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Are you already registered? I welcome you again to our format Colloquium Spirit. Nice that you switched on. I invite you to our expert talk, today on the topic of gratitude, the formula for happiness. And in this round or in this format, we always like to invite experts from different spiritual, cultural or scientific worlds. Because we want to open doors with it, we want to open horizons with it, we want to open your consciousness with it, or ideally your heart, for the things that we cannot see, that we may be able to feel. And therefore invite you to implement things, ideally, that also help you to improve your life. In today's expert talk, I welcome Dr. Med. Friederike Wichel, doctor at the Swiss Mountain Clinic, Gottfried Sumser, a course in miracles teacher and Stephan Mayer, consciousness teacher. Stay tuned, it's going to be exciting and, above all, it's going to be helpful. Dear ones, welcome. Friederike, Gottfried, Stephan, nice that you are here again and that you want to talk with me about the topic of gratitude, the formula for happiness. This is a very nice topic, a topic that gives energy and in which cases gratitude could have a positive effect. Yes, actually everywhere, but that's what we want to talk about now. I would like to start with you, dear Friederike. How do you practice gratitude? Is it something you do every day, or how do you deal with it? I am lucky that I grew up with a mother who wrote to our door at home. Gratitude is a gift that makes happiness complete. And that's how we somehow grew up with this philosophy of life, my brother and I. And what I often do, not every day, because I think I have already integrated it into the cells, but getting up in the morning, saying thank you for the night, saying thank you for the day and the same thing again in the evening. Because I don't have the time in my everyday life to dive deeper into meditation. But just this short moment to become aware, hey, I'm here, I'm breathing, I'm connected to life, I have two happy children, I'm fine, I'm not sick. These are the things I practice in everyday life and I also try to live up to the patient. Gottfried, if I may ask you, can't gratitude even become a part of our consciousness, that then simply swings along at some point every day, that we are grateful for everything, as you say. You don't even have the time to meditate all day or to do it several times, but that you are simply grateful for everything, for all the cells of the body. You have already noticed it in the cradle or probably in the mother's milk. Gratitude is a wonderful medicine that heals. A healing medicine, I would say. And for me, I sometimes experience it when I have adjusted wonderfully into the day, into gratitude, for example, then I am not in this, I am in the flow of gratitude. So everything that comes to me comes to me in gratitude. And every encounter is gratitude. Then I don't see another body in you, but I see the holy friend in you. And I am grateful for that. I look at the sky and I am grateful. I look at the road and I am grateful. I can say that I am overwhelmed by gratitude. And for me it works quite well as a practical tool. I am grateful for the creation in return. I just say, thank God. And by doing this, I make the connection to the creation. Thank God. With everything I am grateful for, I make the connection. And when I express gratitude for the creation, then I become more and more in my mind to this creation. And then the whole day is filled with gratitude, without having to be grateful for food or anything else, but, as I said, I am overwhelmed by gratitude, just like now. Being here with you now overwhelms me with gratitude. And then I don't have to think about it, but it is a state of being. And so we are in the development that gratitude becomes a state of being, in which we remember that we are one in the creation and there is only gratitude. Thank you. As a consciousness teacher, you can certainly tell us what happens when someone, or when you integrate gratitude into your state of consciousness, what ultimately happens when you go through life like this. Gottfried has already said, you are a connected person. I would say, when people ask themselves, okay, gratitude, how come? You can have gratitude as a result when you feel. When you really manage to get more and more out of thinking, in contact with yourself, in perception, in feeling. Sometimes it is called the heart, the heart space, opening up, going to things with my attention, perceiving what is there, whether I perceive a tree, whether I feel a person, whether I feel myself. And when you are like Gottfried, a person who can simply feel, who is open, then this gratitude arises. But many can't perceive it yet because they don't have this channel, this level of perception yet. So I think a very important point is to get from thinking to feeling. So if you really want to be grateful, you need a little time for me at the beginning. Because we run through life so often, rush, think through a lot of things that are going on there. And now I would have to take a step back. I would have to say, okay, let's take a break, let go of all the things that are going on, everything I think needs to be done, I'll leave it out for a moment. And now I'll sit down and perceive myself for