Welcome to this 6 day morning challenge.
Start your day from the inside out.
This challenge was born from a longing many people recognize,
The feeling of drifting away from yourself as the day unfolds.
Giving a lot,
Thinking a lot,
Doing a lot,
And losing touch with your own center along the way.
Through breath,
Sound,
Gentle movement and awareness,
You return to your body and your own presence,
Tuning in to yourself so that you can feel clear,
Vibrant,
Centered and alive before the day has even begun.
This 6-day Morning Challenge helps you begin each day from within yourself.
Full of energy,
Centered and aligned,
Through short,
Embodied practices,
You return to your body,
Your heart and your energy.
Each morning you take a few mindful minutes to pause with your body,
Your breath,
Your energy,
Your awareness.
No complicated routines,
Just small moments that help you move into your day with more clarity,
Calm and connection to yourself.
I am Diana and I'm honored to guide you through this small practice.
Welcome to day six,
The last day of this challenge.
Reclaiming your energy.
Everything that has scattered returns to you.
Your energy gathers in your center.
We close the challenge with a powerful practice to recollect your energy.
Everything you have consciously or unconsciously left with other people or situations over these past days or weeks may gently return to you.
So for now,
Close your eyes and breathe in and out calmly.
Turn your attention inward.
And feel how you are.
Without judgments,
Simply observing.
Then imagine giving yourself a color.
The first thing that comes to you is right.
Don't think about it.
Feel the energy of the color.
Observe how this color fills your body.
As in day 2,
Place a soft boundary around yourself.
Comfortable,
Easy,
Relaxed.
And place a flower of your choice at the edges.
Above,
Below,
Left,
Right and front and back.
Let a person or situation come to mind where your attention has been.
Observe from a distance.
Now retrieve your colour from that situation or person.
Gently take your own energy back into yourself.
As if your color just returns home.
And continue this until no new people or situations arise.
Then turn your full attention to your own color.
How is it now?
More bright,
More full.
Breathe into your belly.
And feel your center.
Now stand up and shake your body.
Small bouncing movements,
Heels gently lifting from the floor.
Shake your arms,
Hands,
Shoulders,
Hips,
Legs,
Knees.
Keep breathing deeply and allow any sound that wants to come out.
Bring your attention to your belly.
Which sound wants to be heard right now?
Open your throat and let it come.
Perhaps you want to fine-tune until you've found exactly the right sound for this moment.
And once you have found it,
Sound it for as long as feels good to you.
Keep breathing,
Bouncing.
Let everything go.
Relax.
And then stand completely still for a moment and feel your energy.
Breathe into your belly,
Feel yourself becoming fuller,
Clearer and more yourself.
Of course,
You can give yourself more time for this exercise or all the former exercises if you want to go deeper and move and breathe,
Shake,
Make sounds or stay in the energy for much longer.
Feel how you are right now.
You can return to this feeling or repeat the practice whenever you lose yourself during the day.
This was the last of six morning practices.
Thank you for your presence and your courage.
Love,
Diana
