There’s no more powerful way to end your year and your family’s year than with GRATITUDE! My son is 16 and we’ve practiced gratitude since he was young. To this day, he expresses gratitude and appreciation often. It’s become his internalized voice and a way of life for him.
Here’s a couple of simple practices that I do both in my own life and with my family:
Begin writing down what you are grateful for from this year … I begin a list in my journal and try not to stop until I get to 100 things that I am grateful for from this past year! It might take you are few days to get to 100, but you will have this list to refer to for a long while to come.
If you have children, you can get a large piece of poster board or art paper and bright colored markers. Have the entire family participate. When complete, you’ll have a piece of gratitude art unique to your own family.
Another way to do this is to have small piece of bright colored construction paper and have each family member write individual gratitudes on each sheet of paper. Once complete, fold them, put them into a jar and read them out loud on New Year’s Eve, over the next few days and add to it throughout the year.
Lastly, after we complete our 100 Gratitudes, on Jan 1 or 2, we hang a large, blank piece of art paper on the wall with the title “Gratitudes and Appreciations” and whenever someone walks by, they can add something they are grateful for and / or something they appreciate about themselves or another family member. (You can also do this daily in your own personal journal) This will create gratitude as a “way of life” for your family.
There’s nothing better than to model the practice of gratitude to our children.
Cultivating a consciousness of gratitude cultivates a consciousness of ABUNDANCE. Once you have your gratitude list, begin a list of things that you appreciate and acknowledge about yourself from the year. The combination of gratitude, self appreciation and self acknowledgment puts you in an empowered state of mind.
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If you missed my FREE Meditation Class, there’s an “End of the Year Gratitude and Appreciation Practice” that begins about a third of the way through.
https://courses.suzilula.com/p/meditationformothers
I’m so excited to be offering a 3 MONTH MEDITATION INTENSIVE COURSE beginning Jan. 16th. If there’s one practice that will change your life this year and the life of your family, it is a Meditation Practice.
https://courses.suzilula.com/p/meditationformothers
Meditation is a practice that most people don’t truly understand and so, are unable to use it’s benefits effectively to transform the dynamics in their families. I’ve been meditating since I was 16 and have developed a way of teaching Meditation that includes learning how to embrace the uncomfortable emotions that are sometimes unearthed during a meditation practice, as well as how to integrate your meditation practice back into your relationships with your children and others in your life.
I’m offering this 3 Month Intensive for the price of a one month class when you sign up by Dec 31st! We have an amazing group of individuals already gathered. I so hope you’ll join us as we transform our life and our relationship with our children and those around us together.