Welcome to this guided gratitude meditation with me,
Tasha the Moonchild.
As this meditation is designed to relax both your body and your mind,
Please do not listen to this meditation whilst driving,
Operating any kind of machinery or in any situation where you need to be both awake and alert.
Wherever you are,
It's time to get comfortable.
Take a seat in your favourite chair,
Sit on the floor or lie down in your bed.
Wherever you can be fully supported,
Wherever you can get comfortable and cosy for our time together.
When you're ready,
I'd like you to gently close your eyes.
And when they're closed,
I'd like you to simply smile to yourself.
A big,
Deep smile that reaches right up to your eyes.
Now place one hand on your heart and the other one on your stomach.
As you let your mouth relax now.
And as you take a deep breath in through your nose,
I want you to feel your stomach expanding.
And as you slowly exhale through your mouth,
Feel your stomach deflating again.
Taking a deep breath in through your nose,
Holding at the top just for a second.
And then slowly releasing through your mouth.
Feeling your stomach expand and deflate again.
I'd like you to continue this deep breathing all by yourself in any way that feels comfortable.
Because I want you to focus now on the one gift we all have each and every day.
I want to remind you that you are alive.
You are here.
You woke up today and you were able to show up in the world.
Whatever kind of day you've had today,
You got to experience it.
Learn from it and grow from it.
Taking a second just to be grateful that you've got to experience this day today.
We can spend so much of our time wishing our lives away.
Thinking about what we want in the future that we forget about what we already have.
So now it's time to give thanks to the things that you already have that are already with you.
So repeat after me either in your head or out loud.
Whatever feels comfortable for you.
I am grateful for the people in my life.
I am grateful for my body that carried me today.
I am grateful for the food that I've eaten today.
I am grateful for the sun that shows up every morning.
I am grateful for the moon that shows me I don't have to shine brightly all the time either.
I am grateful for today.
Now I just want you to continue your deep breathing as you were doing before.
With your hand on your heart and the other one on your stomach.
Inhaling through your nose.
Exhaling through your mouth.
Giving thanks to the breath that keeps us alive every day.
And as you continue your breathing I want you to think about the other things that you're grateful for today.
Because feeling grateful for what we have now helps us to connect to our more positive emotions.
Which in turn makes us happier.
And now I want you to think about just one thing that you're grateful for.
And how it makes you feel.
That one thing could be a person.
Could be a place.
It could be an experience.
Whatever it is I want you to focus on how that makes you feel.
If that feeling was a colour,
What colour would it be?
Imagining now that there's a ball of light in front of you.
And it's that same colour of that same feeling that makes you feel grateful.
And as you inhale now some of the light from that gratitude ball makes its way into your body.
And as you breathe out it forces out some of the negativity,
Some of the less desirable emotions within you.
As you inhale again taking some more of that light from your gratitude ball.
As it enters your body and heads straight for your heart where your hand is now resting.
And as you exhale through your nose.
You feel some of those negative emotions,
Negative experiences leaving your body at the same time.
Inhaling more of that gratitude ball light.
Exhaling as you feel calm,
Relaxed and at peace.
Now whenever you're feeling stressed or anxious or your mood gets low.
I want you to remember your gratitude ball.
I want you to remember that one thing that you're grateful for.
That makes you feel good,
That made that gratitude ball.
And I want you to take some deep breaths in and out from your gratitude ball.
Imagining that light going straight to your heart and making you feel the emotion that's tied to that thing that you are grateful for.
Just taking a second now just to bask in all of that light from your gratitude ball.
And when you're ready I want you to start slowly bringing sensation back to your body.
By wiggling your fingers,
Wiggling your toes.
Maybe having a little stretch.
So that sensations coming back so that you're coming back into the room with me.
And then when you're ready I'd like you to gently open your eyes.
Put your hand on your heart.
Thank yourself for taking this time.
Just for you.
To focus on your gratitude.
To focus on the good feelings that it brings.
And to hopefully be a little bit happier.
