Chapter 3

With Chapter Three, Coming from Gratitude, we enter the spiral by starting with gratitude. Going much further than just counting our blessings, the oldest earth wisdom traditions identify thanksgiving as key to our survival. Through this we express our profound awareness of interdependence and recognition that without soil, plants and many other aspects of our natural world, we have no foundation in life. More modern traditions within psychology identify gratitude as a key to resilience, protector of mood and antidote to materialism. By deepening our experience and expression of gratitude we build a strong starting point to face the disturbing realities addressed in the next chapter, Honoring Our Pain for the World.