You are getting me out of bed today because I wanted to talk about a new morning practice.

I am not talking about a routine. 

You don't need one more three-minute miracle morning because your brain doesn't work like that. 

Let me just tell you that your greatest strengths are creativity and intuition—those two things.

When you operate by listening to your intuition and applying it to your creativity, everything changes. 

I'm wearing my fancy, dancy, noise-canceling headphones this morning, and I'm doing that for a reason.

I usually don't during a podcast episode, but I am because this is part of my morning practice. 

Now, this may or may not be a secret to you, but I have ADHD.

I believe that is just a residual from a very chaotic childhood, where my head had to be on a swivel at all times to make sure that I wasn't going to get in trouble or be blindsided by a parent who was moving the goalposts all the time.

When your brain is busy, you don't need a routine because you can't stick to it. 

Every day is like, I don't know. But it also whether you have ADHD or not.

If you haven't been able to stick to the same daily routine, there's a reason. Because you're not the same person every day.

What I do, let me just tell you part of the practices, that part of the things I've incorporated into my morning practice—these babies. 

When I put a frequency, I listen to frequency music. YouTube is free. Frequencies, the 400s, the 600s, the 1100s.

I listen to a frequency that feels super comforting to me. 

What this does is it quiets down my noisy brain. 

Now, whether you have a noisy brain or a very calm brain, that frequency of music actually raises your personal frequency, right? 

Emotions have frequencies; thoughts have frequencies. 

If you wake up first thing in the morning, putting yourself on a much higher frequency than you might have woken up with, what are the chances you're actually going to reset your nervous system? 

You'll be in a great space for being super productive and listening to your intuition and creativity. That's pretty high. I believe it's pretty high. 

When you're trying to put this routine on, you're like, you read a book.

Somebody had a good idea, and you're trying to follow a routine where you do the same thing every day. 

Maybe you get a drink of water every morning, and that is working for you. Maybe you put on your headphones, and that is working for you. Maybe you do a stretching routine, and that is working for you. That's awesome. 

It's when it's so structured that there's no leeway for your intuition or creativity to enter into your practice space. 

I like calling the practice a it's a practice of being you. 

It's your space for remembering who you are, why you're here, and what you want. 

When I put on these headphones, I get into the flow.

I get into what was it episode 50. I talk about getting in your boat and going with the flow of life—or maybe those 49. Look it up. Don't hold me to it.

When you get in the boat, and it's pointed downstream, the current already knows where it's going. 

You don't have to overthink it. It is going. 

This is what it does when you do the things that work for you.

Put on your headphones, drink water, get on the ground, and stretch. It's a beautiful thing, but it doesn't always have to be in stone. 

You're allowed to change your morning routine. 

When your morning routine has resistance to it, it's like, oh, I know, I should get up and do those things that I intended to do, but it doesn't have that interest.

If it's not holding your interest, curiosity, or excitement, then it's time to stop doing it. It served its purpose; let it go.

I think that's probably the hardest thing. It should be the easiest, could be the easiest, and would be the easiest.

But it's the hardest because we're like, no, I said I would do this routine, and then you don't like exercise. 

Do we overthink exercise or what? Do we overthink eating or what?

If we are doing a practice, it's just a practice of remembering who I am, why I am here, what I am here for, and what I want. 

If that's a practice and you're trying to put yourself in a state each morning, it will increase the likelihood that you'll remember who you are, what you want, and why you're here. 

What does that look like? What's drawing you in? 

If you were in exercise right now, in this moment that you're listening to this if you're an exercise what would you do? 

What would you be? What kind of exercise would match who you are now?

Your brain will tell you it has to do the hard thing. It has to go for a 15-mile run. 

It has to lift heavy weights. It has to; your brain will tell you the hard thing. 

Your body will tell you what it needs. 

All of it works because if you believe it's working for you, you're right. 

If you think something's going to harm you, you're right. 

If you think it's true, it will resonate as truth, even if it's not. 

Even if you tell yourself, I haven't done my morning routine for a week now. I'm I suck if you believe that's true. Then it is. 

