Gratitude Is That Magic Pill We Are Searching For

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I wanted to speak to you about gratitude and how I really believe that gratitude along with its cousin love,

Literally those are the two things that are the pills,

The magic pills that all of us are looking for.

That pill that's supposed to transform our lives or transform ourselves or transform our bodies,

Transform our relationships or get us that dream life that we want to live.

I really do believe from what I've been reading and from what I've been experiencing for myself that literally gratitude is that magic pill that we're looking for along with its cousin love.

I think they're both very interconnected with each other and I'm just going to use gratitude in the rest of the video.

But know that they are both very connected to each other.

In general,

If you guys have read anything about gratitude,

You know that it is powerful beyond measure.

It literally is actually the easiest thing you can do on the planet,

Right?

I mean you're sitting there feeling gratitude and that's it.

I mean there's nothing more to it.

You just feel that feeling,

That immense feeling of gratefulness for everything that you are,

Everything that you have,

Everything that you've been given,

Everything that you haven't been given.

You know,

You just feel grateful for everything and that's it.

It's just a feeling and that feeling in itself can create so much in your life.

And I've noticed for myself specifically that the more I practice the feeling of gratitude,

Now I wasn't very grateful when I was younger.

I was grateful enough but I wasn't as grateful as I am right now.

And I do notice the older that I get,

The more grateful I become.

The more grateful I automatically become and the easier it becomes for me to feel the feeling of gratitude just on a general basis.

Every morning when I wake up nowadays,

It's my practice and it's an automatic practice now actually.

Really,

I don't think about it.

In the past,

I would actually be like,

All right,

I'm going to write it down.

I'm going to write down what I'm grateful for and I'm going to do a journal about it.

And I'm going to,

I actually made a practice so that I would have it ingrained into me.

But nowadays I just automatically wake up with a feeling of gratitude in my heart,

In my mind and in my soul.

As soon as I wake up on that bed behind me,

As you guys can see,

I wake up and instantaneous.

The first thought that I have in my mind is,

Man,

I slept like a baby.

No matter how I slept,

Really.

Usually I sleep very well.

So I wake up and I'm like,

Oh my God,

I slept so well.

I had the best dreams.

I'm so grateful.

I'm so thankful to be alive.

I'm so grateful for this new day that I've been given.

And that is usually how I start off my day every single day.

And as I said,

An automatic thing,

Because as soon as I wake up,

I'm comfortable,

I'm cozy.

The quilt is comfortable.

My bed is comfortable.

And any bed really here or Chiang Mai or wherever I am,

I'll wake up and I'll be like,

Oh,

I'm grateful for the fact that I am awake again.

You know,

I've been given this new day.

I'm alive.

I'm awake.

I'm here.

No,

I'm not dead.

I didn't fall asleep and then die in my sleep.

I'm still here and I'm alive and I'm healthy and I can see and I can touch.

I can feel.

My limbs still work.

And so basically there's a lot to be grateful for already.

And so I start off my day like that and then throughout the day,

As time goes on,

You know,

I feel grateful for the water that I have or the delicious food that my mom cooks or the people that the restaurants that I go to in Chiang Mai.

Or,

You know,

The fact that I can walk around,

The fact that the sun is shining today,

Which is really nice.

The fact that there's a beautiful breeze.

The fact that actually the area in Canada and Toronto is so clean.

Oh,

My God.

I mean,

I walk around outside and I don't have to wear a mask.

I've been wearing a mask for the last four months in Chiang Mai,

Almost four months,

More than I maybe.

And it just feels so good to be able to walk around without a mask.

My lungs feel so happy.

I mean,

There's so much to be grateful for,

Obviously.

Now that I'm saying that everything is always absolute perfection,

Almost close,

But it is.

But,

You know,

I'm just saying that in general,

Whatever I can feel grateful for,

I feel grateful for it.

And I feel grateful for it not only out loud.

So I actually say it out loud.

Usually I'm by myself anyways,

Or if I'm walking by myself outside,

It's fine.

You know,

I'm talking to myself.

It's OK.

But I'll say it out loud and I'll really try to feel that feeling of gratitude in my heart.

I'll really like,

You know,

Feel my heart thumping in my chest and feel that gratitude just thumping through every single cell in my body.

And that feeling just rejuvenates me.

I literally go around bouncing on my toes because it feels so good to be alive.

Walking around basically like a gratitude machine.

I am basically a huge gratitude ball.

Right.

And I am boom and I'm gratitude.

That's what I should introduce myself.

And so I wanted to really say that.

For me,

Especially in my life,

The reason I'm able to live such an awesome life right now,

I really do believe is because of the practice of gratitude that I have ingrained into myself and into my routine.

As I said previously,

I used to do the graduate practice,

But it was very non-automatic.

I had to really force myself to feel it.

But as time goes on and the more you practice it,

The more you just say it out loud.

At first,

You're just going to be saying the words.

At first you can be like,

I feel grateful for my fingers.

