START THE DAY FROM THE INSIDE OUT

In this modern world, so many of us begin our day from the outside in. We roll over, pick up our phones and let energy of the world into our mind. When we do this, it activates our rational mind, the thinking mind, the judging mind. Depending on what information we are taking in, our bias’, our fears, and collective trauma is imprinted onto our perception of life and our nervous system when it is the first thing we see. From here into the rest of our day, we move from our mind and the sympathetic nervous system which tells us we must survive the day, go through the motions because now we feel hopeless or numb, or get into action to survive the climate. We are now in survival mode. We can easily trigger overwhelming anxiety, fear, depression or complacency when we let the world into our being without creating a container to discern what we are seeing. It seeds distraction into our day. We wake up without clarity on what we are doing here and what our purpose is within the Cosmic Earth play.

Another way to begin the day would be to avoid the phone for 30 minutes. Try putting it on airplane mode overnight and keeping it in a separate room. Resolve to rise up, take movement if needed, then sit down and be with the sacred morning slowly.

When I wake in the mornings I sit immediately at my altar, light the candles, light the smudge and say good morning to all my relatives. I’ll put on music that inspires a devotional feeling and begin my breath work practice which leads me to prayer, gratitude and stillness of mind. Starting this way puts me in touch with the unseen world, with honesty in how I am really feeling that morning, with my heart and desires for the day and a vision for my life, I wake with with my inner voice and the voice of my spirit guides.

In this way, we can catch a vision for the day, clear residues from sleep or the past days and start with a fresh mind anchored in Spirit, in gratitude, in connection to Creation. This becomes an anchor that holds you through the days mystery. This is starting from the inside out. A place of healing power. A place of clarity. A place of owning the vibration you are creating in the world.

When we wake up in the morning and practice pranayama first, we are starting from the inside out rather than the outside in. And our anchor is in our bodies, if we are in our body, we are present, if we are present we can see what is in front of us and around us, and we are anchored to the spirit world so we see from the inside out and this makes our world more beautiful and our place in it powerful.

You get to choose. Will you start outside in or inside out? Will it be chaos or will it be clarity? Breath work in the morning makes all the difference.

Enjoy this Cherokee Morning song to start the day on a sweet note my friends.

Warmly,

Malina