a moment. And then comes the next step. If I really want to be happy, then it's not about getting what I want in life, but the other way around. That I want what I get. So what life brings me, to accept it, to connect with it. And then, for me, step by step, this gratitude that at some point results in what Gottfried describes, that you sit there and are simply grateful. And then you don't need these explicit moments where you say, ah, I'm just getting a meal and now I'm grateful for the one who brought it here, and then at some point you would say, it's just there, it's gratitude. Maybe we are even gratitude. Maybe it's also gratitude to be equated with love, but that doesn't matter, because those are levels that don't matter anymore. So in my opinion, it takes a little time where I have peace, where I come to feel and where I look at the things that I am grateful for. This absolute fullness of wealth that you have just described so beautifully. And for me, gratitude is also somehow primordial trust. So I also stopped praying or when I connect to ask. I thank myself because it is there. Because this request always somehow arises out of fear. Exactly, I'm missing something. Exactly, I'm missing something And when you turn it into this word with a high vibration, into this thank you, I thank you for life, then you are automatically in a completely different state of consciousness. Exactly, that's wonderful. To be in this gratitude is something very, very precious. Yes. It is a blessing to be in this gratitude and to walk the path of gratitude. In this moment you bless everything. I used to have the gratitude formulation. I mean, when my hair was still dark, I read the gratitude practice. Yes, you have to be grateful because for what you are grateful for, more will come to you. I thank you. Of course, financial deficiency. I am grateful for the money. And nothing has changed. We have to grow out of the idea of getting something. We have to grow out of the idea of getting something. We are in complete peace. We don't have to change anything. In the being, in the state of being, of gratitude, nothing has to be different. Everything is perfect. Every situation is perfect. When we are there, we don't need anything else. We are given everything we need. But every idea, I need more. And if I visualize it enough, I will get it. Or if I am grateful enough, it is pushed away from me. Because I want something and I am not ready to accept what is there now. I think that's what it's all about in most cases. At the moment, we are optimizing ourselves and how we manifest our thoughts and our consciousness. And I think that's just ... A huge pressure. You can use your free will to free up some manifestation forces. For some it seems to work sometimes, but not always. And we can forget what doesn't always work. For everyone, forever. And if it works for everyone, then it is a helpful instrument of creation to remind us of creation again. That's all. And that's why we are here. We are not here to design self-optimization. We are not here to make more money or to achieve more success. We are here to maintain a stable state of being. Right now. And the viewer has the possibility to stay right there. You don't need time for that. You just need the will to do it. And that's the free will. We can't decide ... If we decide whether this situation is good or bad, then we use our free will to perceive separation and thus to exclude ourselves from gratitude. And we have a wonderful possibility here, right now, in this wonderful state of being. We sink into the heart. We radiate from the heart this gratitude and fill the whole world with it. And of course the world must meet us in gratitude. Because I receive what I give as a law of resonance. And then again very important what Gottfried said. If I am really grateful, if I am still in the practice that I don't expect anything in return. That I don't expect the other person to be grateful because I am grateful and then possibly be disappointed. But really unconditionally. And you can practice that again. To say, okay, I am grateful that you took that away from me. Or that you did that to me. But not in the background so that you stop with it and give it back to me. So really to look at yourself gently. I have another note for the viewers. If gratitude due to this conversation does not start immediately and the feeling opens up, then gratitude may start in the head. Because if I am still here with my attention, then I might say, okay, then I am grateful that I heard that. Then I am grateful for this day. I pronounce it now in my room, in my field. And then it always slips deeper. And if I repeat it and in this relaxed focus or let's say with a light intention to bring it deeper into the feeling, that happens over time. And it may take a little time. So it doesn't always have to be mastered after two weeks. Please don't forget that. This applies to every topic. It may take a little time. But an alignment to gratitude is so much more valuable than an alignment to manifesting more. I had an idea or a dream here. I really wanted it. It is not necessary. Everything you need is given to you. And everything you need now is already there. I thank you for the important impulse. Sorry. If you are in your head, then you just start in your head. It's the same with an actor. When