5-Minute Morning Gratitude Practice

Begin each new day with this five-minute gratitude practice. You’re welcome to arrive, just as you are, and land in any shape that feels most supportive today - seated, standing, or lying down on your bed. There’s no optimal shape, no right or wrong.

You might like to follow my suggestions and invite a little movement - a gentle sway through your torso, a soft roll through your head and neck - as you allow yourself to settle in.

Throughout the practice, I offer gentle prompts for you to explore, but you’re always welcome to follow your own inner guidance and see what else may be arising.

Though short and sweet, I hope this practice sparks a sense of wonder for the new day you’re about to meet.

Thank you for choosing to practice together. I’m truly grateful.

Gentle background music by Leigh Robinson via Pixabay.

Transcript

Hello,

Good morning.

Welcome to this short and sweet gratitude practice.

As you arrive here in your body allowing what is here and present to be here.

No need to change or fix.

Giving yourself permission to arrive,

To settle in,

To be in any shape that feels most easeful and supportive.

You might nestle down through your shoulders.

Create some rocking,

Swaying,

Wave-like motions through your torso,

Maybe your head and your neck.

Letting these movements and any sensations you are creating in your body,

Let them remind you that you are here,

Right now,

About to begin a day that you have never experienced before.

Bringing to mind something that you feel grateful for.

It could be a quality within yourself,

Your willingness to practice,

To explore yourself,

To meet this version of yourself.

It could be a person,

A place,

A pet,

Maybe one of your senses that allows you to feel and experience this one precious life.

And what might it be like to offer a sense of gratitude to your physical body,

This three-dimensional being,

This form that carries you through each moment,

Each moment of your life.

Perhaps you could offer some gratitude for the beauty and nourishment of your breath,

And how your body knows just how to breathe,

How it nourishes,

Massages all of the cells of your body,

Without even being asked.

As you begin to move through a new day,

Can you carry this sense of wonder,

Of reverence,

Of this deep appreciation for the ability to feel and experience this day that you have never met before?

I am wishing you a spacious,

Beautiful day ahead.

Take good,

Good care.

Reviews

Always something to be thankful for. Beautiful way to go through the day after this meditation. Thank you!🙏

Thank you for another brilliant track! Tonight, I’ll be doing one of your sleep tracks 🙏❤️🙏 And I look very forward to it!🥰

Thank you for sharing your gifts-this is such a great way to begin the day-being grateful 🙏

Benita, thank you for this wonderful short morning gratitude practice that can be easily incorporated into a daily routine. I used it after your short morning intention setting. Given that mornings are extra challenging for me due to dysautonomia and other chronic illness symptoms, this was a way for me to gently invite in appreciation for the new day and my body. It reminded me that even with discomfort, I can be thankful for my breath and how it cares for my vessel. So lovely! 💛