Categories: Mind & Soul

Open to Gratitude With This Joy Meditation

Most of us meditate because we wish to be happier. Why not then, use our meditation practice to cultivate joy? In this joy meditation, we just do that. By bringing mindfulness and gratitude to the body and breath, we discover there’s at all times something price smiling about.

Joy isn’t typically an emotion we hook up with in our busy, on a regular basis lives. But joy is at all times with us if we have now the presence of mind to note. In this guided meditation for joy, listeners are invited to gaze with wonder, awe, and gratitude on the miracle of body and breath.

When we bring mindfulness to such things that we typically take as a right, our relationship to them profoundly changes. With this practice, for instance, we discover deep joy in simply being alive.

Practice Time: < 5 minutes
Purpose: Feeling More Joy in Everyday Life
May Help With: Mindfulness of the Body, Presence, Calm
Practice Level: Intermediate

How to Use This Guided Meditation For Joy Script

This meditation on joy is marked as intermediate since it asks us to conjure up the feeling of specific emotions, versus simply being mindful of what’s present. However, it’s a meditation anyone can do to change into more mindful of joy, not only in meditation but of their on a regular basis lives.

Try using this meditation on joy script several times in your personal practice before using it as a tool to assist guide others. As you accomplish that, you could find that you simply develop your personal vocabulary for joy. You may even make slight edits so the fabric feels more authentically yours. The more experience you will have embodying the practice, the higher equipped you might be to assist guide others.

This joy meditation is suitable for sharing in groups or in one-on-one sessions. Read from the script live, or use the script to record an audio or video meditation. Keep in mind that some people may find it difficult to conjure up gratitude for the body or to connect with feelings of joy. This too, is a welcome a part of the practice. Invite participants to carry their experience calmly, and treat all that arises with care and self-compassion.

Conclusion

We could all use more joy in our lives. For most of us, nevertheless, joy is an emotion that takes some practice. This includes learning how you can recognize joy within the body, how you can be present with joy, and becoming more mindful of joy in on a regular basis situations. Cultivating joy isn’t in any respect selfish, but could make us kinder, more altruistic human beings. Use this joy meditation script to connect with contentment and observe the way it changes your life.

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Here’s a Sample of the “Open to Gratitude With This Joy Meditation” Guided Meditation Script:

Sit comfortably in a quiet place along with your spine up tall
Relax your shoulders, your belly and your thighs
Shift back barely so your head and your shoulders sit directly over your hips

Close your eyes and feel into the connection between your hips, or your legs, and the earth
As you breathe gently out and in through your nose
Allow yourself to get further settled into your seat

With this rooting down, notice the energy you receive back from the earth
Feel how your connection to the support underneath you helps you’re feeling tall, awake, and alive

Remain connected to the body and the breath, aware of body and breath
Feel how the body seemingly breathes itself
Notice into the wonder of the rise and fall of your chest
The wonder of the continual movement of breath

Soften right into a deep feeling of gratitude for the body itself and your breath

Sense your heart opening to the miracle that’s your body
Recognize all of the wonderful ways during which it functions
And all of the amazing ways during which it permits you to connect along with your world

Feel your heart open to the miracle that’s your breath
Conjure up a heartfelt gratitude as you delve into present moment awareness

(pause 3 breaths)

Recognize how precious and the way extraordinary your breath and your body are
Feel your body softening, and opening into this awareness
Feel all tension release out of your brow, your shoulders, your belly, and your thighs
And then intentionally, ever so barely, turn up the corners of your mouth

Notice how the body reacts to this subtle smile
And turn toward that sensation

(pause 3 breaths)

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