Happy Hour: Embodied Gratitude

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🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2023.11.24 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/qn4PnoQVCiw. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.0	Please visit our website at audioderma.org.
0:09.0	Great.
0:13.0	Okay.
0:15.0	So hello, hello and welcome everyone to Happy hour.
0:20.0	So for today's practice, given that it is in the US at least, it's one day after the
0:31.9	Thanksgiving holiday, which was yesterday here.
0:36.1	And on Wednesday we did gratitude practice.
0:39.5	And I have a memory of the reports that came back, some reports that many felt better turning their minds and hearts to gratitude after the practice we did. So let's do some more of that.
0:57.1	Let's do more gratitude practice. And again, in holding it lightly. There's no should we should you if the voice comes that you
1:09.2	should be grateful for this just drop drop it, let's be a gentle, leaning into a sense of
1:17.3	appreciation for what arises or not. Maybe you just sit in a sense of silence and appreciation for the breath. So, so let's begin.
1:30.0	Let's begin our practice together. Let's begin. So let us arrive together. Let us arrive together, arriving in this body in this moment,
1:41.5	however it's showing up, whatever it's showing up. and letting our body relax into the chair and the cushion.
3:13.0	Let us connect with the sensations of the breath, the body, the breath being breathed within the body. calming soothing stabilizing stabilizing. You're not going to see. Connecting with this breath, this in breath, this out breath. Not the last one, not the next one. taking a few minutes on our own to just settle arrive.
3:37.0	Take refuge in silence.
3:50.3	As much as it's available, taking refuge in simplicity, just being here, sitting and being breathed.
5:04.0	Just this in breath, just this in breath, just this in breath. You're going to. Let the breath feel like a lullaby calming and soothing, a heart.
5:10.0	It's okay, sweetheart, it's okay, whatever is happening, it's okay. It's like this right now. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. Nothing has to be different in this moment.
6:34.0	Embracing the body, the heart,
6:45.0	the mind just as they are.
11:35.0	With each breath. You're not going to see. You're not going to be here. You're going going to see. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. And as if you were,
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