Dance of Abundance 2

Chapter 4: The Latitude of Gratitude 121
The officer returned your papers and asked you if you knew
how fast you were going. You weren’t sure, but you knew it was
excessive for the speed limit. You were thinking this would be a
preliminary discussion before he or she laid it on you.
Of course, you were acquiescent in your guilt, and you were
waiting for the other shoe to drop. In the conversation, you
acknowledged you were going too fast and you expressed your
remorse. The officer listened to what you had to say and the
told you, “You have a good driving record, so I’m going to let
you off with a warning this time.
Do you remember the flood of relief, the amazing sensation of
Gratitude that suddenly filled your entire emotional body, the
ecstatic thoughts that went through your mind, the release of
all the physical anxiety you’d been holding until that moment?
This is the level of feelingness that works for you when you
commit to deeply and truly expressing your gratitude for all the
amazing and magnificent people, events and things in your life.
It’s ridiculous how much we accept as normal in our everyday
lives. You open your refrigerator and there’s fresh food inside.
That’s a miracle. You go into the bathroom and there’s a toilet,