I haven’t been writing or blogging as much as I’d like to be. I have been so submerged in my world of reading and thinking that my thoughts and insights seem trite. What could I possibly have to share? Then I remember that not everyone that reads my blog is on my path with me. Not everyone is having the same insights or spending their disposable time talking goddess, brain science and consciousness, so maybe what is beginning to seem habitual to me won’t seem so obvious to someone else. Take the whole black-and-white thinking thing. I’ve been working on it for a long-while, and I’ve blogged about it before in Seeing gray, but at that point in time I hadn’t felt the full effects of a gratitude practice aiding my transformation. The two practices go hand-in-hand for me. I believe a sincere gratitude practice (seeking out moments for which to be grateful) is helping me peel apart the stickiness of my instinctual all-or-nothing thinking. Continue reading Gratitude and brain change