he gets into the role, then it's probably a matter of mind before it gets into the flesh and blood. And then he can play the role very authentically. This is certainly very helpful for many. And something else. If it doesn't work right away, if I'm grateful, but I don't feel grateful, then I should just take it as an indication. Okay, then I'm not from the bottom of my heart yet. Or I'm not really grateful then I can keep working on it, right? Exactly, and as relaxed as possible. Because basically you could also say it's not about being grateful that something changes. Yes, right. Maximum that a perception changes in me. What do people want? They want to be at peace. The first thing you want to achieve is that there is a certain peace. Because often there are thoughts, there are emotions, there are worries. If you have peace, you want a little more. Then you also want joy and truthfulness and maybe ecstasy at some point. But to get to peace first, it helps me when I realize that life is on my side. And I recognize that when I feel that everything I need is really there. And that's where gratitude helps, by picking out the three things that are not there and looking at the 23 or 97 or whatever, how many things are there, and just say, okay, wow, thank you, thank you. And it's a little over. Yes, thank you. I think the example also fits. If I already have gratitude in my cells, and I live it, I anchor it, then I can also say thank you to my fellow human beings. Because that's way too rare. And what we do every now and then is just writing thank you cards. A card with thank you. And that's usually just the things that you don't like so much and where you can still improve in the interaction, especially if it's a business partner or a colleague in the family. But what am I actually grateful for today on this day? And to practice that, that waves. The other one also begins to think about the gratitude that he may also feel for you, for your being here on this earth. That's the perception, also for the others. I wanted to say, maybe you can also really be grateful for some things that you just don't have or don't get, right? Because at the moment we can't yet say how it will affect you if I have this or that. And I always see it as a divine addition or whatever addition. If something I may have aspired to, because I don't achieve it, then maybe life has kept me from something. Absolutely. Sometimes I also have the feeling that I am simply grateful that I am breathing. Even if it gets difficult, in difficult situations, if you don't know what to do, how to proceed, I have no idea how to solve the issue, I have no idea how to pay the bill, now everything is too much, a thousand things or four things come together, to sit down and say, okay, I'm breathing. Because that means, when I breathe, I live here. I am here and it goes on. Because it always goes on. You don't actually die because a fourth bill has come. Even if you don't know how to pay it. You don't die of it. There is a way. And of course it is difficult, but sometimes, or the more difficult it gets, the easier you have to react to it. And just breathe. I thank myself for breathing. I open up to the situation and I let it work. And then, very often, without wanting it to change, it changes in a wonderful way. So I am grateful that I am breathing. That is sometimes the absolute key. And patience. Patience is an essential factor. That brings me to the question, because you say, a fourth bill has come, I don't know how to pay it. It would certainly be helpful if I am also grateful for the bad things. What is good, what is bad. Exactly. But I wanted to get to the difference between good and evil, which we often do, or between dark and light. Sometimes I know it backwards. When I have paid the bill in different ways, then it might show me, what kind of life, what kind of trust in God has been given to me. He has won the lottery, he gives me 500. I don't know that at the moment. But somehow it comes well. And looking back, I remember the moment and say, I wouldn't have been so desperate. Because in the end, everything will be fine, if I am in trust, if I think, hey, I am breathing, without my defeats I wouldn't be sitting here. I am often asked in interviews or wherever, how did it come about that you are going this way or that you embody all this through my defeats, for which I am grateful today. Not in the situation, but in retrospect, absolutely wow, what a crazy gift and what this man seems to have deceived me. Today I am so in peace with it and so grateful for it, because he has fulfilled only one task, for which I can be grateful today. And I have already mentioned the topic of patience. And sometimes we also have to endure being in situations that are supposed to be horrible, that are terrible, where we don't really know where a thousand problems arise. And just being patient, breathing, just stepping back, stepping back mentally, I don't want to be right anymore, I don't want to define what this situation means anymore, because I don't know. But if I define what this situation means, then I am certainly not in gratitude. I am in my conceptual themes, which I have learned from the past. Oh, this is the downfall, and I was often standing in front of the supposed downfall. Meanwhile, it is just a hint, I would like to say, from the