We know it’s hard to hit the ground running bursting with energy every day, especially when there are screaming kids to deal with, or a boss waiting to make your nine-to-five a living nightmare.
These type of factors working against you just don’t inspire smiley face and rainbow emojis (at least not before you have a couple of espressos under your belt).
But that’s the exact mindset that Guru Jagat wants you to be in when your alarm jolts you from your slumber – and the acclaimed yoga teacher and author of newly released book Invincible Living has a foolproof hack for making it happen.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPbRPXkg5T1/?taken-by=gurujagat
“We’ve all spent a lot of time focusing on weaknesses—neuroticising, habituating, and regurgitating them to our friends, therapists, and anyone who will listen to us,” Jagat said at a recent book launch event in New York.
“Instead of going down that well-trodden path, let’s focus on our strengths. That’s easier said than done.
“The first thought you have in the morning is not your strengths. Like, who woke up this a.m. [thinking], I’m the infinite incarnation of the perfect one? So that’s why I like to catch things in the morning.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPUxSAvAhTh/?taken-by=gurujagat
The trick, she explains, is keeping your approach simple, reports Well+Good.
“Try do something in the morning, even if it’s just, [takes a deep breath in through the nose] ‘All right, I’m going to live this day in the way I want to live this day. Not the way that someone tells me to live this day. Not how my traumas tell me to live this day. Not the way that the great programmers called [my] parents, or religion, or money tell me to live this day. I’m going to live this day the way I want to live this day’.”
Jagat adds that you also shouldn’t worry about how long you spend cataloguing your strengths. Instead, focus on doing it with regularity, so that the process itself becomes a habit.
“If you just do something consistently for three minutes a day, it’s so much more effective and so much more life-changing than going to a yoga class at your gym once a month or a meditation class once in a while,” she said.
“All of our habits are daily grooves in the neurology, in the biochemistry. So in order to change them, we have to do something—even if it’s short—every day.”
