Life is full chaos and stress. Everyday when you look at the news or your Facebook feed it is daunting and has the energy to make one feel unbalanced, full of stress, and kind of insane. One way to create more harmony and control in your life is to begin a positive morning ritual. It begins with working on your inner worlds.
My ritual is wake up and feel the divinity within my body.
1. Give gratitude to the universe for the opportunity to have a new day. Do simple yoga stretches and breathing deeply.
2. Then as I am making coffee, I ask for my intuition to guide. I pull a tarot with intention. This sets my theme for the day and usually is very spot on with what is happening in the world. I then journal around this and write my night dreams down.
3. Feed my kittens.
4. Listen to an Abundance Meditation to get into the zone. I really like this five minute, that you can see on You Tube HERE.
5. I list ten things, that I am grateful for
6. Plan my day setting intentions, goals, and actions plans to make the most of it.
7. Go for meditative ocean walk to connect and revere Gaia
Here is what Tony Robbins suggests.
"Whenever you want to make a change or improve something, the first place you want to prove it is in your mental, emotional state," he told the crowd. "If you do something from a pissed off state, from an exhausted state, from a frustrated state, from a weak state, it won't matter what you do. The thoughts are weak when you're in a weak place. The actions are weak."
Priming, then, is intended to get you in an energized, positive state that will carry you through the day.
"If you don't have 10 f---ing minutes for your life, you don't have a life," he said.
In a previous interview with Business Insider, Robbins said that he often plays meditative music while he primes, but you can also do it in silence. The breathing exercise should take around a minute, with each of the remaining three steps lasting around three minutes. You can spend longer on any step if you'd like.
Here's how to do it.
1. Perform a breathing exercise.
Robbins created his own version of an ancient yoga technique called Kapalabhati Pranayama breathing.
In Robbins' version, begin by sitting straight with your eyes closed. Inhale deeply through your nostrils while simultaneously lifting your arms in a shoulder press motion, and then exhale forcefully through your nostrils while bringing your arms back to your body, palms up. Perform the breaths in quick succession.
The yoga site Yoga Outlet says that Kapalabhati Pranayama breathing should be controlled through constrictions of the abdomen. The site recommends learning beginner-level yogic breathing techniques first, and warns that pregnant women or people with breathing problems should avoid the more advanced technique.
In Robbins' version, he does three sets of 30 with brief breaks in between. This can further be broken down into three sets of 10 repeated three times. When starting to learn the exercise, you can begin with three sets of 10 and work your way up. The exercise should leave you feeling energized.
2. Express gratitude
Robbins then takes a few minutes to think of three things he's grateful for, spending about a minute on each.
Each of the things you're grateful for should be experienced as a moment you're reliving. So, if you are grateful for the way your friends surprised you on your birthday the day before, you should remember it as it happened.
Robbins likes to have one of the three moments be something small, which can be as simple as being thankful for the present, if a cool breeze is blowing on his face while he sits outside to perform his exercise.
As he previously told Business Insider, "The reason I picked gratitude is because when you're grateful you can't be angry. And when you're grateful you can't be fearful."
3. Experience connection.
Next is an exercise based on Buddhist meditation.
Imagine a light flowing into the top of your head and then spreading into the rest of your body, strengthening and healing you. When it has flowed through your entire body, then visualize that energy flowing out from your body to the world around you. You can focus on loved ones, as well as total strangers who may be in your vicinity.
Robbins said that, depending on your personal beliefs, you can add a spiritual or religious aspect to this part of the exercise, but noted that it is not necessary to be effective.
4. Visualize success.
Robbins then spends the last three minutes visualizing what it is like to achieve a goal."Don't think about making it happen, see it as done," Robbins said. Spend a minute on each.
He said that when imagining this celebration, you should not only focus on how it benefits you, but allows you to positively affect the lives of others. Feel gratitude.
Try this for a week and see how you feel. Let me know in the comment section below.