This is definitely a delayed post this month and it’s been a big eye opener and point of reflection for myself in my life. For over a week I have had friends visiting. We have been spending an abundance of time in the mountains climbing 14,000+ foot summits. 7 in 7 days with countless hours of driving mixed in.
Out of my normal routine I find it so easy to slip away from the habits I’d.been creating at home. My journaling stops. I stop meditating. And I almost decided to stop this year goal for missing a week, but then realized why? Missing a week, or even more, in the grand scheme of things is so small and definitely not a reason to stop.
Gratitude for this last month was magical. I tried different guided meditations for it, some based on visualization, some had you visualize people or things you feel gratitude for then expand that feeling through out your body. I also did gratitude journaling almost every day and loved the simplicity of it.
I think, for me, focusing in gratitude is one of my favorite meditations because it takes me little to no time to be able to step into the energy of gratitude. Just focusing on something for 15-20 seconds I can feel gratitude within myself and sit with it. I love that it doesn’t take 10-20 minutes to get into. I can write one thing I’m grateful for and feel it and it’s a beautiful thing.
I practiced it, when I remembered, on some of my hikes. When I was over it and still had miles to walk I thought about how grateful I was that my dog and us had made it down safely and injury free. And that shift helped me keep going.
I think my favorite way to feel into gratitude was just to close my eyes and feel and hear nature around me. Nature brings me so much peace and gratitude and feeling it around me just zaps me into the gratitude frequency so quickly.

For this next month I’ll be trying out different variations of breathwork practices. I am starting a week late so I may carry it into the next month as well, or not….who knows.
The breathwork will include box breathing, breath of fire, diaphragmatic breathing, single nasal breathing, and maybe some more intense styles of breathwork as well if I feel called to it.

In thanks for my month of gratitude I will share a few things I’m feeling grateful for:

My beautiful healthy mountain doggo

My strong resilient body that puts up with so much of my crazy activities

friendships and connections that blossom with adventure

nature. Nature and nature.

Having time to myself to reflect and honor myself.

Warm weather and sunshine.

my self improvement book club that keeps me wanting to grow into the best version of myself.

My job for providing me income to live in a beautiful place and have adventures.

My past, for showing me how to stand up for myself and have my own back.

What are you feeling grateful for today?