Welcome to this meditation for gratitude to start your day.
When you're ready,
Find a comfortable position.
You can be laying in bed or lying on the ground.
You could be seated somewhere.
Just make sure you feel supported.
When you're ready and you're comfortable,
Just bring your eyes to a close or soft gaze.
Invite your physical body to relax and release.
You can feel yourself melting into the floor,
Into the bed,
Into the seat.
Bring your focus to the breath.
Use the breath to invite this physical release in the body.
Notice how the inhales and the long,
Luxurious exhales wash over you and ease any points of tension.
Just relish in these deep breaths here.
Remember that you can always come back to the breath in your meditation.
It's a powerful way to become present.
Come back to yourself and to the body and to the moment.
When you notice that your mind is wandering,
Take another deep breath and allow it to cleanse.
Allow it to bring you back to where you began.
As we start each day,
There's something powerful about checking in with what we're grateful for.
Not only does it invite a flood of joy,
But it also puts us in a mindset that encourages an openness to see more of what we're grateful for in our day,
To see more positivity.
When we go through our day with this lens of gratitude,
We watch it multiply.
Still breathing here.
Notice if any points of tension in the body have crept up again.
Just release.
Gently bring your mind to thinking of someone in your life who you are grateful for.
Who is this person?
What role do they play in your life?
How do they support you?
What do they add to your existence?
With every inhale,
Feel the energy,
The gratitude.
Fill your body from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
See this person whom you're so grateful for.
See them in your mind's eye.
Maybe you feel the beating of your heart.
Maybe a smile on your lips.
Let that gratitude pool in your heart center.
And as you melt,
Let that gratitude melt throughout the body.
Are you breathing?
Gently bring the mind to something that you are grateful for.
It could be an opportunity.
It could be your job,
Your home,
The city you live in,
Your health.
It could be an object or a new habit that you've started.
It can be as basic as pouring a big glass of fresh water each morning to drink.
Or simply having a roof over your head.
Or an able body to move through the world with.
What is that one thing today that you are so grateful for?
Breathe into it.
Feel it wash over you.
You may feel the residual melting of that gratitude for that someone in your heart.
How is it met with the something that you're grateful for?
What is the sensation in your body?
What is the sensation in your mind?
How does it expand your heart center?
How does it revive you and rejuvenate you for your day?
And as you hold that someone and that something in your heart and your mind,
Imagine at the solar plexus,
The center of the chest,
Imagining an opening there.
Invite that opening for infinite opportunity and gratitude for all of the things in your life.
For the chance to have woken up to a new day of possibility.
We can be grateful for what we know we have.
How can we be grateful for what's to come?
That opening in the chest is an invitation to the unknown and to all that we will be grateful for in the future.
Let your breath expand that opening.
Feel it soar through each limb of your body and swirl around the crown of the head.
Together,
Let's take three deep breaths.
Exhale all of the air out of the lungs.
And inhale.
Exhale.
Good.
Two more times.
Inhale.
And exhale.
Inhale.
And exhale.
Gently and kindly bring some movement to the body.
It might feel good to rock your head from side to side.
Flex and point the feet.
Roll the wrists.
Wiggle the fingers.
Stay here for as long as you can and you'd like.
Or when you're ready,
Gently open the eyes.
Have a beautiful day.
