In this video we're talking about gratefulness. This is the first step to building your great your creation. So gratefulness, what does that mean? It means all the things that you are grateful for. So let's first start off with just a little bit of deep breathing. Normally, when Amelia and I build our creation, we do it together, we try and create a space for ourselves in our home that is tranquil.

We've got all of our distractions turns off, turn off our phones or away. You know, we're not expecting anybody at the door. Maybe sometimes if it's night, we'll light some candles. We might have some background music with no lyrics, maybe just film scores or something like that. And then we sit down and we take three deep breaths in and out. In and out.

Last one, in and out And shake it out, get out all that air. All right. Once you've done that you're resetting your energy inside, okay, if you want to take a couple extra minutes to deep breathe, you're more than welcome to do that, the longer you can breathe in, and the longer you can breathe that out, the healthier it's going to be, the more oxygen you're feeling into your body. And the more you're getting out in return. So we start with that deep breathing. And the reason being is that we want to be relaxed.

We don't want to feel anxious. If we've had a long day, if we're feeling tight in our shoulders, we want to relax that out. Maybe sometimes you want to jump up and down, just anything to get into that relaxed state. When you're ready from that, I want to ask you, what are you grateful for? That's how we always begin. So we'll start with one person and they'll ask, What are you grateful for?

And you can do this on your own as well. Simply ask yourself, What are you grateful for? And if you're having struggles figuring out what am i grateful for? I don't know. I feeling pretty down and pretty depressed, I can't really think of the good things that are happening. Let's just go down to the basics.

I'm grateful for the oxygen that I'm breathing. I'm grateful for the fact that I woke up this morning. I'm grateful for the chocolate chip cookie, I just ate it grateful for the electricity that happens when I flick a switch. Anything that you can think that's just basic, really forced yourself into that thinking. And when you really start pulling that out, you don't stop answering this question until you've literally run out of anything to say, oftentimes, this is where my waterworks turn on. I just start talking about all the things I'm grateful for.

I'm grateful for my cat and the fact that he loves me and lets me pet him. I'm grateful for my bed and the sheets that keep me warm at night. I'm grateful for the rain that comes down and waters my garden. I'm grateful for the fact that I am aware that I have the power to control what I do on a daily basis. So on and so forth. I'm grateful for the families that I have.

I'm grateful for the friends that I have. I'm grateful for the food that I choose to eat every day. When you start practicing gratitude, you start going through this list. And even though life is tough, and you may have hardships faced up against you roadblocks, people who are negative in your life, I guarantee you, you still have reasons to be grateful. So I really want you to think about what are you grateful for, you can pause this video, you can make a list if you'd like or you can just say it verbally. Oftentimes, we don't write it down.

We will just go ahead and have a little bit of verbal diarrhea, let it all out. And if you're doing this with other people, let that person get it all out. And then when they're finished, then you answer the question, What are you grateful for? And we'll see you in step two.