Six Morning Rituals To Empower Your Day & Change Your Life

Morning Rituals To Empower Your Day & Change Your Life

By Vanessa Marie Dewsbury

Creating morning rituals can be essential to achieving a successful, thriving, and abundant life. Studies have shown that the most common trait of highly successful people is the understanding of the power they have when it comes to co-creating their reality with the Universe. 

One of the most effective ways of being a conscious co-creator is by implementing and maintaining daily rituals. Ancient traditions clearly understood the power of rituals when it comes to reinforcing habits and changing the way we see and create our reality.

Successful people also tend to be early birds, waking up at what is often referred to as "the magical hour." The early mornings are said to be a very spiritual time as it helps to soothe the soul and prepare you for your day ahead. Waking up a little bit earlier than usual will give you more time to focus on your goals as you begin the day with more energy, ease, and peace.

Creating morning rituals can also help reduce stress levels, improve mental clarity, and calm any anxieties you may be experiencing as you start your day.

Having a more structured morning helps you set the tone for the day, and allows you to control your schedule, rather than having your schedule control you. As you start each day feeling fresh and energized, you can better focus on the tasks ahead and where you need to prioritize and place your time and energy. Creating and committing to morning rituals will not only increase your productivity throughout the day, but it will increase your self confidence as well. 

Plus the great news is, you do can all the things I suggest below while still in bed! Perfect right! 

Benefits of morning rituals:

• It reduces stress levels and allows you to ease into your day feeling super grounded 
  
• You gain more time so you're not rushing around and forgetting things or running late 
  
• You're taking good care of your mind, body, and soul, which is important for your well-being
  
• You will give yourself adequate time to make healthy choices for breakfast

Empower Your Day & Change Your Life

Practice gratitude

I'm big on offering words of gratitude as soon as I wake up. The fact that I received yet another day on this earth is something to be thankful for in itself. It's a miracle really. You don't need to spend a lot of time on this one, it's simply a matter of saying, or writing in a journal, a few things you are grateful for. It can be anything from your comfy warm bed, to your hot cup of coffee or tea.

​Once you start finding things to be grateful for, you will find even more things. The list really is endless! This not only helps you start your day off on a more joyful note, but the more you are thankful for your blessings, the more you begin to live in a state of gratitude. This state will leave you feeling overly appreciative for even the smallest of things, and it will also increase a feeling of abundance overflowing in your heart. 

"My life is a gift. I will use this gift with confidence, joy, and exuberance."

Do light stretches in bed

Starting your morning off by doing a few light stretches has many health benefits. Not only does it relieve tension in your muscles, but it gets the blood flowing to the body including the brain. Morning stretches can also be helpful when it comes to alleviating aches and pains in your joints and muscles as tightness tends to happen after the body has been at rest for a long period of time.

​Light stretching provides your body with more energy and can prevent lethargy and feelings of fatigue. Here is a great article that shares ten stretches you can do in bed. Article.​

"Today I align myself with freedom, growth, and joy."

Listen to a Meditation

There's nothing like listening to a positive Meditation as you begin your day. Meditation is widely known for calming the mind and body so listening to one upon waking will help you to feel more grounded as you ease into your day. Often times we can wake feeling unrested, irritated, and foggy in the brain, adding Meditation to your morning ritual will help balance your body, harmonize your energy, and calm your mind.

And you don't need to be an "expert" when it comes to Meditating, it's simply a matter of being present and allowing what comes up, to come up, as you observe your thoughts and not attach yourself to your thoughts. Just witness and release. You are not aiming to completely clear or empty your mind, your goal is to just BE, and to create space between your thoughts. There is nothing else for you to do.

I've created a Morning Affirmation Meditation where I share powerful affirmations spoken from a place of love and compassion. This guided Meditation will help you start your day in a peaceful and relaxed state.

You can find it here. Morning Affirmation Meditation

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

Set intentions 

Setting intentions activates a part of your receptivity which is your willingness and ability to take in ideas and information. If you start your day off without having any intentions, it's like a ship leaving the shore without a destination in mind. Having clear intentions allows you more control of your day, and it also encourages you to be fully aware of your morals and core values.

