 Hey guys, this is Gabby from Brain Education TV. If you're new to this channel, consider subscribing. We make weekly videos on wellness tips for the brain and if you're already a subscriber, welcome back. In this video, I will guide a 10-minute meditation on gratitude. So showing gratitude in your life is very important. It helps you bring in more positivity and hope into your life and when you're grateful for things and people and places and situations, you're more aware of what's important in life and you also can receive back that kind of energy. So that's why gratitude is very important. So now let's begin our gratitude meditation. Make sure that you're in a comfortable area preferably alone with no distractions and you can sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor or in a haplotus posture on a mat. I'm currently on a mat sitting in a haplotus and shake your spine a little bit, sway your hips side to side, find a comfortable position, make sure your spine is straight and your chin is tucked down and let's place our hands on our knees with the palms facing up and close your eyes and take a deep breath in through your nose and exhale out through your mouth. Deep breath in through your nose and exhale out through your mouth. One more time, deep breath in, fill your lungs as much as you can and exhale out through your mouth. I'll keep breathing this way deeply in and out and become aware of your body. Bring your awareness into your body. So take notice of where you're feeling tension, maybe your shoulders, your back, your legs, maybe you're feeling tension in some areas. So as you breathe in, imagine golden bright light going into those areas and as you exhale, imagine you're releasing negative tension with every breath out. Now take notice of what emotions you feel. You may feel fear, stressed, anger, joy, worry. Any emotion is okay. Just take notice of what you're feeling and with each breath in and out, let that emotion flow freely. Right now, you should be more aware of your body and your emotions and what you're feeling. So let's take time to show gratitude to the people, places, things that you are grateful for. First, let's show gratitude to being alive, to life itself, the precious gift of life. Someone gave birth to you, someone fed you, someone raised you, someone took care of you, someone let you experience life. And that is a beautiful gift to be grateful for. Next, let's show gratitude to our heartbeat for pumping fresh blood throughout our body without us even asking it to with it doing it automatically and keeping our organs alive, keeping our bodies alive. And let's show gratitude to our brains. Our brains have vast knowledge, have vast experiences that only we have experienced. So please show some gratitude to your beautiful brain. Now show gratitude to the people in your life that are there for you, that cheer you on, that make you smile, that are there when you need a shoulder to cry on, that help you, that help you experience life in different ways. Show some gratitude for the people in your life. As you're thinking of the people in your life, you may find some that are difficult and create obstacles or burdens in your life. And it's hard to be grateful for them. And that's understandable. But if you look at it from an outside perspective, every person in your life is put there to teach you a lesson to help you grow, to help you change. So take some moments to reflect on those people and those circumstances that you feel right now may be difficult. And see how maybe those are people who are pushing you to see things in a different way, pushing you to open your heart more, pushing you to change or overcome something. And that is something to be grateful for too. So please take a few moments to reflect on those people. Okay, great job. Now before we end, please place your hands on the center of your chest and reflect on whatever the most thing you are grateful for. It can be a person, a pet, a job promotion, something that happened to you, or even the fact that you had a warm meal this morning. It can be the biggest, most important thing you're grateful for. And with your hands on your heart, say gratitude within to this one thing. Wear your hands and rub them quickly, create a fire in between your palms. And now with the heat in between your palms, sweep over your head, your face, your hair, sweep down, sweep, sweep, sweep your shoulders, give yourself a little shoulder massage, sweep, sweep, sweep. Sweep down. Open your eyes and sweep down, sweep down your legs, stretch your legs out, sweep down your arms, sweep down everywhere. And let's wake up from the meditation. So how do you feel? Do you feel more grateful? Do you feel more reflective at least on things you should be more grateful for or things or people you're not grateful for enough? Please let me know in the comment section below how you felt, what you thought about the meditation and about what you're grateful for. I'd love to know what you're grateful for. So now that's all for the video today. I hope you enjoyed. Please make sure to subscribe for more videos that we post every single week. And if you're interested in a one hour brain education based class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you. Bye guys see you in another video.