Gratitude Shower by Fred Lynch

Welcome to your sacred studio, meditation series and experience designed to guide you as you connect to the divine through mindful practice. This session is an open awareness exercise, a type of freestyle flow, where we will allow our minds to wander into areas of deep gratitude for extended moments of time.

We often use words. Getting lost in the moment or time flies when you're having fun to explain the all to human phenomena called immersion immersion is when you're so caught up in an experience that your regular sense of time seems to fall away. And you find yourself in what psychologists Csíkszentmihályi originally coined.

As a flow state, which is a state of heightened focus and ecstatic engagement that occurs in activities such as art play and work. Well, I want to add that it can certainly happen when engaging in sacred moments. I call this meditation a gratitude shower. It can be done at any time, but I highly recommend trying it.

First thing in the morning before you even get out of bed. I came up with the phrase gratitude shower, because of the nature of what happens to your heart and mind when you do this meditation studies show that when the brain and heart are immersed in moments of gratitude that a flood or a shower of all of them, Feel good hormones, such as serotonin, dopamine oxytocin, and even endorphins, which trigger the famous runners high are released into the bloodstream circulating within the body for as long as six hours.

A second reason that I coined the name. It's just like daily hygiene maintenance. I've discovered that this practice, consequently washes away, idle, resentment, and natural negativity while preparing your heart for more positive discovery and appreciation. So as we prepare to enter into this guided meditation, I'm going to lead you into three different levels of gratitude showers that can be done throughout the course of the day from early rising.

To the mid point. So the closing of the day, providing six hours of gratitude, shower, power to last throughout today. So let's get started level one, take a deep breath and mentally go back over the last 24 hours of your day and think of a tangible action point of appreciation that transpired. Through your day.

This can be anything from an act of kindness from your spouse to a humorous event, to an attitude or a simple look that stood out as you mentally reflect when you have the moment focus on it and let it open your heart to the point that your emotions stirred with grants. I think the next 10 seconds, the fine and focus on that.

The next step is important. Now join a physical expression to the mental impression to commemorate the moment. This can be as simple as slightly bowing your head as if respectfully greeting or acknowledging the moment before you, or vocally sharing that moment of grace with a spouse or a friend and letting them know that you love and appreciate them or better yet speaking out loud to the cream.

Who graciously gave you the moment or even humming to yourself. It's important to join a physical expression to the mental impression so that the moment doesn't just stay in your head. So do it now.

That's it you've opened your heart to gratitude to let the positive hormones do their work for the next six hours. Capitalize on the benefits of these hormones by inclining into joy and being aware of positivity as it occurs.

Take a brief moment and use your imagination to summon an inward secret and sacred second evoke your sacred second by flexing your fingers, which you are about to use as meditation guide. Start with your pinky finger and think of a moment in your personal life that you will always be grateful for and using each finger count through 10 brief points of gratitude.

Then go back for 10 more in the opposite direction. These can be unforgettable moments in life, a graduation, a wedding, the first time meeting someone that you deeply love. Additionally, you can use things about yourself or about others that you are truly great for the greater, the emotion of gratitude that these items induce the

better be sure to use your fingers as a guide so that you will not lose count, but you will summit at least 20 points of gratitude. Oh, physically and mentally. I'll give you a few seconds to reflect.

This is the level of gratitude shower that enters into the deepest freestyle flow state. Take a deep breath as you inhale. Flex your fingers and slightly nod your head as an internal trigger of entering into the third phase of the gratitude shower, the immersion version, open your eyes and lovingly open your heart current.

Sorry. Begin to scan your surroundings by moving your eyes from left to right back and forth in an easy and slow rhythm. Don't stop, but add in a head now. With your eyes as if your head is nodding to eat with your eyes landing on objects surrounding you on each downbeat. Now as your eyes, land on objects in the room, use positive emotional images.

Association and connected to that object. Anything that your eyes land on allow something positive to arise. That's associated with it. You see a computer and you think technology has been out. You see a cup of water and you think hydration, hydrate, provision, and so on. And so the point is not to get bogged down in any one thing, but to allow your mind, I just slipped into a zone of open awareness, becoming absorbed, and connected to everything at once.

Associating gratitude with all that you see. So I'm going to give you about 30 seconds of level three gratitude. Shout the immersion.

You have now completed all three levels of the gratitude shower meditation. Take this feeling. Into the rest of your day and enjoy the beneficial effects of immersive gratitude. Namaste.