An Attitude of Gratitude An Attitude of Gratitude

            THE ATTITUDE OF GRATTITUDE

                           AND APPRECIATION

                               REVISED 11/23/2025

                                                © 2009 Chessie Roberts all rights reserved

                                Used on chessiesEOS blogspot by permission Evolution of Self

   Why should I be grateful you ask? Do you have a home; enough to eat, a way to read this blog, friends, family and everything you need to live as comfortably as possible? Then I ask why do you not feel overwhelmingly grateful? So many have little or nothing and feel that they can do nothing about it, (in some cases they are correct).
     One of the things that I find appalling is the sense of entitlement that seems to permeate the youth of this era. It is seen in the young adults all the way down to children old enough to have learned better, should someone have taken the time to teach them. Where did this mind set start? As best I can figure it started with the ‘60s concept of “if it feels good do it”.  Some of us grew up and learned that if one did not earn it, one did not deserve to have it, and some did not.

     I hear children telling their parents what they will and will not accept on their plates, for gifts; what the parents will give them now just because everyone else has one. On the other side of that I hear what the child will not do to earn the item or privilege, and the parents feel they have to accept the child’s’ ultimatum. 

     How did that happen (I have no answer here folks) I had a child tell me once after they broke one of my collectibles, “That’s OK, I didn’t want to play with that anymore, ‘sides it doesn’t matter, Mommy will just buy me another.” Never mind that it was not hers to begin with.
      The solution is to change the way we think by going from the ‘what can you give me’ mind set to the ‘what can I do for someone else and what can I be thankful for today’ way of thinking. This works because when you change what you think about, what you think about changes. (You may want to read that again)
     By attempting to show kindness for others a change occurs down deep inside, you have seen it demonstrated in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. Your capacity for love of others grows to astounding levels. You find yourself being grateful for absolutely everything in your life and on the planet. You begin to smile more, help more, trust more and share more. It doesn’t stop there it radiates out from you to encompass everyone you come across and spreads out from them. It could turn into a movement of global betterment!
      What if we all did this, can you see an end to hate, war, hunger, homelessness, fear, disease, corruption; and the list goes on and on, all the way to global peace? How nice will that be?
A friend of mine just introduced me to the Gratitude Project;
“Gratitude Project 2009
The Gratitude Project was begun several years ago (on LiveJournal) by estaratshirai. The rules are simple. Every day between Midsummer and Thanksgiving one must find something to be grateful for in life. No repeats - one can be grateful to people more than once, but it has be for different reasons.”

THE GRATITUDE/APPRECIATION PROJECT

REVISITED

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire "Gratitude is the emotion that drives appreciation which is the vehicle of sharing and growth." ~Chessie Roberts

A friend of mine, Honi Borden pointed out that there is a huge vibrational difference between being in the state of gratefulness and being in the state of appreciation.
When you are in an attitude of appreciation, you are tuned with the natural vibration of the true love essence, you can think of it as pure bliss consciousness.

When you feel grateful, you have reached the point of having overcome and now you have come to this place of thankfulness which is wonderful, however, the energy is coming from overcoming rather than just being. By shifting the resonance from "I am grateful" to the more powerful I am appreciative, you change your inner vibration, and it raises you to be more in line with the universe.  This causes the universe to align with that state of consciousness without having you to overcome more obstacles.

The Gratitude Project was begun by Julie McCord, and I love it and the changes it makes in your life SO, because of the new information I have explained above, I have renamed it the GRATITUDE/APPRECIATION PROJECT.

The rules are simple - every day between Lammas (August 1st) and Mabon (the Autumnal Equinox) one must find something to be grateful for in life. No repeats -you may be grateful to people more than once, but it must be for different reasons. Gratitude/Appreciation is one of the best ways to turn your thinking around to a more positive and uplifting perspective. When you are grateful/appreciative those feelings cascade out into all facets of life and you begin to see and act upon what is truly important.

I challenge all you readers to try this and see what a wonderful difference it makes in your lives and those around you. I’d be willing to bet that it catches on and becomes a daily thing all year ‘round.
Bright Blessings, Chessie

What are Your Chakras and What Can They Do For You

Chakras are wheels of energy that are located along your physical spine. Like your nerves and blood vessels feed your physical body, your chakras feed your energetic body. For them to do this efficiently they should be aligned and free spinning. You keep them that way by your awareness of them and how they feel when they are misaligned or blocked.

What misalignes them? Stress is the biggest factor. You hear of “good stress” and “bad stress” but the truth of the matter is that stress is stress, there is no good or bad. Your idea and notion about whether it is good or bad can and does add to the intensity so you may want to consider changing you paradigm around this subject. A neutral attitude about stress will make it easier for you to detach your emotions about  the subject that is stressing you and allow you to calm down, thus helping lower the stress.

