Gratitude Equals Completion

A long time ago, some elders in the sweat lodge helped me learn about the wisdom of the North. They told me that gratitude was a sensation that you feel in your body. It is a frequency that creates a certain vibration in our energy fields and in the cells of our bodies.

Up until this time, I had confused the true energy of gratitude with the words of gratitude. In my birth family, children were taught to say "Thank You" in any circumstance where someone had done something or given something for them. There was no connection to what one was truly feeling in that moment, only a required response. This behavior had been passed down for at least a few generations, for the adults of the family had no connection to the feeling of gratitude either, that I could see.

The elders encouraged me to sit with gratitude for days on end. Every time I caught my mind thinking (about anything), I would focus on my mantra-"Thank you, thank-you". I carried this forward into life, going about my daily routines and all the while running a constant undertone of "Thank-you, thank-you". And then it happened.

I woke up one morning and I had broken through the ceiling! I could feel my heart exploding with gratitude! It felt light, and teary, and ecstatic, and peaceful, an amazing jumble of sensation and energy. From that moment on I knew what gratitude was, I knew how to reach the frequency of gratitude, and how to generate it throughout my cells. Today, I thank the elders from the bottom of my heart for that one sweat lodge in which they talked about gratitude and opened the way for me to own it.

For every kharmic thread we weave through our lifetime, all must be fulfilled. EVERY DREAM, every desire, every thought, every incomplete, every vision. These must be fulfilled, at one time or another, in one lifetime or another, by someone, as life has no brakes. Unless a generated energy is recognized and the contract changed, it will come to be in some form or another. Fulfillment is the last stage of manifestation, the final turning of a giant wheel, before it begins another round! In gratitude, all kharma is dissolved, and we awaken to create from a conscious space.

My prayer today is this: May you find gratitude in your heart. May you experience the beauty of fulfillment and conscious co-creation. May you walk all your life in beauty. Aho.

Kachina