Stop Waking Up Heavy

Wake up feeling heavy? Take four quiet minutes before the day gets its hooks into you. This short morning meditation is designed to help you breathe, settle your body, and stop carrying everything all at once. Use it when you wake up with stress, anxiety, feelings of overwhelm, or that weight on your chest before the morning has even started.

A gentle reset to help you begin the day more slowly, more steadily, and feeling a little lighter. Please note: This practice is for general well-being and does not replace professional mental health care.

Transcript

Before the day starts asking things from you. Just take this moment. You don't have to carry the whole day before it's begun. So let your eyes soften. Let your shoulders drop. Take a slow breath in through the nose. And then let it out. And again. Breathe in. And then let it go. Feel the weight of your body where it is. The brand needs you. The floor beneath you. Nothing needs to be solved for this first breath. Nothing needs to be figured out yet. Sometimes we can wake up and the mind is already waiting there with a list. What went wrong yesterday? What has to be done today? Who needs what? What might happen? One could fall apart. And before we even move, We're already tired. So for the next few breaths, Let the day wait outside the door. You can wait. Your first year. So bring one hand to your chest if that feels right. Feel the breath move under your hands. Not a perfect rat. Not spiritual wrath. Charles Bradt proof that life is still here. Proof that you made it through the night. And as you breathe in, Silently say, I am here. And as you breathe out, Say. . . I don't need to carry everything. And again, I am here. I don't need to carry everything. What the body hear that? Let the nervous system hear that. You're allowed to begin slowly. You're allowed to meet this day one step at a time. Now know the whole day. Not the whole way. Not even a whole future. Just this breath. Just this body. Just this morning. So take one more slow breath in. And let it out like you're setting down a bag you were never meant to hold all at once. Today may have some way. But you don't have to become the way. You can move gently. You can move on this way you can begin again and for now and Senna. Good work today and namaste.