Your Morning Ritual
Your body is running a ritual program every morning whether you're conscious of it or not.
I am an intuitive heart led women but I love me some science every now and again...
Did you know within 30 minutes of opening your eyes your brain releases a surge of cortisol designed to sharpen your focus, prime your nervous system and set the tone for your day. Its as if, this window your body and mind asks, what are we devoted to today?
Research shows that more than 70% of people check their phone within seven minutes of waking up. 7 minutes! This is before you’ve taken a conscious breath, before your neural pathways have fully formed and before you even have a moment to remember who you are.
When you pick up your phone before you make this soul connection you let the world tell you how you are and how to respond to life. Think about it…
There is a dopamine spike that happens when picking up your phone. At this point in the morning it scrambles your brain's natural rhythm leaving you scatted for the rest of the day. You know this feeling. It’s that already-overwhelmed feeling before you've even done anything. This is what unconscious morning habits do to your body and mind.
I have been creating my life from the inside out for the past 2 decades. I know how sacred the morning terrain is.
From a mystical perspective I a am soft and receptive when I first wake up. I set a foundation of deep connection from this place. AND this is also our biology at work.
Neuroplasticity is at its peak in the morning hours. This means that what you do during this window literally shapes your mind, for better or worse. It’s therefore the optimal window to create new neural pathways, strengthen your intuition and anchor yourself in who you are before external world has a chance to tell you how to be or how to think.
Conscious devotional ritual changes your life.
Every time you repeat a morning ritual the behavior requires less effort. It becomes part of you. [Think of any unconscious habits that have also become part of you]. Consciously, your body mind will rewire itself around your devotion, whatever you devoted to.
Consistency matters far more than perfection. I tell the women I work with this all the time. If you have 3 minutes one day and 20 the next those 3 minute matters. Your body mind requires time discipline far less than it requires repetition. Over time the effort dissolves and the ritual becomes effortless.
When you marry the world of devotion with the science of how your brain functions, you stop outsourcing. You stop outsourcing your power to your phone, your intuition to other people's opinions and you start your day anchored in yourself, your truth.
All rituals have to do with belonging. When we experience states of beauty we enter states of resonance which lead us further into the feelings of connection and belonging - within nature, ourselves and the world. This feeling of belonging and the need for it is deeply woven into our dna and yet this society has stripped us of that innate right to belong through hyper-individualism, ‘not enough’ consumer culture and endless competition. [No wonder 70% of people are reaching for their phones within 7 minutes of waking.]
My first teacher would always say, “everything you do is a practice.”
Consciously or unconsciously you are practicing ways of being. The way you brush your teeth, what you do when you first wake up in the morning, prepare and eat your food, enter a room, perform your work, go to sleep and every detail in between. Every repetitive behavioral pattern is a practice, a ritual and all repetitive behaviors serve us in some way.
I will never forget integrating this truth into my life. I was in my early 20’s and had been desperately trying to dig myself out of a pit of self destructive behaviors that had been hopelessly eating at me for years. A story for another time but through this teaching I realized that all the “bad behaviors” I had been repeating were actually nasty ways of me seeking satisfaction and creating a form of "ease".
A heavy but liberating realization.
When you identify a habit that you deem is “no longer serving you” it’s important to identify how it actually was because we don’t do something that doesn’t serve us in some way.
Once you understand why you are doing what you are doing you are able to create new ways to create those same feelings.
Creating new behaviors, rituals and practices is how I healed myself from a decade of self destitution and absolutely why I don't look at my phone for a minimum of 2 hours after I wake. Redirecting myself everyday to beauty helped my body remember my true state of belonging within the world.
I have been teaching women how to build their own morning rituals for years. Inside The Way of Wild Wisdom I give you one that I have crafted to perfection and I also teach you how to build onto it to make it your own.
For those of you want a prescription practice, I got you. For those of you who want to build one intuitively, from your own inner knowing, I got you too. The way I teach ritual building is feminine, it’s delicious, it’s doable and devotional. It feels like coming home instead of checking a box.
It’s never not the perfect moment to choose devotion if you feel the calling in your heart. The Way of Wild Wisdom allows you to learn everything about beauty, belonging and ritual. From the ones I share to how to create your own. Devote yourself daily to giving life to your truth.
