“Twenty minutes again and the most spiritually enlightening of any of my contemplations to date. After allowing six minutes to still myself, I began contemplating David Hawkins‘ Map of Consciousness. I realized that in every aspect of life, the path to happiness is the same. In the first place, you often feel anger towards those things you see as outside of yourself and adverse to your ambitions. As you progress, you become motivated to take action against these things and become antagonistic towards them.  With experience and more thought, you may eventually adapt to these other presences in your life.  As you progress still further and broaden your perspective, you acknowledge other positions and powers.  Later, you you internalize that feeling and truly accept other people and your environment. Having accepted the inherent goodness in what surrounds you, you come to love it and with enough live you begin to identify with it.   With sufficient identification with object apparently outside yourself, you become one with them.”

You have many things that work for you. Being connected to your spirituality is ultimately to be connected to all things that are optimistic, uplifting; that bring joy; that bring fulfillment; that bring the connection; understanding and appreciation, and connecting with people. How do you connect with people? You appreciate things about them and you appreciate the things in your life. That is a form of gratitude. It is also about understanding things, and to understand things you have to bring appreciation in. Gratitude is a fantastic tool for bolstering your own spirituality. If you’re going to declare that your spirituality is that feeling of being totally connected to the world and to people, gratitude is very effective for that.