 Alright guys, you know when you're watching sports and you see the guys getting psyched up for the match They got their headphones in bobbing their head jumping up and down maybe doing primal screams like And you're like this guy's kind of a psycho But you know them getting themselves psyched up for the match Well, the reason why athletes do that is because it's called priming It's the way they set their mind up for the match and the game ahead of time And now what I found in my own life is that for getting motivated in the morning or anytime during the day A similar priming ritual can be used and that's what I want to share with you guys in today's video What's up guys Alex Hynne here author of the book master of the day now? obviously there are a lot of different rituals people use to have tons of energy and Certainly during the worst years of my life Getting up in the morning was the toughest and even to this day when I've got a long 12-hour day Like I literally will go to medical classes see patients for four hours and then come back and have to shoot videos I'm completely fried and sometimes what I have to do even if it's not the morning is this kind of priming ritual now for me Any good priming ritual involves three things it involves the body it involves the mind and involves what I call vitality Or almost like your spirit so if you think about like an athlete before a match What are they doing their body they're jumping up and down they're loosening up. They're exercising What are they doing with their mind? They're listening to music right almost always have music in they sometimes is even their own Personal affirmations and things like that. I've heard athletes do but the music and the body The music is something for the spirit in the sense that it gets them amped up they put on their same playlist sometimes even the same track over and over on repeat and The music is for the spirit to wake up and what I mean spirit What I mean is the difference between you show up to your job on Monday morning at 9 a.m. And you're just like That's one end of the spectrum for your spirit now Imagine the difference of being in love or the morning of Christmas. You're like hamster on meth Everything is all good all excited. Nothing changed. It was just an internal state So this is what I would call the spirit Okay, so something that moves the body Changes the mind and activates the spirit and here's what I would do for me for body What I do is anything that activates the blood and gets your circulation going now What I like to do is shaking now This is basically think of it as like a cross between a jumping jack and just shaking out But you do it for 10 minutes and basically what shaking does is it wakes you up This is actually a Chinese form of Qigong kind of like a longevity exercise, but shaking for me is easy It's lazy and you can stand up while you're listening to music or doing something else You can do it anywhere and you don't look that weird I mean you look a little weird, but you could look weirder and shaking for me is how I get the blood going The second part is the mind so for me for the mind I actually borrow this from the Tony Robbins priming video now What he actually does is he goes through a sequence that many people have done throughout history But it's combination of gratitude and Visualizing your goals so the first part is that basically you see yourself going through three things You could be grateful for so the first thing could be that family dinner that inspired you and made you so happy and So grateful to have a family the second thing you're grateful for could be going back to school to get your masters and something You're passionate about or something you're doing in the evening that trip coming up The third thing you're grateful for it could be the person you're dating or some other project. You're working on So I do this whole thing while I'm shaking while I have music on I'm just sitting there shaking and I'm going through these visualizations one by one and then from there I go through the three goals. I'm working on for that year So your three goals could be for example getting fitter and losing ten pounds of fat So you're shaking you got the music going you're seeing yourself in the new body You want to be in the second thing could be saving three thousand dollars to go to that Paris trip or to go take some other trip Or go to Coachella or whatever. So you're shaking you got the music going you see yourself in that place And you feel happy you feel the emotion of having reached the goal And then the third goal could be starting your YouTube channel or beginning your book or it could be meeting someone that You really are serious about and want to be in a relationship with so again You're shaking the music's going you feel the emotion of having found that person or being in that event or having written your book or Shot your first video and seeing all the comments beneath it that they helped you so much and As you're shaking the blood flows going as the music's playing your mind is going you're visualizing And you've activated two parts right now. So you've activated the physical body You've activated the mental body if you want to call it that now the third part after I do that is for the spirit Now this is where it gets a little bit weird, but you got to trust me on this So in the 1970s there is this popular practice called primal scream therapy And the idea was that by screaming and releasing this pain that was stored within you health problems and other issues Would go away now what I have found is that if you go beast mode at the end of this priming ritual It gives you this this odd sense of embodiment meaning it makes you feel in your body feel strong and feel powerful So I literally after doing this priming ritual if you don't believe me You can get a pillow Scream bloody murder into that pillow or go into your car or if you have a place That's not too public like here in this little back porch here go out and literally let loose a Primal bloody scream Sounds weird. You got to trust me on it grab a pillow and scream as loud as you can into that pillow I could try to rip down every wall in your house and Stand up and don't tell me try to tell me you don't feel way more powerful Way more vital and way more alive. So that is the way I wrap up my priming ritual in the morning I do the shaking to wake up The visualization process I have it on a tape now I play music at the same time it gets me amped up at a low level and from there as soon as I'm stopped I feel calm. I feel warm. I've gone through the visualization Then I do a few of those just good real guttural visceral screams And then I feel like I'm ready to just destroy the world and do whatever it takes I know that sounds a little odd, but try it out. Don't hate it till you try it All right, make sure you warn your neighbors or your mom or whoever you're living with your girlfriend your boyfriend Let them know what you're working on and you're trying something a little bit different But you will feel the power after that. I am certain so I hope that helps before you go Let me know down below in your own life. What has helped you get motivated in the morning? Hey guys, Alex. I hope you like this video The best way to stay in touch is to grab the free guide on my site Five daily habits to help you lose your next 20 to 30 pounds and also if you like my tiny daily habits approach Check out my book called master the day on the success habits I learned interviewing people that lost a hundred pounds and kept it off and you can check it out in the description there or on Amazon