As you learn more about these wonderful things in your body/mind system the more fascinating they become. They can let you know something is amiss before you feel bad or sick. They can give you guidance about whether a food or product is beneficial to you before you buy it. As you become more adept at using your energetic system you will be able to make better judgments and choices that impact your life.

In this series of articles, I will tell you a bit about each chakra area, what it affects and other information about it. The series will begin with the first chakra and rise to the seventh. To get you started, I have compiled a list of  them with some of their lesser known attributes. Having never seen the mantras written, and only heard them chanted, I have taken the liberty of using (my version) phonetic spellings of the Sanskrit words  so that they can pronounced. The Sanskrit is in the parenthesizes.

CHAKRA ONE ; “mu-la-dara” (Muladhara)
LAW                  ; Law of Karma
MANTRA          ;  Om kree om ne-ma
MEANING        ; My actions are in alignment with cosmic law.
NA                      ; Earth
FINGER             ; Ring
CHARGE           ; Neutral

CHAKRA TWO ; “saf-ris-tina”  (Svadhisthana)
LAW                   ; Law of Least Effort
MANTRA           ; Om dack-sham ne-ma
MEANING         ; My actions achieve maximum benefit with minimum effort.
MA                      ; Water
FINGER              ; Pinky
CHARGE            ; Negative

CHAKRA THREE ;”Mauny-poura” (Mamipura)
LAW                       ; Law of Intent and Desire
MANTRA               ; Om re-tam ne-ma
MEANING      ; My intentions and desires are supported by Nature's intelligence.
SHI                  ; Fire
FINGER          ; Thumb
CHARGE        ; Positive
                             

CHAKRA FOUR   ; “Ana-har/ta”  (Anahata)
LAW                       ; Law of Giving and receiving
MANTRA               ; Om var-tam ne-ma
MEANING             ; I nourish the Universe and the Universe nourishes me.
VA                           ; Air
FINGER                  ; Pointer
CHARGE                ; Positive

CHAKRA FIVE      ; “Vish-u-da” (Vishuddha)
LAW                        ; Law of Detachment
MANTRA                ; Om aun-dum ne-ma
MEANING              ; My actions are blissfully free from outcome.
YA                            ; Space / Ether (where magic happens)
FINGER                   ; Middle
CHARGE                 ; Negative


CHAKRA SIX         ; “Azsah- na” (Ajna)
LAW                      ; Law of Dharma
MANTRA                ; Var-u-num ne-ma
MEANING              ; My life is in harmony with cosmic law.

CHAKRA SEVEN   ; “Sha-swar-a”  (Sahasrara)
LAW                         ; Law of Pure Potentiality
MANTRA                 ; Om bawan ne-ma
MEANING               ; I am absolute existence. I am a field of all possibilities.  

To your enlightenment and wellness, Bright Blessings, Chessie.

© Chessie Roberts 2012 all rights reserved
Chessie Roberts is a Singer/song Writer, Spiritual Teacher, Mind-set Mentor, Meditation Coach, Author, Lecturer and  the Founder/Creator of Evolution of Self; Journey into Body, Mind, Spirit Balance. Her experience with severe,crippling arthritis was her catalyst to share her healing, experiential self improvement program with those who wish to rediscover their balance of Body, Mind, Spirit. Her ability to put things into an easy to learn package allows participants to fine tune their healing intentions, identify personal goals and clarify the path they wish to devise in order to heal themselves and grow into their own Spiritual Evolution

10 LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS By Guest Blogger, Marriah Star

Today we have a Guest Blogger, Marriah Star. He is a Lecturer

 at Northeastern UniversiyStudied Political science at CUNY

 Graduate Center,

 Lives in Brookline, Massachusetts is From Tucson, Arizona and

 has graciously allowed

 me to feature one of his writings here today. 

10 LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

by Marriah Star on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12:31am

There are 10 levels of consciousness between identifying with

 (internalizing) your environment or choosing to transform from

 within by heart

 

At the first level of consciousness, you identify completely with your

 environment whether rich or poor, peaceful or warlike, cruel or

 loving

 

At the 1st level of consciousness, you accept your social and physical

 environments as they are: You internalize their values and become

 them

 

At 1st level of consciousness if you are wealthy, you define yourself

 in terms of your salary, your net worth, your property and rich

 friends

 

At 1st level of consciousness, if you are poor, you accept that you'll

 always be poor. You believe all efforts to become successful will fail

 

At the 1st level of consciousness, if you live in a peaceful

 environment you believe that everyone you know lives among peace

 and prosperity

 

At the first level of consciousness, if you live in a war zone, you

 believe you must constantly fight other people for survival or else

 die!

