Living In The Land Of Thank You

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom.

My name is Daniel Orkeo and as always Thank you so so much for tuning in for Joining me in a moment of expanding our consciousness in a moment of raising a vibration in a moment of allowing for more peace and more love and more joy and more harmony and more abundance and beauty and all these beautiful Divine qualities to well up from within us to emerge from within us where there always are We're not ever missing them.

They're not ever absent or lacking But sometimes we're not aware that they're there So that is the work that we get to do as we move along this beautiful path We get to realize that they are always there regardless of external conditions regardless of what is happening in the world and regardless of even the experiences that we are having perhaps thought forms that we are Becoming aware of or emotions or feelings that we are becoming aware of so this is a beautiful path of freedom where we set ourselves free to To be in joy and to be in love and to be in harmony and all of those So much of what we're talking about is related to practice some kind of practice there are so many many many practices that we have at our disposal that we have at our fingertips that we have in our toolbox that we can pick up and use whenever we feel inspired whenever we feel the need and Obviously in the moments in between not only as a 9-1-1 kind of thing not only as an emergency tool but we're always wise to have a solid stable practice To keep our consciousness high to stay in that high vibration and to keep expanding it and keep raising it So to sort of inoculate ourselves from the fear and the worry and the doubt that is so running rampant in the world right now Today,

We're turning our attention toward one of these tools.

It is a beautiful tool and I'm confident that you've heard about it that you know about it and that you Probably practice it if you're tuning into this I'm guessing that gratitude because this is about gratitude that gratitude is a part of your practice already as for many of us gratitude is a large part of my life and Huge contributor to all of the good that keeps flowing into my life And today I want to share because just recently I was moved into expanding my gratitude practice I was listening to an individual sharing and I don't I'm not quite sure what it is That she was sharing,

But she was talking about gratitude in general and she was talking more about living in the Yes,

And thank you Which is for another day for another talk but hearing her speak sort of allowed something to Transform within me and I realized that I can lean more into gratitude than I'm already doing so during my day,

I wake up in gratitude I end my day in gratitude and From time to time during the day.

I move into gratitude giving thanks for the good that is here the challenges that I'm moving through Recognizing that these are and gifts and blessings in disguise not in disguise,

But these are gifts and blessings of transformation but I can expand that and so What happened was that I came to realize that I can move through my day living in the land of thank you Living in the land of thank you in a perpetual state of giving thanks for anything for everything Whatever comes to mind As I say these words So how I have begun to use this practice is that I stop and I say the words.

Thank you God Thank you God as God is the only source of supply It is not more than fair that we created all the good to spirit or the one mind or the one intelligence or the one power or The universe or life or whatever we want to call it But we want to attribute the good to The source of that good and as everything comes from God arises out of God is in God We might as well Give God a piece of our appreciation.

So that's how I lean into it.

Thank you God And then whatever comes to mind,

Thank you God for these beautiful clothes that I'm wearing Thank you God for this beautiful house that I get to have.

Thank you God that I get to be of service Thank you God for the abundance in our fridge Thank you God for for the health and the vitality of my body of this body this beautiful instrument that I get to have Thank you God that I get to be an instrument.

Thank you God that I get to be your humble servant Thank you God for the love that we have in our family for my family Thank you,

And I just keep going and going and going I just keep on and on and on and it doesn't really matter what?

I'm giving thanks to the Important thing and this is the beauty and this is the power of the practice of gratitude when we give thanks We are turning our attention from that which we don't want to experience to that which we wish to experience So a lot of individuals are moving through life and they are complaining and they are bemoaning and they are resisting And they are in a state of oh I don't want that and I don't want that and I don't want to experience that and I don't want to experience that But guess what as we've been talking about a whole lot the sacred laws.

They don't care what we're interested in They don't care where we turn our attention They don't care who we are what we wish what we don't wish The only thing they care about is where we turn our attention to the most What we think about the most what we talk about the most and most importantly what we feel the most So enters the beautiful practice of gratitude Where it allows us to turn our attention I can be in the midst of Experiencing an intense emotion and in that intense emotion Let's say an emotion of resistance or anger in that emotion having that experience.

I can turn my attention Lean into thank you God For all the beautiful ingredients.

Thank you God for every Individual that has contributed to this amazing food this life nourishment To find its way into my fridge into my cupboard onto my table into my pot into my frying pan Thank you God.

There's so much good here And so what I'm doing is that I'm turning my attention away from whatever it was that upset me from whatever it was that gave rise within me to the anger I Turn my attention away from that and turn it toward the good that is here The good that is here.

