Morning Routines - to catch your dreams!

Health, fitness, personal development and spirituality are all high priorities in my life. They are truly my passions! Which you would probably expect being that I am a life coach and fitness professional!

The last year and a half has been a season of lots of change. I bought my first home and started teaching group fitness classes for the first time. I was adjusting to being a new home owner, living alone, and learning and growing as an instructor. Now that I feel comfortable and confident in both areas I am ready to take on some new dreams!

I was feeling guided to create some daily practices. I realized I had been neglecting some of my manifesting and spiritual practices. The Miracle Morning had been on my list of books to read, so I decide now was a perfect time. I loved it! Hal Elrod has a great writing style and the books is easy to read, fun and motivational. He uses the acronym SAVERS, which stands for silence, affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading and scribing (his word for journaling.)

I love each of these activities and can say with certainty they are transformational tools. I highly recommend the book. However, in my opinion the most important thing is doing things for your mind, body and spirit, every morning! Not necessarily these specific things.

Since I started reading the book, over the last week and half ago, I have been created a morning routine for myself that I have done everyday. (I will share in more detail in a future blog – stay tuned!) I am calling this my Dreamcatcher Morning!

As soon as I get out of bed I stand, stretch, and give thanks for this new day and new opportunity. (I’ve been playing with my own variation of an open your angel wings visualization/stretch from Kyle Gray in his book Angel Prayers and finishing by standing in super hero pose – more on this in the future blog!)
I make my bed
I drink water
Then I have been going straight to my backyard patio for the rest of my morning practice (The weather is beautiful now in Phoenix. I will find a different spot when as the weather changes)
I do some breathing work (Again, I will share specifics in a future blog)
Affirmations - I recently wrote my own short daily prayer/affirmation. I also wrote another morning mediation for multi-author book which will be released later this year. I say those to myself along with my Dreamcatcher Manifesto (which is on the main page of my site). Sometimes I say them to myself silently or say them aloud. Then I read my affirmations that I have written specific to my current goals. As I am saying them I take time to visualize my goals as done and bask in the feelings.
I take a few breaths in silence. Then I think of several things that I am grateful for. Then I say a prayer from A Course In Miracles – What would You have me do? Where would You have me go? What would You have me say, and to whom?

I plan to keep all these as part of my morning. Since I started my consistent morning routine I have also been taking time to read a new book each day as well. I read The Miracle Morning in just a few days and I am already half way through a second book, in less than two weeks! A few days I have also read from A Course in Miracles or devotionals/passages from Marianne Williamson’s A Year of Miracles or Doreen Virtue’s Daily Guidance from Your Angels. Reading might not always be part of every morning, but for now, it is!

There are many ways to incorporate time for these types of activities during your day but what is most important is adding some of these things to your morning, as a start to your day. Making time for your mind, body and spirit in the morning will lead to amazing transformations, in all areas for your life.

You can try any or all of these things. You can make your morning practice just a few minutes, or you can devote an hour a day to it. You can combine many of these practices. You can mentally say affirmations as you take a few deep breaths. I am also going to be incorporating some yoga sun salutations into my morning routine. Sun salutations combine stretching and strength movements with breathing. A few sun sals and thinking of three thing you are grateful for can be your morning routine!

Pick one or two things, practice them each morning and be consistent! You are worth it! The most important thing you need to achieve any goal or dream, is YOU! The happier and healthier you are, the more you will achieve! Your morning routine will help you catch your dreams!

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