​Intentions give you purpose and the inspiration and motivation you need to achieve your goals, dreams, and desires. Samples of intentions are: I intend to manifest a really good day. I intend to live and lead by example. I intend to be my best self today. I intend to serve from a place of love and joy. I intend to create and commit to morning rituals that will allow me more time and freedom for myself. 

​Whatever your intentions are, say them with full conviction and allow them to come straight from your heart. Feel the Affirmation in the cells of your body and believe your words to be true. I recommend doing this while listening to a Meditation as it puts you in an ideal state of mind for planting the seeds of your intentions. The more relaxed you are, the easier it will be to recognize your purest desires and truths.​

​"My mind and my heart will remain open today."

Use affirmations

Another element you can add to your morning ritual is Affirmations. These power statements will help you start your day in a more positive and productive direction.

​Affirmations are statements that affirm a truth and we should never underestimate the power of words. Many of us have Limited Beliefs that may have stemmed from childhood, beliefs such as, we aren't good enough, we aren't smart enough, we can't do this, etc. Although we really can believe these things, it doesn't mean they're true. 

​You can change your Limited Beliefs by recognizing and acknowledging them and by choosing new beliefs that better serve you purpose and align you with who you really are. Choosing to start your day with spoken Affirmations is a sure way to bring more abundance, happiness, and joy into your life.

Before you know it your "negative" thoughts will show up less, and when they do, just ask yourself "does this thought serve me purpose?" and then use a positive Affirmation to shift your thought and reframe your Limiting Belief. Start your morning by telling yourself healthy, loving, and kind thoughts that feed your heart and soul.

"My thoughts do not control me, I control my thoughts."

Choose a positive attitude

​I hear it often, someone claiming it's going to be a bad day before the day has even begun. The thing is, if you have already decided it's going to be a bad day, then chances are, it will be! When our mind has already determined how the day will be then we look for "evidence" that proves we are right. For example, perhaps you got all red lights on the way to work, or your coffee spilled on your favorite shirt, these are all things that we can believe contributed to our bad day.

However, if you wake up choosing it's going to be a great day, well, watch what happens. You will start to notice all the good things that happen throughout the day like the person who held the door open for you while getting your morning coffee, or the kind stranger who smiled at you while on your daily walk.

It really is all about mindset and perspective, and how we choose to see things. Do we look for the good in each experience and encounter, or do we focus on the "bad" in all things.

During Spiritual Guidance Sessions with clients, I often teach about the foundations of The Law of Attraction, as I believe it's at the root of all of our experiences and outcomes. The Law of Attraction states that, Like Attracts Like, therefor, you attract what you focus on and what you put out there, so why not wake up choosing it's going to be a great day and be open to what unfolds from a more neutral and open space within your being.

"I am excited to wake up each morning and experience this beautiful life, that I am creating with my thoughts and visions." ​

Bonus tip!

​Get yourself a calendar and set a date to start your new morning rituals. Mark off each day you complete your rituals and make the intention of committing to it for 21 days. According to Dr. Maxwell Maltz, it takes 21 days to create a new habit so if you keep it up, you may find it becomes your new way of being!

​Also our brains love to see things completed and this will actually train your brain to want to continue to see those marked off days as it feels a sense of accomplishment and success.

​If you miss a day or two, don't worry about it, just keep moving forward with your best intentions at heart and continue on. 

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Love & Gratitude,
Vanessa

Hey! I'm Vanessa Marie Dewsbury, the owner and creator of The Soul Sanctuary. I'm an Intuitive Energy Healer, Spiritual Life Guide, and Certified Law of Attraction Coach. I'm also the Author of 3x Bestselling book, Heart Is Where The Home Is.

My purpose in life is to help bring healing to people who have experienced great stress, loss, and trauma. I help my clients connect to their inner truth and gain healthy perceptions of themselves so they can feel empowered, seen, and understood.
 
​Things that bring me joy.

​My family, our dogs, Mother Nature, lattes, photography, writing, and anything related to spirituality.

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