Since Thanksgiving and gratitude go hand-in-hand, I like to use this time of year to reflect on the mechanics that make gratitude such an important aspect of our inner journey.

First and foremost, gratitude is a great tool for breaking the energetic pull of ego in our awareness.

Ego loves to use what’s not working in our lives to usurp our attention. When we’re not mindful of ego’s unscrupulous ways, these thoughts of lack can begin to occupy most of our mind.

However, gratitude immediately diverts our attention from focusing on what’s missing in our life to all that’s working in our life. Without ego overtaking our mind with thoughts of lack, a space opens up, allowing us to be filled with feelings that spring from our deepest nature…feelings of joy, peace, and true abundance.

We’re temporarily relieved from being identified with an illusion of lack (everything of ego is an illusion) and we touch (maybe it’s a glimpse; maybe it’s a deeper anchoring) a reality that knows abundance beyond the trappings of the world (what ego would define as abundance).

When we consciously move from identifying with an …

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