Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello there and thank you for listening to episode 7 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

Today I'm talking all about how to

create a mindful morning. So I'm just going to get stuck straight into it. First of all, we wake up.

Take a couple of moments before you jump out of bed and get into the day. As you lie in bed,

there are a couple of ways you can practice mindfulness.

And my favorite way is to bring yourself into the moment by checking in with each of your senses.

Notice what you can hear. Are there birds or traffic outside? Is it windy or raining or stormy? Are there members of your family

moving around in the house? And then begin to tune in to what you can smell. Turn towards your

pillow and inhale the comforting smell of your bed. Maybe you just want to take a few deep breaths now notice what

you can taste most of us don't have the nicest taste in our mouths in the morning but that's okay

mindfulness isn't necessarily about enjoying your experience but simply simply bringing awareness to it, just how it is.

Okay, moving on to what you can touch. Is your duna soft? How does your skin feel? Is your bed

toasty and warm? And finally, open your eyes and take in everything you can see.

You might even like to create an inspiration board and keep it within eyesight of your beds.

So the first thing that you look at in the morning is something which makes you feel good.

And you can put quotes on the wall next to you or stars on the ceiling or just anything which

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