#55 Morning Segment Intending Practice Inspired by Abraham Hicks
Kelly shares what happened when she fell out of her morning ‘beditation’ practice and invites you to reflect on how you begin each day.
Do you allow yourself some time to go inwards before engaging with the outside world? Or do you jump straight into the news, emails, social media or DOING mode?
You can find Kelly’s Morning Segment Intending Meditation with Positive Affirmations on the free Insight Timer meditation app. (Inspired by the book, Ask and It Is Given by Esther / Abraham Hicks.)
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Episode 55 of the Project Me podcast. Hello, I hope you're having a positive day. I want to ask you something. How did you begin this day? Pause for a moment and reflect back to this morning. As soon as you opened your eyes. Did you reach for your phone? If you did, did you check the news? Look at emails and messages, click over to social media.
I ask because lately I have fallen back into an old habit that I thought I was long past. And that is rather than clicking on over to the insight timer meditation app, I've been clicking on anything, but what's up messages. I'm going to be talking about the news, emails, the weather forecast, although never the news.
I will absolutely never begin my day that way. But I've even begun lately clicking on over to social media and then so much time is wasted that by the time I go into the insight timer meditation app. Even a 10 minute meditation feels too long. By clicking on this other stuff first, I'm officially immersed in 3D reality.
And from there, I find it much harder to pivot on over into the non physical realms. I know that when I begin my day with a meditation, and then set my heartfelt intentions for how I wish to feel and be and what I want to do that day, my whole day goes with so much more ease and flow. I feel connected to something bigger than my to do list.
I tap into my higher self that sees above and beyond the minutiae of the small stuff. My head is clearer. I'm more present in the now moment. And I go on to take inspired actions that feel downstream, light and right. Lately, I've noticed myself feeling kind of discombobulated. It's kind of hard to put my finger on it.
It's kind of a, an unease for no apparent reason. And when I journal on it, I can find nothing tangible that's causing it. And then the other morning I figured it out. When I finally did get into the meditation app, it showed me my latest meditation milestone of 2, 200 days with a session. Not a consecutive 2, 200 days, but that many days that I've had a session since I first got the app in 2016.
It reminded me of how, for so many years, I used the counter in the app to keep me accountable for daily meditation. I never wanted that counter to return to zero, so I kept up my daily streak. It genuinely changed my life for the better to have a daily morning meditation practice. Or as I call it, Beditation.
Because I did it sitting or lying in bed. But then at the start of this year, I felt like I needed more of a disciplined spiritual practice. And suddenly meditation felt kind of lazy. Like I was just an autopilot waking up, heading to the insight timer app, pressing play on a meditation. And I can't stand anything that feels like autopilot.
I want to be conscious and intentional in all that I do. So back in January, I forced myself out of bed and into the other room to sit on a meditation cushion, light a candle, and meditate in silence. And it kind of sucked. And I didn't stick with it for very long. And what happened, and I'm realizing this now, six months later, is that I broke my trusty meditation habit.
I lost the habit of always beginning my day with meditation and I began this business of tapping on other apps in my phone before and even instead of Insight Timer some days because I wasn't really ready to get out of bed yet. I love my bed and I'm simply not wanting to get up and move to the other room to do a proper meditation.
Once I'm out of bed, my cats know I'm up and they want feeding. And then I'm in the kitchen and then I get into domestic mode. I feel like, Oh, I ought to throw in a load of laundry. And once I'm up and moving, there's always something else that feels important to do next. And again, looking at the charts and the stats section of the app.
It's so clear to me that bar graph shows diminishing time spent in the app from January until now. And that directly coincides with my rising feelings of discombobulation. So, you know, you've got to love contrast for showing you what you don't want so you can move in the direction of what you do want.
Anytime I experience contrast these days, I say, thank you. Thank you for showing me the opposite of what I want. So I'm clearer and more intentional about what I do want. So I am here today to make myself publicly accountable to stop this poor habit and get back into the one I know supports me to feel and be my very best self.
Daily meditation is one of the high vibe practices that I most recommend in my high vibe journey program. It raises your frequency. It helps you to get into alignment before action. Clearly I needed a reminder. Of just how powerful this practice is. So I'm not being an autopilot about my morning meditation practice, but doing it with deep devotion.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am back on the Insight Timer app again. If you don't know this app, I highly recommend downloading it. It's free and it always will be. There are thousands of meditations in there of all lengths and all subjects, plus music. It's Inspiring talks, groups you can join, including mine.
