Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Wake Up & Stretch - Abundance

Starting point is 00:00:01 If you'd like to enjoy Wake Me Up completely ad-free and get access to exclusive bonus content, check out the link in the show notes for the Wake Me Up Premium Feed. Good morning. Welcome to Wake Me Up and to this Wake Up and Stretch episode, where we'll get out of bed and prepare the body and mind for a great day. The theme for this week is abundance. My friends, you already have everything you need to succeed and be happy. and hopefully, after today's episode, tomorrow's meditation, and Wednesday's motivation,

Starting point is 00:00:39 you'll feel that way and believe it too. Perhaps you've noticed I altered the format of Wake Me Up a little bit recently. My hope is that this new format is more flexible. It will allow you to playlist multiple episodes to create exactly the morning routine you want. So let me know if you're enjoying it. Now, let's get started. Wherever you are, just pause for a minute. Notice your body.

Starting point is 00:01:11 Notice your heartbeat. Notice your breath. And just take this moment to appreciate your body. It's really something, isn't it? It has all of these fancy inner workings, most of which we're really only beginning to understand. It allows you to live, to think, to do, to sense, to feel, to be happy and sad, to care about things, and to not care about other things.

Starting point is 00:01:49 It's truly remarkable. You are truly remarkable. No matter what your belief system is, there's no denying that. You are a special, unique occurrence in the universe. Whatever creative force you think exists, it puts you here. you specifically. An abundance of resources was put into you so that you might live, thrive, explore,

Starting point is 00:02:20 and move the world forward in your own unique way. So appreciate your value. Be grateful for yourself. Take a big inhale, collecting that gratitude for yourself. And then exhale, just release it back out to the world. Again, inhale even deeper. And release. Just let it all go. Once more now, inhale the deepest breath yet. Take an extra sip of air at the top and then exhale. Release. Now there's a beautiful

Starting point is 00:03:14 day lying ahead. Let's get it started. So if you're in bed, roll over and make your way to standing up. It's time to stretch and wake up the body a little bit. And as always, I'll just go ahead and say, don't do a stretch if it's not right for you. Feel free to do something else. My stretches are just suggestions. We're all different. We all have different bodies, and we need different things.

Starting point is 00:03:53 So do what your body needs. If you're going to come with me, we're going to really get some blood flowing to start. So stand up straight. Start with your hands down by your sides. Inhale and reach your arms out wide as you slowly move them up and over your head, really stretching across your chest.

Starting point is 00:04:20 When you get to the top, exhale and fold forward at your waist. Let everything relax towards the ground. And we'll do a few of these, this first one a little bit slower, and then we'll move faster. So take about 20 or 30 seconds and loosen up here in whatever way feels best for you.

Starting point is 00:04:44 And let's do one round of breath while you do that. So inhale and exhale. Now slowly roll up to standing, inhaling along the way, reaching your arms out wide, expanding across the chest. And once you reach the top, exhale and fold forward at your waist again. Release everything towards the ground. One breath in. One breath out.

Starting point is 00:05:35 Roll up to standing again. last time. Reach your arms out wide as you make your way up. And when you get to the top, exhale, fold forward. One round of breath. Inhale, exhale. Now slowly roll up again, inhaling along the way. And when you get there, roll your shoulders up, back, and down, and release your breath. All right, great. Got some blood flowing. Let's loosen up. Let's loosen up. our neck a little bit. So reach the crown of your head towards the ceiling. And then just let your neck fall over to the right, over your right shoulder. You'll feel a nice stretched on the left side of your neck. One round of breath here, inhale and exhale and bring your head back up straight.

Starting point is 00:07:05 This time, let your neck fall over your left shoulder. And you'll feel that stretched on the right side of your neck. Again, breathing, inhaling, and exhaling. Delivering some oxygen to the muscles while you open them up is so helpful. All right, return to center. Crown of your head towards the ceiling. And this time, turn your head to the right. So you get a nice twist along the left side. Keep breathing. Now come back to center and turn your head to the left. So you use, you see, feel that twist along the right side of your neck. All right, come back to center. One last deep inhale.

Starting point is 00:08:26 Hold it, take an extra sip of air, and release. Well, friends, our time is up for today. I hope your body and your mind are warm and ready to get the day started. Remember as you go about this day, you have all of the skills and knowledge to make anything happen. And if you don't know how to do it right now, you have the tools and the ability to learn. You are truly abundant in every way. So go and do something with that. Don't let it go to waste. I'll talk to you tomorrow for our meditation episode. Now go out and have a fantastic day. Thank you so much for listening today. If you're enjoying the show, I'd greatly appreciate you

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Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Wake Up & Stretch - Abundance

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