Meditation On Gratitude

What is gratitude, really? Where is it rooted within us? Or is gratitude created as a space that continues to expand? Explore with Paula the idea of gratitude as energy. Let's discover gratitude within.

Transcript

This morning,

I wanted to talk about gratitude,

Which is always a happy topic when we're talking about gratitude and meditation,

Or gratitude at all.

But this morning,

And I want to keep it a happy topic that but wasn't necessary.

But I want to illuminate a little bit more,

Good morning,

Mika,

About what gratitude actually is.

Just like the feeling of love,

We connect it in the world of matter.

And so it shrinks a little bit,

You know,

When I love someone,

I usually love them for this or that,

Right?

It's very infrequent that we unconditionally love,

Right,

It's a hard thing to do.

It's a very vast open space that we don't get to easily.

Gratitude is similar.

Because we have gratitude for something,

Right?

I have gratitude because I have a roof over my head,

I have gratitude because I have good health,

I have gratitude for,

You know,

Whatever,

We make our list.

And that that is a spark that will spark the feeling of gratitude.

But I'm inviting you to experience gratitude as a space to enter.

So I might need to ignite it by having gratitude for something because it starts to create that frequency inside of me.

But I don't want you to stop there.

I want you to understand that it is a space that I can go into that continues to expand,

Having nothing to do with anything on the planet.

You know,

Nothing I have gratitude for.

It is a way of being.

Gratitude or the energy of gratitude,

Now we're talking about it a little differently,

Is something that I open to when I'm ready to receive.

So it is a frequency that is very nicely paired to surrender and receiving.

It gives us an open space,

Right?

When you're feeling that you have gratitude for something,

Even if it is in the land of matter,

Right?

We,

It's an open space,

Right?

It's like,

Ah,

Right,

I'm not doing anything.

I'm just,

I'm feeling it.

I'm allowing this thing to come to me and having a positive feeling about it.

So it's already primed us for receiving.

And so if we can,

Obviously we're going to do it in meditation today.

If I can ignite it with a thought,

Release the thought and open to the energy,

Particularly as I'm feeling ready to receive,

Maybe toward the end when we kind of receive the vibration,

But like I'm interested in what your experience will be.

Because that is where this being,

Right?

Whatever we carry inside of us meets the energy that created us.

And we have this kind of cosmic revelation,

Explosion,

Connection,

However you feel it,

Inside of you,

Because it really is when these two energies come together to meet.

And we start as you are so,

So beautifully,

As I can see in our Saturday talks,

We really start to heal back that veil of the things we connect to on a daily.

We are more and more having the experience of the truth that we are energy,

That this is just a vehicle,

That the things on the planet that we used to hold dear.

We realize they're so transient and that I'm in the business of creating a higher vibration inside of me,

Because that's what really matters.

That's how I meet people.

That's how I create things.

That I'm not a measurement of what I own or even what I've accomplished in the form of accolades,

But I am a measurement of the elevated frequency that I offer and that I receive.

That's where our energy should go.

How do I elevate my frequency?

The good news,

At the end of that,

All the things I wanted come anyhow,

Because it's this beautiful flow of vibration.

Now I'm in the superhighway of consciousness flow,

When in the past,

I've been kind of eking it out myself,

Trying really hard to make things happen,

When I didn't,

In which we are,

Realizing,

Oh,

I could just be in consciousness,

The superhighway of consciousness.

It comes to me when I am working on what's most important,

Which is the energy that resides in me.

So that's the small meditation I have for you this morning.

Okay,

So let's get started.

I feel like that's exciting to me,

To you too.

So find your comfortable place.

So yes,

We're in a meditation of gratitude,

But maybe differently than we have before.

Pick your gazing spot.

The deva prayer is really nice for this,

Right?

That prayer can easily open us to the frequency.

And so don't let the music just be in the background.

Allow the music to kind of fill you a little bit and see if you can ride on the resonance of the music itself.

But we start bringing all of us into one point,

Allowing that one point to be something we offer our curiosity to.

We are open.

You're in a letting information come to us not trying to create it,

But trying to receive it.

We become certainly aware of what distracts us from this point.

So nod to that,

But there's more of us at this point than distracted.

Just focus on that.

As you're ready,

You feel like you are bringing yourself into this centered place,

Then close your eyes and make that centered place be what is inside of you.

Just smooth out your breath,

Feeling the pause at the inhale and the exhale.

Begin to smooth out that pause so that you slowly feel the breath as a circular experience that has no beginning or end.

It is a continuation of life force.

No need to rush from one breath to the next.

Slowly allow it to roll.

As you are aware of your breath,

You also feel a rootedness.

That you are recruiting all of you into this body.

Pulling it all the way down into your roots so that your meditation comes from a place that is grounded and whole.

Opening to feel the life force at your belly,

Even as your breath continues to circle.

We can begin our journey into the space of gratitude here,

That there is life force inside of us today.

We are gifted the experience of life and the opportunity to create whatever we like.

As you feel into that,

You might notice your own energy open.

Shift inside of you begins to happen.

When you recognize all that you have,

It often goes unnoticed.

We move to the third space where we can hold gratitude for who we are.

Our essence,

Our nature.

In many ways you did not create this.

This was an experience given to you.

A way for you to explore life.

This was the ship you were given to sail through the experience of life.

Have gratitude for that ship.

We go into the space of our heart.

Just pick that one powerful thing.

Really pulls us into the vibration of gratitude.

That undeniable gift that can bring us to our knees,

Humble us in a way that nothing else can.

Use that as a way to enter the portal of gratitude.

Feel the prayer as it also opens that space.

Allowing your body to fill with that frequency,

The energy of gratitude.

Opening up to that vibration so that the image is there in your heart.

Your experience grows wider than that.

Find your seat.

Right there in the center of your head,

The seat of the Buddha.

And as you sit there,

Place yourself down.

Imagine sense or feel that you are looking up toward your own crown.

Allowing it to open.

Allowing your gratitude to rise up.

Allowing your blessing to come through.

Maybe somewhere they find one another.

Nothing else comes of that,

An alchemy of sorts,

Bringing you into a more expanded vibration.

You can feel on the surface of your skin,

The energy around you.

Letting go into that pulse.

Asking in the blessing.

Opening to the prayer.

Always letting go a little more.

Breathing a little further.

It's only love that you're receiving.

It's only contraction that you are letting go of.

Let this energy hold your space.

You can breathe into it.

As if the breath of life can expand the vibration.

Imagine sense or come to know that your frequency is rising.

In a real way,

You can leave behind anything you'd like that doesn't serve you.

You open to the healing.

Just set it down now.

You don't need to pick it up again.

You can have gratitude for that.

Maybe even visualize yourself just putting that unnecessary thing down.

Turning back to the miraculous.

More of that than the small thought.

You can feel it in your forehead.

It's just awe.

You can slowly begin to deepen your breath,

Feeling as you do your shift in vibration,

Recognizing how far you went,

What has changed,

And live into that for just another moment.

So keep the expansion going,

But just a little resistance to that contraction that happens so quickly,

Snapping back.

You fill out this new possibility.

Can you bring it into your conscious assimilation?

So the space that might be there from the feeling we put aside can get filled with the love and gratitude.

And as you are ready,

When you're on time,

You can open your eyes.