What's your morning routine? · Thrive Community

What's your morning routine?

Do you have one? Does it support you in living your best life?

Developing a supportive morning routine was one of the biggest game changers for me.

It was part of the reason I started being able to lose excess weight, after years of trying, with very little success.

The morning routine I started with was super simple...

Lay in bed and listen to hypnotherapy or guided relaxation for 30-45 minutes. Allow myself to relax completely. That was it.

This simple routine put me in a good head space for the rest of the day. It set me up with a positive mindset, gratitude, and openness to the blessings of life.

Because it felt so good, I started incorporating guided relaxation at the end of the day too, and sometimes even in the middle of the day, if time allowed.

I often incorporated prayer during this time too, since that's an important part of my day.

This relaxing morning practice supported me in having balanced cortisol throughout the day.

Little did I know that balancing my cortisol would help excess fat drop away from my body, with ease and little effort. I had never experienced this before!

I started at 220 pounds. My goal weight was 160. I never weighed myself at home, since we didn't have a scale.

A few months after I started my simple morning routine (and intermittent fasting), I weighed myself at the gym and almost fell off when I saw the number...it said 146. I thought the scale must be broken!

It wasn't. I do weigh myself weekly now, because I appreciate the information I get from doing that.

I share this story as inspiration about how quickly things can change for you when you get your cortisol in balance.

Intermittent fasting helped me get my insulin in balance. Balancing these two hormones, insulin and cortisol, is KEY for good health and weight loss, and we talk about them quite a lot in the Release the Weight course, in the Classroom.

A good morning routine can go a long way in helping us balance both insulin and cortisol!

Cortisol is the hormone our body secretes when we have any sort of stress...the more cortisol we have coursing through our body, especially past morning time, the more our body holds onto FAT for dear life.

Insulin is the hormone that clears blood sugar from the blood stream, delivers it to cells, and converts it into energy our body can use for daily activities.

Having a quality protein, fat-rich breakfast with healthy carbs or limited carbs can go a long way in balancing insulin.

Intermittent fasting also helps a lot, by giving your insulin TIME to convert blood sugar from your food into energy. In current times, many of consistently pile more and more food into our bodies, with 3 meals a day, plus snacks.

When we do this, we overwhelm the ability of insulin to actually use the fuel coming in. This can lead to a condition called insulin resistance, which makes it really hard to lose weight. This was the state my body was in when I started my simple morning routine.

In the past, it always felt like I needed to WORK HARD to lose weight or get in shape.

Daily Hypnotherapy and guided relaxation, along with insulin-supportive food choices made it feel easy and effortless. Later, incorporating intermittent fasting, helped a lot too.

Grateful for my amazing hubby

@Steve Smith

for initiating taking the kids to school in the morning. It was his idea and it made all the difference for me. It allowed me to have a nice chunk of morning time for me.

My current morning routine still includes guided relaxation/hypnotherapy. But now, I actually start with 10 minutes on the rebounder, and a few minutes walking outside barefoot to take in the morning light from the sun and free electrons from the Earth via grounding.

I do relaxation afterwards.

Morning light is something

@Evelyn Szeinbaum

talks about a lot.

I think that

@Joshua Haag

teaches this too...

Exposing your eyes to the morning light of the sun helps set your body up for hormonal success. It initiates the cortisol that your body needs in the morning to get you going, which in turn helps the body create melatonin in the evening to be able to settle down when it's night time.

Cortisol in the morning is actually a really good thing...it gives you the pep you need to jump out of bed and take on your day! After morning time, cortisol should be decreasing more and more. Melatonin comes in at night to help us unwind.

Looking at sunlight first thing in the morning can actually help you to sleep better, by supporting the flow of cortisol and melatonin in the body!

What's YOUR morning routine, fellow Thriver? Do you feel happy with it, or would you like to shift it in some way to be more supportive for you?

Do tell!

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