GROUNDED GRATITUDE | A MEDITATION
Sit on the earth and feel yourself connected to the ground. Breathe in and out three times deeply and gently close your eyes. Keep breathing and envision a golden g circling your abdomen and going down through you to the earth, collecting all the earth’s grounded nourishment for you while also distributing your golden gratitude back to it in thanks. At the same time picture a bright white light coming down through your head to the top of the g, and then down to the earth. As it moves all the way through you it comes back up around you, encompassing you like a bright white shell. Continue to sit and be wrapped in this glow of protection, sustenance, and nourishment; feel your connection to both below and above. Stay grounded in your gratitude for as long as you are able and/or feel the benefit in your body. When ready, take three more deep breaths, feel all the gold and white light pull within you, filling you with radiance, love and peace. Breathe in and feel this radiant love generate so much glow within your body that it creates a pressure to push out and release all that is not serving you. As you exhale, it exits, absorbed by the earth to be turned back into nourishment. Feel the g still yoking you to the earth bathed in your bright white light and burned clean. As you breathe in see the base of your g collecting all the nutrients of the earth needed in your body. Observe it spinning into a golden ball collecting and holding all the goodness of the earth within your sacral. Exhale in gratitude. As you breathe in and out anew, let this goodness radiate out to all of your cells. As you stand, and as you continue to place your feet to the earth, step slowly and intentionally with the knowledge of your symbiotic connection. In each step, you can practice and acknowledge this connection, this co-nourishment and existence. Relax into your grounded gratitude.
NOTE: If you are in a freezing cold, snow covered earth climate like I am, or anywhere where you do not have easy access to the earth, sit comfortably in your space and picture your g reaching through the space all the way to the earth below you and continue.