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A quick and easy way to improve your well-being.
Chances are you’ve heard through the grapevine that meditation is good for you. Most of us associate meditation with sitting quietly in a dark room and clearing your mind for 20 minutes in perfect silence. But gratitude meditation is very different.
Gratitude meditation simply means focusing on and acknowledging the things you are grateful for. It can be done anywhere, at any time, making it very easy to build a gratitude meditation practice.
What Is a Gratitude Meditation?
A gratitude meditation is the conscious act of recognizing and appreciating the things in life for which you are grateful. This can be done in a few ways. Just like with other kinds of meditation, you can set aside a few minutes a day to actively identify things that make you grateful, write down a list of what you are grateful for in a gratitude journal, or acknowledge in real time something you are grateful for as you are experiencing it.
How Gratitude Meditation Works
Sometimes, we can have a bit of a bias toward negativity. This keeps us alert to and safe from danger. But often, this instinct ends up being too much of a good thing. We can easily forget the good things in our…
