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Week Four - Gratitude Prime
Welcome to Week Four, gorgeous spirit! You've reached the midpoint of your Deepening Gratitude journey and I couldn't be more proud of you for staying committed to making this powerful mindset shift! As the title above suggests, the focus this week is on priming ourselves to experience more gratitude in both the big and small moments. This is the root of the 'Attitude of Gratitude' you've surely heard people talking about. 
  • Gratitude Prime: set yourself up for success with small daily practices and intention setting.
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  • Plan things for which to be grateful later.  Gratitude can and should be a powerful part of your self-care practice.
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  • Thanking yourself is as important a part of a complete gratitude practice as is thanking others. We rarely take the time to acknowledge our own efforts on our behalf, but turning gratitude in on ourselves can be a powerful source of healing.
Next Steps: Turn to the Week Four Introduction on page 50 of your workbook to get started. 
Guided Meditation - Priming Gratitude
Before you start this guided meditation, take a few moments to turn to page 53 in your workbook and fill out the 'Before' section of Worksheet 23. You will need about fifteen minutes to listen to the audio and some time afterward for any reflections based on the experience. Remember to put away the distractions, give yourself plenty of time, and breathe!
Next Steps: There is no hurry to move on right away. When you feel ready, check out the videos in the 'Going Deeper' section below and continue working through your Habit Builder exercises. If this meditation resonates with you, feel free to revisit it at any time. 
Going Deeper
This week, there are two short 'Going Deeper' videos to watch with and open mind and an open heart. Each video focuses on a part of this week's theme and shares a powerful idea or message to carry with you throughout the week. Enjoy these uplifting messages! 
Tony Robbins on priming gratitude with a morning ritual.
Tony Robbins shares how his personal morning ritual, which is centered around gratitude, primes his attitude, and therefore, his experience for the remainder of the day. 
Nick Vujicic on the power of an attitude of gratitude.
Nick Vujicic shares how shifting his attitude toward the circumstances of his life from one of despair to one of hope and gratitude led to a profound senes of fulfillment and purpose despite tremendous obstacles. 
Next Steps: In the next day or so, turn to the Mid-Week Mini Challenge found on page 54 of your workbook and dive in! If you're in need of some uplifting words and perspectives on gratitude, keep scrolling to check out the pick-me-ups below.
Mid-Week Pick-Me-Up
Uplifting messages about gratitude. Just positive things.
HELP, THANKS, WOW (Excerpt)
​by Anne Lamott
      "You breathe in gratitude, and you breathe it out, too. Once you learn how to do that, then you can bear someone who is unbearable. My general-purpose-go-to-mystic Rumi said, 'There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground,' and bearing the barely bearable is one of the best.

      "When we go from rashy and clenched to grateful, we sometimes get to note the experience of grace, in knowing that we could not have gotten ourselves from where we were stuck, in hate or self-righteousness or self-loathing (which are the same thing), to freedom. The movement of grace in our lives toward freedom is the mystery. So we simply say, 'Thanks.' Something had to open, something had to give, and I don't have a clue how to get things to do that. But they did, or grace did.

      "Thank you."
Guided Meditation - Sunday Night Release and Re-Center
Before you start this guided meditation, take a few moments to turn to page 56 in your workbook and fill out the 'Before' section of Worksheet 25. You will need around ten minutes to listen to the audio and some time afterward for any reflections based on the experience. Remember to put away the distractions, give yourself plenty of time, and breathe!
Next Steps: Sometime between now and the start of the next week, complete the end-of-the-week reflections in Worksheet 26 found on page 57 in your workbook. If this meditation resonated with you, feel free to revisit it as often as you would like. ​​