Morning Meditation Because We Each Matter

Hey there.

Happy Monday to you.

Hope you had a good weekend and if you’re a football fan, hope you’re pleased with the Saints win.

What’s your typical thought routine when you get up in the morning?

Do you lie in bed churning over a mental to-do list?

Does something weighing on you start to pull you downward?

Or do you have some kinda meditation plan in place where you strive to reflect on things you’re grateful for, intentions you’re striving to live, and prepare yourself for what’s ahead?

The reason I ask?

Time and again, how I choose to steer my thoughts when from the moment I’m first conscious in the morning impacts my day so vastly much.

And I find that as I strive to take 10 or 15 or even 20 minutes to reflect on ideas that matter to me, truths that keep me grounded as well as listen for next steps and intend certain actions, I have a much calmer morning and surely a better day over all.

But it wasn’t always so.

For a while I’d mull outa bed, often after sleeping through my alarm and rush my way to just get to my office desk and be there. (Bathroom break 1/2 hour in would be the time I put my face and hair together). I felt a mess and probably appeared one too.

But the real mess were my reactionary thoughts. In those frantically paced mornings, I’d beat myself up something awful calling myself every horrible name you can think of and even in my 30 minute walk to the office, I’d sabotage myself even more, sometimes causing myself to stumble and trip on the sidewalk.

The more we don’t steer thoughts, the more they steer us and the more we react.

But, the more we steer our thoughts, the more we become proactively engaged in each moment, fully present and aware. And this helps so much with keeping thoughts from straying away from the right now present moment.

It helps with preparing us with a calm, steady disposition, no matter what you encounter throughout your day.

When we stop steering and get mentally lazy, we react. We lose that steady foundation and we aren’t as readily able to gauge how we’ll respond to the unexpecteds.  And reacting mode feeds off itself and tends to lure us to stay in perpetual reacting mode.

For the next week, why not try setting the clock to a certain time you know you’ll respond to that allows you 15 minutes of breathing time in the morning to just meditate, listen, be still. Use those moments to mentally map out the quality of  disposition you’re striving to maintain, the kind of attitude you seek to have, the kind of approach you wish to share with others, the kind of mindset you hope to perpetuate throughout your day. And think about the intentions you hope to follow through with.

You may well appreciate the results.

I’m pretty certain you will feel less detached and reacting to your moments.

You may feel more grounded and able to steer your moments.

And most importantly, you may find that in not diving into reacting so readily, you’ll have less stress, less anxiety, and less impatience.

I think we owe it to ourselves to give it a try.

What do you think?

Wanna commit the next week to practicing a new morning routine?

And if you decide to practice taking those extra 20 minutes to meditate and set the tone of your day, come back to this post and let us know what shifted for you by leaving another comment below. (If it’s a few days from now, you’ll find this post in the right side bar under the heading “Current Posts”).

And if you want help in how to meditate for yourself any time throughout the day, let me know that too. If I am aware there’s enough interest, I’m happy to blog more about what works for me…the how I meditate to set the tone of my day.

Sound good?

Til next post, be well and keep it thought by thought! 🙂