Meditation: A Practice In Gratitude
TOM ROWLAND PODCAST
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“Its hard to have a bad day when you start your day with gratitude”
Podcast Synopsis
It's very hard to have a bad day when you start your day in gratitude. In this episode, I go through a practice that my friends and I have used after morning workouts and it has been very impactful for me. If you would like to go through the meditation practice as we do it in the mornings you can listen by entering your email below:
This practice has been very powerful for me and my friends, you don’t need more than 5 minutes to practice it. But certainly you can go as deep and long as you would like. Let it impact your day and your perspective to be thankful and grateful.
Check yourself. Check your breathing and the tension in your body. Lay down and put yourself in a posture to reflect and rest.
Then move out from yourself to broader circles. First is the most inner circle, your immediate family. Your wife and your kids. You go through each of their faces and you are thankful for the impact they have on your life.
Then you move out to your next circle, your family, friends, parents, grandparents. Imagine their faces and be thankful for the things that they do to make your life better.
Continue to move out to broader circles of your life and be thankful for the things around you.
Then, I like to leave time at the end to bring it back. Start at the furthest circle and progressively be thankful and move back to yourself. Be grateful for your health and breathing. Check your body and the tension you might be holding and relax.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Welcome to Physical Friday, today we are talking about something very close to my heart
02:08 - You can do your own Gratitude Practice, but here is how we do it
02:34 - The important thing is that it is an important way to start the day or end the day
02:50 - If you want to have a guided meditation, you can follow along by downloading the audio below
03:22 - You start by laying down and monitor your breath and the tension in your body
04:37 - Be thankful and grateful for the most basic of things, health, a moment to be thankful, the ability to recover, etc…
05:12 - Push out that circle and be grateful for being able to move, travel, explore etc…
05:43 - Then move the circle out to the closed people to you in your life. Think about each person and be thankful for them
06:18 - Then go to the next group of people in your life. Parents, siblings, friends, coworkers….Be thankful for one thing that they add to your life
07:20 - Each time you push the circle out to more people, to where you live, to your city, country, work, jobs etc…
07:46 - You can go as deep into the meditation as you want to and for as long as you can. But you certainly don’t need to go any longer than 5 minutes
08:18 - I like to go out and then go backwards. Start with the furthest out circle and go back into yourself and your health, then check your tension and breathing one last time.
09:45 - This has been very powerful for me
10:28 - Send me an email podcast@saltwaterexperience.com
See you next week - no excuses,
-Tom Rowland
