I recently attended a workshop--Awaken the Rebel Live--and reconnected with this amazing gratitude journey that I was on a while ago. My goal was to write one letter of gratitude every day for a year. I did it for a few months and then got sidetracked and stopped. The process of writing letters was amazing. It was like channeling unconditional love out into the universe, a feeling so powerful it's hard to express. I don't know why I stopped, yet the important thing is that I was reminded of the journey and I'm choosing back in!
So, although this is a journey of gratitude and ultimately love, the blogging is an exploration of the ripple effects of this expression of love and my feelings around the process which continue to intrigue me. For example...when I reconnected with the idea of pouring gratitude out into the world I became very emotional and passionate about it. I cried. It's powerful stuff.
Then, I started thinking about who I would write to. Then I became immediately worried about what people would think of my mission to express love and gratitude. People might think I'm weird. Then I was mad at myself for being a coward and for caring what others would think. Then I was determined to overcome the fear. Then I was back at the place of wanting to be love. Then I started writing...