I feel grateful for,

You know,

Like children when they repeat some words or when they're reading a paragraph.

They're very automaton about it.

Very zombie like.

Perhaps in the beginning you're going to be like that.

You're going to have to force yourself to feel it.

You have to force yourself to say these words.

And that's OK,

Because that's the beginning step of everything,

Of anything.

Right.

And so you do that in the beginning.

But as time goes on and I notice for myself very quickly,

You're going to start really noticing things in your surroundings that you're grateful for.

You're going to be grateful for your iPhone or your Android,

Whatever you have,

Because it allows you to connect with people all around the world.

You can be grateful for your MacBook because it allows you to talk to people that are back in Chiang Mai or your friends that are in all that are all over the world.

You can be grateful for all the books that you have because you get to read all these beautiful stories or these interesting thoughts from other people and things like that.

I mean,

There's so much.

At least as an individual in the Western world,

I know that we have so much.

We have an overabundance of things to be grateful for,

Really.

But,

You know,

We don't actually really pay attention to it because we always just want more and more and more and more.

We're like,

We're not satisfied with what we have,

Not grateful for it because we're always thinking about,

OK,

What else can I get?

What more can I buy?

What more can I get?

And so I feel like if we could just really feel gratitude for what we have right now,

We wouldn't have this incessant desire and need in order to fill our closets and our garages and our homes with all of the stuff that we don't actually use.

OK,

I'll give you a quick example in my life.

I don't actually even live in Canada anymore.

I come here for a holiday,

Maybe three,

Four or five months of the year,

Sometimes six months.

But usually in the wintertime,

I'm here right now and it's actually really cold outside.

But really,

If I think about it,

I usually would only need maybe one or two jackets,

Like a springish that jacket,

Like an autumn jacket and a winter jacket.

Right.

But considering the fact that I don't want to spend that much time in wintertime here,

I still have about six or seven jackets that I've accumulated from the past.

Now,

I try as much as possible to not buy any more jackets and I haven't bought any new winter jackets or coats in,

I would say,

Four or five years now.

More than that.

But this is just the number of jackets that have been left behind from the fact that I used to buy a ton of jackets every year.

And this is what people do in Canada.

Even though they have perfectly good winter coats,

They will still go out every winter and buy a new jacket,

A new coat,

Depending on the fashion styles and things like that.

Right.

Why?

Because they're not grateful or they don't think it's enough what they have already.

I'm not saying that they should never buy anything and we should just all become like aesthetics.

Right.

Obviously not.

But in general,

They're the thing that they're going out to buy is happiness.

They're not going out to buy a jacket or a winter coat.

They're going out to buy happiness because they're not satisfied or grateful for what they have already.

They started feeling that feeling of grateful gratitude or gratefulness.

Then they wouldn't go out searching for happiness out there because they would already have it inside them.

Right.

They already be that grateful,

Awesome person who's like,

Yeah,

I love my life.

I love everything I have.

I have amazing things already.

I'm really grateful.

And they would go out,

Even if they bought something from that space,

It would come from a space of not wanting or neediness or clinginess or desire,

But from a place of,

All right,

You know what?

My jacket's tearing.

I need a new jacket.

I'm going to go buy a new jacket.

That's it.

It won't be associated with,

Oh,

If I buy a new jacket,

Then I'm going to look really good and people are going to love me and they're going to accept me,

Especially if the jacket is really expensive.

And if it's a designer jacket,

Then people are going to respect me even more.

And I'm going to get all these friends from it.

Maybe I'll even start dating this guy that I want.

Things like that.

You know,

I'm making up stuff here.

It's just a jacket.

But a lot of us associate things,

A lot of things with our stuff.

Right.

A lot of emotions and feelings,

Especially of happiness and contentment.

We're not going to receive it from that item of obviously we know that.

I mean,

I hope we know that.

But we still try over and over again,

Of course.

But that's what the thing is about gratitude or gratefulness,

That if we keep on feeling that feeling of gratefulness or gratitude,

We won't actually go out searching for all of these things.

We'll know that it's within us.

It's here.

It's in our heart.

And we just have to feel that feeling of gratefulness and that happiness that we're looking for,

That joyfulness,

That that serenity,

That contentment is here and we'll be able to feel it over and over and over again.

As soon as we feel gratefulness,

We'll feel that feeling of serenity,

That feeling of contentment,

Of happiness.

It's all interconnected,

Really.

It's actually really fascinating if you read up on it.

If you guys have any questions about this,

I mean,

There's a lot more that I want to say on the subject and maybe I'll do another video on it.

But I'd love to hear your questions or comments or ideas or insights on this.

Share them in the comments below and I shall obviously answer your questions in a follow up video.

What are your experiences with gratitude?

Do you have a daily gratitude practice or not?

Why not?

I'd love to hear all of that as well.

Again,

Thank you so much for listening,

For watching.

And I shall see you the next time around.

Bye for now.