You may already have a resourcing routine, and if I may share mine to help. I wanted to share a routine I use for Evening and Morning Resourcing to help build your centering and connect to your Inner Compass Orientation. It’s about consciously closing and beginning each day with intention and self-care.
Evening Time: Coming to Rest
The evening is a pause to review your day and prepare your mind and heart for renewal.
1. Reflection and Learning
- Read something inspiring.
- Journal your thoughts by focusing on:
- Acknowledge your Successes, including Emotional Gains and Meaningful conversations.
- Recognize your Challenges with Understanding. What did you learn? The goal is to Untangle the tangles and simply come to rest.
2. Preparing for Tomorrow
- Write out three intentions for your day tomorrow. Keep them generative, such as: “Have a wonderful time with…” or “Perfectly prep for my meeting”.
3. Gentle Close
- End with a prayerful intention that brings you to a deeper sense of rest. Personally, I find a simple phrase like, “O LORD I rest in thy love…” is a beautiful way to drift off to sleep.
Morning Time: Re-Sourcing
Take time to resource yourself and set a clear, generative course for the hours ahead.
1. Movement and Centering
- Resource yourself with exercise of your choice. (Think: Posture Exercise, Light Squats, quick tapping, or contralateral movement, grounding outside).
- Follow with a meditative practice (like HeartMath) to center yourself, and then journal.
2. Gratitude and Intention
- Journal writing prompts:
- Write out three things for which I am grateful.
- Write out your three main intentions for the day.
- Write out an intention for how you will live this day—Personally, I write out a prayer relative to living in a state of praise and blessing.
Daily Flow Notes
- Live the day through the various shift points as well as high points all with a sense of staying in flow.
- Find a steady balance: Not too high or not too low. Avoid overamping or not under amping.
- Note: The act of writing out your thoughts and intentions for both the evening and morning helps to catenate (connect in a chain) those intentions directly into reality.
I hope you have found this helpful and inspiring for your daily rhythm.
For Our Greater Health,
Dr. Steve
