My morning nourishing tradition

This morning I woke as the sun rose, which is pretty typical for me now adays. I LOVE it! To wake with the rising sun and really let my rhythm match the natural rhythm around me...ahhh I an nourished! So there I am waking, still in bed and now sweetly smiling at the sounds of life coming alive outside.

Naturally or rather unnaturally, most of us including myself do not always wake up on the sunny side of the bed. Sometimes we wake from dreams that leave something to be desired or it is a violent alarm screaming from the bedside nook that is the troubled start to the day. But since we always have a choice for our moments, each one of them, and how to show up in those moments, we can rewrite the negativity and start with a new fresh clean chalkboard whenever we choose. Yes, whenever. Our own egoic self is what stops us from really nurturing our body mind and spirit all day every day. I wont quite get into that yet....that is a different post.

But in the meantime, say I have started my day pretty troubled for some reason. I am groggy, frustrated, and salty at the world! Well....my nourishing tradition begins here: I first brush my teeth to get that awful taste out of my mouth(physically yes but more metaphorically), and then step outside. I drop my connection to my phone, my computer, anything and everything else and I do my morning practice. I have the fortune of living in a part of the world where being outside in the morning is possible and quite tolerable (blessed and blissed here actually). So I do my Yoga/Taiji/standing Meditations outside for the world to be my witness and I let go of everything I may have asssumed, everything I may have expected and everything I may have wanted to control. I just stand in me. I allow myself to be present with how my body feels, where it aches or radiates. I allow myself to connect in my entirety. I do it for a little longer than I can handle just to push my own limits. I give thanks to the powers that be and then off to the races I go!!

My day begins and I am nourished. Just that little time spend connecting with my whole entire person, body mind and spirit, I clear all doubt and am empowered for whatever chaos may come next. My body and mind stay flexible so that when things mysteriously go awry in the moment, I can move like water and be the path of least resistance to solve my problems as they arise. I welcome you all to start a morning practice. No matter what it looks like. Maybe your favorite yoga teacher has some juicy words to enliven you day while you spend your morning in class, or maybe it is a simple walk around your block to touch the earth and the heavens before you work begins.

Either and every way you can find that time, create yourself your first nourishing tradition. It starts with you and only you every morning. You can curse it or you can praise it. Love yourself in the greatest way possible. You have a choice, you ALWAYS have a choice. I choose to praise it and to sing it!

Now, off to work I go!!!