morning ritual

How do you meet the day?

Do you greet the day?

What’s your pace?

Slow start more you, or up and at em?

I saw a cute reel on Instagram and the heart of its message was imagine… if we treated the Bhagavad Gita like our iphone? And the reel went on to show the day of a lady pulling out her copy of the Gita like it was her iphone, it was pretty funny and it stayed with me.

What we lean on, whose words we read, the food that our mind feeds on first thing can determine the mood or pace for the day. It might not even be obvious, but I’ve noticed on the days I don’t start intentionally, that there’s an undertone that I don’t really like. Often its not obvious, but its definitely present.

So I pose this question to you, how do you start the day? Jessie Itzler, an American entrepreneur & all round great guy, starts the day the night before, planning the day, making the evening set up elevate the day ahead. Cute hey and he calls it his evening ritual, I love a man that names his process a ritual.

Can you take the morning, and bolster it with a small mood of ritual?

‘Ritual comes naturally to us. It appears early in our childhood and stays
with us for the rest of our lives, reliably surging when we need it the most.
It helps soothe our anxieties and get a sense of order in an otherwise
chaotic world’. Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas.

So if we take Dimitris words to heart, we can gather here that ritual helps soothe our anxieties and gather a sense of order in our worlds. Isn’t that something! Who of us doesn’t suffer from a sense of anxiety or worry, some days its just simmering under our skin.

To live our lives with a sense of order and purpose,
we lean on the ancient art of ritual.

Can your morning tea be sipped outside in the sunshine?

Can you gather a poem, or an inspiring word, a value you treasure and just be with them for a few breaths?

Your morning coffee goes well with a handful of slow breaths. Trust me.

Write a value that you’d like to grow in 2025 on a post it note, and stick it on your mirror so when you brush your teeth you see that word, a moment to add on a cute little positive mood for the day.

I’ll finish up by asking you, what things do you already do, that you could add ritual to?

If you love this kind of conversation, please join us for A Night to Imagine, an in person meet up to craft a beautiful 2025.