But what if it's not true? What if you needed a break? 

What if that week was supposed to be your downtime? It was supposed to be a reinvention of you. It was supposed to be you figuring out what is old and uninteresting, letting it go, and Adding something new.

What if that is what the week off meant? 

You're like, oh, that week off was so awesome. I loved having a whole week off. 

I didn't do anything I didn't want to do in the morning. 

Now, I better understand what I want in my morning practice. 

Isn't it interesting that if we let go of what we think it should have been or could have been, and then we're down on ourselves, these thoughts have a negative influence on the way we feel, running through us and helping or hurting? 

It's not, it's not helping. That's for danger. Maybe not hurting. 

That's probably not the word, but it doesn't raise your frequency to help you remember who you are, why you're here, and what you want. Right?

Sharing my morning practice a little bit all over the place here, but that is typically how I work.

When I'm listening to my frequencies, putting these on my head cancels out anything else my brain wants to think about.

I'm just going down all the rabbit holes, thinking about everything I have to do, the timing of it, how I have to hurry up and turn in some work to my VA, and the deadlines and stuff. 

If my brain is doing that, the second I just like set those down on my head, all of a sudden, all that goes away, and I'm right here. 

Now I can focus. This is where I'm at, and this is what I want to focus on. 

Then I put the frequency on, and then I go get my notebook, which I have right here. 

It's always just a spiral-bound notebook. It's basic, basic, nothing super fancy, and my super fancy big pen. 

I generally take those if the weather's nice outside. I love being in nature when I do this.

In that morning practice, I had freedom. I had the freedom to listen to my intuition, talk to God, receive inspiration, feel gratitude and peace, and just visualize myself flowing in my boat downstream, enjoying the scenery on both sides on a sunny day. 

Then I can write about it. I can write down any inspirations that come through; I can write down, "Oh yeah, remember to do this, this, and this," and things like that will go in. 

The busyness does come in, but I leave. Right? 

It's like, get it out of your brain, get it out of your brain, get it out of your brain. 

You can get into thinking about what it is that you want to do today to expand. 

That's my practice.

It's prayer but with a scribe, a means for getting inspiration and good ideas.

Often, it reminds me that somebody needs a text, somebody needs a polo, somebody needs like the, how can I serve my fellow man? How can I serve those who are in my circle of influence? 

That is a really big part of visualizing my life; what I'm here for, what I'm here to do, is to serve the highest good of all, including me. 

That means I'm not going to over-serve. 

That means that I'm not going to do something that's not also benefiting me because if I do something that's not benefiting me, then how can I lift others in the most powerful ways? I can't if I'm down here, right? 

I take myself there, and then I can help others serve for the highest good of all, which is part of my morning practice. 

Then, what can I do to serve others for the highest good of all?

That is a question you're asking yourself as you sit in practice, practicing being the best version of yourself, practicing visualization of how you will show up in the world and how you will respond to life. 

Now react, respond, right? 

Resetting the nervous system. 

That is a huge part of my morning practice, that I do that first before I do anything else. 

My brain is like, "I don't know. Did you do anything important there?" I don't know, but my body knew because that's where Lil U is held in the nervous system. 

My body knew. She's safe, I'm right here. I brought her into the present. We're good to go.

Then, I set my intention to allow any good things in—anything good, even a busy brain. 

Sometimes, we think, "Oh, I need to meditate because that's where enlightenment happens." I promise you enlightenment can happen anywhere. 

You can receive inspiration at any time, even when you're least expecting it, when you're upset and from all the weird drivers around you. 

The meditation is getting out of the idea that your brain has to be 100% still. That's not true. 

You have to be tuned to any little thoughts that align with your question. 

Sometimes, you feel it coming up from your heart. 

But if you ask a question, what is the most important thing I can do today to move my business forward?

What is the most important thing I can do today to serve my family? 

What is the most important thing I can do today to fill in the blank? 

Then, write it down because usually, the answer is instantaneous. It just comes up from your core, heart, and brain. 

It flows in the opposite direction. 

