Like physical exercise trains and tones the body, meditation trains, and tones the mind. Meditation helps us understand our thoughts, so we can control and direct them toward our goals and intentions. However, you can’t simply start by running a marathon on your first day.
Meditation is a powerful way to transform your life, but it can be challenging to begin. So let’s look at how to start a morning meditation practice that will help you manifest everything you want in life.
Benefits of Morning Meditation
Morning is the best time of day to meditate. The mind is fresh from sleep and quieter than at other times, without the whirl of daily tasks and events. Morning meditation helps to create:
Mental Clarity
Meditation produces a state of calm, relaxation, and mental tranquility. By reducing mental stress and anxiety, meditation promotes mental clarity, releasing thoughts and feelings that don’t serve your needs.
Increased Energy
Meditation is as beneficial for our energy levels as taking a nap. The truth is that distractions, negative thoughts, and mental stress are as physically draining as they are mentally draining. Meditation reduces all these stressors that drain your energy and help to restore you to mental freshness, boosting creativity and increasing productivity.
Improved Focus
Meditation is a way of training the brain to improve focus and reduce distractions. Even short periods of meditation help to improve concentration and attention. This greater mental focus and clarity can be used to enhance the effectiveness of your Law of Attraction intentions.
Still, they can also simply boost performance at work, help to deepen interpersonal relationships, and create greater self-awareness.
How to Start a Morning Meditation Practice
It may seem impossible for people with busy lives and busy mornings to find extra time for a meditation practice in the morning.
However, morning practice may be the easiest way to begin because the mind and body are relaxed, giving you a jump start on meditation. Here’s how to start a practice of regular morning meditation.
Prepare Your Space the Night Before
If you have a small home or cluttered room, you don’t want to distract yourself by creating a meditation space in the morning. Instead, prepare a space the night before. Your space can be as simple as a clear area with a seating cushion, but make it as easy for yourself as possible.
Consider How You Wake Up
If you habitually wake up to a loud alarm, it may disrupt your thoughts and breath in the morning. Also, avoid using your phone as an alarm since you may look at your phone and see other notifications and distractions immediately upon waking.
Instead, consider using a quieter, more gradual morning alarm or a wake-up light to wake more gently and naturally.
Get Up 15 Minutes Earlier For Meditation
If you can’t spare 15 minutes, even 5 or 10 can help you start a morning meditation practice. When you realize how beneficial morning meditation is for your mood and thoughts, you may want to increase the time you allow for it.
Set a Calm Timer
You may choose to set a 15-minute timer with a calming chime or choose meditation music that lasts for 15 minutes. However, if you decide to time your meditation practice, make sure that it’s reliable and doesn’t require your attention.
Pay Attention to Your Breathing
As you slip out of bed a few minutes early, move to your meditation area, and set your timer, try to maintain the same calm, even breath that you had in sleep. As you meditate, focus on your breath moving in and out of your lungs.
Feel how it expands and contracts your ribs and abdomen. It’s natural for your thoughts to stray during this process. When you find yourself distracted and thinking of something else, gently lead your thoughts back to your breath again and again.
Transition Calmly
When your meditation is over, try to remain calm instead of jumping up and launching into a busy day. Breathe slowly and calmly as you get up and move through your morning habits. Hold on to your calmness and focus as much as possible.
Guided Morning Meditation
For some people, concentrating on their breathing can be extremely difficult, and they can get frustrated with themselves for getting distracted and having their thoughts wander. Unfortunately, this frustration is the opposite of the feelings you want to cultivate, so you may prefer to use a guided meditation instead.
Here are some great guided meditations for morning practice that can help you manifest your desires.
Morning Meditation Affirmation 5 mins Morning Ritual
I AM Safe Guided Meditation
LOA | Morning Rituals | The Power of I Am | Affirmations for Love
Conclusion
Morning is the most powerful time of day for meditation and has the power to transform how you think, feel, and react all day long. Just a few minutes of meditation every day is transformational, and it’s not as difficult as you may think to find the time.
Using a guided meditation or meditation music can make it easier to calm, clear, and focus the mind. Beginning a morning meditation practice can help you manifest with the Law of Attraction and have lasting benefits for your mind, mood, and spirit.