#47 Guided Meditations with Star: Intentions for a grateful day

🦋✨💙 Meditation Monday’s 💙✨🦋

A new week, a new meditation! 🌿💫 Join me on Meditations with Star as we dive into a fresh, soul-nourishing practice every Monday. Breathe deep, reset, and empower your mind, body, and spirit. 🌙✨

🎧 Tap in, tune out, and transform. Are you ready?

We explore practical ways to infuse your day with gratitude through intentional practices and mindful awareness. This meditation guides you through transformative exercises that help reframe challenges as opportunities and convert waiting times into moments of heightened presence.

• Find five meaningful things to be grateful for each day
• Perform acts of kindness with no expectation of return
• Hold gratitude for influential people throughout your entire body, not just your mind
• Reflect on important lessons learned and feel gratitude for this new knowledge
• Let someone know you're thinking of them without expecting anything back
• Create moments of peace by lighting a candle or setting a grateful intention
• Show up wholeheartedly to everything you do and notice the difference
• See challenging moments as opportunities and waiting times as gifts
• Share gratitude at mealtimes, either with others or when eating alone

I invite you to try these practices and notice how they might transform your experience. Remember that gratitude is a practice that grows stronger with intention and repetition.

#MeditationMonday #MeditationsWithStar #Mindfulness #InnerPeace #WhereScienceMeetsTheSoul #starfreudenberg #starfreudwellness #guidedmeditations

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Getting Comfortable
• 0:52 Breathing and Awareness Exercise
• 2:15 Five Gratitude Intentions
• 4:14 Finding Peace in Gratitude
• 7:20 Challenges as Opportunities
• 8:29 Transforming Waiting Times
• 9:38 Gratitude in Meals and Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome back to Guided Meditations with Star. Today's guided meditation is called Intentions for Living a Day Full of Gratitude. So I'm going to invite you to, if you haven't already, find a nice quiet place where you can sit or even lay down, and if you need any pillows, cushions or blankets, please pause this meditation and find yourself comfortable and settled, without anyone disturbing you, anyone disturbing you. Now that you're ready, I'm going to invite you to close your eyes. We're just going to really focus within and I'm going to invite you to take a few deep breaths, and that's going to be in through the nose and out through the mouth Quite powerful, just really making contact and engaging with the physical all the way out and all the way in. I'm going, okay, notice how your breathing so often just takes care of itself, just breath, moving itself through you, keeping you alive, just keeping you alive.

Speaker 1: 2:15

For this meditation today, I'm gonna invite you to think of five things, if you can, that you're grateful for, which matter to you, and I'm going to invite you, if you can see, if you can, engage in an act of kindness today. Notice if you pull towards kindness for a stranger more than someone close to you, or vice versa. Either way, offer your kindness with no strings attached. No need for recognition, truly no need for recognition. Truly just notice the completeness and fullness of letting go, of needing anything back and bring to mind someone for whom you're grateful, for someone who has influenced you positively perhaps they're a protector or a benefactor, loved one, mentor or someone for whom you're grateful and savor this image of this person, or the memory, and try to allow the image of this person to be held by all of the cells in your body, not just your mind, but throughout your body. Savoring this feeling of gratitude for this person. Notice what happens in your emotions and in your body when you do this and, at any point during your day, see if you can reflect upon one important thing that you've learned today or yesterday, one important thing you've learned, feeling gratitude for having learned this new thing, this new thing. And today, can you let someone know that you're thinking of them, inviting you potentially to send a card, calling them, writing a note, sending a text or an email, letting them know that you're thinking of them, expecting nothing in return, just sharing your appreciation and acknowledgement of this person.

Speaker 1: 5:54

And at some point, see if you can sit quietly and allow a sense of peace to enter your heart, allowing the sense of peace to flow into your heart. You can do this by perhaps lighting a candle, creating a grateful intention, settling into the sense of peace, allowing the sense of peace to enter into your heart, residing in the space of gratefulness for a few precious moments and forming the intention to show up absolutely wholeheartedly to everything that you do today, noticing at the end of the day if anything changed because of this intention to show up wholeheartedly. And seeing if you can make the decision to see your most challenging moments as opportunities. What might be making itself known or available to you in hard times? How can you cultivate even small sentiments of gratefulness for the gifts that come with the struggle?

Speaker 1: 8:09

Seeing your most challenging moments today as opportunities and see if you can turn all of the waiting moments of the day into moments of heightened awareness. If you're waiting in line, waiting for a meeting, waiting to get somewhere, see if you can turn these moments into moments of heightened awareness to be fully present in these times to what might be blessings in disguise, blessings and protections around you. Blessings and protections around you. Notice that the time in between things is a huge gift that you can enjoy and if you share a meal with other people today, ask each person to share something that they are grateful for, maybe even two or three things for which they are grateful. If you're eating alone, bring to mind something for which you are grateful for and dedicate your meal to that gratefulness. So these are some sample intentions to cultivate and savour these feelings of gratitude each and every day. Thank you for watching.