Hello and welcome to this morning meditation.
My name is Rachel and I'll be your guide today.
If you're here you might be waking up with a heaviness or perhaps you're dreading what the day might bring and sometimes it seems that life is simply not going our way.
It's important to note that our life takes many seasons and has many weather patterns but a powerful tool to ride the storm is shifting our state into what is called kritagetta which means shifting gratitude into an embodied state rather than a performative one.
We are never trying to force ourselves to fake gratitude but by adopting kritagetta we can feel it within.
This meditation invites you to meet gratitude differently by embodying it by just allowing yourself to sit comfortably with a sense of verticality in your spine and feel the placement of your feet on the earth and your hands they might be resting faced upwards in your lap to receive.
There is nothing to do,
You can simply be here present in this moment.
I then invite you to begin to focus on your prana,
Your breath,
The life force energy that permeates through us,
Focusing on the natural rhythm of your breathing without changing it,
Simply allowing it to come up,
Witnessing that breath,
The beautiful breath that flows through your body and carries you each day and I'll invite you to simply name in your mind what feels heavy right now.
Maybe it's a work situation,
A relationship,
Money,
Something that is particularly difficult.
As you begin this day and just giving it space and allowing it a moment of attention.
This is true and it is part of life but when our attention is pulled towards the difficult things it makes it hard to see the small moments of magic that occur in the everyday and just start slowly now to shift your attention now to the body,
The whole body,
Your body that has carried you all these years,
Your legs that have walked you for thousands of miles and your head that has held you through life.
Now just noticing something small and ordinary right now,
Perhaps the morning light in the room,
The warmth of the blanket or the smell in your house and if nothing can be sensed or experienced right now you can bring something small,
Maybe something from the week that you remember.
Now allow yourself to bring into mind someone who has made you happy in your life.
Perhaps they showed you a small act of kindness,
A smile.
Allow yourself to visualize that person in your mind and just notice how perhaps your face changes,
Perhaps a smile or a warmth in your body,
Allowing the Krittiketa to embody your being,
Allowing this loving kindness to radiate through your body.
Just resting in this experience,
Allowing yourself to drink in the sensations of gratitude,
Allowing yourself to notice how it shifts your physical being.
And now just gradually from this state of gratitude I invite you to set a sankalpa.
You might like to bring your hands into your heart space,
Into Anjali mudra and just setting an intention for your day from the thinking mind but from the soul,
An intention of how we would like to feel as we move through this day.
You can then state this internally or out loud three times and if your hands are not there already just bring them to your heart space,
Connecting with the shift in your state and just gently coming back to the room,
Maybe blinking your eyes open and making some micro movements in your fingers and toes.
Thank you so much for practicing.
If you enjoyed this track feel free to come back to it.
A good way to build this into a lasting habit is to repeat it each morning.
So save this track and return to it at the same time each day.
I guarantee within a week gratitude will feel more effortless and more natural.
You might also enjoy two other tracks in my morning collection,
A Mindful Morning for Sensitive Souls and Morning Mindfulness for an Overthinking Mind.
You'll find them in my profile.
Thank you for practicing.
Namaste Rachel
