Counting Our Blessings
Calm your Mind, Open Your Heart, Invite the Light.
No matter what challenges we face in life, blessings surround us. Let us focus our mind and emotions on those blessings.
By expressing our gratitude we enrich our life and enhance the flow of abundance and joy.
As we experience Thanksgiving Day in the USA, this is a little exercise to help us be in touch with and appreciate the many blessings we have in our life.
This technique is to be approached in contact with our Higher Self from the unity between our personality and Soul.
Begin by taking a deep breath, breathing in the energy of Life and abundance. As you exhale, consciously release stress and fear.
Take a moment to let yourself appreciate the beauty of the world around you.
Take another deep breath, charging your energy with the life all around you. Again, as you exhale, consciously release any anxiety, any fear, and any stress. Let your energy come to a quiet, receptive center.
In a meditative open state of being, consider the world around you.
Take 3 minutes, to ponder upon 10 ways that your life is enriched and enhanced by little blessings and joys that do not require money to experience.
As you look over your list, express your heartfelt gratitude for these little blessings that are in your life. Let gratitude flow out from your heart. Be aware of the feelings of joy that accompany your expression of gratitude.
Claim the joy and celebration these blessing give to your life as your birthright.
Next, focus your attention on the people in your life for 3 minutes.
List 10 people for whom you are grateful in your life. Focus upon how these people have helped you grow and become who you are today.
Imagine a connection of energy from your heart to theirs, and from your Soul to theirs.
Allow gratitude to flow freely from your heart to theirs and from your Soul to theirs, knowing and trusting that your gratitude and love are experienced on a subtle energetic level.
Know and trust that as energy follows thought the gratitude you send out with your thoughts is received as a blessing in their life on a subtle, energetic level.
Last, spend 3 minutes pondering 10 ways in which you can be more of a blessing in the lives of others.
Imagine how blessing and enriching the lives of others can bring greater joy and celebration to your life. Be grateful that you are able to give these little blessings to others as a way of celebrating you abundance and joy. These little blessings do not require money. They may be a kindness or deed, a little courtesy that helps lighten the load of others who journey with you through life.
Then resolve to act upon those deeds over the next week as a celebration and affirmation of your blessings, received and passed on.
Resolve to live your life, aware of the many blessings that surround you.”
Finally draw into your heart the joy of giving and the joy of receiving and for the last minute of this exercise imagine gratitude pouring forth from you into the world, blessing you and blessing others along its way.
Sit quietly before you return to the chatter of the world around you allowing all that your have realized and touched in this exercise to permeate your being, on this Thanksgiving Day.
Namaste’
About the author: Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of the soul.” Browse her body of work at www.GenevieveGerard.com. Copyright © 2011 by Genevieve Gerard. All rights reserved.
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GG
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