 

At the 1st level of consciousness, if you grow up with parents who

 physically, sexually, and emotionally abuse you, you in turn abuse

 others

 

At 1st level of consciousness if you grow up with parents/friends

 who give you love, support, and affection, you give lots of love to

 others

 

At 1st level of consciousness, you have no original thoughts or

 creativity inside you because you are a complete reflection of your

 community

 

At first level of consciousness, you cannot adapt to changing

 environments that operate under different principles. Thus, you

 become limited!

 

At first level of consciousness, you think dreamers and idealists,

 advocates and change-makers, are fools who have lost their grip on

 reality

 

You make your transition from the 1st level of consciousness to the

 second level of consciousness when you become disillusioned with

 reality

 

You begin to enter the second level of consciousness when you

 realize that the physical and social reality you have internalized is

 not real

 

 

When you enter 2nd level of consciousness you're surprised by your

 attraction to being alone so you can think instead of being around

 people

 

 

 

At the 2nd level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 90% and become aware that you have an internal

 environment too

 

At 2nd level of consciousness you define yourself by your family,

 your friends, your job, and your property, but you glimpse your

 creativity

 

At 2nd level of consciousness, you are surprised by the fact that

 money and shopping no longer make you happy but that giving now

 thrills you

 

At 2nd level of consciousness you find yourself attracted to books

 about people instead of books about things: You want to learn about

 Self!

 

At the second level of consciousness you are shocked to realize that

 if you lose your job today and the money that goes with it, that is

 OK!

 

At the second level of consciousness you find yourself wanting to

 listen to a greater variety of people than just always talk about your

 job

 

At the second level of consciousness you begin to realize that a big

 house is just an empty home, lots of awards are just meaningless

 titles

 

At the second level of consciousness you realize that sex is not love,

 money and power are not influence; your job is not who you

 REALLY are

 

At the second level of consciousness you face a choice: Abandon

 your temporary physical and social illusions, or transform them from

 within!

 

When people reach the 2nd level of consciousness some of them quit

 their jobs, sell their houses, divorce their spouses, go search for

 Truth

 

When people reach the 2nd level of consciousness, some of them

 embrace their current physical reality and place it on spiritual

 foundations!

 

You make the transition from the 2nd level of consciousness to the

 3rd level when you decide to take time to develop your mind and

 heart now

 

 

 

At 3rd level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 80% and start to feel and think for yourself, creating

 your heart!

 

At third level of consciousness, you become very sensitive to the

 energies in your body, your heart and your mind. You start

 cultivating them

 

At 3rd level of consciousness, you allow yourself to cry, feel joy,

 experience pain, entertain strange thoughts, and see all of life's

 beauty

 

At the third level of consciousness you start developing your artistic

 sensibilities, your empathy, and your need for spiritual connections!

 

At the third level of consciousness, you begin to put your time and

 energy into exploring the different sensations of life: You eat and

 think

 

At the third level of consciousness, you start to explore your physical

 appetites, your sexual energies, your creativity, and your intuitions

 

At the 3rd level of consciousness you can sense when people are

 happy and sad: You can console them and relate to them through

 communication

 

At the 3rd level of consciousness you shift from being merely a

 colleague at work and a neighbor to being a true friend when people

 need you

 

At 3rd level of consciousness you shift from being a well-trained

 employee, living in your mind, to being a human being living in the

 heart!

 

At the 3rd level of consciousness, you stop reacting to people and

 events around you. Instead, you start acting based on your values and

 ideas

 

You make the transition from the 3rd level of consciousness to the

 4th level of consciousness when you begin to see that you influence

 life!

 

You make the transition to the 4th level of consciousness when you

 realize that training crushes your personality. You develop unique

 gifts!

 

 

 

At the 4th level of consciousness, you identify with your environment

70% and start focusing more on your unique Spirit, changing who

 you are

 

At the fourth level of consciousness, you decide what kind of person

 you want to be regardless of the kind of person you have been or are

 now

 

At fourth level of consciousness, you decide what your lifestyle will

 be, what kind of friends you will have, and what resources you will

 use

 

At fourth level of consciousness you change your thoughts and

 emotions to match who you want to be: You practice being mindful

 and attentive

 

At the fourth level of consciousness you realize that each second of

 consciousness counts because every thought you have defines who

 you are

 

At the 4th level of consciousness, you systematically examine your

 own thoughts, emphasizing those that are healthy and eliminating

 the rest!