Usually, we're like, well, I need to make my checklist because that makes me feel safe and better. Is that the inspiration?

The practice is listening to intuition, inspiration, and action steps. For example, maybe the inspiration was to get a drink of water. 

Maybe it's something completely off, and you're like, "Why would I have to do that?"

You know, the inspiration is to phone a friend you haven't talked to in forever. 

You're like, but I have so much to do today. Why? Why would I do that?

Refrain from arguing with the inspiration because it always turns out better than you imagined. 

Practicing is just implementing your intuition and your creativity.

I want you to do something other than what I'm doing. Here is an example of what I would be referring to. 

But you practice; it's more than just in the morning. 

The morning is just a time to raise your vibrational energy to a new place that inspires you to be you at the best possible level, right? 

Increase the frequency of who you are so that you start the day from that point of view, and everything gets better afterward. 

But practice is also just who you are all day long. 

Are you trying to be something so these people will validate you, not criticize or judge you? 

Are you being that person?

Are you just being you? 

Are you being the same person in front of the camera, like out in public, that you are behind closed doors? 

Are you aligning and matching with your high frequency? 

Are you as good and have the same energy with your family at the end of the day as you did with everybody else during the work day? 

Are you saving the best for everybody else and coming home with nothing left for everybody you love?

See, when you become a match, you are practicing not spending all your energy trying to get other people to think you're a certain way, but it's more of an even spend where it's just. 

It's easy to be you because you've got your frequency up early in the morning, and then you can practice being you all day so that when you come home, you're still practicing that high frequency of you.

That doesn't mean you're going; you won't need some resets during the day because you will. 

Your nervous system starts to get shot, and you begin to feel like you have cravings, that you need a nap, that you got to get out of here. 

You got to do something. You want to run away. 

That is a sign that your little nervous system needs your support. 

Just rewiring your nervous system helps you take that cleansing breath, reset, and go again. 

You will need to reset your nervous system throughout the day because you just can't keep going, go, go, go, go, go, go and not have some sort of reset. 

It's good to be able to reset at lunch and have some tips and tools in your back pocket when you need to go from meeting to meeting, right? Or if you're running the kids from one thing to the next thing, and everybody had a meltdown all day, and you are out of patience, you've got to reset that nervous system, right? 

This is to say that when you intend to keep a routine, you are limiting yourself from being expressive, free, and creative, listening to your intuition, and following your inclinations. 

That is the most important thing. 

What keeps you a creative being is practicing what is working to raise your frequency, your knowingness, and your infinite intelligence. 

I don't know how else to say that, to raise your spirits to a higher place where you can now respond to life as your true and higher self instead of just dragging yourself through life because you forgot to get up.

You don't have a routine, and now you're just looking for caffeine or a doughnut—you're looking for something that's going to make you feel alive again. 

We're not here to just survive this life.

We're here to practice being a better version of ourselves every day. 

I very much live right here right now, but in blog  #50, I was talking about raising your frequency and what that looks and feels like. Anyway, go look it up. 

The whole idea here is that you understand your needs. 

What do you need to raise your frequency? How would you become a literal practice? 

What do you need to practice raising your frequency? 

You may need noise-canceling headphones; your regular iPod headphones will work great. You may need breathwork. 

Maybe you need automatic writing, or maybe you need to listen to a powerful spiritual leader talk—perhaps it's a TED talk for you. 

Whatever raises your thoughts, frequency in your body, which means your energy, your sense of well-being, whatever takes you from low to high is the practice that you want to put in place. 

It's time to do something else when it's not interesting or you notice resistance. 

You're not trying to do the same thing you've always done back when you were successful.

The wheels came off, and you don't know why you're not able to do that anymore. 

It's because it was for then, it's not for now. 

Your job is to be very present and pay attention to what practices will elevate you from where you are to where you want to be.

That's when you know you're doing it right. 

I wish you luck and inspiration as you figure it out. 

Listen, what would I do if I were a good practice?

Listen to the answers that come from you.

It's going to be different from what everybody else is doing. 

It's only going to be the thing you need most. Listen close and have fun.

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