universe, hey, there is something else, remember that, and then I can be deeply grateful again. I would like to ask each of you what your most valuable tips are, or your most valuable tip directly for the audience at home, in which direction gratitude is successful for each individual. So to what I have already said, maybe in addition, in response to what Gottfried said, not to be so reactive anymore. Something is happening, and then there are certain parts in me that immediately hook you into this story, immediately evaluate you, create some thoughts out of it, and to be attentive here, to say, there is a situation, it is there, and I am here. And as if I leave a little distance between me and this situation. One millimeter is enough, or maybe a little more, the situation is there, there is this letter, there is this story, but I am here and I breathe. And then by this distance, by the fact that parts of me are drawn into this story, I am then able to look first, to feel, and can then also gradually come into gratitude. Sometimes it is not yet possible in this situation, sometimes it takes a little time, then it takes this patience, but otherwise really not react too much to a situation. And otherwise for me, if I want to be grateful, the absolute prerequisite when I feel that I am in connection with situations, with things, with events, with people, then gratitude automatically arises for me. Because when I am in connection, information flows. Through connection, through feeling, I perceive much more than through thinking. Much, much, much more. That means, go in connection, feel once. There is another step, very briefly, if I no longer name this situation so strongly. If I, it's really a short form, maybe we still have time at some point, then I'll explain it a little more precisely. If I no longer know what this situation is, so when I go out, see a tree, then I already know, this is a tree, it has a trunk, it has leaves, in winter it has no leaves. That means I already know everything about this situation and can no longer perceive anything new. If I sit down and forget what I know about this thing, then these thoughts come, it has leaves, I forget leaves, it has branches, I forget too. I forget the color, I forget that it means trunk, I forget that it means roots, I forget everything I know about it and then I look. Then I don't have this word, the word tree and so on anymore, I look and recognize something completely new. And so I can do that with every situation. I detach myself from the situation, I forget for a moment what I already know about it, go in connection and then very quickly something different than before arises. Thank you. Frieda Dicke, maybe we'll continue with you. Yes, I think it can't be said more beautifully than you described it. For me it is simply important that people learn, as I said at the beginning, to practice gratitude for every new day. I think it's very, very easy, just to be grateful for waking up in the morning, to be grateful for a restful sleep in the evening and also to practice self-confidence that everything that happens should be just like that. And this sentence, I am love, I am light, heaven accompanies me, you can just keep an eye on it, think about it, it can guide me through the day and then I know everything happens as it should happen, in gratitude and fullness. Thank you. Gottfried? Yes, as I mentioned at the beginning, I would like to add a little something else, namely, it needs discipline. In order to contribute to change, I need discipline, and I mean spiritual discipline. I know that discipline, the word for some people may be terrible, but we really need a spiritual discipline. And so I invite the participant, what you just said, behind the tree you see the light. If I take away all the ideas of what the tree is, then suddenly, but we can't think of it conceptually, and also not theoretically, yes, there is the light, but we have to go into the experience. And through practice we get into the experience, through discipline we get into the experience. Three times five minutes, that's the invitation. I wake up in the morning and I am grateful to creation. I thank the light, I thank the creation, thank you, thank you, thank you. And I go deeper and deeper into this feeling of gratitude. And when I am filled with this gratitude, then I have a whole body experience of gratitude, and we can do that in the afternoon. And when we fall asleep, when we go to bed, we go back into this feeling, and not into the thinking of gratitude, but into the feeling of gratitude. And then this gratitude accompanies the whole night. And how do we wake up in the morning? With gratitude. What we are grateful for, we invite more and more into our lives. Exactly. Thank you very much, dear ones, that you made a contribution to this valuable topic. And I would wish that it would draw big circles and would continue to do school. Ideally, we learn it or our children at school. You are people who pass on this consciousness and may it spread. And also to you at home I say a very warm thank you that you have opened yourself for life, gratitude. And we wish you that in abundance all that you are grateful for may become a blessing for you. We look forward to seeing you again next time. We wish you all the best. Stay loving, stay attentive and see you next time. Goodbye.