Vanessa Van Edwards breaks down her morning routine: music before school, lymphatic exercises, and involving her family. She argues that shared morning rituals boost oxytocin and calm your mood for the day ahead.
being purposeful and intentional with your mornings, it takes work. It's like a mental workout. Like, you have to think about what do I want, what's the intention, and then I have to activate the ritual, right? It's a multi-step process. If I can get my kids knowing, if I do this, if I jump before school, I feel so much calmer. If I listen to music before I get in the car on the way to school, I'm like buzzed, I'm happy. We can gift our Miracle Morning to our partner or to our kids. My brother is even staying with us and I made him do my lymphatic exercise today. He's like, wow, like my back feels better. Look, I love a self-care routine. I I love thinking about self, but I also think that thinking about ourself too much is the definition of misery. We can also think about other and how we could gift a Miracle Morning to someone else by bringing them into it with us. It also gives us oxytocin. Like, that also gives us the chemical of bonding, where I think Miracle Morning and Science of People meet in a beautiful crescendo. Mm-hmm.
