Hi friend,
Arrive here slowly.
Maybe rolling your shoulders a couple times.
Rocking the head side to side.
You can open and expand the hands,
Rolling the wrists.
Finding a little movement.
Eventually.
Allow your hands to rest in your lap or maybe over your heart.
And give yourself a deep breath in as you close your eyes if you'd like.
Big exhale as you drop in.
Feel your awareness really.
Fall from your overthinking,
Overanalyzing mind and into your heart.
That's what we mean by dropping in.
Breathe in Exhale,
Drop in.
Journey into the heart,
The body.
Creating a little bit of space between you and your mind.
Sinking into your awareness.
Steady breath in.
Big audible sigh.
Releasing.
Whatever is lingering.
Finding a moment here to bring in these words about gratitude.
Opening your mind,
Your heart These words are written by Megan from Wild House Paper.
It's a amazing company that creates journals.
Gratitude quiets the noise of urgency and reminds you that you are already standing in what you once longed for.
Living with gratitude changes the texture of your days.
Teaches you to pause before reacting.
To breathe before rushing.
To look at someone and really see them.
It calls you to presence.
Not perfection.
It invites you to live away.
To find grace in the small things.
Meaning in the hard things,
And love in the spaces in between.
Gratitude doesn't erase the challenges of life.
But it softens the edges.
It brings you back to what is real.
Reminding you that even in uncertainty,
There is still something beautiful to hold.
There will be times ahead when you forget this practice,
When gratitude feels far away.
But now know how to return to it.
Through your breath.
Through noticing.
Through presence.
Living in gratitude doesn't mean feeling good all the time.
It means staying awake.
To the full spectrum of your life.
And meeting it with appreciation for what it is teaching you.
Gratitude becomes less about seeking.
And more about seeing.
Breathe in these words.
Stay inward or open your eyes to meet me here back in your space.
I love those words so much.
There definitely is something.
That I'm currently experiencing that I once longed for.
And that brings me a lot of gratitude.
Can you think of something in your life that you once prayed for,
Longed for,
Really,
Really look forward to,
And now it's here?
Don't let it pass you by,
The fact that it's here,
That you're living in that dream.
And gratitude isn't about life being perfect with no challenges and everything is easy.
Gratitude is about really choosing to see the good.
And when we choose to see the good,
That good grows.
But it takes a lot of attention and awareness.
I often find myself rushing and feeling this sense of urgency throughout the day,
Maybe when I'm running errands or doing chores.
But when I slow down,
I can see the kind.
Person who's checking me out at the grocery store,
Right?
I can see the person that holds open the door for me.
I can be grateful for this house that I get to clean and the laundry that I get to do.
And so it's really about choosing to see,
To look up.
Stop rushing,
To be present over perfect,
And that's how gratitude will grow in your heart.
I'd love to hear from you what landed from you from these words.
Comment them below in the review and I am excited to continue to create these videos with you.
Someone said it feels like we're just sitting having coffee in my living room and that brings me so much joy.
I'm here for you,
My friend,
And I'm going through this journey with you.
And I love to share these quotes because they just give me a chance to see something in a different light.
And Usually I'm just in awe of how people can write such beautiful words.
And they really land and really evoke some sort of emotion.
And I love to sit with them.
So maybe take a moment to turn back inward,
To reconnect with something in the quote that really landed with you.
Maybe it's gratitude quiets the noise of urgency.
And reminds you that you are already standing in what you once longed for.
Or maybe it's the fact that gratitude brings you back to what is real,
Reminding you that even in uncertainty,
There is still something beautiful to hold.
Can you choose to see today that will fill your heart with light and gratitude?
Carry this practice with you.
Breath in.
Let it all go.
From my heart to yours.
My name is Eileen Rosemiles,
And I'll see you in the next one.
Be kind to your mind.
