Taking in gifts

Take a moment to review your day. What gifts did you receive? Perhaps unanticipated gifts like noticing a moment of warm sunshine or participating in a friendly exchange during an errand. Maybe you gifted yourself a mindful moment or practiced yoga.

Pick one of these special moments and reflect on it. What is the core element of it - the primary feeling?

Focus on that feeling, letting the particular circumstances fade into the background.

See if you can remind yourself of that feeling periodically throughout the rest of your day.

Powerful Gratitude Meditation

I have experienced that a profound shift in your day can happen by taking one minute or less to focus on something you are grateful for. It works best when you pause immediately upon realizing you can do this. Your gratitude can be anything, for example, maybe you pause and feel gratitude for a light breeze of wind, a recent accomplishment, or a deep inhale and exhale.

This practice resets your mindset AND each time you pause for a moment of gratitude, you reinforce positive thinking. It becomes more automatic each time. Gratitude helps us see the reality of all the good things in our life, and it is said that when we are grateful, we are in our highest vibrational state - ease, peace, happiness.

To kickstart this practice, set an alarm to remind you to practice gratitude daily or associate it with a daily routine (e.g., making lunch, brushing your teeth).

Ground to Grow Bedtime Meditation

Tools like meditation and yoga are versatile in that they can be applied in both the ordinary and extraordinary moments. A meditation while settling into bed:

• Reflect on your gratitudes for the day. These can be big or small gratitudes. If you journal, then write them down, otherwise, let your mind list them and spend some time soaking them in.

• Imagine the earth energy rising up your spine, to the crown of your head and then connecting with the energy of the universe.

• Ask for spirit or your dreams to bring guidance to your attention on a specific question you have, on the path to your highest good.

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