Before you fully begin your day,
I invite you to remember something incredible.
You are alive.
And right now inside your body thousands of extraordinary things are happening without you having to do anything.
Your heart is beating.
Your lungs are breathing.
Your brain is interpreting the world around you.
And you've probably stopped noticing how amazing that is.
So for the next few minutes,
Let's remember.
Close your eyes.
Let your shoulders soften.
Relax your jaw.
Just arrive in this moment right now.
Now gently rest your awareness on your heartbeat.
Feel it beating there for you.
And remember it's been beating since before you were even born.
Thousands of times a day.
Millions of times a year.
Without you doing a thing.
Now inhale deeply.
And exhale completely.
You take around 25,
000 breaths every single day.
And inside your beautiful lungs are around 300 million tiny air sacs creating an enormous surface area for oxygen to pass into your blood.
And you don't even have to think about any of it.
Your body just knows to breathe.
Now notice what it feels like to be alive.
The sensations present in your body.
The emotions you have experienced either yesterday or will tomorrow or now.
The joy or sadness,
Excitement or grief,
Love,
All of it.
You get to experience the full spectrum.
Not just the easy parts or the happy parts,
The whole thing.
To feel deeply is a part of being alive.
And now I invite you to imagine you are opening your eyes for the very first time.
Slowly blink them open.
Before you look at anything else,
Look at one color in the room.
Now find the lightest colour you can see.
And now the darkest shades.
And now notice every colour in between.
How many different shades can you find?
Colours you've seen a thousand times but perhaps never really looked at.
Now listen deeply.
As if you're hearing sound for the very first time.
Bird or a car or the hum of a room or even the sound of your own breath.
Just vibrations traveling through the air,
Being interpreted by your brain as sounds.
Now look around you.
Everything you can see was once an idea,
A thought in someone else's mind.
A chair,
A building,
A book.
Someone imagined it and then made it real.
Think about that for a moment because there are ideas inside your mind right now that don't exist anywhere else in the world.
Ideas you're going to bring into this day.
The things you are going to create,
Say,
Feel,
Experience.
And perhaps you've forgotten just how extraordinary that really is.
Every morning you get another chance to notice.
You can move through the day distracted or you can look up.
You can rush through a breath or you can feel it.
You can hear a sound or you can really listen.
You can see the world.
Or you can actually look.
Because there is wow in every heartbeat,
Wow in every breath.
In every feeling,
Sound,
Idea.
So take one more deep breath in.
And as you exhale,
Remember this.
You don't need to make your life more magical.
You just need to notice the magic that's already here.
Truly choose to open your eyes today.
And let yourself be amazed.
