Cultivating gratitude.
Bringing your attention to your breath.
Noticing this breath.
Letting yourself sense your feet being supported by the floor.
Bringing your attention now to your heart.
Inviting it to open and soften as you think of someone that you love.
Letting yourself experience the feeling of an internal smile that arises when you think of this person or this person.
Letting yourself experience the feeling of an internal smile that arises when you think of this person or this animal.
As much as you can,
Letting yourself notice what it feels like to feel love.
To feel happy that this being is part of your life.
Letting yourself sense how your body feels love and appreciation.
Letting yourself sense how you feel love and appreciation in your mind.
Letting yourself sense how you experience love and appreciation in your heart.
Now as much as you can,
See if you can keep your heart open in this way as you bring your attention to sensing what is arising in this present moment.
Bringing the sense of appreciation to any sounds that are occurring right now.
Engaging the sense of touch by letting yourself sense and appreciate the feeling of air on your skin.
The feeling of air on your skin.
The feeling of air on your skin.
The feeling of air on your skin.
Taking a deep breath and seeing if you can sense any smell that's in the air right now.
And as much as you can,
Opening your heart to it.
Appreciating the sensing.
Letting yourself sense any tastes that might be present right now.
Perhaps even licking your lips to see what's there,
Sense what's there.
Appreciating any sensation that arises.
Appreciating your capacity to notice and to sense the sensation.
Perhaps letting yourself feel appreciation for this ability that we have as human beings to sense and know that we are sensing.
We actually can experience this as a way of feeling we are alive,
That we are in this world,
That we are conscious.
David White describes this as being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
In this way,
We are experiencing gratitude as a state of attention that we bring to life itself.
Fully opening to what is here,
Receiving it as we would an offering or a precious teaching.
Living in gratitude.
Breathing in gratitude.
Thank you.
