Morning meditation thoughts matter! And, if you tuned in last week, I gave a calming idea for night meditation to doze off to. To keep the balance this week, I have a morning meditation routine idea to empower and inspire your healthy mindset and emotional well-being.
The morning meditation begins when you have those first few awakened thoughts… and maybe your body hasn’t caught up yet. Like, we haven’t stretched our wings yet, even though we know the early bird catches the worm. 🐦⬛
We can blame that on our morning head that often comes with messed up bed head hair. If you don’t have those assets, then consider yourself blessed in the morning. 🧢
But if you do (that’s most of us), then changing attitude is the way up. We know what’s up from down even if we can’t yet think or speak logically.
…And considering some of us (Kaphas) are naturally Sleepyheads or (Vatas) inconsistently wake up feeling tired or awake with no rhyme or reason.
…Tired or not, you want to rewrite the negative thoughts especially if you woke up on the wrong side of the pillow.
And in my early meditation years wayback in the time machine when Y2K was in our sights, meditating was thinking thoughts and seeing how those thoughts feel. ❣️ …decades later, that’s still how I meditate.
The goal is to come out with better ideas to implement solutions and workout my creativity genes… and not so much focusing on stress-reduction and wellness that meditation today has primarily become.
…And btw, that Pitta and Kapha minds are naturally better at this than the Vata minds.
…And epic ideas also lead to less stress if you wanna look at it that way in attitude. 😉
Your Attitude
Because attitude is everything!… it’s a choice, not a feeling.
You decide that you do X or Y that have very different decisions. And if you choose the first choice, there is X consequence (and choosing Y has the Y consequence). Different consequences and results is what you have to live with mid-week and in your night meditation. So it snow balls with compounding effects.
Beginning with the end in mind (…thank you, Steven Covey!), focus on your outcome consequence so you can show your mind at the moment how different life can be by your thought choice, especially in those groggy early morning moments.
The best choice is always the positive and loving responses in any meditation method you choose.
Even if the situations you faced in your past life weigh heavy, today you rewrite what wasn’t right and that you aspire your future to be. And that gives you a new today and future.
You have everything you need to be happy.
And your attitude will steer your decisions and outlook that determine your future.
Choose to restore your thoughts starting with morning meditation.
Do it consistently every time as best you can. We’re all imperfect. Don’t you wish everyone in your life with expectations would say (and mean) these 6 magic words: just do the best you can. That should take the pressure off.
Say that to yourself as your deepest critic.
Come out peaceful.
Then develop a better mindset belief today that creates better habits.
Consider that even if you don’t know what that is, you believe it so because you’ve consistently pulled a rabbit out of the hat in those areas, so today is no different. Believe in yourself.
As part of our morning meditation routine, we can change our beliefs starting with ourselves.
You can do this with positive messages you listen to, uplifting music, and quote inspirations.
You won’t hold onto a positive and a negative belief for the same idea at the exact same time (as our brains won’t allow the confusion), so we have a small time gap to make a choice.
In the gap, make the positive up-choice easy.
And we delay our lesser knee-jerk thoughts and responses. And if we need to take action like write an email or message back to someone, we wait until we can re-write with the positive emotional undertone.
We can’t take back our words ever, and when they’re written (especially). These days on the whole, we’ve become a kinder more sensitive society, so we’ve been trained to be more thoughtful.
And re-wording to a positive narrative helps us receive kind back in kind.
Lessons are a Learning Opportunity
And if self-control in any shade is a struggle today, think of the X and Y consequences I mentioned earlier.
Fast action thinks there’s one consequence, but that choice is a gamble…
Remember times when acting fast backfired, and if a timeout would’ve been called, that second thought would’ve given a better play (consequence).
Slowing down the ball play in your life, you may have discovered this. And in mine, I accidentally missed a work beat to a problem at hand and learned it was ok, and: leave a problem long enough, it solves itself.
That sounds reactive, and not proactive for productivity. But choosing to not do anything until you know what next step to do is the wiser decision with a better outcome.
Offering a quick fix can require cleanup.
So stick to your inner wisdom.
Don’t be in such a hurry to put fires out (unless there’s a real fire 🔥).
Make your stamp of approval mean something aligned with your thoughts… and maybe ones you’ve noodled out in morning meditation…
Let your session permeate the day as the theme of the day.
Listen and weigh your thoughts as a learning opportunity. Build on permeating better thoughts one day at a time. 💭