Grateful

Just for today, I will be grateful. 

Not in the bypassed, sugar-coated way. Not as spiritual performance or forced positivity. But as a return, an anchoring, into the quiet richness of what’s already here. 

Gratitude is not a list of things we recite when we feel bad. It’s a posture. A presence. A softening into sufficiency. It doesn’t mean we don’t want more, or long for healing, or ache for change. It means we pause long enough to witness the sacred that is already blooming in the margins of our lives. The breath. The heartbeat. The unseen ways we are being carried.

In Reiki, we learn to become more than just a channel for healing. We become an embodiment of thank you. Hands placed gently on the body, heart bowed to the moment. Not to fix, but to feel. Not to achieve, but to receive.

When we say, “Just for today, I will be grateful,” we are not pretending we don’t struggle. We are remembering that even within the struggle, something holy remains. A lesson. A reminder. A grace we almost missed. This kind of gratitude isn’t loud. It doesn’t need to be posted or proven. It lives in the space between thoughts. In the warmth of hands on the heart. In the breath we didn’t have to earn.

So just for today, I will notice. The morning light. The way my body still carries me, even when it’s tired. The way the earth steadies me, again and again, without asking for anything in return. Just for today, I will not wait for things to be perfect to feel thankful. I will not make joy conditional. I will give thanks now, in this imperfect, holy, human moment. Gratitude is the alchemy of Reiki. It transforms everything. Not because it changes the world, but because it changes how we meet it.

So, I return to the breath. Just for today, I will be grateful. That is enough.