This time of year lends itself to reflection and finding things in which we are grateful. Practices in gratitude are so beneficial for healing and finding ease. But when we are experiencing grief, anger, or despair, forcing ourselves to be grateful can be inauthentic and ineffective. We can, instead, work on honoring the grief that lives in the body AND making space for gratitude. There is room for both.
Option to sit with this recording while you journal. Feel free to hit pause for as long as necessary. Perhaps you revisit this meditation again....and again, as you build "muscle memory" for carving out new neural pathways in the brain.
