Goddess Gratitude Meditation

Starting or ending your day with gratitude is one of the most powerful things you can do to change your life.

There are so many benefits of incorporating a gratitude meditation into your morning or bedtime routine as part of your daily yoga practice.

This gratitude mediation creates awareness of how good life is and how blessed you truly are.

It balances and lightens the load of anything that may have been worrying or stressing you. 

In addition gratitude meditation is a great treatment for depression and anxiety, leaving you happier, more mindful and with increased self-love.

By starting your day with gratitude you are more likely to manifest and spread joy as you move through your day, and by practicing this meditation in the evening it’s calming quality will help encourage a peaceful night’s sleep.

 

GODDESS GRATITUDE MEDITATION

 Find a peaceful area and take a seated pose or lie down with your legs comfortably propped over a pillow to take tension off your lower back. You may want to place one hand on your heart and another on your belly.

 

1. To start your practice we suggest allowing your eyes to gently close or maintain a soft focus, gazing 6-12 feet in front of you then…

 

2. Take a slow, deep breath to bring yourself into awareness of the present moment and begin the process of feeling more peaceful and centred. Breathe into the belly so it expands as you breathe in and gets smaller as you breathe out.

 

3. Now, take a minute or two and mentally scan your body for any areas where there is tightness, tension, or soreness. Then imagine breathing your warm, oxygen-filled breath into that area; as you breathe out, let the tension release, breathing it out. With each exhale allow your body to relax further.

 

4. Now, notice any worries, fear, anger, irritation, jealousy, judgment or negative thoughts that you may have. Just breathe into those emotions, noting them, accepting them and allowing them to flow out as you breathe out. Another breath into any uncomfortable emotions, and breathing out, releasing them [5 seconds].

 

5. Now any thoughts of memories, plans, things to do, associations, anything other than being here, breathing, just breathe into those thoughts, and as you breathe out, allow the thoughts to flow out with the breath.

 

6. Now that our bodies, emotions, and thoughts are a little clearer, a bit more spacious and open, we can begin to focus on the events, experiences, people, pets, or possessions for which we feel grateful. Each time you practice just pick 1 – 2 to focus on.

 

7. Let this grateful thought fill you up with happiness, let it sit in your belly and rise up to your throat, if you feel the need to laugh or smile do so.

 

8. When you open your eyes, take your grateful feeling with you as you head off to your day or into a peaceful sleep.

 

“Buddhist monks begin each day with a chant of gratitude for the blessings of their life. Native American elders begin each ceremony with grateful prayers to mother earth and father sky, to the four directions, to the animal, plant, and mineral brothers and sisters who share our earth and support our life. In Tibet, the monks and nuns even offer prayers of gratitude for the suffering they have been given” 

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