Gratitude Affirmation, Day 2 How to Practice Gratitude
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Accept yourself exactly as you are.
This week, we launch into a meditation series to help you practice gratitude. Feeling grateful is considered to be one of the most important ways to improve all areas of your life. You'll be exploring ways to practice daily gratitude and you'll also discover how gratitude actually changes your brain. This is day 2 of a 7-day meditation series, How to Practice Gratitude, episodes 2691-2698.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
You're Invited To Take Part In a Gratitude Project!
As you start your day, and end your day, focus on what you're grateful for.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2693 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you to our series this week. |
| 0:12.0 | This week we are exploring an important theme. |
| 0:16.0 | It is how to practice gratitude. |
| 0:21.0 | You might not think of gratitude as being something that you need to practice. |
| 0:27.0 | You might think of it as something that comes naturally into your life. |
| 0:32.0 | Yet gratitude is a habit or ritual to be cultivated in order to experience the powerful brain-changing benefits gratitude can offer. |
| 0:49.0 | So, as you're guided in today's meditation, you will repeat an affirmation. |
| 0:58.0 | Affirmations are a powerful way to feel gratitude as well as to help you focus on what it is you want to bring into your life. |
| 1:10.0 | Affirmations are powerful statements that can give you that coveted and often difficult to achieve focus and mental clarity that you are seeking in life. |
| 1:24.0 | So, this is a way to feel more grateful for what you have in your life. |
| 1:30.0 | Your affirmation is I am grateful for my life exactly as it is. |
| 1:38.0 | Before I guide you in the meditation, I want to share with you again that your challenge for this week is to go on a daily gratitude quest where as you start your day, you think about what you're grateful for. |
| 1:57.0 | Think about maybe you're going to meet a friend and that makes you feel grateful or the weather is very nice and so you're feeling very grateful for some beautiful weather. |
| 2:11.0 | And as you end your day, focus on what you're grateful for for the day. |
| 2:19.0 | This might be something small such as maybe someone smile at you, a complete stranger, but it uplifted you. |
| 2:30.0 | Maybe you completed all your tasks and goals or had a great workout. |
| 2:37.0 | This is something you can feel grateful for and focus on it as you go to bed at night and as an additional part of your challenge, |
| 2:48.0 | I encourage you to repeat the affirmation for today. |
| 2:53.0 | In yesterday's episode, the focus was what are you grateful for and I encouraged you to select a few qualities about your life for which you're grateful. |
| 3:08.0 | In today's episode, as you repeat the affirmation, it's all about acceptance, accept yourself and your life exactly as it is. |
| 3:21.0 | So as you settle yourself down, straightening your spine to keep yourself alert, closing your eyes, gently elevating your eyes to that all important point between your eyebrows. |
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