 

At the 4th level of consciousness you examine your emotions, feeling

 in full those that give you joy and eliminating those that make you

 sad

 

At the 4th level of consciousness you feel your body, choosing to eat

 only foods that make you healthy, eliminating the rest from your

 diet!

 

At the 4th level of consciousness, you look at your daily routines: You

 keep the routines that make you happy and change routines that

 don't!

 

At 4th level of consciousness, you study your habits: Keep habits that

 are good and remove bad habits from your life to avoid self-

judgments!

 

You make the transition from the 4th level of consciousness to the

 5th level of consciousness by discovering your spiritual self within

 you!

 

You enter the 5th level of consciousness when you successfully

 maintain your health + balance. You now have abundant love, energy and ideas!

 

 

 

At the 5th level of consciousness you identify with your physical

 environment 60% and start spending more time with your true

 spiritual self

 

At 5th level of consciousness, you've entered the 5th dimension: You

 have expanded from point, to line, to object, to being in time, to

 being

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you stop living for other people and

 you start living for yourself: You offer service based on your spirit

 

At 5th level of consciousness we spend most of our leisure time

 meditating, praying, singing, composing, loving, caring, rejoicing,

 thanking

 

At 5th level of consciousness, you choose to live instead of forcing

 yourself to live. If you have a job, you have a renewed sense of

 purpose!

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you make compromises with

 people

 so that you can be your true, Higher Self more and your other selves

 less

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you stop taking every job that will

 make you money and start taking only jobs that match your

 spirituality

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you apply your abundant love and

 energy to making a concrete difference in other people's lives every

 day!

 

At the 5th level of consciousness, you generate ideas for turning your

 spiritual being into physical changes and your love into relationships

At the 5th level of consciousness, you get your greatest joys from

 being around people who enhance your loving energy and natural

 creativity!

 

At the 5th level of consciousness you dig into yourself deeply in a

 never-ending quest to know your true, Higher Self, then manifest

 reality

 

You make transition from 5th level of consciousness to 6th level

 when all physical reality starts running parallel to your spiritual

 reality

 

You enter the 6th level of consciousness when you put all of your

 energies into spiritual development and physical realities derive

 from you

 

 

 

At the 6th level of consciousness you identify with your physical

 environment 50% and start living a double life, in the world but not

 of it

 

At 6th level of consciousness you are in the world, not of it: You

 show people the physical realities they know, not the true spirit

 inside!

 

At 6th level of consciousness, you are bridging between spirituality

 and physical realities: You are a dual ambassador, a great double-

agent!

 

At 6th level of consciousness, you are constantly translating between

 spirituality and various social and physical realities, creating fusion

 

At the 6th level of consciousness, you spend half the time physically

 manifesting inspiration, and half the time interpreting spiritual signs

 

At 6th level of consciousness, you are a person of many masks, many

 social roles and identities, but only one true, Higher Self: YOU ARE

 LOVE

 

At the 6th level of consciousness you play many games, you learn the

 rules of systems, and you adapt to each one so that spirit lives in you

 

At the 6th level of consciousness you identify the right time, the right

 place, and the right person to receive a spiritual message from you

 

At the 6th level of consciousness, you meditate while working so that

 you can mediate people's conflicts and help humanity move toward

 Heaven

 

At the 6th level of consciousness, you have parallel thoughts in your

 mind, parallel emotions in your heart, because you are a spirit

 bridge!

 

You make transition from 6th level of consciousness to 7th level

 when you are no longer a spiritual bridge because everyone is now

 spiritual

 

 

 

You enter the 7th level of consciousness when you create Heaven on

 Earth with each thought, feeling and action every single day of your

 life

 

 

 

At 7th level of consciousness you identify with your physical

 environment 40% and start living from your heart, mind, spirit and

 soul daily!

 

At 7th level of consciousness you live from your heart, mind, spirit,

 body and soul, all simultaneously, as a complete, balanced human

 being

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you live from your heart by connecting

 with people, animals and plants emotionally, communicating with

 energy!

 

At the 7th level of consciousness, you sense what is inside people's

 hearts, what hurts them the most, what gives them joy, and you heal

 them

 

At the 7th level of consciousness, you live from your mind by

 connecting with people psychically, reading their minds, knowing

 their thoughts

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you see the thoughts that motivate

 every action and you help people change those thoughts, so they have

 clarity

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you live from your spirit, connecting

 with people, animals, plants and energies over vast distances and

 times!

