Gratitude Journaling - Day 8

12 Days of Gratitude: Let's embark on a 12-day journey of gratitude, where we'll focus on the positive aspects of our lives. Each day, we’ll focus on a different prompt to help us cultivate appreciation for the good in life.
Remember, gratitude is a powerful tool that can transform your perspective and enhance your overall well-being. So, grab your journal and let’s get started on this heartwarming adventure.
Today's inspiration comes from Sandra Anne Taylor's deck "The Quantum Oracle" -- the card: #2 "People: Family"
Thank you for believing in me, for showing up, and for joining me on this amazing journey! I'm so grateful for your support and good vibes.
Background Music: "Grace of a Butterfly" by Insight Timer Teacher, and friend, Blossom Violet. Please follow her and check out her amazing piano tracks!

Transcript

Hello and welcome beautiful Insight Timer community. Today we are on day eight of our 12 Days of Gratitude Journaling and today I was looking through my beautiful decks to find a card I could pull for an inspiration and I decided to go with the Quantum Oracle by Sandra Ann Taylor. I pulled a card I got number two family and I thought this is perfect because we're still on that family theme. Yesterday we spoke about children and this card in particular also has a picture of three children actually four there's one in a bassinet. So I read what the card was about it says this card shows a baby in a bassinet and children playing and having fun. The joy of childhood presence will be increasing in your life perhaps in the form of spending more time with the children of family or friends or a brand new addition might soon be welcomed into your own family. This card could also predict a new partner who brings a child with them so the two new relationships enter your life at once. Feelings of spontaneity and playfulness are also blossoming in your heart. Listen to the voice of the child within. Let yourself be open to all the ways you can have fun in your life such as simple moments of enjoyment, Fond memories that make you laugh or spending time with people that make you happy. Be playful and let your inner child come out. It's one of the best things you can do to connect with universal joy and the affirmation is more and more I am bringing an attitude of playfulness to my life. I love and nurture the child within. So this is beautiful and as I said it goes back to the theme of what we spoke of yesterday in day seven. How can we connect with that child within? Children have such a beautiful way of living in the moment. I was with my family this past weekend and one of the moments that brought me the biggest smile other than spending time with my grandson was when my adult son got on a carousel with him and he was just having a ball. He was having so much fun. I was standing by taking pictures of him and his beautiful wife and my grandson and all of a sudden my adult son yelled out, Hey mommy take my picture and that made me laugh so much. It was it was such a sweet moment. It brought me back to when he was a child. It made me appreciate his playfulness. It just made me feel so blessed to be with my family and be there enjoying such a beautiful moment. So I was thinking the prompt we would use today is write a letter to your younger self offering words of encouragement and gratitude. I know that might be a hard one depending on what your childhood was like. Some of us might have had a challenging childhood. Some of us might have had a beautiful childhood. I always want to say I had a little bit of both. There was a lot of there were a lot of challenges and probably a lot of trauma and I won't get into that but we we can talk about that another day. Just family dynamics and family dysfunction which a lot of us have had to deal with but there was also a lot of moments of living in the moment, Being a child, Playing games with my siblings, Trips to the beach. So I think if we're gonna write a letter to our childhood self it's always good to think about both the downsides and the upsides because as an adult now you could look back and talk to that child and offer that child the encouragement that they might not have gotten back then. So let's put some time on the clock. Let's turn this into a really grateful moment and let's write some words of encouragement to the child and some words of gratitude for what that child has taught you. All right my friends. Okay I hope you were able to get some really great thoughts down and some memories and if you feel like you need more time to write a little more feel free to pause this go back to the music this beautiful background music and write a little more. Remember there are no rules. You do what works best for you. As always feel free to share your thoughts with me and let's meet back here tomorrow for day nine of our 12 days of gratitude. Until then my friend have an amazing day.

Reviews

When writing to my younger self it made me realize how grateful I am for the beautiful, fun-loving life I am having.🙏🌼🦋🌸🙏

Hi Violet, How are you doing today? I hope you are well. I have just completed Day 8 - Gratitude Journaling, today I wrote a gratitude letter to my childhood self. In this letter, I wrote my challenges and experiences “growing up with racism living in a “white Anglo Saxon community in South West Sydney Australia”. This was in the 1970’s. I will email this gratitude letter now. See you at your live “event tomorrow” (7am - Australian Eastern Standard Time, Saturday morning). 🫶🏿🙏🏿💜🙌🏿🌎

This was a special one for sure. I thanked Little Caitlin for being SO strong and building up so much resilience. And then I started to pet the cat, Booger, and my mind wandered to my cat Hunter who has gone over the bridge 🌈✨️ Little Caitlin was a pistol for sure. And my childhood was a mix of beyond blessed and trauma-filled too... I thanked Little Caitlin for being so strong especially with all her sensitivities and her grownups lack... I didn't stay with it long but it was potent and the music was beautiful. Thank you Violet 🥰🥹🙏🫶

You continue to surprise and amaze me dearest Violet. This has to be my most amazing scripting days of all the days I have scripted with you so far. I will send you what I wrote as I want you to know what an impact you are having 🎁