All Day Gratitude

This track focuses on standard grounding and breath techniques before encouraging you to reflect on small things throughout the day that you can find gratitude for. It guides you to mentally observe these positive moments to help balance out the mind's automatic negative tendencies. By concentrating heavily on these points of appreciation, the track encourages you to physically register that positive emotion within your body.

Transcript

This is the all-day gratitude practice. So, We take things for granted a lot. We go through our day generally living in our head, Fast-forwarding to the future or ruminating over the past. But actually, When we really tune into what we're doing, There are so many things that we can feel grateful for, For so many different reasons. So, From the moment we get up in the morning and get out bed, That's one thing to be grateful for, Being able to get out of bed, Because there are people who can't do that. So having a gratitude for your body and your health. So we're just going to go through various different things. You can do this practice at any point and in any position, But really it's just to focus your mind as you go through your day, You start to notice different things that you feel grateful for. Okay, So get yourself comfortable. And we will begin. So, Let's go to that morning when you open your eyes. And you think about what you have to do for the day. Because of our brain's negativity bias, It might be, Oh no, I've got to do this and oh no, I've got to do that. But actually, There are many different opportunities for pleasure and for gratitude and for happiness. So rather than chasing something that's going to happen in the future to actually really focus on now. And if we can be grateful for something right now, It can bring happiness into our life and we can feel good already. It's not about feeling good in the future. So, You're getting out of bed. As I mentioned that gratitude for your body you might have some aches and pains or injury but essentially you are a healthy being, You're living, You're breathing, If you can walk then that's a bonus, If you can run then absolutely even more bonuses. And then say moving on to your breakfast, We now live in this world where we have so many things at our fingertips, Fridges, Toasters, Kettles, Mugs, Fresh water, Cookers, You know, Everything that you need in order to nourish you in the morning time. And as you sit and eat your breakfast, Really tuning into the smells and the tastes of your breakfast and the textures but also the number of people. Who have actually been involved in getting your breakfast to you today, From where, Say, The crops were grown, The people who were cultivating that, And then harvesting them, And then packaging up, Reselling them to the supermarket, Storing them somewhere, Being put out into the supermarket. There are so many different people, Processes, Buildings, Engineers, Just so you have your breakfast today. So just really stopping and saying thank you. Thank you to all those people. And one of the reasons why gratitude is so powerful is that it's not all about us, Because we generally feel that when something goes right, It's to do with us. And when something goes wrong, It's other people's fault, As it were. Gratitude is so powerful because we're giving thanks to, I mean, It might be us and our talents, But lots of other people and the part that they have played in your life. So, Let's say, For example, You have a job and so then you can feel grateful for having that job and having the skills with which to do that job, Having the technology at your fingertips, Having um you know all that information on the internet that you can just tap into and really this is a job you know it's a means to an end for for a lot of people but having that that money coming in and being able to pay for your rent or your mortgage and all the bills that you have in order just to keep you alive and surviving. And even if you don't like your job, There hopefully are some aspects of it that you can be grateful for. It might be that you like the people that you work with or you like your office space. It might be that you're working from home at the moment and you enjoy that. It might be that you like talking on the phone instead of being face-to-face in a meeting with somebody. It might be that you like being meeting the public, Depending on whatever job you have, I hope that you can look at some aspects of that and really feel thankful for how that is right now. I'm not going to go through every meal because you can obviously just tune in to the different smells and tastes at every meal. So, Let's move on to say. . . Say you're having a bath or a shower, You know, It's relatively recent times that people have that access to the hot water and being able to get clean and having lovely soaps and shampoos that are relatively cheap and smell nice and do the job. So, Really, Feeling those sensations when you're in the bath or the shower, The hot water. And also the toilet, You know, For many, Many, Many years, There was no sewage system and people would have to make do in all different kinds of ways. But we're so lucky, Really, That we can go to the toilet, Flush the toilet, And then it gets taken away from us. And yes, We have to pay for this service, But wow, You know, Think back to, Say, Even 100 years ago, It was a very different story. Story 200 years ago, 300 years ago, Even more different. So really having that gratitude for that. And then as you, You might have families, You might live on your own, But whatever your situation is, You have that possibility of connection, Whether it's calling a friend or sitting and having dinner with your family together. And of course there is stress, And it's not that you have stress or gratitude, Situation is stressful, You can just tune into those moments of feeling thankful. Perhaps if you have young children and they're very noisy, Perhaps just really feeling that silence in a silent moment and enjoying that. Or if you live with your parents, Then just enjoying that connection of that long time relationship and knowing each other and having that love and understanding. There really is, Everywhere you look, There's something to be grateful for. And, You know, The outside world as well as might go for a walk. So then you have that kind of gratitude again for your body and that pleasure of moving and walking around or just even stretching. But then if you're able to be outside, You know, The trees and how they look with the different seasons and changing and really tuning into the natural beauty, You know, Wherever you are, There should be some trees, Even if you're in a very built up area, Or if you're in the countryside, Then really looking around and seeing what is available to you. And. . . The sunshine, The weather, Even, You know, Some people say, Oh, It's a terrible day today when it's raining, But, You know, Some people like the rain, The crops might like the rain, The grass, The ducks. So really feeling gratitude for whatever weather it is and really knowing that, Well, We can't control the weather. And then say you're going to bed, The fact that you have a bed, Perhaps it's a nice comfy bed, And you've got a room where you can shut the door and be safe and protected, And you can have a good night's sleep, Just really feeling that gratitude. And it's so powerful, Even if you don't spend your day in gratitude, You go to sleep, Even if it's just three things that you can identify during the day that you felt gratitude for, This is a really powerful way of offsetting the brain's bias towards negativity and really feeling what it is about something that makes you feel gratitude and sort of turning that into a feeling that you can actually discern in your body. That's where the power lies, Really. So give it a go as you go through and let me know what you think and what you are grateful for. Thank you.