Do you have a daily practice or ceremony to start and end your day?
When we have a daily practice or ceremony it brings us into our awakened consciousness. Instead of just waking up in the morning and running for your coffee, try first stretching and smiling before you get out of bed. Then maybe brush her teeth and sit for a moment and contemplate on everything in your life that you are grateful for.
When we start the morning with our practice it invites us to pay closer attention to our life and embrace all that is good. I usually wake up in the morning brush my teeth, make my celery juice, and then sit in my practice. Sometimes my practice is just being grateful for all the abundance in my life around money, health and the love flowing through me and to me. Other times I might do transcendental meditation, whether that be music or a primordial sound.
I always start my day stating what I am grateful for and feeling it in my body. After doing this I move into my meditation. This helps me start my day awake. Then throughout the day, I check in with myself to see what my ego mind is saying to me. This is my daily Practice.
My practice helps me stay in tuned to how special life is and how being present helps me stay connected with myself and others. Otherwise I just run through my day unconsciously, totally asleep.
You can view your morning meditation as a practice, ceremony or a ritual. Ceremony and rituals have been around for a long time to make an event have significance. So if you start your morning in ceremony or practice, you will bring significance into your daily life.
“If our lives have meaning and purpose we have a better chance of staying in alignment”
Sometimes we think it has to be a wedding, a baptism, a rite of passage to have a ceremony. What if a simple practice of gratitude and meditation is as meaningful? These practices can be as meaningful if we make it. So something as simple as waking up and smiling, stating what we are grateful for and doing a simple meditation can help us stay awake to what is very meaningful.
