Day 107- How To Get More Energy In The Morning
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📖Daily Reading
Psalms 137-138
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Join me on my morning walk as we rise and shine together by walking through the Bible daily and learn a practical applicable coaching nugget from the ultimate life coach - our creator (whatever that means to you). No judgement zone here, all are welcome, we are all on a spiritual journey because we are after all spiritual beings having a human experience.
📝 Reflection
Psalm 138: 1-3
I give you thanks, O Lord, with all my heart; I will sing your promises before the gods. I bow before your holy Temple as I worship. I praise your name for your unfailing love and faithfulness; for your promises are backed by all the honor of your name. As soon as I pray, you answer me; you encourage me by giving me strength.
As I am writing this it is Easter Sunday, a day when we are reminded and we celebrate renewed hope, energy, strength and life through the resurrection life of Jesus. The psalm above is also a great example of renewed hope, energy, strength and life. There is a lot of wisdom and neuroscience in the Bible. David goes to the Lord constantly in thanksgiving and praise. In our modern understanding we might say that he is also practicing gratitude.
The more we are learning about neuroscience the more we are realizing the positive chemicals that are created when we have positive mental outlook that is grounded in gratitude. It is pretty amazing! Conversely fear and more negative outlooks can block their production and create toxic chemicals, that can block our energy. They literally can make us feel ‘heavy’. When we talk about responsibilities as burdens and we get caught in perfectionism and overwhelm, we even use terms like ‘heavy burdens’. The word overwhelm, literally means to be buried or drowned beneath a huge mass, to defeat, give too much, inundate, be too strong for or to overpower.
Gratitude can turn the tide the other way. Especially when you start your day off with gratitude, you can get more energy in the morning that can last all day. Gratitude can create and give you a boost or a D.O.S.E. of good chemicals; dopamine, oxytocin, seratonin and endorphins, which give you energy that can go from morning till afternoon. A gratitude that gives you energy in the morning is a very specific formula. Not just gratitude that you say in a half hearted way, but meaningful deep where you allow yourself to feel it type of gratitude. This might involve even imagining your life without the things we take for granted. As we celebrate Easter even though we know that Jesus was resurrected with new life, the disciples didn’t. For them for a few days he really was dead and gone, defeated, they were hopeless, directionless and leaderless. Can you imagine that? Allow yourself to really go there. If you are not a believer allow yourself to go there with something else. See if that doesn’t help your gratitude be felt more deeply.
This is the type of gratitude that creates and gives energy. It also involves letting go of fear, judgement, taking yourself so seriously, and un-forgiveness. When Jesus was crucified, died and was resurrected it wiped the slate clean for ALL of us. Yet many of us walk around still crucifying ourselves and others. We are not allowing ourselves and others the resurrection life that bring healing strength, energy and new life. As I am typing this and as usual I am getting a message, reminder and lesson that I personally needed to receive.
I was feeling pretty drained of energy because I allowed myself to backslide into perfectionism and the heaviness of feeling like it was all up to me and I was behind, frazzled, ‘all the things’. I was blocking myself and others from love and forgiveness, allowing judgement to box me and and feeling overwhelmed and burdened. I also got off track with my gratitude practice this past week. Coincidence - hmmm…. I think not!! But that is ok, that is often the path of how we find what works. Trial and error, research, learning, never failure, and always feedback and learning. I learned how powerful and how important daily gratitude and truly what a difference it makes by not doing it!
This is critical! Don’t beat yourself up, that doesn’t help! Learn from it and get back to it. Get your energy in the morning back!! Morning energy is special, sacred and important. Our mornings can set the tone for our whole day. Get your energy, your hope back and feel a renewed strength in your life force! It is a choice- we always have a choice! You can choose gratitude always, which means you can choose gratitude always. If your ego is blocking you like mine was blocking me- remind yourself that you and me, we are not that important. Take yourself down a notch and humble yourself and be grateful for the hope that this new day brings. Be grateful for the ultimate sacrifice that was made for you and the slate that was wiped clean and the power of the Holy Spirit was given to us to resurrect our lives into a new hope and energy. How can you tap into and resurrect your life and energy in the mornings, try a little gratitude and see how much it helps!
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
How can you tap into and resurrect your life and energy in the mornings, try a little gratitude and see how much it helps!
📖Tomorrows Reading
Psalms 139-142
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