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  1. Robin Ann
    Robin Ann
    9 months ago

    When I exercise. Tonight, I just took both dogs for walks after work. I also walked at lunch time. When it is a beautiful sunny day. When I am doing yoga or an exercise class or going for a hike, biking but also for me sailing and travel. We also booked our trip to Northwest Ireland today, I am very grateful for working for a wonderful company that gives us annual bonuses in which many of us plan our vacations around.

  2. Don
    Don Jones
    9 months ago

    Every fortnight with my appointment with the massage therapist. Releasing stress and tension in the deep tissue is one of her specialties.

    1. Michele
      Michele
      9 months ago

      there is nothing like a nice relaxation massage, grateful for massage therapists:)

  3. L
    Lauren Calvert
    9 months ago

    I feel safe and taken care of. I feel comfortable in my own skin and whatever inner battle or struggle I may be having dissipates. I also feel the need to be quiet (?)

  4. Pilgrim
    Pilgrim
    9 months ago

    I’d say I experience feelings of gratefulness as relief. Relief that the finances came out as expected. Relief that there is no ice out front on my way to the car, mailbox, dumpster. Grateful that I feel relatively healthy at this point. Grateful that I have a ride from my daughter wherever I need to go. Grateful to hear from friends and family who are not local. Good question … thank you.

  5. Barb C
    Barb C
    9 months ago

    Sometimes I feel a release and relaxation in my body when I tune into a moment and experience gratefulness. I’m letting go of a tension I didn’t even know I was carrying, perhaps leaning toward the next moment and what it holds. I’ll take a deeper breath, then another. I may also at times feel lightened by joy and appreciation.

    As I read this question I stroked my cat, warm on my lap. I truly tuned into the softness of his fur and the warmth of his body. Cats need a warmer temperature than we do, which is why they seek out warm laps and sun puddles on the floor. I appreciated the moment, grateful that he’s not in one of his “bitey moods” in which he doesn’t want to be petted and takes my hand in his mouth to stop me. He doesn’t really bite; he cautions me. Tuning in and paying attention is a good idea then, too!

    1. Joseph
      Joseph McCann
      9 months ago

      No kidding Barb!

  6. Charlie T
    Charlie T
    9 months ago

    When I pay attention to gratitude, for
    all that I have and all that I have experienced,
    I can feel a calmness and a relaxation of
    my body. A sense of fullness. An unclenching.
    I’m not always able to get there, this is why
    I refer to this as a practice.

  7. Yram
    Yram
    9 months ago

    I experience a sense of freedom and openness. I experience this when my bodily systems are balanced.

  8. Josie
    Josie
    9 months ago

    Last Friday I had a 6-month follow-up lung CT scan.
    The report showed that the little nodules growing there have disappeared, so no lung cancer. My body immediately relaxed into grateful exhaustion. I am still in that place of deep gratitude as I rest into yet another “new lease on life.”

    1. Michele
      Michele
      9 months ago

      Great news Josie!

    2. Patti
      sunnypatti
      9 months ago

      Wonderful! So happy for you, Josie 🙂

    3. Joseph
      Joseph McCann
      9 months ago

      A blessing Josie.

    4. Robin Ann
      Robin Ann
      9 months ago

      Great news Josie!!

    5. Carol Ann Conner
      Carol
      9 months ago

      Josie, So happy for you and your good news!

    6. Barb C
      Barb C
      9 months ago

      Such great news!

    7. Charlie T
      Charlie T
      9 months ago

      Wow! Congratulations
      “ grateful exhaustion”.
      I love it.

    8. S
      Ana Maria
      9 months ago

      How wonderful! Enjoy the blessed gift of life. Grateful for the miracles of medicine and providers that have the knowledge to make us healthy again. Blessings to you!

    9. Yram
      Yram
      9 months ago

      Blessings!

    10. Carla
      Carla
      9 months ago

      Josie, What Grace filled news! I celebrate with you! 🌷😁

  9. Carla
    Carla
    9 months ago

    Gratefulness within my physical body springs forth with a spontaneous grin or smile. I walk more briskly, my posture is better, and my overall outlook is positive with enthusiasm. I’ve felt a portion of these feelings lately but not in their entirety as I’m still recovering from COVID, with a lingering cough. I am on the mend, thank God. 🌷🫶🏼

    1. Michele
      Michele
      9 months ago

      Wishing you a speedy recovery to you Carla.

      1. Carla
        Carla
        9 months ago

        Michele, thank you much. 🌷

    2. Robin Ann
      Robin Ann
      9 months ago

      Hope you feel better each and every day!

