Guided Morning Meditation For Gratitude and Goal Accomplishment.

In today's episode you'll have the opportunity to experience a morning meditation that will assist you in energizing your body and aligning your mind with positive thoughts so that you can begin your day in the right way. I'm glad that you're here and I hope that you find this podcast inspiring and that it motivates you to make your life better. So find a place where you can relax and let go for the next few moments to focus your mind. Begin by closing your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Taking a deep breath in, holding it for a moment, and exhaling. That's right. Take another deep breath, holding it, and exhaling. Just letting yourself become relaxed yet focused. Take another deep breath, holding it for a moment, and as you exhale just allow yourself to become more and more relaxed, more and more focused. And you can allow yourself to continue to breathe naturally and easily as I talk to you. Just noticing your thoughts. Notice if there's any thoughts that pass through your mind. Make sure that you're not attached to any of those thoughts. You can think of the mind as a train station with all of these trains coming in and going out. The trains are very much like our thoughts and we can choose to get on a train or we can simply sit at the station watching and observing as the trains move in and out. So just allow your awareness to just be present as you simply watch any thoughts. Watching as those thoughts come in and just watching them as they move out again. Just flowing and just allowing yourself to relax. Not being attached to any thought, just simply observing them and watching them. And with each passing moment you can simply allow yourself to become more and more relaxed, more and more at ease. To assist you in becoming more and more relaxed and more and more at ease, I'm going to count from 10 to 1. And as I count from 10 to 1 with every descending number, allow yourself to become more and more relaxed, more and more at ease. By the time that I reach the count of 1, you'll be at your natural level of relaxation. Starting now at 10, 9, 8, relaxing more and more, 7, 6, 5, letting go, 4, deeper and deeper relaxed, 3, 2, and 1. Very relaxed, feeling comfortable, peaceful, serene. The body relaxed yet the mind focused and aware. Gratitude is an important step each and every morning to wire your brain for positivity. So begin by allowing yourself to become aware of everything in your life that you're grateful for. There is always something to be grateful for. Maybe it's your health. Maybe you're physically strong and healthy. Or perhaps it's the quality of the relationships in your life. Perhaps there's food in your cupboards. Or perhaps you enjoy your career. But simply find one, two, or three things within your life that you are grateful for. And focus your mind on those things. You can allow yourself to be grateful about this life. That today you woke up to another day. Another day that you get to enjoy. Another day that you get to see the people that you love. It may also be some of your qualities that you can be grateful for. Courage, strength, humor, or compassion and understanding. And as you focus on all of these things, notice what you have received from having them in your life. That's right. Just noticing what you have received. All of the positivity that you've received from having these things in your life. And in your mind give thanks for all of these wonderful things. Even if you can only find one thing to be thankful for, to be grateful for, give thanks for that one thing. The more that you practice gratitude, the more you will begin to find things in your life to be grateful for. And this begins to alter your awareness. It begins to shift your perspective, enabling you to think more positively. So take a deep breath and allow yourself to relax. Today is a new day. And each day is really a new beginning. And in your awareness, begin to think or sense or imagine in some way three major goals that you would like to achieve within the next six months to a year. Three goals that you would like to accomplish within the next six months to a year. And when you have those three goals, hold them in your mind. Recognize that today is the day that you can work towards those goals. You can think about all of the things that you can do today to accomplish those goals. Recognize that you have the power of creation. That you can create the life that you want and you can enjoy it. That every day you can take action. That every day you can accomplish tiny little tasks that move you closer and closer towards these goals. Today you can accomplish those tiny little tasks that will assist you in accomplishing these goals. Every little task is just like building a house brick by brick by brick. And with every brick that you place, with every task that you accomplish, it moves you one step closer. One step closer to the accomplishment of your goals. And by taking a few moments every morning to focus on these goals, to think about the actions that you need to take, and to allow yourself to connect with the desire to accomplish these things, it can assist you in feeling more passionate about accomplishing these things. It can assist you in overcoming any obstacles that stand in your way. It is possible to let go of any old outdated beliefs that have stood in your way of success. That from this moment forward you can choose to think positive thoughts and you can choose to create a wonderful and successful life for yourself. Sometimes the mind can focus on past failures, but you can change your perspective of this. For any time that we aren't successful at accomplishing something, it is simply a lesson and a learning that can be applied to future times and places. And when you begin to recognize that there really is never failure, only feedback, and everything that happens can actually contribute to you improving yourself. That everything that has happened in the past is a wonderful library that you can learn from, and it can contribute to making you more effective and better. What if for today your mind was clear of any self-doubt and you embraced every situation that came your way, embracing it with confidence, with certainty, with strength? Take a moment and think about the day that lies ahead of you. Begin to contemplate all of the actions that you want to take. Notice everything that you want to do, everything that you want to experience. And as you see that in your mind, making it as clear as you can, notice all of the good feelings that go along with that imagery. Maybe you can even attach your favorite song to that image. And as you notice what this looks like and sounds like, feels like, imagine that you could step into this movie, this image. And as you do, allow it to merge with you, feeling it and sensing it and experiencing it, noticing your thoughts as you move about your day. And take yourself through the entire day to the moment just before you go to sleep, that moment before you close your eyes and rest. And from that moment just before you sleep, imagine yourself looking to the past, looking over the day, noticing all of your accomplishment, noticing all of the little things that you did, all of those tiny little tasks that are moving you closer and closer towards the goals that you wish to accomplish. And really focus on that feeling and imagine yourself going to sleep, sleeping through the night, a deep restful sleep, waking up the next morning and building on the day before, taking time to do this exercise, taking time to express gratitude for all of the wonderful things in your life, focusing on the goals that you wish to accomplish so that each day builds one on the other, building a strong foundation, building momentum as you create the life that you desire. Now bring your awareness back to the now, knowing the direction that you're moving in, knowing all of the things that you'd like to do beginning today. And you can notice the energy in your body, perhaps it's a feeling of excitement or feeling of motivation as you get ready to begin your day with this newfound sense of gratitude and with this knowledge of the direction that you're moving in. In a moment I'm going to count from one to ten and as I count from one to ten, emerge from relaxation and return to full waking consciousness and awareness. Beginning now at one, two, take a deep breath in, three, four, feeling revitalized, re-energized and refreshed, five, six, feeling very good now, seven, eight, coming up, nine, and ten. Eyes wide open, back in the room, back in the here and the now, fully awake, fully refreshed in every way and feeling better than you have in a long, long time. Welcome back. Listening to this recording every morning for the next 21 days can assist with thinking more positively about life as well as building motivation to move forwards towards your goals. Using meditations like this one can help you to change your perspective on life and alter how you go about approaching everything on a day-to-day basis.