This blog was inspired by an idea from Carol at www.matrix-training.com: When you wake up in the morning do you tune in to the latest news update (probably bad news and depressing), or switch on the radio! What’s the last thing you listen to before you go to bed? Imagine being able to choose your own radio and TV channel inside your head…..and for what purpose would you choose to watch bad news and listen to music you don’t like, when you can direct your own movies and go into your own recording studio to create your own music?
Are you going through a good phase in your life or have you had better times? What is it that seems to cause our good or bad moods? Is it the people or circumstances around us that put us into that fog, that give us the ‘blues’?
It’s not a secret that the way you start your day will usually have an enormous impact on the way it ends. Waking up late, falling out of bed, tripping over the cat and jumping into a cold shower (unless you are conditioned to it) is a sure fire route to disaster. The expression ‘to start the day as you mean to go on’ is a useful reminder that good starts are to be recommended to ensure a better chance of a happy ending. Otherwise we seem to spend the rest of the day either playing catch up or discovering that things can only get worse.
But bad days often begin as a result of a bad night. Not having enough sleep or being unable to sleep properly will most likely cause us to feel tired and grumpy. It’s obvious that getting the optimum amount of sleep is an important factor in our emotional wellbeing. However, going to bed in a good frame of mind is essential if you are to have any hope of waking up feeling the same. I like to do Jin Shin Jyutsu before I fall asleep and upon waking. It seems to put the body into a harmonious state which is more conducive to sleeping. It helps me to come back down to earth from my nocturnal travels, ready for the new day. Another powerful relaxer is to go into peripheral vision, by focusing your sight (eyes closed) between your eyebrows. This causes your mind to slow down and if you focus on something positive at the same time you will fall asleep more quickly.
The thoughts we think before we sleep, the movies we watch are powerful dictators of the dreams that follow. It is therefore very beneficial to have a routine before bed. One that puts us in a good frame of mind, where our thoughts are stilled and our body relaxed. If you go to sleep all hyper and anxious it is asking a lot of the body and the mind to switch off straight away.
I never realized the importance of taking a shower before bed until I understood how much negative energy we tend to absorb during the day. Apart from the obvious benefits for hygiene, the very act of standing under running water, removes all the stresses and strains we have taken on board and helps the body to relax.
If you remember the adage that ‘today is the first day of the rest of your life’, whatever happened yesterday is no longer important. It is what you do from this second onwards that shapes the present and ultimately the future. Therefore make that first thought upon awakening a positive one. That can be quite tricky if you haven’t practiced. That is why having a plan the night before is always helpful. It’s a bit like wanting that healthy salad for lunch. If you don’t prepare it the night before and have it ready in the fridge, the chances are you will find yourself snacking on fast food again. Decide how you would like to start your day. Create a mantra or a positive affirmation that you can repeat upon waking and you will find your mind will be quick to follow it.
Louise Hay says "If you can encompass your day, beginning to end, with loving thoughts, ...you will become one of those people who listens to stories of disaster rather than having them. When you wake up each morning, try saying to yourself, ‘Oh, good morning, Darling! Today is going to be fabulous!’ And that is what it will turn out to be.”
Tune into your own channel of positive vibrations, switch off those old negative vibes and create a truly fabulous day!
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