Win your morning, win your day!
WHY IS MORNING ROUTINE SO IMPORTANT?
First, because it sets your body and mind for the rest of the day. Your mind will respond differently to different stimulus.
Science is proving that checking your cellphone right after waking up disrupts your brains natural waking process, triggers stress response and can negatively affect your mood, focus and productivity throughout the day.
That’s why I put my phone to charge in the living room and I have a small alarm clock and one of the old versions of mp3 players beside my bed. I know, not convenient as I have to upload all that I want to hear there, but much healthier than having EMF buzzing inside my head the whole night long.
Second, because you will feel a sense of accomplishment even before you start working and being productive.
Third reason: a morning routine made with intention is self-care and self-love. And we need to care for and love ourselves to be able to reach anything worthy in life.
After the years, I have been adjusting my morning routine according to my needs.
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MY MORNING ROUTINE
Now it looks like this:
When my alarm rings, I grab my mp3 player and listen to some meditation (I haver some Joe Dispenza’s and some that I made up and recorded myself. Let me know if you would like me to share them) and/or my recorded affirmations/goals (it varies everyday).
Then I wake up, change clothes, wash my face, brush my teeth, face massage to improve circulation in my head and elasticity to my skin, look in my eyes and say how much I love myself just the way I am.
Remember this quote from Parker Palmer: “self-care is never a selfish act.”
When I go to the living room I like to start with movement, otherwise I might get back to sleeping mode if I sit down to write right away. It helps me to focus. So I do some exercise and energy medicine work*.
Only after a big cup of water + lemon juice, relaxing my eyesight by looking outside to the sunrise and doing some eye exercises** I sit down to journal.
I write a few things I’m grateful for, something between 5 and 10 items, and my main goal. The last part changes everyday: someday I wake up with a question and I journal about that, other days are just a mind dump, writing whatever comes to my mind, other days I write affirmations or lofty questions. I just go with what my intuition tells me to do.
Just after all of that, I open my computer and start working.
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ONE STEP AT A TIME
If you don’t have a morning routine yet, I highly recommend starting with one item at a time. Do it with consistency until it’s ingrained in your routine. Just then add another one.
We tend to think that we have to find the perfect way ASAP, but this is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. It’s something you will have to try for a while, adjust as you need, and find with time and persistence what is the best way to do it.
And as a woman, I note that I have to adapt a few things according to the phase of my cycle. Dear women, do you feel the same?
So, only you can tell what is the best morning routine for you. Find out which activities light you up and inspire your day and stick to them!
I would love to know what you do as your morning routine. I love to be inspired and add valuable things to mine!
*I’ve been doing Dona Eden’s course on Energy Medicine and I’m loving the change in my energy.
**if you stay a lot in front of a screen I suggest looking for Meir Schneider’s work on self-healing. He teaches how to heal from different conditions in the whole body, but the ones he got famous for is his exercises for the eyes. It’s great to do 5 minutes of them every 1-2 hours in front of a screen.
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Win your morning, win your day!
