Abundantly Grateful (Guided Meditation)

Allow yourself to get into whatever position makes you feel most comfortable and at ease, listening to your body, hitting pause if you need to and coming back when you're ready. And when you are, lovingly close your eyes and invite your body to relax, inviting all of the muscles you do not need to use right now to become slack and heavy, releasing and letting go of any muscles you do not need to use right now. Scan your awareness through the muscles in your face, letting eyebrows be heavy, letting your jaw be heavy, even inviting your nose to relax more deeply, releasing muscles in your neck and shoulders, arms and hands, releasing and relaxing through your chest and torso, all the way down to your lower back and hips, letting legs and feet be heavy, observing the entirety of your body as relaxed and at ease. Now begin to notice how your breath feels, notice how easy the breath is, nothing you need to control or force. Let each breath feel rich and nourishing as you begin to become grateful for the air you are breathing, the fact that it's free, you have all the air you could want and you never had to pay a dime for it. Breathe into gratitude for this, this resource you need so desperately to stay alive, you don't need desperately at all because it's abundant. Appreciate how abundant this resource is for you, and in doing so you become appreciative for abundance itself. Affirm out loud or in your mind, I appreciate abundance. Stay present with how you feel, letting feelings of gratitude and appreciation flow through your body, what do they feel like? As you tune in to how good it feels to have this abundance of air at your disposal anytime you need it, you recognize just how generous life is. Life gave you, you, feel how thankful you are for this, feel how generous life is to have done this. Recognize that you yourself are a well of abundance, you didn't have to ask for all of your organs, all of your skin. While there may have been various medical issues throughout your life, so much of your body functions for you, without you having to do anything. Appreciate the abundance of you, feeling how you yourself are abundant simply because you are a wealth of ideas and knowledge and experience. In such a unique way, no one else in this entire world ever has been or ever will be exactly like you. Breathe in to how freeing this is, tune in to how abundant you are, and express gratitude to yourself and your own natural abundance. And now begin to let your awareness extend outwards, becoming aware of the various ways that life has been so generous and abundant towards you. Appreciating the sun, the way it gives us beautiful shows as it rises and sets, dazzling us with radiant hues of red, pink, and orange. And then as it sets, the night sky appears, with glittering diamonds in the sky. And meanwhile, down below, plants and animals are thriving. They are spread across our earth. There is so much abundance that is inherent in being an alive being on planet earth. Let your heart overflow with gratitude for all of the natural abundance in your life. Consider the love you have in your life, whether it's your own love for yourself, love for another, whether human or animal. Appreciating the feeling of love in general, that emotion that you can just conjure. That beautiful emotion. How abundant are we to get to experience it in the first place. It is not rare. It's the most natural thing in the world that exists just underneath all of the other layers we've built up of separation. But we don't need to go there now. We can relax and enjoy how natural and abundant love truly is. And in doing so, we give thanks to how abundant we naturally are. Stay in this feeling as long as you wish. And when you're ready to come out of this, do so by really taking your time, rolling your shoulders, wiggling fingers and toes. And when you're ready, slowly open your eyes and notice all of the abundance in the world around you.