Episode Details

In this guided Christian meditation, Brother Richard continues the Gratitude Meditation series by reflecting on a gift we can easily overlook: our ability to choose.

Even in difficult circumstances, there remains within us the possibility of choosing how we respond. From the major decisions that shape our lives and relationships to the smallest everyday choices, this meditation invites us to become more conscious of the freedom we exercise moment by moment.

Beginning with the simple choice to stop and meditate, we settle into the breath and reflect without judgement on the choices we have already made today. We consider where we are actively choosing our lives and where we may simply be drifting, before cultivating gratitude for the freedom to respond with greater compassion, awareness and intention.

This meditation offers support for mindfulness, discernment, personal agency, contemplative prayer and making more conscious choices in everyday life.

It can be used as part of a daily Christian meditation practice, during periods of uncertainty or decision-making, or as a calming practice for relaxation, winding down and preparing for restful sleep.

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction: Gratitude for the gift of choice

00:42 – Opening bell

00:53 – Choosing to enter meditation

01:20 – Recognising the freedom to choose

02:30 – Settling into the body and breath

03:02 – Reflecting on the choices in our lives

03:47 – The major choices that shape us

04:05 – The small choices of everyday life

04:40 – Choosing rather than simply drifting

05:47 – What have you chosen today?

06:48 – Cultivating gratitude for free will

08:09 – Bringing awareness to future choices

09:01 – “I am here, it is now, and I choose”

09:27 – Returning to the body

09:42 – Closing bell

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