Growth in life is just not about financial status. Growth happens in many ways to us. When I finished my studies and got my first job, all I had on my mind was career and financial growth. I wanted to be known by people, I wanted lot of money for myself. All my goals in life were towards achieving financial growth. There was never any other focus. But as it s said, life has it's own ways to teach us what we need to learn. So as much as I was struggling to achieve all of that, it was not happening, and I was feeling more and more dejected every time. I was frustrated most of the times with everything around me, because what I was wanting was not happening. My thoughts were limited and self-centered.
Then somewhere in all of those frustrations, my paths changed, I got into some spiritual practices where slowly gradually I started understanding the true meaning of growth in life. My brain was being re-wired in that time to think differently. I had to start giving up on all my old beliefs and the ways I use to think. With God's grace some very wise people came in to my life, who I can call my Gurus, and they started making me understand the meaning of real growth in life. All I had to do was surrender and accept my situation. I followed the practices that they taught me, and from all of that the most important was Gratitude. I had to learn to be grateful, which I was never. I was only complaining and complaining about everything in life.
Once I started bringing gratitude in to my life I saw the shift in energy happening. It was like the pathways were opening up. From the mindset of scarcity I was getting in to the mindset of abundance. Nothing changed overnight. There were many moments of doubts in the beginning. But then my Gurus held my hand and kept guiding me in the right direction. Gradually the material growth obsession started getting dissolved. I could even quit my job without fearing the money part, I was confident that the Universe is going to support me and it did happen that way. I was in a unhappy job, I was just clinging on to it for money. Once I let it go, there were other paths that opened up for me which were better and they also made me happy. Things shaped up for me in many different ways, if not directly then indirectly, but they were all making me grow in life, the growth that I always wanted, which was no more an obsession for me.
I believe that Gratitude is the most powerful tool for Growth, being grateful for everything that we have and not complaining about the things we do not have brings not only material growth but also a spiritual growth. One of my old aunt was there, who I would observe was always very contended. She was not rich at all, she barely had any money, but yet I would always see her very happy and I would wonder how she was so happy without money. She had a very peaceful death also. In that time I never understood, but I admired her in some way. When I got on to my path of real growth, I understood what mindset she lived with. She must have always lived in gratitude and hence she was always a very happy soul.
I believe that the way we think about growth is just a little shift in energy and that's what brings the real growth in life.
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