Do you want to implement more rituals into your daily life? Jumpstart your day and feel more energized with these 20 powerful morning rituals!
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
In an earlier blog, we talked about how powerful rituals can transform your life. Not only do they help you to feel more energized, but they also decrease anxiety, increase confidence and bring you back to the here and now.
Rituals can be applied throughout the whole day. However, powerful morning rituals can truly jumpstart your day. Therefore, we’ll provide you with 20 morning rituals that you can try out!
Here’s What You’ll Learn
- Why Morning Rituals Are Essential For Highly Sensitive People And Empaths
- 20 Morning Rituals You’ll Want To Try
- 1. Power Affirmations
- 2. Journaling
- 3. Stretching
- 4. Mindful Tea
- 5. Listen To A Podcast
- 6. Take A Walk In Nature
- 7. Express Gratitude
- 8. Take Time For Your Breakfast
- 9. Set An Intention For The Day
- 10. Meditate
- 11. Make A To-do List
- 12. Try Qi Gong
- 13. Visualize Your Future
- 14. Read
- 15. Dream Journaling
- 16. Drink Lemon Water
- 17. Turn On Calm Music
- 18. Do A Random Act Of Kindness
- 19. Be Creative
- 20. Exercise
- The Art Of Maintaining Morning Rituals
Why Morning Rituals Are Essential For Highly Sensitive People And Empaths
As highly sensitive people and empaths become overstimulated more easily, it is crucial to take enough time for self-care throughout the day.
Oftentimes, many of us feel guilty for taking time to recharge. As a result, self-care ends at the bottom of our priority lists. However, this is the worst thing that you could do!
By making time for yourself and getting in the right energy mindset, you will be more productive than you would be with a lack of energy. Therefore, implementing rituals into your daily routine is the most productive thing you actually could do for yourself and others.
Imagine what an impact the right energy can have on your day! Consequently, it is a wise choice to start your day with some me-time.
Don’t Have Time For Morning Rituals?
This is a common excuse many of us make when claiming that morning rituals don’t fit into our schedule. In some way, there is this idea in our minds that morning rituals take a lot of time. That is not the case!
In fact, morning rituals can last as short as 3 minutes. As a result, even the busiest people can make time to implement morning rituals into their day.
Another common excuse that many people use, is that they are not an early riser. It is tough to wake up early in the morning, we know! But just imagine what effect it could have on the rest of your day to set your alarm for 10 minutes earlier, to implement morning rituals? Wouldn’t it be much better to start the day with the right energy, than going to work all tired and exhausted because you just rolled out of bed?
20 Morning Rituals You’ll Want To Try
Convinced? Time to start your mornings off right by implementing one of these 20 morning rituals.
1. Power Affirmations
Duration: 1 minute
One of the most powerful morning rituals is setting a power affirmation and repeating it to yourself. A power affirmation is a sentence that feels empowering to you and your situation. It can be anything that gives you energy.
How to create a power affirmation?
Think of a situation in your life that you want to improve. Now, create a sentence that supports your goal. For example, if you want to grow your business, you might want to say “I attract good business opportunities and help people with what I do every single day”. Most important is, that your power affirmation feels empowering to you. If it doesn’t feel empowering, rewrite it until it does.
If you want to start your day with a new affirmation each day, you might want to purchase these ‘How to love yourself’-cards, consisting of 64 affirmations to start your day with or try writing down your affirmations in this affirmation journal:
2. Journaling
Duration: 5 minutes
Another wonderful way to start your day, is to write in your journal. Not only is it a wonderful way to get anything off your chest, that you don’t want to carry around with you for the rest of the day, but it is also an incredibly calm activity to start your day with.
How to journal?
There is not really a recipe for journaling. Some people write whatever enters their mind, while others prefer to answer a preset question. You have to find out what feels right for you.
If you love to journal with preset questions, you might want to buy the journal ‘Start where you are’, specifically designed for self-exploration. This journal helps you to nurture your creativity, mindfulness and self-motivation.
3. Stretching
Duration: 2 minutes
Many people underestimate the power of stretching. Why do you think that dogs and other animals stretch out when they wake up? It is incredibly beneficial for their health to do it and as a result, it is one of their instincts. Also for human beings, stretching has multiple benefits. Stretching improves your posture, reduces aches and pains, increases blood flows and provides you with more energy. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!
How to stretch?
