The Gratitude Path—A Simple And Powerful Meditation Practice

Beat Stress, Anxiety and experience Joy in your life

What you'll learn

Learn a simple and very powerful meditation practice—using gratitude to do meditation

Manage stress and anxiety easily. Bring joy and happiness in life.

Use Chakras to bring variety into meditation practice

Go deep and touch transcendence—it will bring equanimity into your life

Requirements

No meditation experience required

Description

We live in incredibly stressed times. Meditation is a great way to deal with the stress. However, I see people struggling with it because meditation ends up as a practice where they are fighting their minds. I know it because I did it for a number of years.Gratitude is perhaps the easiest (hack?) way to meditate and especially to beat stress. I couldn't believe it how easy meditation became when I discovered this path.I hope to bring this practice to attendees and get the new year started on a great note. You can see a flavor of the meditatoin in this series of 10-minute meditations.–-Welcome to a simple but transformative three-week meditation journey, uniquely tailored for beginners and intermediates seeking an effective stress management tool and for those who may have found traditional mindfulness practices challenging or frustrating.Why traditional mindfulness practices frustrate meditators?This course takes a distinctive approach to meditation, stepping away from the often rigid and misconstrued notion that the mind must be a silent adversary in the process. Many meditation practices inadvertently set up an internal battle, leaving practitioners, especially beginners, grappling with their thoughts, leading to frustration and a sense of inadequacy.Why is the 3-week course different?The course is designed with a fundamental difference: it embraces the concept of tantra, which, in simpler terms, means leveraging our emotions as a gateway to effortless meditation. Instead of fighting against your thoughts and emotions, you'll learn to use them, especially the positive power of gratitude, to enter a meditative state. This approach is about harmonizing with your natural mental processes, not conquering them.A roadmap of the 3-week courseWe will use our body as a primary tool for meditation. Each week, you'll explore different facets of gratitude, starting with the marvels of your own body. The course is structured to build your meditation skills progressively, ensuring a nurturing and supportive environment for your growth.The focus on gratitude as the core of our meditations makes this course a unique experience. You won't just learn to meditate; you'll learn to transform your perspective and emotional landscape, using gratitude as a tool to foster joy, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being. Each session is designed to leave you feeling energized and uplifted, making meditation an eagerly anticipated part of your day.Whether you're stepping into meditation for the first time or looking to enrich your existing practice, this course offers a refreshing, emotion-centered path to mindfulness and inner peace. Join me on this journey and discover how gratitude can unlock the door to effortless, enriching meditation.Course OutlineThe focus is on practice versus theory.Week 1: "Embracing the Body: A Grateful Journey"Description: Begin your journey with a deep dive into body gratitude. Engage in a comprehensive body scan meditation, expressing thanks for each part of your body and acknowledging its unique functions. This week lays the foundation for recognizing and appreciating the physical self.Week 2: "Consciousness Within: Exploring Inner Spaces. Touching Transcendence"Description: Delve into the profound spaces within your body, focusing on the microscopic and the vastness within. This week's meditation encourages reaching a deeper state of consciousness by acknowledging the 'empty' spaces that reside within the physical body.Week 3: "Using Chakras and Gratitude to go deeper"Description: We will learn about Chakras and how they can be used as a super-effective tool to practice meditation. Adding gratitude to Chakras is an extremely powerful practice. Culminate your journey by integrating loving-kindness into your gratitude practice. Embrace unconditional love and deep, empathetic understanding in your meditations, bringing together all elements of gratitude from the previous weeks.

Overview

Section 1: What, Why and the How of the course?

Lecture 1 What, Why and the How of the course?

Lecture 2 Gratitude Meditation Overview

Section 2: Session 1: Introduction to Gratitude Meditation

Lecture 3 Session 1: Overview of Session 1

Lecture 4 Session 1: Pre-requisites of Meditation

Lecture 5 Session 1: The practice of Settling in for Meditation—A guided meditation

Lecture 6 Session 1: Understanding meditation—The Demon, Villager and the Sorcerer story

Lecture 7 Session 1: Why gratitude is one of the best ways to meditate?

Lecture 8 Session 1: Using your senses to meditate

Lecture 9 Session 1: Building a daily habit—Micropractices 1

Lecture 10 Session 1: Guided Meditation—A Body Tour

Lecture 11 Session 1: Building a daily habit—Micropractices 2

Lecture 12 Session 1: Recap and homework for the week

Section 3: Session 2: Getting to Transcendence—Touch the universe

Lecture 13 Session 2: Introduction

Lecture 14 Session 2: Settling-in

Lecture 15 Session 2: The three layers of You

Lecture 16 Session 2: Guided Meditation—Touching transcendence

Lecture 17 Session 2: Homework

Section 4: Session 3: Gratitude Meditation with Chakras

Lecture 18 Session 3: Overview

Lecture 19 Session 3: What are Chakras and why do they matter in meditation?

Lecture 20 Session 3: Guided Meditation—Gratitude using Chakras

Lecture 21 Session 3: A non-religious prayer to end meditations

Section 5: Entire sessions in one go

Lecture 22 Session 1: Intro to Gratitude Meditation

Lecture 23 Session 2: Getting deeper. Touching transcendence

Lecture 24 Session 3: Using Gratitude with Chakras

Section 6: Additional standalone guided meditations

Lecture 25 Gratitude for the senses

Lecture 26 Gratitude for the nervous system

Lecture 27 Gratitude for the digestive system

Lecture 28 Gratitude for the cardiovascular system

Lecture 29 A sample evening meditation practice

Busy professionals,Parents,Students,Knowledge workers,Anyone dealing with anxiety and stress,Anyone looking to start a meditation practice