Gratitude

Kshitija(KJ) Gupte
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
2 min readSep 9, 2021

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Picture Credit: KJ Gupte

What’s gratitude to you?

In my mind gratitude feels like a ‘she’…

Is it a person? A place? A thing? A Feeling?

Where does it feel in your body?

Where in your body does gratitude sit?

Maybe in your stomach or your Solar Plexus, where you connect with the Sun and the Cosmos?

Maybe in your heart? Where you have the fondest of people/places/memories?

Maybe in your head? Your Crown Chakra that opens a portal to the Universe?

Gratitude.

A calm river that keeps flowing through you. Washing away your pain. Washing away your resentments. Holding you through your storms.

Sometimes, gratitude gets overshadowed by anxiety.

The calmness gets replaced with agitation. Unnerved emotions. Fear, pain, anger.

Where does fear sit in your body? Where do you feel her?

Maybe, your stomach — Solar Plexus?

Where does anger sit?

Maybe, your Heart?

When Gratitude is replaced by Fear, it blocks your connection with the World. They hold you back from your loved ones.

Because they both sometimes choose to sit in the same places.

Then what?

Then Feel the fear and then, gently replace it back with Gratitude.

Then Feel the anger and then, gently replace it back with Gratitude.

Gratitude.

A sense of peace and calm that makes your World Beautiful, over and over again.

May there by Gratitude

तथास्तु

Picture Credit: KJ Gupte

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Kshitija(KJ) Gupte
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Distorted and delusional dog mom. My debut memoir series “Diary of Cliches” is about to hit the shelves and I can’t wait to share it with you!