Baby steps of expressing gratitude through the transformation of physical discomfort

After a 24 hour bout of pains and body chills, pains, vomiting and a splitting head that triggered me to think I might die, I was grateful to be able to drive my car again. On the drive to the school pick-up I was reflecting on the intense reminder my body had shown me of how it was working for me and transforming and continuing to provide a vessel for my consciousness to experience a 3 (and 4th) dimensional existence. As though I had been running on auto pilot and had almost forgotten the amazing effort it was making for me. It dawned heavily that it was asking for attention and recognition and not to be taken for granted. There was a lot going on energetically that I couldn’t see and it was asking for faith and trust in me to take care of things I couldn’t necessarily understand with my intellect. But oh my goodness had the last 24 hours been challenging and unpleasant!

As I arrived at the school to collect my child dusk was collecting and the air damp and foggy. As I descended the steps in front of the window I could see the bright lights excentuating the beautiful paper stars and acorns hanging in front of them. A tribute to the creativity the children had expressed the week before. Suddenly I caught sight of my daughter sitting with a few friends cutting paper and my heart full of gratitude overwhelmingly enveloped me. The download came through as clear as day: “Any form of consciousness can observe this scene just as I am, but not all have the chance to experience this in physicality. in a moment I will be lucky enough to walk through that door, greet her, have her acknowledge my being there and feel her love and warmth”. Right in that moment there was sheer gratitude for having the opportunity to reside in a human body with all of its sometimes strange and puzzling reactions and sensations.

We hear a lot about gratitude but often feel immense guilt when we just can’t feel it. We are learning another way to ‘be’ and as so many skills on our journey to self mastery, we start with lucid moments and baby steps that my be short and fleeting but have a huge impact on our souls development. When you get quiet and let the voice of your soul through, what can you sense today in your gift of physicality that doesn’t want to be taken for granted anymore?