Welcome to the feel good podcast with Kimberly Snyder. My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth.

This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your

most authentic highest self, and this is the place from which your energy, confidence,

creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode. Every week we

provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast from yours truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.

I'm your host, Kimberly Snyder, founder Saluna, New York Times best-selling author and holistic wellness, nutrition, and meditation teacher.

Let's get started.

Namaste loves and welcome back for our Thursday

Q&A show. Our topic today is around the morning

and specifically how to use morning rituals

to set a positive mindset and boost your mood.

So as I am recording the show right now, it is 4.19 in the morning and I get asked all the time how I fit so much in because I've got the

kids and the family and the hubby and show here, as you know, which is twice a week and then I'm

writing books, two more books publishing this year and running Saluna and a lot of other things and I want to share that what has been the most

impactful on my day-to-day productivity and rhythm and still feeling really grounded and happy is my morning practice.

Now I'm not saying that you have to get up as early as me but I will say I used to try to stay up

late at night to get things done to you know I would drink some black tea or

whatever and then try to finish my writing or to get all the emails done and it I would get things done but it was never

It never felt as in flow or this incredible fullness.

And I think that even if we label ourselves as more night owls, we can start to shift to get up earlier.

There's a different energy in the morning, so how we start the day is going to impact your energy, your creativity, how clear you feel.

And we're going to talk about the research in just a moment as well as what are Uveda says

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