Start Your Day With Calm | A Morning Grounding Practice

Start your day feeling calmer, more grounded, and present with this gentle morning grounding practice. This practice is designed for anyone who wakes up feeling activated, unsettled, or already pulled toward everything that needs to be done. Use it first thing in the morning to slow the transition into your day and create a more grounded starting point. Through gentle orienting, breath awareness, sensory awareness, and connection with the support beneath your body, you'll be guided out of doing and into the present moment before moving into the day ahead. Return to this practice each morning to create a daily ritual of beginning your day with greater calm, presence, and intention.
Practice includes: grounding, mindfulness, orienting, breath awareness, sensory awareness, body awareness, nervous system regulation.
Brooke Stevenson, LCSW.

Transcript

Welcome to this new day. I'm Brooke Stevenson, And I'm so glad you're here. Grounding in the morning gives you a chance to begin your day from a place of calm and presence. Before your attention turns towards everything the day is asking of you. So begin by noticing where you are. Feeling the bed or the chair beneath you. And the weight of your body being supported. Take one slow, Comfortable breath in. And let the exhale be long and easy. And now with open eyes, Gently let yourself look around the space you're in. Letting your eyes move slowly around the room. Taking in what's around you right now. Noticing the light. Maybe shapes or colors. The familiar details of the space you're in. Perhaps allowing your eyes to rest somewhere that feels comfortable and just stay there for a moment. Now bring your attention back to your body. Notice where you're making contact with something solid. Feeling the surface beneath you. Supporting the weight of your body. Notice your feet. If they're resting on the floor, Feel the contact beneath them. Or simply notice where they are. Their weight, Their temperature. And perhaps if any sensations are present. Take another slow breath in and easy breath out. And for these next few moments, Allow yourself to just be right where you are. Before the plans and the decisions and all the things that need your attention. Just this morning, This breath, This moment. Noticing the space around you one more time. Feel what's supporting your body in this moment. And perhaps being curious whether anything has shifted since you began. And as you begin to move into your day, Seeing if you can carry some of this steady feeling with you. Remembering that you don't have to meet the whole day at once. Just the next moment and then the one after that. Taking one final comfortable breath in. And beginning your day from here. I'm Brooke Stevenson. Until next time, Take gentle care of yourself.

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Lovely!