 

At 7th level of consciousness you see people's spiritual paths, their

 deepest yearnings, and you help them to stay connected to

 spirituality

 

At 7th level of consciousness, you live from your body, hugging

 people with warm, overwhelming embraces and touching their

 emotional centers!

 

At the 7th level of consciousness you live from your soul, knowing

 intuitively how the human race is evolving and taking actions to help

 it!

 

You make transition from 7th to 8th level of consciousness when you

 expand your spirit to connect with all energies around you every

 second!

 

You enter 8th level of consciousness when you become symbiotically

 connected to every person you meet, animal you touch, and every

 vibration

 

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you identify with your environment

 30% but connect within yourself, with other people, and other

 energies!

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, we realize that all feeling, thought

 and action is based on greater and lesser degrees of vibrating energy

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you learn how to change your

 vibrations to match the vibration of each form of energy you

 communicate with

 

At 8th level of consciousness, you are able to sense intense vibrations

 from very far away: You know when people are in pain or feeling

 loved

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you communicate with people and

 other forms of energy through your dreams and spiritual exercises each day

 

At 8th level of consciousness, you know immediately when you must

 stop everything you are doing to send spiritual messages to someone

 in need

 

At 8th level of consciousness, you can influence other people's

 actions with your vibrations, somewhat like the Jedi mind trick in

 Star Wars!

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you are a servant of Spirit: You use

 material resources as needed to serve the purpose of awakening

 others

 

At the 8th level of consciousness, you sense the spiritual needs of

 each energy in your environment: Their energies enter you, you

 enter them

 

You make transition from 8th to 9th level of consciousness when

 your thoughts and feelings become so strong that they transform

 every person

 

You enter the 9th level of consciousness when you walk into rooms

 and everyone instantly feels pure love, changing their feelings and

 being!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 20%. You are becoming pure energy within and you

 transform others!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you transform people you meet and

 communicate with, improving their lives by raising their spiritual

 awareness

 

At the 9th level of consciousness, you develop a powerful presence

 that penetrates the being of people you know: You overwhelm them

 with LOVE

 

At the 9th level of consciousness your mind, heart, body, spirit, and

 soul are fused together in a constant state of meditation and praying!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you no longer see yourself as mind,

 heart, body, spirit and soul because you are connected with universal

 love

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you lead social movements, start

 religions, transform communities, and raise people's energy levels

 constantly

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you are a healer, a mystic, a

clairvoyant, a psychic, a seer, a prophet, a magician, a fortune teller.

 Spirit!

 

At the 9th level of consciousness, you generate so much love that

 people and animals make existence effortless. Work is replaced by

 pleasure!

 

At 9th level of consciousness, you have millions of "children" from

 thousands of spiritual partners, people you have inspired with pure

 love!

 

At the 9th level of consciousness, you spread love, joy, and peace

 everywhere, creating peaceful communities wherever you go and

 ending war!

 

You make transition from 9th to 10th level of consciousness when

 you no longer have to be in a place for your loving existence to be

 enjoyed

 

You enter the 10th level of consciousness when you dream and

 people's lives change; you talk and people act; you write and the

 world changes

 

At 10th level of consciousness, you identify with your physical

 environment 10%. Your spirit absorbs so much that you feel/act

 through others

 

At 10th level of consciousness, you can perform seemingly amazing

 feats of physical and mental activities because love makes you

 super-human!

 

At 10th level of consciousness, you live in your own spiritual

 universe: You move and everyone moves with you. You accelerate

 your evolution!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness your total being integrates with

 other people to form a collective spirit: When you act, you act

 together

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you communicate with all beings,

 all energies, on all levels of consciousness simultaneously in pure

 form

 

At the 10th level of consciousness your total being absorbs the

 universe, focusing infinite divine power on all things around you to

create!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you become God's magnifying

 glass: Wherever your attention focuses you spread the fire of inner

 lightning

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you are not only a constant

 enhanced version of yourself, you enhance other people with your

 loving mind!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness, you project so much energy that

 the foolish become wise, the poor feel rich, the hungry feel full

 inside!

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you can share your love with all

 sentient beings on Earth, from those in poverty to the rich and

 powerful

 

At 10th level of consciousness you become aware of your spiritual

 mission on Earth: You focus on completing your mission, then

 transcending!

 

Once you reach the 10th level of consciousness you can stay

 connected with the 10% of your physical environment, or you can

 leave and travel

 

At the 10th level of consciousness you complete your soul's purpose

 for being in physical form. You confront a choice: Leave Earth, or

 stay?

 

At 10th level of consciousness, if you decide to leave Earth you enter

 the 1st level of cosmic being, if you decide to stay with your

 guiding Spirit