 That's got a new video today. I'm in a slightly different area as you may have noticed my room is a bit of a mess at the moment I'm sort of reorganizing it and firstly, I'd just like to apologize for my consistent You know lateness with posting videos. I know that's I I'll say you know I'm back and I won't post for a few weeks and there's a very important reason why and that's because I've been spending a lot of time just Perfecting the fade on my my hairstyle as you can see and I haven't really that's that'll be very very unproductive There's been a lot of stuff going on. I've been focusing on various other projects and But that being said I'm gonna still make a huge effort to be you know uploading videos for the near future so Without further delay today, I'm gonna be talking about something which I haven't really spoken a lot about before which is having a morning routine Now I know in a lot of my other videos I've spoke about you know the importance of having a nighttime routine before you go to bed But there's actually a huge deal that can be said about having some some sort of routine in the morning You know a series of things you do every morning without fail And that can really help you with not just lucid dreaming but with you know motivation energy throughout the day happiness health And a whole load of other things as well. So Firstly when I when I say morning routine, you probably think you think of the sort of Rigorous military style boot camp where you know you get up at five make your bed go for a mile run I'm not talking about that sort of strictness So the morning routine that I want to talk about today is Sort of loosely based on a book. I read called the miracle morning But it's like I've slightly modified it For a for lucid dreamers and be for you know people who maybe just want to Personalize it a little bit. This is just my take on it. Okay So the the routine I do myself is I'll wake up and I should mention that it doesn't really matter when you do this I mean ideally you want to wake up at the same time every morning So say you wake up at eight during the week you want to wake up at eight every day like including the weekends But it's not that bad if you you know at the start at least miss a few days Where you wake up at different times as long as you the second you do wake up You do the routine that's sort of the most important thing really in this situation So the routine I do is I'll wake up and then I'll immediately read for 10 minutes The reason for this is because when you first wake up for the for the first sort of hour after you You know first open your eyes in the morning your brain is operating at a lower sort of frequency Meaning in simple layman's terms that it's more open and susceptible to new ideas. So the so this is why You know if you read first thing in the morning It's going to sink in more than if you read during the day for example Because your mind is very open and it's like a sponge in the morning It sort of opens itself and takes in new ideas. So read first thing for 10 minutes Then I'll go through a series of affirmations now a lot of you will think this is nonsense But affirmations are really important affirmations are where you Repeat over and over to yourself something which you want to be true even if it isn't right now Okay, so you could say you know I am wealthy and I get income from a variety of sources and that that'll be an affirmation because it's something you want to happen and By saying over and over to yourself eventually your subconscious mind will believe it and when that happens You start changing your behavior in subtle ways you attract things that you otherwise wouldn't have done You notice opportunities that you otherwise wouldn't have seen this is loosely based on the law of attraction Don't know if you're familiar with that, but Anyway, so I'll go through some affirmations Then I will meditate for 10 minutes now. I've already I've always said meditation is very important for lucid dreaming It's also very important for almost everything else. Okay, it's very important for health There have been studies linking it to the you know Decline in things like cancer diabetes depression. It's it's very important. It's very powerful It might not seem it because to a lot of you it's just sort of sitting down and thinking or just sitting down and doing nothing But there are scientific reasons which I won't go into today why it's very powerful and You know it can change more than just your outlook on lucid dreaming. So I'll meditate for 10 minutes and Then I will immediately get up and I will go and exercise so I'll work out now This could be something soft like it could be Tai Chi it could be yoga could be You know, it could be going for a gentle walk or it could be weight training resistance training, right? So what I like to do is break it up in during the week obviously because I do this routine seven days out of seven I'm not gonna go and do deadlifts every single morning because I wouldn't have time to recover So I'll break it up and I'll do say three days a week of strength or resistance training with weights and then the other four days might be something more gentle like going for a walk going for a cycle or even just doing some sort of You know gentle stretching routine as long as you're doing something and you're moving So then after that I'll straight away go into having a cold shower now. This is something which When I first heard about this idea. I was you know shocked. I didn't think it was worth doing I thought it was ridiculous And especially in my first few cold showers. I thought what what the hell am I doing? This is really