Contentment

This one’s a tough nut to crack …

But for once, let’s try and pause the judgmental process of discriminating between good and bad

and let’s be faced with contentment.

It is the calm joy or quiet pleasure we feel when we are in harmony with ourselves and our

surroundings. It is a positive emotional state of having accepted one’s situation, like a milder form of

happiness. But unlike happiness, it is absolutely independent of external circumstances. It’s deciding

what you have is enough.

While for some of us, it could mean lack of anxiety, a whole lot of us, who believe in perfection,

it’s extremely hard to reach. Especially if eternal bliss or heaven is our ultimate goal, it can often get

contrasted with eternal dissatisfaction. We must understand that to cultivate contentment in our

lives, our surroundings do not have to be perfect.

True contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It surely is

arduous and rare but worth the effort as it often evokes pleasant, snug images.

Contentment and gratitude are heavily intertwined. Let’s try trading off envy and sense of

scarcity for generosity and abundance. It isn’t something to be achieved, it’s a process, an attitude to

be adopted.

“Acknowledging the good you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” -

Eckhart Tolle