The Gratitude Meditation

A meditation for the moment that we find ourselves in.Right now, we need to find practices to restore some balance to our lives.For most people, for most of the time, the present moment is overwhelmingly good. It is the contents of the mind as it searches for potential threats that pollutes our present moments.Gratitude in the context of meditation is actually a translation of Metta Bhavana, a Pali word which is actually a collection of practices that use positive emotions to help us understand our relationship to the world, and to ourselves and which help us balance our lives in a way that is more helpful for our happiness.Gratitude meditation helps us to find balance and enables us to become familiar with our emotions and inner experience without difficulty.I learned this particular practice at the London Buddhist Centre in Bethnal Green and I have used it ever since and teach it reasonably regularly. I am not a Buddhist but I have great respect for them curating these practices over thousands of years.Gratitude practices are the most transformative that I can widely teach and this practice is part of the backbone of my gratitude practice repertoire.The modern mind, led by the common narrative, inserts what it learns into all of our experiences until every experience can become one of comparison and judgement. This is why people can change so deeply when they learn the gratitude practices, literally at least half of their universe becomes free of the sense that it isn’t good enough. This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week. You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updatedwith new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.https://lovingawareness.fm/ If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation CoursePodcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245