You can search in the app for high vibe circle, and it's where we share with each other, our favorite meditations. And sometimes I host meditation circles there. You can support the app by paying a subscription fee, which I do. And that lets me create playlists with categories and the ability to build a listen offline.
And if you want to hear my voice guiding you through a morning meditation, I do have a meditation there. It's called Morning Segment Intending with Positive Affirmations. I first heard this concept of segment intending from the book, Ask, and it is given by Esther Abraham Hicks. It's the idea that you segment your day and set a fresh intention for each part of your day.
So rather than one overarching intention, that's meant to encapsulate your entire day and evening, you, you segment it out, you create intentions for each segment. So this is especially useful I find when you have a full and varied day. Maybe you want to feel energized and strong at the gym, focused and productive on a work project, present and connected with friends or loved ones.
In my 10 minute meditation, I guide you into visualizing each segment of your day ahead So you can imagine how you used to feel and be as you move through your morning, your afternoon and your evening ahead. This then acts as a trigger so that when you do segment intend, you, you do segment, let's say you're, you're in, you're in work mode and now you're going to segment into family time.
You aren't just an autopilot, but you have set your heartfelt intentions and you can bring those forth. There are many anchor points throughout your day where you can reconnect with or set a new intention for the next thing you're about to do. The final four minutes of my morning meditation are affirmations to support you to put your best self into all that you do that day and to do all things with love.
I've been told by many people now that they use my morning meditation regularly to set themselves up for a positive day ahead. And I'll admit, I use it sometimes too. Some listen while they're getting dressed, or taking the dog out for a walk, or I remember Susie Bashford telling me that she likes to listen to it at the gym.
So it's not like something you have to sit with your eyes closed listening to. In the app, I can now see that this meditationist had over 8, 000 listens. And because Insight Timer pays all teachers in the app. It means I get an email every single month to tell me how much money has been donated to charity.
Thanks to all these listens. Even more is paid out for reviews and shares. How cool is that? I opted to have my earnings go to charity rather than into my bank account. So, if you are an insight timer lover, do know that by simply clicking those five stars after a meditation, you make a difference. And my view is, if you didn't enjoy a meditation, you just don't have to listen to it again rather than giving it a poor review.
different strokes for different folks and what some people love, others don't, and that's okay. And if you're not a meditator and you've told yourself that you can't meditate because you don't have time or you have a monkey mind or you can't sit still, please listen to episode 16 of this podcast where I share the story of how I overcame all of those obstacles and the difference it has made to my life over the past, well, now seven years.
I realized as I was about to record this episode today that one inspired morning a few months ago, I had an idea for recording another meditation and I scripted it out in a Google document and then I basically just forgot about it. I just brought it up and I read it through and I think it's pretty good.
It's called at the moment intention setting practice. And I remember now. that I couldn't find an intention setting meditation that I loved in the app that I could just listen to with paper and pen to write down my intentions and then to visualize them. So I wrote one and then I didn't record it. I think it was the whole thing that's kind of held me back.
If I think about it now, it was that I need to find music that's going to match it. And I'm really funny about music from my first meditation. I found the music. I paid for the license to use it. And then I remember it didn't, it didn't, um, work totally with the meditation script that I'd, I'd scripted out.
And I really wanted it to, to be slower in some points and a little faster in others and to repeat in this other way. So I instructed my podcast editor to digitally recompose the music. So it sped up when I wanted to and slowed down when I wanted to, we worked really well together. It was like, we were composing this.
This, um, music together and he really understood my vision and I think it came out pretty well. So that's what is holding me back, I think was just like, okay, and you did this whole music thing again, but today I'm realizing this is the nudge I need to just go and do that again. It wasn't really that difficult and get another one published.
So Watch this space. For now, let me ask you again. How did you start this day? Did you pick up your phone? Did you immerse yourself in worldly stuff straight away? What might happen if you resisted those urges to immediately connect with the outside world or start doing and instead started by connecting with yourself to your inner being?
To your higher self, to Gus, God, universe, source, spirit. What if that off feeling I get when I don't start with a meditation is actually how you feel most of the time, only you don't have the contrast to feel the difference like I do. Maybe you feel inspired to begin or renew a morning practice of getting into alignment before action, connecting within before connecting to anything outside of yourself.
What kind of contrast might that create in your life?
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