Take Five

“TAKE FIVE” first thing in the morning before you get out of bed- use the first five to ten moments of the new day to find or develop gratitude for five things. Establishing a focus on what’s going well in your world allows you to nurture and expand it.

If you have trouble starting your list, begin with your fingers and toes and keep going from there. Body parts, personality traits, friends, pets, favourite places, your soft warm bed- anything goes onto your list. Concentrate on FEELING appreciative. Emotion about it creates an environment for it to be retained on a cellular level. This makes it more a part of your way of living and you’ll find it easier to access this calm, creative place when you need to find it again. Gratitude is relaxing and draws more things to be grateful for into your life.

Increase your list as the days go by. Your mind and heart will open to the possibility of more and more great things and you will begin to look for things to add to your list while you are out there living. You’ll remember long-forgotten or momentarily passed-over nourishing and fulfilling experiences or people or situations. With consistent focus and commitment in this short few minutes of the day it will become clearer and ever-closer in the present moment that life is indeed sweet!