As we incarnate we are in tune with the All That Is, already in symbiotic and uber connected relationship with life. There is no hesitancy to express it…through the attention and wonder and multi sensory exploration in the pre language days. Once we become verbal, we have the capacity to put the gratitude into motion. Too often, by then, the child has been coerced to withdraw and see through different eyes… temporarily. We see the world…we grok it. We know its beauty and it often yearns to push out of us in a sounded exhilaration. Here is your opportunity. Start thanking the singular elements of your moments. Notice and appreciate and let your attitude of gratitude thrive to bequeath you even more to be grateful for. Your child loves this because it affirms the connection she has always known.
- Not only are you invited to keep an ongoing list for both the child and the adult of things you each are grateful for, but you are also going to have thematic suggestions of places that you may not have thought of to shower your thank you’s upon. This week, move around your house and throw out the gratitude upon all that you are grateful for in your living environment. Speak it out and tell the object. And then see what happens to your heart and the way the space feels.
- Go outside to your yard or surrounding environment and start expressing gratitude. Notice things that you like and especially those you have not noticed before. Look all around and spot how light and color and shape dance with one another. Look up, look, down, look all around and speak out loud what you both notice. Be very adult about it and then be very child about it. Notice how it all feels.
- List the number of years you have been alive on Earth one by one and write down one gratitude for someone or something that occurred that year.
- Turn your attention to your body. It is a unique expression of human life. It can do a lot of things to keep us purring down the road. Start being grateful for it. Make a list. I challenge you to find at least 25 things about your body you are grateful for. When you are done stand in front of a mirror and speak them out loud. Why not?
- Make a list of 20 things you can do. Then for each, create a verbal gratitude statement and action. Notice how it feels. Write about anything that comes up.
- Think of your life thus far. Make a list of 20 things you are grateful for on that journey up until now.
- Child self, give 10 gratitudes to your adult self. Adult self, do the same for your child self.
