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Gratitude 1-26-2021

by Dean Quick, MT-BC, FAMI

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Meditation
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This meditation can be used as a starting place to incorporate gratitude into your daily meditation/mindfulness practice. With a focus on the breath and allowing yourself the opportunity to ground in gratitude. Empathy is a healing force and gratitude is a strong way to cultivate lasting empathy and focus.

GratitudeMeditationMindfulnessEmpathyFocusBody AwarenessSensory AwarenessHeart AwarenessRelationshipsSelf CompassionEmotional ResilienceMaterial GratitudeBreathingBreathing AwarenessRelationship Reflections

Transcript

Go ahead and get comfortable wherever you are.

I'll be bringing your awareness to the things in your life that you are thankful.

So we're going to go through this process and think about things in your life you're very grateful for and think about where you can feel that in your body.

And just give gratitude the chance to come up naturally.

And when it comes up,

Just let yourself sink into that feeling.

Surrender to that feeling.

Notice how it feels in your body and how your energy feels.

And if it doesn't come up,

That's okay.

You don't need to try and make yourself feel it.

Just surrender to your heart,

Not to your head.

So let's flash through all aspects of your life that you might be grateful for.

So firstly,

Bring your awareness to your breath.

As you inhale and as you exhale,

And the fact that each of these breaths gives you life.

Then be aware of your heart beating,

Pulsing,

Filling with love and compassion and peace and flowing that back out.

Bring your awareness to your eyes,

Your eyes that let you see color and faces,

Smiles,

Nature the sunrise,

The sunset,

The rainbow,

The moon and the stars that allow you to see yourself in the mirror.

Bring your awareness to your ears that beam in sound,

Music,

Laughter,

The voices of those you love,

The silence,

The beautiful sounds of life.

Bring awareness to your nose that smells the ocean breeze,

The aroma.

The aroma of sweet perfume,

The flowers,

The trees,

Newly cut grass,

The wafting smells that come from the kitchen,

Cupcakes in the oven.

Bring your awareness to your lips and your mouth that tastes and savors and nourishes,

That kisses and speaks,

That whispers and sings.

Bring your awareness to your hands that hold and touch and caress and open and close and applaud and squeeze the arms and shoulders that carry and hug and lift and stretch.

Our feet,

Our toes,

The gift to wiggle them,

Transport you,

Walk.

Run,

Dangle,

Dance,

Kick,

Fold,

Leap and point.

And what about your tears,

Your sorrows?

In the strength that you seem to be able to muster to make it through each day.

Bring your awareness to your abundance,

Your expansion,

Your evolution,

Your perspective shifts.

The affluence and flow and empathy and love and light.

Your ability to see growth and potential in every moment.

And now just breathe and feel more grace and ease.

Guubuntu.

And now experience the warmth,

Love,

And compassion that gratitude brings into your heart.

And now experience the warmth,

Love,

And compassion that gratitude brings into your heart.

And now experience the warmth,

Love,

And compassion that gratitude brings into your heart.

Drift your awareness to nurturing relationships in your life,

The new ones and the older ones.

And now experience the warmth,

Love,

And compassion that gratitude brings into your heart.

Material things that came to you unexpectedly,

Things that flow to you with great effort and commitment,

Hard work.

Think of all the love in your life and your connection to those things that are sweet and loving and honorable and just feel right.

When we no longer take life for granted,

We become grateful for everything that we have.

So just breathe and feel this flow of gratitude like a river into your heart,

Into the center of your being,

And into your love of life.

And now experience the warmth,

Love,

And compassion that gratitude brings into your heart.

Just breathe and feel this flow of gratitude into your heart like a river.

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Meet your Teacher

Dean Quick, MT-BC, FAMICharlotte, NC, USA

4.8 (43)

Recent Reviews

Esa

May 17, 2023

Lovely meditation. Sat by the pool on holiday on the grass feeling so very grateful for so much 🙏🏻💗☮️

Valeria

February 24, 2021

Lovely to be grateful for the "little" things, which aren't little but are there and make our lives beautiful. Seeing, breathing, touching, feeling... Very relaxing too. Thank you! ❤️

Julio

February 19, 2021

It was a great mediation for relaxation and gratitude awareness

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