Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Morning Routine - Choosing Happiness, Pt. 1 (Premium)

Episode Date: March 30, 2020

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Thanks so much for listening, and I hope you have a fantastic day. Good morning and welcome to Wake Me Up, the podcast, where morning people are made. This is part one of a two-part series of morning routine episodes that will help you choose happy thoughts over ones that are sad, anxious, unsettling, etc. The thing to remember here is that you are not your thoughts. You are so much more than that. But the thoughts we choose to believe will have a great deal of input on our well-being and psyche. So in this mini-series,

we're going to practice choosing happy thoughts. Now there's a wonderful day starting. Let's go ahead and make the best of it. You can just listen to my voice as we take the next few minutes to get up. And everyone wakes up in their own way. you can do it however you'd like. But if you want to follow along with me,

then maybe you just roll onto your back and place your hands on your chest. And just begin by following that rise and fall of your chest as you breathe. Let's take an inhale together, pausing at the top, and exhaling gently, just letting it all go. You can go ahead and open your chest. your eyes if they're not already.

And enjoy that morning light. Notice that even this early into the day, your brain is already working. You're already having thoughts. And there's nothing wrong with that at all. Our minds run all the time. That's the mind's job. Your heart's job is to pump blood and your brains is to think. And the brain is a great experience.

It tests out all sorts of new ideas, makes new connections, tries to solve problems, and it does this all of the time. Sometimes thoughts make sense, and sometimes they don't. It's all the brain experimenting, because that's its job. Keep in mind what that means, though. A thought is just a thought, it's an experiment, and it's nothing more. Thoughts don't define us. We've all had thoughts and been like, whoa, where did that come from? So try to see yourself as separate and apart from your thoughts.

If you're separate from them and all thoughts are just an experiment, then you're not controlled by them. You get to choose which ones you like and which ones you don't like, which ones get to hang out for a while, and which ones don't. It's your life. your body is your house, and you get to invite and un-invite anyone or anything. So on that note, let's go ahead and get this day started. Take a big stretch in bed.

And maybe you release a yawn and that's fine. Stretch it on out. And try not to let that fear of leaving this comfortable place build up. Instead, focus on the opportunity that awaits. once you do get up. Take a deep breath in, and as you exhale, roll over in bed, place your feet on the ground,

and stand on up.