Starting each day with meditation: a good idea or nonsense?

On a weekday, my alarm goes off at six o'clock. I still find it an ungodly hour, but I drag myself out of bed. Sports outfit on, grab some water, and half an hour on the bike or do some exercises on a mat. Then I meditate for fifteen to thirty minutes, depending on how much time I have, and repeat some affirmations (it seems to work). On my days off, I am now practicing meditating longer. I even find it more enjoyable to breathe in and out calmly for an hour than to hang out on the couch with a series. Although I still make time for that with love. Nothing human is alien to me, I am not the Dalai Lama.

Unbeknownst to me, with my new routine, I am now freeing up a whole hour for myself every morning, and that turns out to be very good, I saw this morning on Instagram. I mainly see on Instagram what works for me, you understand. So I am accidentally participating in Adrienne Herbert’s Power Hour, which is nothing more and nothing less than spending one hour a day with yourself. It doesn't matter how, it doesn't matter what, just do what you enjoy for sixty minutes.

“Start the day with the feeling you want to have all day,” says Adrienne Herbert to British Marie Claire. And that is what I try to do with my morning routine. By meditating, my mind is calmer, which makes me less stressed for the rest of the day. By the way, you don’t have to get out of bed at such a ridiculous hour, but this time works for me because I am not disturbed by anyone. Taking an hour for yourself is allowed at any desired moment. The condition is that you do something you want to do. Walking the dog, getting a massage, writing in your diary for an hour, a boxing session or taking a Greek course, anything is allowed. As long as you reclaim that time, because according to Herbert, that is what we have lost. Time for ourselves.

We give our time away to everything around us. Family, scrolling on Insta, working for another hour, or everything we think we must do first before we can do something else. You need to take back an hour from that time and invest in yourself. It is good for your mental health, for your productivity, and Herbert even dares to say that it ultimately has an impact on your entire life. That hour will help you bring out the best in yourself.

What do you think about it, tomorrow morning six o'clock?

Source: marieclaire.co.uk