​Thanksgiving – A New Perspective:
Why You Don’t Have to
Give Thanks on Thanksgiving, and
What You Should  Be Doing Instead​!​

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​For many people the Thanksgiving Holiday means feasting, four-day weekends, football games, floats and family reunions. Critics complain that the meaning of Thanksgiving has slowly deteriorated, and is now almost completely lost as we not only have Black Friday, but an expanded blitz of media hype, sales pitches and marketing tactics as a forerunner to Christmas.

Critics are adamant about reclaiming Thanksgiving as being a time of expressing our gratitude for what we have received.

At Thanksgiving dinner this year, perhaps your family will be one of those who sit around the table and before eating, give each person a turn at conveying what he/she is grateful for, such as good health, love and support from their family, having received a much needed raise at work or meeting Mr./Ms. Right. 

Taking a closer look at this, however, realize that for most people gratitude is a product of the mind and offering thanks provides the mind with a temporary sense of well-being.  

The question is, who are you thanking?  Any higher power such as God provides  unconditional love, unconditional giving and wisdom and has no need for receiving anything. The need for offering thanks exists only in your mind, although this may be difficult for you to accept. There is no reality to it.

A more truthful position is to acknowledge that what you have received, material or non-material, is the result of what you are strong for.

The mind’s whole concept of receiving is rooted in scarcity (there is not enough to go around) and often in a belief that you are not good enough to receive in the first place.  These thoughts create a false need to be grateful for anything you receive, especially if you believe a higher power is involved.

Thanksgiving actually provides us with an opportunity to delete the problems we have with receiving.