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The "Yes and..." practice can be a tool for feeling our feelings without getting overwhelmed and bogged down. Try it and see how it works for you! (You can fast forward to 2:45 to skip the intro and get right into the practice.)

Visit https://www.instagram.com/p/DW9X0sQEUCa/ for this poem and more good ones at Joseph Fasano's instagram account. This meditation starts with Fasano's poem, Night Swimming. Go to 2:12 to skip the intro and get right into the practice. But what I say in the intro that might be helpful to hear: you deserve joy; it's not weak to need a gratitude practice; our gratitude practices foster connection, compassion and care which makes the world a better place. xo

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"Gratitude" can feel cliché. But, when experienced as authentic and embodied, gratitude can be transformative. Practicing gratitude allows us to feel joy, connection, and happiness -- without denying feelings of sadness, disappointment, or anger. As Nikita Gill references in her poem above, we can acknowledge an apocalypse and also turn to glimmers of beauty. Here's a 24-minute gratitude practice from 5/5/26 to help you connect to what you're grateful for right now. Before o

A gratitude practice for Earth Month. Go to 2:55 to skip the intro and get right into the 16.5-minute meditation .

I got to facilitate (this does circle back to explaining my gratitude for your donations) a Spring Equinox Mini-Retreat this past Sunday with my friend, Kat Palmieri. I usually think of the Spring Equinox as all daffodils, sunshine and rainbows. Yay, Spring!🤸🤸🤸 What was interesting to me in this Spring Equinox celebration was how much I felt the heavy truth of constant change. As in: even a change as welcome as the beginning of Spring, also inherently means that something

Do you know awe, gratitude's lesser known cousin? Gratitude has been written about a lot: it reduces depression, anxiety, and stress, while improving sleep, relationships, and heart health. All so good! And, you can find recorded gratitude meditations - as well as non-meditation (!) ideas for gratitude practice - on the blog . Awe hasn’t gotten the same publicity yet . But I think it will. Awe has been the subject of a lot of research in the past few years and it's been fou

Robert Emmons' definition of gratitude places us in the world. It allows us to be connected to goodness beyond ourselves.

The "Yes and..." practice can help us accept the reality of wahtever we are feeling in the moment while also making space for gratitude. ...and speaking of gratitude, I'm very grateful to Liza Kindred for teaching this meditation and allowing me to share it. 23-minute practice. Go to 3:40 to skip the intro. 16-minute practice. Go to 2:35 to skip the intro.

This meditation is indebted twice: once to Amy Schmidt for her poem "Abundance," which is read at the beginning of the practice; second...

I heard Kevin Townley say (and I'm sorry I have to paraphrase) that it isn't right to ignore suffering, but it also isn't right to ignore...

"Sympathetic Joy" allows us to multiply our happiness. Go to 3:42 to skip the intro and get right into the 15-minute meditation.

Spring is a lot - beautiful and busy and...fill in the blank! It's a lot of stuff! This is a "yes and..." meditation that invites us to...

Gratitude has a myriad of benefits: less stress less anxiety reduced depression better sleep improved relationships heart health Gratitude isn't something that some people are born with and other people don't have. But, gratitude IS something that some people practice -- and therefore have. To practice gratitude means to consciously articulate (aloud, in writing, or just in your head) what you are thankful for. Several meditations for practicing gratitude can be found at th

Looking for a little bit of structure to jumpstart or revitalize your meditation practice? Check out this series of 10 meditation...

Our bodies provide information about what is actually happening in the world around us. Our minds then add on an interpretation, the...

Robert Emmons' definition of gratitude places us in the world. It allows us to be connected to goodness beyond ourselves.

Please don’t let “practicing gratitude” become one more thing you feel like you need to get done. If you do, I feel you!