Day seven: Gratitude
Welcome to day seven of your meditation journey, your last day.
But, hopefully, just the beginning! Today we will focus on a gratitude meditation, a practice that can help you cultivate a greater sense of appreciation and joy in your life. By focusing on the blessings and abundance in your life, you can shift your perspective and find more happiness in the present moment. You can’t always control the things that happen around you or even to you, but you can control your reactions to those things.
Gratitude is a wonderful way to help you to do this. Now, this isn’t about writing out lists or saying that you’re grateful for things that you think you should be grateful for. This is about true feelings for gratitude and it can be for the funniest of things!
Your companion guide to Day seven:
A journal prompt
Day seven, and we are going to switch things up a little for you last day. I’m going to give you more than one prompt because I want you to turn this into a gratitude exercise. .
The best thing that happened to me this week, was?
I am so proud that I
I felt so supported by
A simple pleasure that I’m really grateful for is
One thing that I love about myself is
An affirmation
For our gratitude, we are going to focus a slightly different way. I want you start thinking about all of the things that you already have. Not the things that you still want but all that you already have. Now, when a thought pops up about something you don’t have, that you’ll only be happy when … I want you to use the affirmation below.
“I focus my attention and my energy on everything that I already have.”
Try saying this repeatedly, in front of a mirror. Say it as many times that you need to. Note how you feel when you start. Note how you feel when you finish. Write it on a post-it note and take it with you throughout the day. Say it anytime and as many times as you need to.