Gratitude for 2025

“Gratitude is the gentle art of recognising that life has always been giving to us, even when we did not yet understand the gift.” Sage

Dear Ones,
As we are now reaching the end of 2025, this is my invitation to you to close this year with gratitude and appreciation. Anything manifested in our human life has a beginning and an end. And although beneath these countless changes the unchanging eternal awareness always shines victoriously through, when we honour our human experience we honour our humanity. Heartfelt gratitude and appreciation gently reminds us that our human experience is a gift, a gift we chose freely. And everything in our human life can be a gift too if we stay open and curious to discover what the gift is.

There have been many obvious gifts and blessings this year, some of them we perhaps took for granted. Allowing this sacred pause in fully acknowledging them, and celebrating them we give thanks to the Existence itself and affirm freedom, abundance and love. And in sincere gratitude we are opening the gate to more gifts of love, abundance and freedom not only for next year. At the same time we are affirming our true nature as these qualities are a natural expression of who we all already are under all layers of conditioning. This gentle gratitude meditation can also remind us to give thanks more often and more easily as living in gratitude is one of the highest and most joyful paths we can choose in life.

In the world of duality there might have also been some challenges this year. If we can open our hearts to ourselves and life we realise that these are gifts too, more hidden but often very valuable gifts. The challenges show us where we still need to heal, allow our true nature to shine more through and to let go of beliefs and patterns based in illusion of lack, limitation and separation.

When we release any judgment about ourselves and others and embrace these experiences with love and compassion, we can easily see the gift hidden within those challenges. And if we would like to see these gifts more clearly we can ask ourselves open ended questions such as: What have I learnt from this about myself, others, the world? How did this truly serve me? or simply What is the gift of this challenge? If we then allow silence and stillness so that these sincere questions can be answered not just by the conditioned mind but by the depths of your being, of your true nature, we receive a beautiful gift from within, the gift of deeper understanding and divine clarity.

Even softening the way we define these challenging moments will help us to unlock the gift or the opportunities and higher expressions of ourselves. We are conditioned to instantly label challenges problems but when we do so we often lock them into lower energy and unconsciously start creating resistance and entangling ourselves into them more and more like a fish into a net. But if we can remain open and call them challenges or even opportunities for growth and meet them with curiosity we move through them more easily, effortlessly or even joyfully. Simply because we are that powerful. We are the divine co-creators and create our lives not only through our words and actions but mainly through our beliefs, thoughts and feelings as they set the action part into motion.

And so as we’ll come together for these last meditations of 2025 let’s simply embrace it all with gratitude. Let’s acknowledge that in our humanity we don’t always “get it right” but as long as there is a good will, there is a way. Let’s open our hearts a little bit more not only to our divinity but also our humanity. Let’s allow ourselves to learn, grow and fully remember that ultimately there is nothing to be afraid of as at the core of our being we are pure eternal love and light. Let’s remember that everything we seek “out there” is already within us, within our true nature and when we make our home there it will be naturally reflected into all aspects of our life. Do you feel grateful for knowing this, dearest One?

I look forward to meditating with you.
Lots of love,
Jana xx

Theme: Gratitude For 2025

Thursday 18th December