5 Morning Rituals to Support You While TTC
Attitude of Gratitude: Before getting out of bed, think of 3 things you’re grateful for. Practicing gratitude releases dopamine and serotonin, the chemicals responsible for pleasure and happiness, helping to improve mood, reduce stress and shift your energy.
Connect: Conscious breath + movement = space in your body and mind. Regulating yoru nervous system is an inside job and can’t be don’e through mindset alone. Your body is the gateway and a portal to help modulate the highs and lows that can occur while trying to conceive.
Connecting with slow, smooth, soft breaths activates the vagus nerve, which turns on the parasympathetic nervous system - aka the rest and digest or feed and breed portion of your nervous system. This is a great place to start if you’re struggling with meditation.
Practice breathing in for 4 and out for 6 for at least 3 to 5 cycles to create space and clarity from within.
Nourish: Food is mood! Aim for meals with vegetables and at least 25 grams of protein to aid in cellular regeneration, stabilize blood glucose levels and promote a healthy gut microbiome, which influences brain and mood chemistry.
Visualize: Energy goes where attention flows .Your brain doesn’t distinguish between an imagined experience and a real one. Allow yourself to dream big, putting yourself and setting up your environment exactly as you want it to be, even if it seems a little delulu on the surface.
Consistent visualization creates new neural patterns, reprogramming yoru subconscious mind to align with your dreams.
Affirm: We need to get out of our head and into the body and cultivate a feeling of safety from WITHIN. Little by little, observe the sensations in your body. The practice of observation, coupled with bringing breath and awareness to that felt senssation helps to dissolve old frameworks and begins to repattern a sense of stability and security from within. With repeated practice, this is affirmed within our body, which our mind is then able to recognize, trust and organize around, allowing thoughts, beliefs and behaviors to emerge from a lived sense of safety rather than effort and control.
Save this and return to it the next time your mind feels loud.
Your body knows the way.