Five Guiding Principles

Wake Up Grateful features five touchstones to support your practice. Click on each to play an audio meditation.

Digging Deeper

For continued exploration, dive into these additional resources.

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Meditations

Life is a Gift: Guided Meditation

by The Grateful Living Team
Grateful Living is fundamentally grounded in the invitation to see life itself as a gift.…
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Meditations

The Ordinary is Extraordinary: Guided Meditation

by The Grateful Living Team
This short meditation offers an invitation to walk through your days taking nothing for granted,…
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Bright Lights/Young Lives

Bright Lights/Young Lives: Greg

by The Grateful Living Team
In this short video, Greg Corbin shares his story of expressing gratefulness through relationships and…
Bright Lights/Young Lives

Bright Lights/Young Lives: Jamarr

by The Grateful Living Team
In this short video, Jamarr Hall shares his story of finding gratefulness through everyday moments,…
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Meditations

Encountering the Sacred: Guided Meditation

by Kristi Nelson
This short guided meditation invites you to visualize a place in which you feel connected…
Articles

Gratefulness and the Power of Radical Sufficiency

by Kristi Nelson
Separated from what matters, we more easily get caught in the “more is better” mentality…
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Collections

Trusting Uncertainty

by The Grateful Living Team
May this curated collection of videos, practices, essays, poetry, and more deepen your curiosity and…
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Practices

Daily Questions: Our Invitation to Mystery

by The Grateful Living Team
Returning to the magic and mystery of questions as a daily practice, we continually open…
Stories of Grateful Living

Iyore (I Return)

by Imuetinyan Ugiagbe
Here in our Stories of Grateful Living, we honor the voices of our community as…

Wake Up Grateful

The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted

What does it mean to truly live gratefully, every day? Wake Up Grateful unlocks the path to recognizing abundance in every moment, and gives readers the tools to bring this transformational shift in perspective into their daily lives.