Soul Food

Appreciation and gratefulness are like a dog. You've got to feed it. Each and every single one of us has something profoundly moving that we can connect to very easily three hundred and sixty-five days a year. It is something so wondrous and beauteous that our souls can be stirred and we can connect with our source. This something is so grand it can take our breath away. It is so incredible it can make our hearts sing. It is so mesmerizing that it can pull us out of our boxes and transmit us to other times and other realities. It is so vast and immense it can put our lives in perspective. For most of us, we don't have to go far to experience this stupendous and epiphanic thing. We just have to walk outside our homes and look up into the night sky. The night sky is always there for us to gaze up into the mighty universe. The very universe is right there for all to see. The freaking universe is right there! It's right there, just a few steps away, waiting for us to connect with it. How often do we step outside at night and gaze up at the universe in the night sky? How can one look up at the stars in the night sky and NOT be filled with gratefulness and appreciation? I think just about everyone can appreciate the night sky. So if you want to feel appreciation and gratefulness all you have to do is go outside, clear your mind, and stare up at the stars and galaxies above. It's that easy! It's that close! Think of the stars and moon and milky way and everything in the night sky as food that you can feed the appreciation and gratefulness growing within you. While staring at the night sky, feel it feeding you. Feel the grandness of it. Feel the sacredness of it. Feel the whole universe flowing into you and feel the appreciation and gratefulness grow and expand. Luxuriate in those feelings. Step into them. With a ten to twenty minute feeding every night the appreciation and gratefulness within us will begin growing significantly. (Sleep will be better, too.) Our connection with the universe will grow stronger and it will carry over into the rest of our day. We will even start seeing the daytime sky and landscape differently, too. The universe can empower us in infinite ways. Connecting to it regularly will nourish our souls and feed the love and joy growing in our beings. And it's so close and available and accessible! And free, even. The universe is right there for us to see but we have put roofs over our head so we don't see it regularly and we forget it is there. We have cut ourselves off from one of our primary sources of nourishment. Our levels of appreciation and gratefulness have suffered because of that. But it's an easy problem to remedy.... Go outside! Look up! It's that easy.