Pathwalking 263
This week I continue to work with Pathwalking in Practice.
Last week I broke down the three means I believe everyone lives their life by: letting life live you, curling up in a ball and waiting to die or living the life you want. Pathwalking is a means to the end of living the life I want to live the most, and has evolved into a self-help philosophy I believe I can do more with, for myself and for others.
How will I do more with this? Last week I mentioned the idea of working with actionable items, tools that could be employed in the process of Pathwalking.
The root of the actionable items comes from the process itself, discussed in detail last week. To manifest our destinies, it takes thought, feeling and intentional action. As simple as these are, though, in our complex society we require additional tools to help create our focus, and allow us to better consciously create our realities.
There are tools we can employ to better help with our work with conscious creation. They are not always obvious, they might sometimes seem a bit off-topic, but they can be of great assistance none-the-less.
It is my intent to take Pathwalking outside of this blog. I want to help other people to live better, more desirable lives, and to find their own empowerment. This is how I wish to empower myself. Part of doing this is creating these actionable items, so that I have something to build upon and share with others, a means to the desired end. This is the act of putting Pathwalking in Practice.
Yes, not everything will work the same for others as it does for me, but I still believe that having tools available to us to aid this process is beneficial, and I believe that part of my personal calling in this life is to not only find my paths, but to help others with the same process. The blog is only the beginning. Part of the next step is creating the actionable items to work with past that.
What are the actionable ideas? This is very much a work in progress, but it will follow the three basic steps to any manifestation – thought, feeling and intentional actions. This will be an overview, a template I intend in the coming weeks to build up with more detail.
The first is expressing gratitude. Before we begin to seek something new, before we take that idea and build it up to something more, we need to have gratitude for that which is already ours.
Gratitude is an outstanding base for creating positive thoughts and feelings, and from there creating new things.
To begin this, we must find the things we have RIGHT NOW for which we are grateful. Size doesn’t matter, tangible vs intangible is unimportant, what IS important is that we express gratitude for what we have.
Then, we need to remember our gratitude, and create a means to remind ourselves to be grateful. When the outside world is getting you down, or you are having a bad day, having something that triggers feelings of gratitude will help restore positive energies.
After that, we need to check in with things to be grateful for daily. This is not a one-and-done matter; daily expression of gratitude makes room to gain more things for which to be grateful. What’s more, we cannot just write-down the things we are grateful for…we need to feel them.
For more than a year I have been writing down from five to six things nearly every day for which I am grateful. The issue has been that from time to time I have missed a day, and more than that I have simply written down five things, but took no extra time to actually FEEL grateful for them.
So in the interest of putting Pathwalking in Practice, I need to not only continue to write down at least five things for which I am grateful daily, I need to take at least a little extra time to FEEL them. I need to not just put them on the page, I need to feel gratitude for them, and put extra focus into the process.
Beyond this, it is important to find and feel gratitude as often as possible. Even when you are inundated with negativity and bad news about the world at large, finding and feeling grateful will keep you in a place where you can be more constructive, and a positive force in the world.
To assist with this, I have been borrowing an idea I gleaned from The Secret. Lee Brower explains in The Secret that in order to help himself remember to express gratitude frequently, he carries a rock in his pocket. Whenever he reaches into the pocket for whatever reason, when he touches the rock he thinks about and feels something to be grateful for.
For a few years now, I have carried a stone of some sort in my pocket. I strive, whenever I reach into my pocket and touch that stone, to think about and feel gratitude for something in my life. The what is not important…it is the action that matters. However, I need to make it more of a practice to FEEL grateful, and not just think about gratitude.
Pathwalking in Practice – taking more time and actions for feeling gratitude. Gratitude for what you have opens you up to what you desire. Care to join me with this challenge?
This is the two-hundred sixty-third entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas and my personal experiences in walking along the path of life. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way.
Thank you for joining me. Feel free to re-blog and share.
The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.
If you enjoy Pathwalking, you may also want to read my Five Easy Steps to Change the World for the Better.
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