The Most Important Part of Your Day
Did you know that the first 20 minutes of your day is when your subconscious mind is most impressionable? That means our first 20 minutes is our power zone to allow our genius self to create our creative direction for our life. How are you spending your first 20 minutes?
One of the most significant shifts that I have made in my time and energy begins at well, the beginning of my day. Where it can be all too easy to immediately grab your cell phone and scroll, read emails or look at your to do list...I want to invite you to a short and simple powerful practice that will immediately allow you to be intentional with the energy you want to carry forward.
When you are moving towards genius, being intentional with where you direct your energy is essential. Instead of outside influences facturing your attention and emotional state, take ownership of your attention and decide how you want your day to look and feel like.
Remember genius people know that we are always creating and prefer to create consciously and powerfully!
So here is a wonderful morning practice to start with that can easily be done in a few minutes...Try this immediately when you wake up before getting out of bed or touching any technology.
5-3-1 Practice
5: Start with 5 deep breaths. I like to imagine breathing in a quality like peace, inspiration, focus or receptivity and breathing out aspects like tension, stress, worry or busyness. Try to keep your attention focused on your body and the sensation of consciously breathing. Breathing has so many wonderful effects on the body but namely it calms the nervous system. Where as looking at our phones can invoke stress and worry and trip your sympathetic nervous system.
3: Name, visualize, and feel 3 things that you are grateful for. Take your time in choosing people, locations, situations that you can get an emotional tone of gratitude with like your pet, that upcoming vacation, or a loved one. As you name each item, visualize it and feel the emotion of love, appreciation, gratitude in your heart. I even say “thank you” for each. Take your time. This practice supports heart and mind coherence which leads to positive impacts on your health, your creativity and your thoughts.
1: What is your intention for today? It can be to focus to efficiently complete a project with ease, or to be more kind with your internal dialogue, or bring more patience with your kids or partner or work colleagues. Whatever you choose, take time to strengthen your visualization muscle and see and feel yourself moving through your day living out this intention. How do you want to feel executing this intention? When we visualize and add emotion, we energize these intentions and create neural pathways that allow it to feel easier to actually do because the body has felt it into being. The momentum has already begun!