1264 Gratitude Breath
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Nothing opens your heart quite like gratitude.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part How to Practice Gratitude, Episodes 1262-1268.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1, 264. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope you are doing well today. |
| 0:12.0 | We continue with our gratitude journey this week in honor of |
| 0:18.8 | Thanksgiving. If you live in the United States, like I do, we are experiencing a week of gratitude as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving taking place this Thursday. Wherever you are, it's always good to focus on |
| 0:38.0 | gratitude, especially if you can focus for an entire week. Imagine how much more peace, energy and clarity you will have. In today's episode, I'm sharing with you a breathing technique you can do to help you cultivate gratitude. This is a technique as always you can do as you |
| 1:08.8 | sit down and meditate or if you are going about your busy day you can still do these techniques. |
| 1:19.0 | Now as you settle yourself in and get ready to meditate, think about how you could make gratitude a regular part of your day and this is from a little research I did on |
| 1:41.0 | gratitude. There is a technique called mental contrasting and mental |
| 1:49.6 | contrasting has to do with getting excited about setting a new goal or acquiring a new |
| 1:59.5 | habit such as the habit of daily gratitude. And along with that excitement and anticipation is |
| 2:10.8 | being realistic about how you can actually make this happen so you actually do it |
| 2:20.1 | and gain the beautiful benefits. So right now think about when are the best times for you to focus on gratitude. |
| 2:36.6 | And you might think, oh, that doesn't take too long, |
| 2:40.4 | maybe a minute or two, so I could pretty much focus on gratitude whenever I want. |
| 2:46.8 | But there is research that even despite our best intentions. If you don't think of a specific time when you would do this, chances are likely that you may not do it, and then |
| 3:09.3 | you would miss out on all the benefits. So to make this gratitude ritual a regular integral part of your day, consider |
| 3:31.5 | when you would like to do this gratitude reflection each day and when it will work out best for you. |
| 3:33.0 | Maybe you'd love to start your day off |
| 3:35.3 | with gratitude every morning. |
| 3:37.3 | But when you think about it realistically, |
| 3:39.9 | mornings are a little rushed and you're not really open and receptive and in the state of |
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