This week, when waking, try to find a peaceful center before you do anything else. Allow your mind to come into consciousness, breathe into your belly and back, feel the sheets under you, let the breath reach into your toes and your fingers, and be at peace. Do not allow thinking to be present that would hinder your oneness with feeling. You are worth taking the first minutes of your waking day to generate calm and ease about yourself. Bring awareness to your gratitude for the moment in which you find yourself awake. If you have created space in your routine for stretching or exercise you can move into that from here. If your routine involves getting up straight away to hustle, these first moments in the morning can be a grounded beginning to your day of activity. This attention to the manner in which you wake can also serve as a base point for other times in the day that you may feel off balance. Go back to your peaceful center whenever you need.
Presence and Positivity 
Thank you Val for this reminder. I try to wake up slowly with stretches and sometimes the kids put the ‘rush on’. The slightly slower mornings are a great way to start the day even just 5 minutes and when that isn’t an option for me, I go back and find this slow ‘awakening’ even if its hours later. Helps reset the day.
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Best laid plans …. the morning here was off to a rush after sleeping past the alarm 🙂 -thankfully it was an alarm set earlier than necessary for baking happy monday morning pastries – so, attention to center came in preparing lunches while the croissants were baking and the kids altered a few of their steps to make it all work- tomorrow morning, a full minute to awakening before anything else! we idealists do what we can…
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Waking slowly, and stretching is a necessity every morning when one is approaching their sixties! You feel good about waking up to another day of life experiences whatever they might be!
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I will set my alarm a tad earlier for in the morning. I love mornings and this sounds like the perfect start before even rising up out of the bed. Thank you!!
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