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Use morning hours for self improvement

Often we are aware of the habits and changes to cultivate within us (such as not to get angry), but we often forget them when the time arrives. One way to remember these is to make your conscious self be aware of them by training your mind with focussed meditation or mantra meditation¹.

Remain in silence and focus on those improvements and how they will transform you (focus meditation), or simply repeat these improvements to yourself for few minutes (mantra meditation). Over a period of time, these improvements will be reinforced in your mind, and your conscious self will be aware of these improvements during the day.

Here are some examples of improvements you can meditate on:

• I won't engage in whining about any situation but will work with it and make the best out of it. This will help you transform yourself to be a better team player and an efficient problem solver.
• I will not let any external forces disturb my happiness and blissfulness. This will help you with better emotional management.
• I won't get hurt by somebody's stupidity, lack of maturity or his hurtful intentions. This will help you grow better inter personal relationships and better emotional management.

If you already have a list of such improvements, use them. If you don't, as you grow you will realise such improvements.

Why do this now?

There are two reasons why this ritual is best performed after waking up. The first is that your brain is in the most relaxed phase after waking up (emitting alpha and theta waves) allowing you to process and assimilate the self improvements more effectively to your consciousness. When you are relaxed, things happen in the 'flow' or 'autopilot'. They become your nature.

The second reason is on the assumption that you sleep at night and wake up in the morning. One of the ways we get distracted is when our sense organs captures information — eyes capture whatever is happening, ears capture the sounds, nose captures the scents and stinks, skin captures touches and temperature, tongue captures the taste — and our brain has to interpret these information. The early hours will be dark, cool, silent (unless you live next to a religious institution) and serene with not much stimuli to trigger your sense organs and disturb your brain.

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