Gratitude Prompts
What are three things you are grateful for today?
What are five things you are grateful for that you did not have five years ago?
Who are the artists, authors, or musicians you are most grateful for?
What are you grateful that you can see, smell, taste, hear, and feel?
What activities are you grateful that you are able to do?
Who are you grateful for because they make you laugh, even when you are having a bad day?
What series or movies are you grateful to be able to watch when you are feeling sad to perk up your mood?
What about your daily routine are you most grateful for?
What holiday are you most grateful to celebrate?
What places are you grateful to have seen?
What meals are you most grateful to be able to eat?
Mindful Questions to Ask Yourself
What are my core values?
How does anger/grief/anxiety/happiness present in my body?
What is the fear beneath one of my surface fears?
What choice or decision feels most authentic to me right now?
At the end of my life, what will I hope to have experienced?
What is most difficult for me to accept about myself?
What do I judge in others that I, too, embody sometimes?
What matters most to me?
How would I describe the relationship I have with myself?
If I only had one year left to live, how would I spend it?
What is this moment asking of me?
Do I practice what I preach?
Where might I lean into forgiveness (of self or other)?
In a recent disagreement, what was I not acknowledging or accepting?
What is my happy place?
When do I feel most like ‘me’?
If I was sure to succeed, what project or course of study would I begin tomorrow?
What thoughts, beliefs, or stories am I holding onto that no longer serve me?
Who am I without using any words to define myself?
Source: Mindfulness Exercises