And so as I'm raising my vibration as I'm expanding my consciousness And this goes for all of us as we are raising our vibration as we are expanding our consciousness Turning our attention toward what we wish to experience the sacred laws can only mirror and reflect that More of that.

So there's a beautiful the law of gratitude Actually states that the more we are grateful The more we will be given to be grateful for and this obviously It has to do with how these sacred laws work how they operate that they can only Reflect and mirror back what we turn our attention to the most what we think about the most what we talk about the most what we Feel about the most so living Actually living in the land of thank you We don't need to earn or deserve God's favor.

God doesn't have any favors and Grace can never be earned Grace meaning that God gives fully freely of all of that which in spirit is Grace can never be earned.

We don't need to qualify ourselves.

We don't need to deserve it Or make ourselves worthy of it,

But it is always freely given But as we turn our attention toward the good that is already here not projecting it into the future not Remembering it from the past But acknowledging it here and now in this moment What we're doing is that we are making ourselves open and available for more of that good to flow into our lives So that's the dual power of gratitude First of all,

It feels darn good To be grateful It feels a whole lot better to be in a state of gratitude to be in the vibration of gratitude then be in the vibration of say anger or fear or worry or doubt or resistance or whatever It feels good to be grateful.

It feels good to have a smile on on my face Which is what gratitude brings not always but when I Really get into it when I really feel it.

That's what it brings And we'll come back to this in a little while.

So that's the one power of gratitude and the second power is that the fruits that we get to as we are planting seeds of of gratitude of Thanksgiving of appreciation We get to harvest those seeds we get to harvest the fruits of those seeds and the fruits are more of good more gifts more blessings and once again,

Not because God has suddenly caught or Because we have suddenly caught God's eye and now we're in the in God's favor No,

But because we are open and receptive we are available to receive the good that God is always Seeking to give so there's a dual power to gratitude It lifts our vibration.

It expands our consciousness.

It makes us feel good and We become the recipients of that good so The question that I sometimes get is well,

What if I can't feel the gratitude?

What if I can't feel thankful in this moment and That's obviously all right This is not only about making ourselves feel any kind of way That would be spiritual bypassing when I'm pretending that I'm not when I'm perhaps in a low vibration I'm pretending I'm pretending That I am in a high vibration without moving from that low vibration to the high vibration That's called spiritual bypassing.

So I'm not denying perhaps that I'm feeling let's go with upset Let's say that I am I'm experiencing some upsetness and I lean into thank you God That I get to be your humble servant here on this planet And what if I don't feel grateful to be God's humble servant?

I'm not I may not be feeling it at all.

We're still wise to lean into wise to lean into the power of gratitude To lean into the land of thank you because the more we lean into it the more we make it a habitual part of our practice a habitual part of our beingness So even if I perhaps don't feel grateful in this particular moment I'm still Strengthening those presence muscles and spiritual muscles So for every time we lean into thank you dot dot dot We're building a practice.

We're building a habit that absolutely serves us So just because we don't feel it does not mean that we can't do it Just because we can't feel it does not mean that we can't do it So that's the invitation to begin to cultivate to lean into in every single I mean it takes 20 seconds at most to say thank you God that I get to be here That I get to be a vessel of love That I get to serve that I get to support That I get to be healthy that I get to enjoy abundance Thank you God for the money that I have for the health that I have I May not have as much money as I want to I may not have the health that I want to But as I'm turning my attention as we are turning our attention to what we wish to experience That is what we're calling into experience.

So we can be in the midst of Let's say a financial challenge or a health challenge And we can still give thanks for the health that we wish to experience That we wish to experience for the wholeness that is here Let's say that I have broken my finger.

Well,

That's one tiny Part of the body that is not expressing the perfect wholeness But the rest of the body is a beautiful testament The lungs are working the breathing apparatus is working the circulatory system is working the digestive System is working.

There's so much that is beautiful expression of health and wholeness in every single moment in any given moment So we can turn our attention toward that why spend our attention on that little speck That is not to our liking We get to choose We get to choose in every single moment.

So why not choose to lean into thank you spirit That I get to smile Thank you spirit that I get to laugh Thank you spirit that I get to feel good about myself.

Thank you spirit for the trees outside my windows The flowers the beauty that is here the wind the gusts the butterfly the rose The water in in my shower or in the lake or in the river the beautiful sky the clouds Thank you god for mother earth Thank you god for strawberries or bananas or pineapples Or kale or whatever the case may be There is always always something to be grateful for so our invitation Is to lean into that more and more and more to the very best of our ability So thank you so so much for tuning in for participating until we meet again I absolutely bless bless bless all of our days and I bless bless bless all of our ways Much love many blessings Namaste