Welcome to this positive guided meditation to cultivate the feelings of
gratitude,
Appreciation and joy.
Please find a quiet place where you won't be
disturbed,
Turning off or silence any distractions and find a comfortable
seated position,
Softly closing down your eyes and at any time throughout today's
practice if your attention drifts off to a thought or to a sound,
That is okay
just be kind to yourself and return your attention back to your breath or back to
my voice.
Take your attention to your heart at the center of your chest and
you can focus on the breath entering and leaving your heart space as you focus on
the feeling of gratitude and appreciation.
Life is a gift,
A wonderful
gift and it is precious that we have this opportunity to experience this gift.
We are also a gift as a human being.
It is a gift that we woke up this morning
and we are able to open our eyes.
It is a gift to see,
To see all the natural
beauty around us,
To see creation in its full expression.
We are able to look
back at ourselves in the mirror,
See the beauty that is looking at us,
Beautiful
faces,
Our beautiful eyes,
Our beautiful hearts and souls.
That is a gift on its
own.
We are able to see the beautiful faces of other people,
Not just our
loved ones but everyone,
Looking into their eyes,
Seeing their beautiful souls
and hearts.
It is a gift that we are able to see people's smiles,
Laughing,
Joking,
The infectious smiles that make us smile.
That is a gift.
It's a gift that we can
see colours,
The blue sky,
The oceans,
Nature,
Animals.
We can see the dance of
nature,
We can see the dance of life right before our eyes.
That alone is just
a gift,
To wake up to witness this as a human being.
We can see all the beautiful colours of the flowers,
All the different animals,
Shapes and sizes and colours.
We are so lucky to be invited to see this gift,
This gift of life.
It is a gift that we was able to get up this morning,
Move our body,
To take care
of ourselves,
To take care of others.
We have a gift right in front of us,
The
gift of life.
We can share stories with each other,
We can laugh,
We can hug,
We
can joke,
Kiss,
Cry.
We can share our beautiful memories,
Our beautiful
imagination and our beautiful inventions.
We can make each other laugh,
We can
share joyous moments in life.
The simplest things are the most beautiful,
They are the biggest gifts.
Just to walk on this earth with the ground beneath
our feet,
That is a gift.
Hearing the crashing waves of the ocean against the
shore,
That is a gift.
The sunrises,
The sunsets,
The moon,
The stars.
We get to see
this display,
This dance every day,
Right in front of our eyes.
It is a gift.
We can hear the beautiful sounds of nature all around us.
The birds chirping
in the morning,
Singing their songs of the new day.
It's a beautiful creation of
art,
A beautiful creation of life.
Just to hear nature singing for another
beautiful day.
To hear the sound of water,
The sound of the ocean crashing against
the shore,
The sound of a waterfall,
A river,
A stream.
What a beautiful sound,
What a beautiful gift.
Just to sit and observe,
To listen.
What a gift it is to
have this beautiful earth that provides everything that we need.
The land to live
on,
Shelter to protect us,
Food and water to nourish us.
Mother Earth is a gift,
A gift of life.
She is here to provide us with life and we are here to provide the
earth with life.
It is a gift that we are here for another day to experience this.
It is a gift that we have all of the elements of life,
All of these elements that are there
to provide and support an environment,
For it to grow.
All the beautiful colours,
The beautiful sounds,
The smells,
The tastes.
That is such a wonderful gift.
It is a creation of art,
It is a dance of beauty.
We are a creation of that beauty,
We are a creation of that dance,
We are part of the dance.
What could be more beautiful than that?
We are provided with the enjoyment of the smells of nature,
All of the beautiful flowers,
The foods,
The smell in the air after a storm.
It is a gift for us to enjoy this life and we
as human beings are a gift,
Our bodies are a gift,
Our mind is a gift,
Our senses are a gift.
It's precious,
So precious that we need to savour this.
We can feel all of the beauty around us,
With our feet in the sand or on the grass,
In the earth.
The touch of our loved ones,
The touch on the skin from the sun,
The water washing over us in the ocean.
It is all a gift,
It is something that we need to savour and remind ourselves how beautiful life is and
how beautiful we are and we get to taste this life,
All of the beautiful flavours that the
earth provides for our pleasure,
For our enjoyment.
It is a gift for us,
It is a gift that we can
move our bodies,
We can dance,
We can dance with others,
We can dance with life,
We can tell stories
with our body.
We have the freedom to move our bodies,
That is a gift,
Not only just to look
after ourselves and others but we have the freedom of expression from our bodies.
We can paint
pictures with our bodies,
We can sing music with our bodies,
No matter what shape or size or colour.
It's a beautiful gift,
It's just an expression of a gift,
No matter what it looks like.
If we
was all the same then it wouldn't be a gift,
It wouldn't be precious.
We are all our own,
Each individual unique gift that we need to share and express with the world and we have the
expression of our voice,
Of speech.
We can sing,
Sing beautiful songs,
Tell beautiful stories and
jokes,
Sharing memories.
We can tell people that we love them,
We can tell people that they are
beautiful,
We can tell ourselves that we are beautiful.
It is such a gift to have a voice,
To have speech and have this freedom of speech.
We can create with our voice and we can just add
to this dance of life,
This dance of creation.
We can add more sounds and colour to this creation
that is called life.
We can add our own touches to it,
Making it even more beautiful,
Making us
even more beautiful.
We need to savour this gift,
We need to appreciate and send gratitude for this
gift of life.
We are a gift,
We are beautiful.
Life is a gift,
Life is beautiful.
Savour this gift,
Savour your gift.
Take your attention off your heart space and off your breath now
and just sit in the stillness around you.
Keeping your eyes closed,
You can begin to stretch and move around into the space around you,
Slowly getting a sense of your surroundings.
And when you are ready,
You can begin to open your eyes,
Starting off gazing down at the floor.
Take your time coming back around.
Thank you for meditating with me.
