Just as the title states, this is a pulse check – a quick internal assessment to gauge your well-being in the present moment. To do so, we’re using gratitude, emotions, and bodily sensations: 

• Expressing gratitude will help refocus the lens in which you view your world.
• Naming your emotions will help reconnect your mind to your body. 
• Feeling into a physical sensation will help ground you into the present moment. 

This practice is particularly productive for those of us who default to feelings of worry, anxiety, fear, overwhelm, or doubt – even before we’ve opened our eyes in the morning.

If a gratitude journal is new to you, you may feel as if you're just repeating what you're grateful for each day as you get started. We tend to default to the things we’re told to be grateful for – family, health, friends, home, etc. But overtime, this will expand and you'll notice your gratitude for the more micro moments, i.e. a song that played on your drive home, the sunshine on your face, your eyesight, the way leaves sway in the wind, the shadows on the sidewalk, the joy of your pets greeting you at the door, a subtle smile from a passerby, the warmth of your bed. At the end of the day, moments for gratitude are endless.