New Gratitude Meditation

I offer no excuses for a second, but brand new gratitude meditation! You can never have enough gratitude! I have switched up the intro and outro today so please listen to both...I also ask you to use a classic Mudra, or hand position, today. I ask you to join the tips of your thumb and first finger on each hand - the significance of this is that the thumb is said to represent The Universe and the first finger is said to represent you, as a single entity. The joining of yourself to the Universal energy is a wonderful and focal action which brings concentration and a light attention to your body. I always use this mudra in meditation so I would love for you to try it.It has been proved that meditating on gratitude can have a myriad of benefits. A daily gratitude meditation will improve your health – the benefits come from being shielded from stress which means that we can deal with problems with a calm mind and resolve them efficiently rather than reacting adversely. Our sleep/wake cycles will improve and the general mechanisms of the body, such as blood pressure, and metabolism, become healthier. Gratitude practice helps us to become more socially aware, more empathetic, helping us to have healthy social relationships, become better listeners, and generally feel more satisfied with life. Research upholds all this and also shows that regular gratitude meditation will boost motivation as well.The trick with a gratitude meditation is to find the positives and benefits in all sides of life. Once we are able to find something to be grateful for in the things that we might become stressed, worried, anxious or sad about then we will start to feel the incredible value of this practice. By focusing positively on what we might call the  “wrong sides” of life we can change the way we think and feel about them.  Guided meditations, such as this, are shown to activate your brain’s neuroplasticity – this is the power of the brain to shape itself in response to our thoughts, feelings and environment. When we focus our imagination into feelings of gratitude, calmness and contentment we are creating new neural pathways for our thoughts to travel down even when real life throws us a curved ball…With much love and gratitude for YOU!Rosanne xxx Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.