uncomfortable But the more I started to you know, keep doing it and the more I read about it. It's actually incredibly powerful and it's a very It's a very Healthy thing to do if you think you know before we had hot water and electricity and that sort of thing We all used to shower in potentially, you know, icy cold water waterfalls lakes rivers, whatever And it is actually very good for your health Few few reasons why obviously when you submers yourself in cold water submerge So all of the blood will rush to your internal organs, right to try and keep them warm And this will mean that everywhere in your body. You'll have an increase in blood flow in improved circulation It's strengthens the mucus membrane. So if you're susceptible to hay fever colds Flu that sort of thing it will make that less likely it strengthens your immune system It makes you feel better releases and orphans the list goes on the point is it's much better for you than a warm shower And it's certainly much better for you than a bath. So it also seems saves water and time another added bonus So anyway, I'll have a cold shower and then I'll get on with what I call the MIT the most important thing So this is something I've taken from another book called the one thing by Gary Keller The one thing is what could be described as the most important thing that you could do during that day So a lot of you might have to do lists. You might have long lists of things that you need to get accomplished Problem with lists like that is that they rarely get finished Especially if there's no deadline So what I instead do is I will say what is the most important thing I could do today That will make everything else seem, you know Not worth worrying about the most of the thing that if I did it nothing else would be That important to get done that day. It would make everything else either easier or irrelevant so I Can't really think of an example other than a business example if you're trying to start a business and You've got a huge to-do list of things that you could do, you know, you could set up your Twitter account You could try and get email subscribers. You could write blog posts the most important thing I would argue is finding out what you're going to do what you're going to sell who are your customers and that would come way Before setting up your Instagram Instagram account and researching hashtags, right? So that's a sort of basic example But the point is to just to focus on the one thing that you really want to get done that day that will make everything else Irrelevant or or easier, okay? So then after that after that list of Things I'll have breakfast and the reason that I leave breakfast right till the end of that routine is because I find that When when we eat right when we take food into our bodies our bodies will exert energy To try and digest that food and it sort of slows you down You know You'll have a release of insulin and you'll feel a bit sluggish even if you eat really clean and really healthy You'll still experience some sort of slowing down effects when you eat food And so the reason that I leave it till last is because I don't want eating breakfast To slow me down and to get in the way of my most important things that I could do that morning because like I said The brain when you first wake up for the first hour or so It's when it's the most susceptible and the most open to new ideas So if you spend that hour cooking eggs and then eating them That's not really going to be very productive for your brain And it's not going to help you take in new ideas the eggs can wait You're not going to die if you wait an hour to have breakfast But you will learn more efficiently and improve yourself faster if you just wait that extra hour for breakfast So I have breakfast. I'll have a coffee and Then I'll just get on with the day get ready for work get ready to do whatever I'm going to do that day and and That's that's that so the reason that this this morning routine I've described to you I wanted to share with you guys is because it's very powerful and it can help you with not just lucid dreaming obviously You're subscribed to this channel because you want to learn how to lucid dream and this will definitely help you with that But I want to in the future of this channel. I want to take a more holistic approach and talk about you know self-improvement and Health and the mind in general and I feel like that will go full circle and make back to lucid dreaming anyway, so Start practicing this routine you can obviously you can change things if you want the one thing I forgot to add in also was Just before so after you've done So you wake up and then I ideally you should drink some water as well because you're normally dehydrated after eight hours of sleep And then directly after that you should do a reality check. This is just gonna help you To lucid dream and help you to catch all those false Those of you who are Dream about waking up and then you'll be snapped back into the bed and you realize oh actually I haven't woken up yet This was a dream So by doing reality checks first thing You'll catch all those false awakenings and have more lucid dreams So anyway, I hope that's helped for those of you who are subscribed all that who are watching this in general and obviously YouTube does sort of limit what videos you get shown So if you would like to see more of my videos, please make sure you click on the little bell icon and click turn on notifications I can't remember exactly how to do it, but I'm I'm sure those of you who are active youtubers will know But yeah, so I'll see you in the next video leave a comment leave a like and have a nice day