In today’s meditation, we discover how gratitude makes the present moment fully alive, awake, and enriched. We learn how every instant of our life is a unique gift and that when we are awake to this special value of the here and now, we step into a state of grace.

So much of our cultural conditioning pulls us out of the present moment, striving for an impossible ideal in the future. Somewhere outside this present time, we hope to have what we currently lack, or look like what we think we should look like, and feel the happiness we don’t feel now.

But this assumes that the present is inherently lacking, and the present is all we ever know. Practicing gratitude turns this around so that we find our completeness in the present moment.

Just be, right now, here; and breath. Begin to trust the magic of yourself.

Nikki Rowe

OUR CENTERING THOUGHT:

Every moment is filled with grace.

OUR SANSKRIT MANTRA:

Samprati Hum

The present moment is my true self