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Hello everyone! Welcome to this month's community mini. So if you have not tuned
in to one of these before, what we do on the first of every month is a five
minute mini meditation and any and all ad revenue, so that ad you just heard
before this episode started that is generated on this episode gets donated
to an organization that is near and dear to my heart or near and dear to one of
your hearts. So this month we are supporting a foundation that was
recommended to me by one of our beautiful listeners and that is a Second
You Foundation and they help to provide second chances for formerly incarcerated
people. Their mission is to educate, certify, and secure employment for
formerly incarcerated people as certified personal trainers. So if you
want to learn about this organization, I will put their information in the show
notes. You can check that out and thank you so much for this beautiful
recommendation. So let's go ahead and get comfortable. We'll be doing a five minute
mini gratitude meditation. So coming into your body, maybe doing any little
bit of wiggling or movement the body needs to settle in, taking a mental scan
of the body, noticing any areas where you may be squeezing or clenching or
holding on tightly. Just let that area completely soften and release. Let the
breath flow in and out of your body. Then bring your awareness to your heart
center. In your heart center, feel it opening up. So any walls we have around
the heart, any gunk that's around that heart center,
and just all disappear and melt away as you open up your heart and you welcome
gratitude in. Experiencing that feeling of gratitude in your heart. Maybe it
starts small, but with each breath it grows bigger. And then as you breathe, on
the inhale you think, I am filled with gratitude for, and on the exhale you name
one of the many things you're grateful for. Doing that again and again. Inhaling
I am grateful for, and exhaling naming one of the beautiful things in your life.
Just continuing with this. Inhaling I am grateful for, and exhaling naming
something beautiful. With each thing that you name, that feeling of gratitude, it
spreads further throughout your body until eventually it begins to surround
you. Continuing with each breath, inhaling I am grateful for, exhaling naming
something wonderful in your life. And doing two more rounds of this. Letting
that feeling of gratitude grow even bigger. The biggest it is right now. As
one final time, you inhale I'm grateful for, exhaling saying something wonderful
in your life. And taking a moment just to sit and be in that gratitude. That
recognition of all the wonderful, beautiful, incredible things in your life
right now. And then inhaling in through the nose, open mouth exhale, sigh it out.
Letting go, bringing yourself back into the space, into your body, and closing
your meditation practice. Thank you so much for joining me today.
