Awaken True Gratitude and Love

Dear Paul 

Gratitude – the key to loving each day and growing from every experience that occurs 

What does it take to make you happy-ever-after? Some will claim happiness is a happy relationship, others say if they won a pile of money they would be happy. Ask a hundred different people and you’ll get a hundred different answers. But wait just a minute; what if I told you that winning the pile of money or having a great relationship won’t keep you happy indefinitely (and might actually lead to the opposite half the time). That might come as quite a shock! 

So why can’t happiness be yours forever? The answer is short and simple, because happiness by itself is only half of the equation of life. It alone, without its partner called sadness, makes for a fantasy or an illusion, and happy-ever-after is also an un-spirited fairytale. From this one illusion is birthed some of the most prevalent social concerns of our era: stress, suicide, heartache, hopelessness, anger, resentment and depression! The hope for happy-ever-after is one of our greatest psychological and social delusions. 

The reality is, ever-lasting happiness does not exist! It goes against the essence of our true and balanced nature. Our purpose in life isn’t just to pursue happiness. It is about loving the two sides of life’s winding road that leads us all to places in our hearts, minds and physical experience that are a blend of happy and sad, nice and mean experiences. We are like homing devices narrowing our oscillations through positive and negative feedback experiences as we walk through our spiritual journey to awaken true gratitude and love. 

As we progress along the course of our mystical voyage, we will experience natural cycles of highs and lows. When we experience these cycles, the secret to a wonderful, rewarding life is not to be found by flying high on the up cycles and sinking down to the lowest depths on the down cycles, but instead by creating an ability to appreciate every one of life’s experience (both happy or sad) and learn and grow from them in a fulfilling and rewarding way. Learning to see the magnificence of life (no matter what form of high or low it takes) is a secret that I teach in my program entitled The Breakthrough Experience®. This secret is uncovered and found through the use of The Demartini Method®. This amazing process provides a simple means to helping you instantly find the blessings and be grateful for whatever it is that confronts you, whether you are dealing with a high or a low. 

So, while you may not be able to remain ‘happy-ever-after,’ you can, however, become more ‘grateful-ever-after’ for each aspect of your life. Following are examples of how to accomplish this ‘attitude of gratitude’ in the 7 areas of your life. 

Be grateful for your spirituality: 

Be grateful for your vocation: 

Be grateful for your family: 

Be grateful for your finances: 

Be grateful for your social influence: 

Be grateful for your physical state: 

Be grateful for your mental state: 

Love and Wisdom
Dr. John Demartini