Thanksgiving Gratitude Meditation

This meditation invites you to slow down and reconnect with simple moments of gratitude that can be easy to overlook during the busy holiday season. Through gentle breathwork, grounding techniques, and guided reflection, you’ll cultivate a sense of warmth, appreciation, and calm. This short practice offers a peaceful pause from holiday stress and helps you return to a place of steadiness, presence, and thankfulness.
*Background track: ‘Breath of Enlightenment (Meditation music)’ by Grand_Project — downloaded from Pixabay .com and used under the Pixabay Content License. Thank you to the artist for providing this royalty-free music!

Transcript

Hi,

Thanks for joining me for this Thanksgiving Gratitude Meditation.

Find a comfortable position,

Sitting or lying down.

Let your shoulders fall away from your ears,

Maybe you roll them back.

Allow your hands to rest softly in your lap,

By your sides,

Or even maybe over your heart.

Take a slow inhale through your nose and gently release it and exhale through your mouth.

Let yourself arrive in this moment.

Let your breath become steady,

Warm,

Natural.

With each inhale,

Feel a sense of openness.

With each exhale,

Feel your body letting go,

Softening,

Grounding.

If thoughts come up,

Let them pass through like leaves floating down a stream or clouds floating by.

No need to hold anything or chase anything.

Simply be here.

Let yourself be in this moment.

Let's begin with ourselves.

Place your hand over your heart if that feels comfortable and say silently or softly,

Thank you for carrying me.

Thank you for trying your best.

Thank you for feeling deeply.

Allow a gentle warmth to grow in your chest and appreciation for all the unseen ways you've kept moving this year.

Now bring to mind someone or something that supported you this year.

It might be a person,

It might be a place,

A pet,

A memory,

A small glimmer of kindness.

See it clearly.

Feel what you have in mind.

Feel what it was like to be supported,

Cared for,

Or understood.

Let gratitude rise naturally without forcing it.

Take a slow breath in.

And on the exhale,

Silently offer thank you.

Shift your awareness right now.

This breath,

This quiet pause,

This space that you created for yourself.

We're shifting to the present moment.

Feel gratitude for the simple things.

The air moving in and out of your lungs.

The warmth or coolness around you.

The support beneath your body.

The ability to pause and reconnect.

Let these small moments fill you with a soft,

Steady appreciation for being alive,

For being here,

For being here today.

Imagine a warm,

Golden light expanding from your heart.

With each breath,

Let it grow wider,

Filling your whole body and slowly extending beyond you.

Send gratitude outward to the people you love,

To the people who shaped you,

And even the people who challenged you,

Helping you grow.

Finally,

Send gratitude to everyone who's also moving through this holiday season.

They have their own stories,

Their own hopes,

Stresses,

And joys.

Let this wave of gratitude ripple outward like a wave in the ocean with ease.

Take one more deep,

Nourishing breath in.

And a long,

Complete exhale.

Bring a gentle movement and awareness to your fingers and toes.

Stretch if that feels good.

When you're ready,

You can softly blink your eyes open.

I hope that you carry this sense of fullness and gratitude with you into the rest of your day and your holiday season.

Thanks for joining me.