The only noises that I could hear as my bare feet tiptoed across the hardwood floor were the natural sounds that our home made. I rubbed my eyes and took a deep breath in, meeting my day from a grounded place. I had been awake for a better part of an hour and had been present with my thoughts and emotions before I got out of bed.
I flicked on a dim light and walked towards the fireplace. I grabbed the handle and slowly opened the door of the wood stove. I smiled at the bright red and orange embers still glowing below the soft ash of the previous day's fire. I re-started the fire from a deep place of gratitude, not only for the heat that the wood stove offered my family, but from the energy that it set inside of our home. There is something intensely soft and welcoming about a fire in the wood stove. It immediately brings me to a grounded, calm, centered, aligned place. It offers me moments of pause and deep reflection. It offers me a safe space to process emotions, journal, write and self express. It offers me a reflection about things that can be difficult to see. It offers me a reflection of the energy that I project out into the world and onto everyone around me.
As the fire started to rage and grow I left the door cracked open to ensure that it would get the air that it needed and went to the kitchen to start coffee and make breakfast for my children. The silence of the home offered me an opportunity to reflect about everything in my life and I accept that opportunity each day. It is one of my favorite parts of my psychic hygiene practice and a non-negotiable part of my life. My morning routine is a love language of mine and a way that I honor my personal development and personal growth. I take it seriously and am committed to it as it brings me immense peace, joy, insight and alignment.
As the home fills with people waking from their restful night my morning routine naturally fades into the background and quickly out of sight and I whisper sweet nothings to it and promise to meet it again tomorrow for a continuation of what we started today.
