When was the last time that you looked around the spaces that you spend most of your time in?
Your home, your office, your car, your local supermarket, your favourite restaurant, your street..
When was the last time you recognized all of the beauty in what’s been created there?
That you actually spent the time to regard all the little details, like the colour of the wood on your stairs - or the strokes of paint on your walls.
Like the small intricacies of the granite on your countertops or in the tile on your floor.
And to recognize the way that your feet feel as you walk across when it is cold. The way your energy flows as you go from room to room, being immersed in your own artwork you chose on the walls - the scents of your home - the feeling of the people leftover who you invited in there.
When was the last time you did this?
And really spent a moment being grateful for what you have in front of you.
For the spaces that are created for you to live in. To be in. To enjoy. To grow in.
When we take the time to regard what we already have - how absolutely special it is to have a home or a space that is catered and created and designed just for us - the way we like it - we can find so much gratitude and grounding.
Because our minds can take us to so many places we haven’t been or that we don’t have - things we need to do or to acquire.
We can look ahead to that future and keep us in hustle mentality.
But instead - in taking time to regard our current situation and all of the work that happened to get us exactly there - we get to sit in that space of appreciation.
And when we are in appreciation, we are in love.
When we are in love, we get even deeper into the present and into our bodies.
So when you decide next to take a look around your home, your street, your local market … and really remember the work it took to make it, the effort it took for you to arrive here, and you enter into your deep enjoyment of the space - feel into it deeply.
Feel into it deeply and be there.
Because what is life without depth and gratitude for where we have been and how we have come here, and where we are.
Then we are living a never-ending race instead of a life FULL of joy and pleasure in our bodies. Now.