Gratitude Prompts

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