we do?
It is quite simple really.
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