In the video below, you will receive some tips on how to stretch in the morning:
4. Mindful Tea
Duration: 15 minutes
One of the rituals that I love, is the ‘mindful tea’-ritual. This is a very simple ceremony for those who enjoy peace and calm in the morning. It involves drinking tea without too much external stimuli from the outside world.
How to drink tea mindfully?
It begins with preparing your tea. Carefully select a tea that speaks to you, boil the water and pour it gently into your favorite cup. Then, find a calm space in your home or preferably on your front porch and sit down. Just enjoy the surroundings, take a sip of your tea every now and then and be in the here and now. Don’t look at your phone, the newspaper or the tv. This is external input that ruins the effect of mindfulness, as it takes you away from the present.
If you want to discover the world of tea, you might want to try out your mindful tea-ritual with this amazing tea-collection, consisting of delicious Heavenly Tea Leaves samplers.
5. Listen To A Podcast
Duration: 20-30 minutes
If you have more time on your hand in the morning than the average person, listening to podcasts might be an inspiring morning ritual for you. Most podcasts last between 20-30 minutes and offer you inspiring thoughts to start your day with. There are thousands of different podcasts out there! If you are new to the world of podcasts, you will definitely get hooked, once you start.
How to listen to podcasts?
There are different ways to listen to podcasts and the most podcast shows are available on multiple platforms. You can for example listen to podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.
6. Take A Walk In Nature
Duration: 15-30 minutes
If you are looking for calm morning rituals, walking in nature might be a nice one to try out. If you are lucky, you can access nature within a few minutes from your home. Some of us, who live in the city, might want to choose to take a walk in the park to get a taste of nature.
This morning ritual is incredibly powerful for highly sensitive people and empaths, as they usually recharge when in nature. If you are a multitasker, you might want to combine walking in nature with listening to podcasts.
7. Express Gratitude
Duration: 5 minutes
If you want to start your day with a positive mindset, one of the morning rituals you might want to try is gratitude. Gratitude is the art of reflecting on everything that you are grateful for.
This simple practice has multiple benefits: it improves your physical and mental health, opens doors to new relationships, enhances empathy, improves self-esteem and makes you feel mentally stronger. If these aren’t enough reasons to start being grateful?
How to express gratitude?
Gratitude can be performed in your mind, but is even more powerful with writing. By writing down everything you are grateful for, you will think less from a perspective of lack, as you day by day see what you already have.
You might want to try this beautiful gratitude-journal to start off your gratitude-ritual!
8. Take Time For Your Breakfast
Duration: 30 minutes
How many of us rush to work, grabbing a sandwich on the commute to our job? This is incredibly stressful for your mind and body and you give yourself the worst start of the day. Did you know that the breakfast is the most important meal of the day? It provides you with energy for everything you will do afterwards. Therefore, make breakfast one of your morning rituals! Buy healthy and tasty food to eat in the morning and take your time to prepare and eat it. Your health will thank you for it!
For example, you might want to try these delicious breakfast ideas!
9. Set An Intention For The Day
Duration: 3 minutes
Another incredibly powerful morning routine is to set an intention for the day. By writing down what you intend to achieve that day, chances are much bigger that you will achieve it. In addition, your intention often feels incredibly empowering. In this way, you give yourself the right energy boost before starting your day and activities.
10. Meditate
Duration: 10-15 minutes
If you truly want to change your mindset and feel more positive each day, you should consider to start meditating every morning. Research has shown that people who meditate every day, increase the tissue mass of the anterior cingulate cortex. This is the area of the brain that is responsible for controlling impulses and maintaining attention. In addition, the amygdala shrinks when you meditate regularly. This is the part of your brain responsible for sadness, anxiety and other negative emotions. Especially for highly sensitive people, whose amygdala is more developed, meditation can do wonders! Therefore, consider adding this to your morning routine.
How to meditate?
There are thousands of different meditation practices out there. If you are a beginner, you might want to start with guided meditations. This helps you to learn how to meditate. For more advanced meditators, sitting down and meditating with meditation music in the background might be a good fit. If you want to learn how to meditate, you might want to try this 28-day program!
For example, try this meditation to release anger and resentment.
11. Make A To-do List
Duration: 5-10 minutes
If you have a tendency to feel overwhelmed by everything that you need to do, it is wise to make a to do-list before starting your day. In this way, you can structurize your thoughts and start your day clear and focussed.
