*Dr. Michael Schlosser*, photo by Cynthia Rose
Schlosser … a pure feeling of Love and Gratitude
flows thru this image, an example worthy of
emulation.

Just for today:

Connect eye to eye with another while expressing  Gratitude. This opens a direct channel between each heart through the eyes, allowing truth to flow easily between you, charging energetic pathways with current possibilities ~ and creating a sacred moment as each recognizes, reflects and returns flowing expressions of Love and Gratitude.

To experience yet another level, let go of saying words.

Simply direct your energy, projecting Gratitude as light-in-action, through your gaze, body gestures, and emotions.

Be fully present to note and appreciate how others receive and return this silently spoken message of Love and Gratitude. Pay special attention to how this feels to you.

Remember: Conversations/possibilities/opportunities may arise and surprise as you gaze-a-way in Gratitude. Keep what’s worth keeping and return the rest to Love.

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Go Gratitude!

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Pay special attention to children when practicing this activity. You will find delighted
amazement and brightened faces as you grace these young hearts with your Love and Gratitude
gazes.

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When you are grateful, your heart is open — open towards others, open for surprise. In the days since the Wake-up Call we have seen remarkable examples of this openness: strangers helping strangers often in heroic ways. Others turn away, isolate themselves, dare even less than at other times to look at each other. Violence begins with isolation.

Break this pattern. Make contact with people whom you normally ignore — eye-contact at least — with the agent at the toll booth, the parking lot attendant, someone on the elevator.

Look a stranger in the eyes today and realize that there are no strangers.

You can feel either grateful or alienated, but never both at the same time. Gratefulness drives out alienation; there is not room for both in the same heart. When you are grateful you know that you belong to a network of give-and-take and you say “yes” to that belonging. This “yes” is the essence of love. You need no words to express it; a smile will do to put your “yes” into action. Don’t let it matter to you whether or not the other one smiles back. Give someone an unexpected smile today and so contribute your share to peace on earth.

~ David Steindl-Rast, www.gratefulness.org

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*image ~ Stacey Robyn. “Eye Love you, Alex” 2005

Upon arrival in physical time we daily change,
re-arranging shape, form, and feature …
our bodies growing by divine design
to support our wishes, dreams, and adventures
supreme.

Now consider this - from birth on,
all dimensions change in our physical
frames ~ all except One …

The EYE.

From first blink to final wink
this window of time remains one size
offering a steady view of timely Life.

Why?

In order to re-member this:

It’s what you choose to see that
changes, rather than just the view.

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So how to re-view life as a child, trusting, open and pure?

Ready …

Blink.

Now Open your eyes prepared to (k)newly view life through the eyes of Gratitude.

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While our eyes remain the same size, the muscles used to alter our view are continually in a state of change, actively assisting our shifting gaze.

Here is a fabulous exercise to strengthen eye muscles, overcoming possible atrophy caused by staring at fixed distances - such as computer screens and other things. Consider using one or more exercises a day to maintain healthy eye muscles.

1) stare at the tip of your nose. next, move your gaze to 15 feet in front f you. Now, extend your view to infinity ~ as far as you can see. Now move back and forth, through each stage 12 x’s.

2) Look up at the 12 o’clock position. Now look at three o’clock, six, nine and back to twelve. hold each station for about three seconds, moving round the clock three times. Now reverse the flow, going back in time … three spins round you go!

3) Make the symbol of Gratitude, beginning within moving out and around to complete the form. Now reverse this spin, moving within to center you view in Gratitude … repeat ’til you feel complete.

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*image courtesy of Daniel B. Holman*

Gratitude is a gift of Love, flowing from our sacred heart space ~ a timely reflection of our heavenly presence on earth.

So let’s consider a (k)new view, that perhaps the heart of the earth is YOU.

Here we GO … simply move the first to last, like this:

(H)EART to EART(H)

worlds within worlds,
micro to macro
~ AlphaOmega ~
beginning to end
- we are connected as ONE.

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Go Gratitude!

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Just imagine …

It’s simply a matter of changing views, as Gratitude reveals (k)new worlds within YOU.

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A gratitude-heart
as to discover on earth
a Heaven-delivered rose.

- Sri Chinmoy

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