Gratitude Meditation
Begin by placing your palms down on your belly and your heart center. Take some long, deep, soothing breaths. Feel your chest rise and fall as you breathe. Start to become aware of your thoughts. Watch them as they come and go, just observing. When you feel relaxed and ready, slowly bring your awareness into your head. Visualize your brain. Acknowledge its presence within you. Send warm thanks for the role it plays in your life. Send the feeling of gratitude into your mind. It should feel like a warm embrace from someone you love beaming into your mind. When you’re ready, move to another part of your body, say, your eyes or ears. They have a task as well. Treat them with a flood of warmth as you did your brain. Take your time. Stay there as long as you like. When you’re ready, move down to your throat or chest. Any part of your body that you intuitively know could use a little appreciation and send that feeling now. Let your awareness settle in a particular area and think about the function of that organ. What does it do to keep you alive? How many tasks does it perform intuitively for your life support? Once you start to think about all the amazing things one organ performs, a natural appreciation begins to ease into your consciousness. Now, if your thoughts start to drift away, focus back on the breath and then bring your awareness back to the area of your body that needs attention. You can focus on one or two areas or your entire body, even down to a cellular level. If you are dealing with disease, speak to your immune system. Visualize the healthy cells sending the unhealthy cells out of your body. Give a message to your body that only healthy cells are welcome in your inner universe.