How to make a to do-list?
First, you write down all the tasks that you have to do that day. Then, structurize them from most important to least important. Begin with the most important task and work your way through your list. If you acknowledge new tasks to do along the way, write them down and save them for the next day. This way, you keep your focus on your to do-list for that day.
This notepad is perfect if you want to structurize your to do’s!
12. Try Qi Gong
Duration: 20 minutes
This exercise is an amazing way to boost your energy. Qi Gong is a practice of coordinated body movement, breathing and meditation in one. It originates from China and functions as a way to cultivate and balance your life energy (Qi). By moving your body slowly, while breathing deeply and being in a calm meditative state, you can give yourself a real energy lift.
How to do Qi Gong?
In the video below, you can find an introduction to Qi Gong. This is perfect, if you are new to the practice and still need to learn more about it:
13. Visualize Your Future
Duration: 5 minutes
Many succesful people have a strong vision of what success means to them and how it looks like. By visualizing their dream every single day, they have managed to realize it and you can too! With this simple morning ritual, you give your energy a boost towards your dream!
How to visualize:
Sit down in a calm space and visualize what you want to achieve in life. Think about how it would feel to achieve what you dream about. Visualize where you would be, what you would do each day and truly tap in on the feeling of succes. The feeling you create in this session, will stick with you for the next hours, so use that time wisely!
If you want to read more about visualization and how to use it to create the life of your dreams, you might want to read the book ‘Creative Visualization.
14. Read
Duration: 30 minutes
You never stop learning, so invest in your growth. Take half an hour each morning to read a book that inspires you in some way. By broadening your horizon, you will acknowledge new opportunities, which you would neglect if you didn’t have the knowledge.
If you are looking for a good read, we highly recommend ‘Super attractor’ from Gabrielle Bernstein, which helps you to practice the law of attraction.
15. Dream Journaling
Duration: 5 minutes
A nice twist of the classic journaling, is dream journaling. Most of us tend to forget most of our dreams, but they often try to tell us something. Therefore, it is wise to keep a dream journal near your bed, so that you can write down everything you remember, once you wake up.
How to dream journal:
Write down your dream. Then, analyze what your dream might mean and what your subconscious is trying to tell you. If you need help with analyzing your dreams, you might want to buy this dream guide.
16. Drink Lemon Water
Duration: 2 minutes
Lemon water is good for your health, helps in digestion and offers you plenty of vitamins and nutrients. Therefore, start your day healthy with some lemon water. Simply put some lemon juice in your water and drink this mixture once you wake up.
17. Turn On Calm Music
Duration: 10-60 minutes
There is a difference between doing all your morning chores in silence or doing them with a calm beat in the background. Turn on relaxing music and start on your morning chores, such as showering, brushing your teeth or picking your clothes, with joy.
You might want to check out this relaxing music list on Spotify.
18. Do A Random Act Of Kindness
Duration: 5 minutes
Imagine how a small effort from you can make someone’s entire day? Therefore, plan to do one small random act of kindness. For example, you could buy the person behind you in line a coffee, help a mother with carrying her groceries to the car or simply smile at everyone you pass by. Joy can be found in the little things. Best of all, by making other people happy, you will feel a boost in happiness too!
In this book, you’ll find 500+ ideas for random acts of kindness. Let it inspire you to shine your light!
19. Be Creative
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Many highly sensitive people and empaths are creative. Therefore, being creative in the morning can be a fun and calming ritual. In fact, there are many ways to be creative. Find a way that suits you and let your creativity flow freely.
20. Exercise
Duration: 30 minutes
Many of us are not a fan of it, but it is so good for you! Exercising has many health benefits, including increased happiness, weight loss, higher energy levels, better relaxation and sleep quality and longer life expectancy. Pick an exercise that you enjoy. Yoga, for example, is a calm and relaxing exercise method to keep you moving. Definitely a great way to start your day!
The Art Of Maintaining Morning Rituals
After reading this article, you most likely are psyched to get started and already identified a couple of activities that you’d like to try out in the morning. Our advice; only begin with 1 ritual. Once this ritual has become an habit in the morning, introduce more rituals. This way, you are most likely to keep up with your routine. Remember, that morning rituals should feel effortless and be fun! Fun is the best way to get energized, so pick activities that bring you joy!
Good luck with creating your perfect morning!