      1. Carla
        Carla
        9 months ago

        Thanks Robin Ann. 🪴

    3. Josie
      Josie
      9 months ago

      May the healing continue, Carla.🙏

      1. Carla
        Carla
        9 months ago

        Josie, I see my response is out of sync w/yours. Lol. Thanks again

  10. Patti
    sunnypatti
    9 months ago

    It’s how I feel when I’m at a concert and dancing, and the feeling after it’s all over. That energy stays with you! I haven’t been to a concert in quite some time, but we have three lined up this summer, and I cannot wait!
    I feel the gratefulness in my body when I’m doing yoga, appreciating how my body moves. Stretching a muscle that really needed it and being present with myself as I flow.
    Also when I’m doing yardwork and I start to tire from using power tools or pulling weeds or any of it… The power washer is what got me yesterday! Part of it is just being outdoors under the sun in the fresh air. The energy of Mother Earth gets inside if we let it.

  11. Avril
    Avril
    9 months ago

    Ooh, today’s question is a great one. Embodied practices are an essential part of my spiritual path. I just finished an ecstatic dance retreat. During this time, I spent four days “sweating my prayers”, to quote Gabrielle Roth. I can’t imagine a better way to embody gratitude. I become gratefulness when I dance, when I hike, when I do Qi Gong/yoga, and when I sit in the silent stillness.

    1. Carol Ann Conner
      Carol
      9 months ago

      “I become gratefulness when I dance, when I hike, when I do Qi Gong/yoga, and when I sit in the silent stillness.” Love your words. It’s such a blessing to BE-Come what we are seeking.

    2. Josie
      Josie
      9 months ago

      I feel grateful energy coming through your words, Avril.😊

  12. Joseph
    Joseph McCann
    9 months ago

    I have and continue to live a life out of doors. I feel gratefulness in my body, the form that allows me to see, hear, enjoy my intake of energy from food, water, the air, the warmth of the sun, the cold of snow. the songs of birds, the beauty of flowers, sunrises and sunsets, the moon illuminating this early morning as it does monthly. It is the feeling of joy. This marvelous vessel that carries my essence forward. At 66 plus years it still functions for the most part without much thought from me. The aging process is inevitable, our bodies impermanence. Our bodies are of the universe and will return to the universe. For the use of this fabulous form, I am grateful. Namaste.

    1. S
      Ana Maria
      9 months ago

      Beautiful Joseph! I can picture your world! I too think of my body as a marvelous vessel that carries my essence forward. Thank you for the reminder to be grateful for all it does for me. Namaste.

    2. Avril
      Avril
      9 months ago

      Namaste

  13. Carol Ann Conner
    Carol
    9 months ago

    Today’s question is a reminder of how often my mind’s negative and often fear-filled self-talk blocks my ability to experience feelings of gratefulness in my body. When that life-limiting self talk focuses my thoughts on the things I can no longer do physically instead of the things I can still do in spite of my spinal issues, I know I am dwelling in the past or attempting to predict the future. The need to be grateful always arises when I can name and own and let go of my fear. Then my body begins to relax and I experience the physical and mental strength I need in that moment and I give thanks. For me, experiencing feelings of gratefulness in my body always occurs when I can let go of the past and the future and just let myself BE.

    Deliverance

    I feel like I’m living in an old building.
    The floors creak and the plumbing clogs.
    Water pressure can be too low or too high.
    Old windows can fog and frost and it can be hard to see.
    I had no idea that this would be what it’s like to grow old.

    That said. It really is a blessing to find it out.
    Many do not have to be old to feel this way.
    Dis-Ease enters their lives at a much younger age,
    Sometimes from conditions of the body,
    Sometimes from conditions of the mind.

    We can be robbed of our independence at any age.
    We can be crippled in so many ways—.
    Depression, Defeat, Denial, Despair.
    What to do? Open your mind and heart.
    Let go and let Life flow.

    This is true no matter what your age.

    1. Yram
      Yram
      9 months ago

      Lovely! And I can relate especially to the creaking doors (hinges).

  14. Antoinette88615
    Antoinette
    9 months ago

    I’m feeling gratefulness today right now. I get to guide meditation right now at 12 and I’m grateful to be able to sit in peace cultivating more seeds of peace. Thank you !

  15. Troy Van Dyke
    Troy Van Dyke
    9 months ago

    For me, experiencing gratefulness in my body comes from exercise. When I am exercising, I realize that I can do so much more than I thought I could do. It is honestly NOT my favorite thing to do at all but even this morning, as I was doing yoga, I was thinking about my body and how it stretches, how it moves and how blessed I am that it will do what it does.

    1. Avril
      Avril
      9 months ago

      Welcome here, Troy, I haven’t seen you post before. I am grateful when I exercise, too.

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