The Power Of Gratitude To Enrich Your Life

Patty and Laura of AwakenPeace invite you to join them on a transformational journey through the landscape of gratitude. Over the span of this 10-session course you will build a greater understanding of the power of gratitude and how it can enrich your life. Through education sessions to engage and satisfy your intellect, and guided practices to offer a fully embodied experience, you will learn how to cultivate your habits of gratitude to increase joy, hope, and love in day-to-day life.

Lección 1: Welcome to Your Gratitude Garden: An Introduction to Gratitude

This session sets the landscape for the course, introducing the concept of gratitude from both an intellectual and embodied view. We enter the gratitude journey through the metaphor of a garden, where we identify what we wish to harvest in our lives. We share research regarding the benefits of gratitude to help identify what we are cultivating. We close with an introductory guided practice to begin to experience gratitude in the heart.

Lección 2: Tilling the Soil: What is Gratitude?

In this session we delve deeper into understanding what gratitude is in the context of emotions as well as a skill and trait that can be developed. We till the soil of our gratitude garden by understanding the brain’s autopilot tendencies and exploring the ways in which gratitude opens us to connection and meaning in the world around us. We will explore gratitude in the body through a guided sensing practice.

Lección 3: Survey Your Gratitude Landscape: Looking at Relationships

How does gratitude show up in our relationships? In this session, we survey the relational landscape of gratitude by exploring how gratitude differentiates from reciprocity and obligation. We learn how to challenge the tendency of the mind to view ourselves as separate from others, revealing the gifts that are already available to us throughout the span of our relational landscape. We explore how gratitude is influenced by both our relationship to our environment and to others with an experiential practice.

Lección 4: Your Garden’s Natural Predators: Obstacles to Gratitude

What are the greatest obstacles to the cultivation of gratitude? In this session we identify and explore the common obstacles and hindrances to the cultivation of gratitude in our lives. We explore the role of the Mind and thoughts as the “natural predators” in our gratitude garden. Included is a guided practice to foster awareness of our internal experience of gratitude and how our body communicates the presence of such obstacles in our garden.

Lección 5: Planting Your Seeds: Gratitude Practices

In this session we delve deeply into practice, planting gratitude seeds in day-to-day experiences. We identify four seed practices to develop and cultivate gratitude that can be woven into any day. These practices enable us to shift from the negativity bias of the mind into an open space of connection and abundance. We close with a guided practice to further deepen the experience and understanding of gratitude.

Lección 6: Watering Your Seeds: Self-Nurturance as Gratitude

What is the value of having appreciation for your Self? In this session we explore gratitude as preventative medicine, deep self-care, and self-love. We learn more about opening up to gratitude within ourselves so we can more actively and authentically participate in the cycle of giving and receiving in the world. We close with a guided practice to increase gratitude through connection with the Self and the body.

Lección 7: Gardening through a Storm: Gratitude in Difficult Times

How do we find gratitude when things are shattered and falling apart? In this session we learn how to continue cultivating our gratitude garden during the hazards of stormy weather and learn how to access gratitude in challenging times. We explore the link between gratitude and vulnerability. The session closes with a guided practice to tap into gratitude as a resource to overcome even the darkest moments.

Lección 8: Your Garden Tools: Working with the Mind

In this session we go deeper into an exploration of the role of the mind in the cultivation of gratitude and sharpen our garden tools. We identify and practice specific strategies for working with the mental hindrances and negative automatic thought patterns. We learn how to shift from a place of obstacles and scarcity to one of flow and abundance.

Lección 9: Sharing Your Bouquet: Expressing Gratitude

Sir William Arthur Ward stated that feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. In this session we revisit our gratitude landscape to go deeper into our relationships, and learn how to express gratitude in the world. We explore ways to optimize the expression and communication of gratitude to enhance relationships and personal well-being. The session closes with a guided exploration of communicating of gratitude.

Lección 10: Abundant Gratitude Harvest: Integration

In this session, we take a take in the abundance that you’ve cultivated through this gratitude journey and reap the harvest of your practices. We explore the principles of habit evolution and how to continue to deepen your cultivation beyond the frame of this course. We close with a guided practice to survey the new terrain of your gratitude landscape.

Reviews

Thank you for sharing the tools to make a shift in how we interact with ourselves and others. It is so easy to be in complain mode…now my shift is to gratitude mode. Love the 3 S tool. ☮️💟

Game Changer! They should teach this is our schools. Thank you , Thank you, Thank you !

Amazing course! Highly recommend to everyone!
Very grateful to you for sharing you wisdom🙏❤️

Thank you for being able to see and appreciate all the things to be grateful for in life.

This course was excellent. I was having trouble sleeping and within a few days of using this course and putting gratitude into practice I was finally sleeping the whole night again! I'm excited that I learned great skills to help me continue this every day to keep my attitude positive and to allow for great sleep! Thank you so much!!

A great breakdown with techniques to apply right away.

What a wonderful course! Thank you both for your time and for sharing your talents on this amazing platform. I can feel a slight shift already in a sense of abundance and look forward to cultivating more gratitude using the tools you have offered us. Blessings to to and yours 🙏🌻

Fabulous evidence based course on gratitude! Science and practice! 🙏

Lovely course❣️♾️
Thank you so kindly ❤️ Much love and gratitude 🙏🏼
Namaste

This is so good that I am going to listen to the whole thing again 🥰💜🙏🏼🧘🏽‍♀️

Loved this I will take it again till it becomes a trade

Thank you for such an insightful course with immense gratitude 🙏🏼

Wonderful course gives you a whole new look on life recommend for everybody thank you for taking the time to help other humans understand gratitude and it’s gifts

Thank you so much! I am grateful every day for all the things that I have 🙏🙏

I have found myself avoiding teachings on gratitude for reasons best known to my subconscious! This course however has been such a profound experience, very rich in practical grounded advice, common sense yet wisdom and is way more transformational than many other practices I have done. Grateful to you for some invaluable insights. Thank you both for sharing the beauty of your many gifts, it is a superb course. 🙏

I found myself looking forward to this course each morning and am so grateful to have taken it!

Thanks for such an amazing content 💕

Gratitude for this beautiful experience

A wonderful, informative and enlightening course. This course taught me some new tools that I have added to my personal practice. Very rewarding. Thank you for sharing this information with us. Namaste!

Thank you so very much for this wonderful course. It has allowed to change my perspective in a difficult time to focus on all that is also there in this time. Very much appreciated 🌈⭐️