Welcome to Gratitude Meditations. This recording is here for all of our new listeners. Please follow these guidelines so you may receive the most benefit out of our guided meditations. I want to share an important note when listening to the meditations. As you listen, there will be moments of silence. These quiet intervals are an opportunity for you to focus, visualise, reflect and connect with the ideas we explore together in the meditations. You may do this internally, or you may use pen and paper. Doing this will allow not just the thoughts, but more importantly, the feelings of gratitude and appreciation, to arise within. You should start to feel an inner smile emerging within, as you reflect on the ideas in the meditations. The goal of the practice is to cultivate an inner feeling of appreciation, beyond just surface level thoughts. With consistent practice, you'll start to naturally appreciate everyday blessings as they happen, making gratitude and contentment more automatic and easier to feel internally. If you find it difficult to feel that inner smile of appreciation when listening to the meditations, know that with consistent practice, it will get easier. We can liken it to starting a campfire by rubbing two sticks together. Initially it will take some focused attention and effort rubbing those sticks together, until a small flame starts to emerge. That flame can represent the inner smile, the feeling of gratitude. Once that small flame emerges, with a little more focused attention blowing the flame and adding some wood, the flame will start to grow into a nice warm campfire. It is the same idea when you cultivate the inner feeling of gratitude. Once you start to notice a hint of that inner smile emerging as you reflect on what you appreciate, just continue focusing on what you are grateful for and that inner flame, that inner smile will continue growing. And just like with starting a campfire, it will get easier and quicker the more you practice consistently. I welcome you to pause the meditation recordings if you need more time in silent reflection to cultivate this inner smile, this inner feeling of appreciation. Okay. I will leave you here. Please feel free to explore our collection of meditations and choose one you feel drawn too. Wishing you a day filled with gratitude and love for life. Good Day.