The Power of Morning Ritual

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There is a power in the morning ritual. Yes, true that! We are talking about a morning routine which makes your day positive. The way you start your day and spend your morning decides your whole day. Your creative neurons start getting active from the day itself. Morning is the most powerful time of your day. You can make it or break it.

When you wake up in the morning, from a subconscious stage, you start moving towards the conscious stage. It is a transition from sleeping to waking up. It is subtle which can be felt. That is why people start their day with tea or a coffee as it freshens them up. Our elders always ask to study in the morning as our mind gets fresh after sleep and we are ready to welcome the newness of knowledge and perspectives.  We are ready to soak absorb the new knowledge. Our creativity is at its peak and we can be innovative. Remember, people, saying that the best ideas come in washrooms in the morning. How you spend the first one hour determines the rest of your day.       

         

 Welcome the presence of today with the vibrations of energy. Do what you love to do. Spend time with your hobbies. Some people play in the morning because they love to play a certain game and it fills them with energy. Why people go to temple early in the morning because it is their daily ritual. They cannot imagine their day without the morning ritual of worshipping or going to the temple. I have closely observed people who follow a certain pattern of activities in the morning. 

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They seem to be more oriented and organized in their lives. A friend used to make a to-do list every morning before leaving for college. Unbelievably, she managed her college and job very well, scoring 9.2 CGPA in the whole batch. Once I was going through an interview of a renowned writer and he told in the interview that he starts his day by writing. He gives the first 1 hour of the morning to write articles. Isn’t the feeling too wonderful that you start your day with passion and full of energy?

People who start their day early seem to more organized with the tunes of the whole day. They keep a track of what is next rather than playing absurdly. Eventually, they are able to see at the end of the day that what were their accomplishments and achievements in a day. Were they able to make some difference from yesterday or not? Were they able to achieve the goals they had set in the morning or not? What they are supposed to do tomorrow? Play guitar or your favourite music, gardening, writing, spending some time with nature etc., surely you will find solace in it. All this thought process makes your mind healthy and organized. Your creativity gets more space in your mind as your thoughts are structured by a defined morning routine.

Really? Am I That Old Fashioned?

Putting clothes to dry, cooking, or cleaning the stuff, why does it feel that it’s an age-old fashioned work? Why the newer generation does not want to do their errands on their own? Why there is a feeling of 'outsourcing' everything if it can be done in-house? At a lot of places in my neighborhood, I see lot of kids and children shrugging their shoulders when they are asked to clean their utensils or clothes. They do not even want to dust their own room. It is apathy to see that.

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I asked one of the kids in the neighborhood, "Why did you yell at your mom when she asked you to water the plants?" He said, "Come On, who does that in today's times.” To me, his response was a surprise mixed with shock because in my childhood times I had always enjoyed gardening and related activities. The mornings were busier with completing chores before leaving for school.  The first thing in the morning, I remember,  was to make the bed. It is an acclaimed habit for me now. I cannot keep my bed clumsy in the morning. I do not say that I was always involved with the household chores day and night during my childhood, but working at home never felt like suppressing my dreams. I never felt ashamed doing that because I always considered that it was just ‘work’ and something which is ‘work’ cannot be treated in a different way. I mean, it is something you are supposed to do- you have made the mess at the dining table, then why you cannot clean it? You have made your clothes dirtier, aren’t you supposed to take care of that. A toddler and a kid cannot take care of all this, but someone in his late teen can start doing that.

There are people who feel grounded by going household stuff. I remember an officer, who was an ‘A’ grade government officer and he used to clean his room every day on his own, no maid and no other staff.  Isn’t it being humble? Isn’t it being grounded? I really feel that sorting and organizing things on your own imbibes positivity in your head.  Ideally, you should never feel ashamed, and never make your kid feel so. Keeping your own things sorted makes you feel sane.

Outsourcing is a very good idea when you do not have an option. It is the only option when you are not left with any kind of choice. The idea is not to abstain ourselves from these errands because kids learn from us. When they see that we are not interested in doing particular stuff, they will always feel that there is something wrong with that activity. We make society. We make the future. So let us make a good society and a good future!