14 Magical Morning Ritual Ideas

Posted On 25 November 2020

Magical morning ritual ideas to help you create balanced mental health and gain control of your life. In this article, you will learn about morning rituals and why they are so crucial for mind mastery and mental and emotional wellbeing, as well as some morning ritual ideas so you can create your own.

What Are Morning Rituals?

Morning rituals are a sequence of actions that you repeat every morning with a sense of reverence. That is the key difference between a morning routine and a morning ritual – completing your actions with a sense of reverence. This encompasses the intention you put behind your actions, the higher purpose of your actions, and the respect you give to them.

Why Are Morning Rituals Useful?

Your morning ritual sets you up for the day the right way and brings a sense of sacredness and structure to each and every day. When you integrate a successful morning ritual, you feel in control of your days, and therefore, your week, months, years, and life. You are able to flow through each day from a place of calm, clarity, and perspective, which brings you more balanced mental and emotional states. You will find lots of morning ritual ideas in this post to help you create beautiful balance and calm control.

My Morning Ritual Story

A few years ago, I was going through a period of mental and emotional turmoil. I had suffered a great loss and as a consequence I was experiencing feelings of depression, anxiety, fear, grief, and hopelessness. I found life very challenging and would drift through my days with no focus, intention, or purpose. I experienced terrible mood swings and found it almost impossible to maintain a balanced and clear mind.

I decided to start a morning ritual to add some structure and discipline to my life. I was already a yoga and meditation teacher and holistic health coach, so I used those skills to coach myself through the creation process.

I put together lots of morning ritual ideas on a vision board to help me design my perfect ritual that would nourish, uplift, inspire and fulfil me. I ended up creating a main 60 minute ritual and then a series of shorter rituals based on how much time I had. Each ritual contained the same elements, except the shorter ones which obviously had to lose a few of the components.

The result of this is that I ALWAYS stick to my morning ritual because even if I have less time, I have a shortened version to use. Over time, I have realised that sticking to a morning ritual helps me so much in managing my mental and emotional wellbeing because I start my day in such a positive way.

Benefits I Have Enjoyed From Morning Rituals

• More stable mood and emotions throughout the day
• Less susceptible to stress
• Shifted from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset
• More energy (even though I’m getting up earlier)
• Practicing better self-care
• More productive throughout the day
• Better boundaries
• Less attachment to things, people, outcomes
• More joyful
• More grateful
• More able to see the lessons in life’s challenges
• More intuitive and in tune with the universe
• Increased motivation 
• Decreased overwhelm
• Naturally residing higher on the emotional vibration scale
• When I do shift downwards, I stay there less time
• Being a better parent

14 Morning Ritual Ideas

Here are some morning ritual ideas to get you started on your own design process. You can pick and mix from these components and add in your own to create your most nourishing ritual.

1. Meditation
2. Personal development (inspirational books, courses etc)
3. Affirmations
4. MITs (Most Important Tasks)
5. Intentions
6. Prayers
7. Gratitude journaling
8. Morning pages
9. Mantra practice
10. Puja or devotional ritual
11. Communicate with your angels and guides
12. Exercise
13. Yoga
14. Energy healing (crystals/reiki/angels – for you and others)

My Morning Rituals

To give you more morning ritual ideas and a sense of how to put these elements together, here are my morning rituals – 60 minutes, 45 minutes, 30 minutes and 15 minutes. You can use them as a framework and add your own morning ritual ideas that serve to balance and empower your life and mental health.

Before starting my morning rituals, I always play soft meditation music or a sound bath, then light a candle and some incense, offering these to the Buddha to set the atmosphere of reverence and sacredness.

60 Minute Morning Ritual

1. Meditation (10 mins)
2. Mantra/puja/angels and guides (10 mins)
3. Reiki/angel/crystal healing (10 mins)
4. Gratitude Journal (5 mins)
5. Personal development (10 mins)
6. Intentions and MITs (5 mins)
7. Movement/exercise (10 mins) 

45 Minute Morning Ritual

1. Meditation (10 mins)
2. Mantra/puja/angels and guides (5 mins)
3. Reiki/angel/crystal healing (5 mins)
4. Gratitude Journal (5 mins)
5. Personal development (10 mins)
6. Intentions and MITs (5 mins)
7. Movement/exercise (5 mins) 

30 Minute Morning Ritual

1. Meditation (5 mins)
2. Mantra/puja/angels and guides (5 mins)
3. Reiki/angel/crystal healing (5 mins)
4. Gratitude Journal (5 mins)
5. Personal development (5 mins)
6. Intentions and MITs (5 mins)

15 Minute Morning Ritual

1. Meditation (4 mins)
2. Reiki/angel/crystal healing (5 mins)
3. Gratitude journal (4 mins)
4. Intentions and MITs (2 mins)

Mind Mastery

The minutes after you wake up are powerful because your subconscious is so open and receptive. You have just come out of your psychically open dream state and anything that you are exposed to at this time will enter deep into your subconscious to become part of your mindset and reality.

It is therefore imperative that you guard this precious time fiercely. One of the very worst things you can do first thing after you wake is to look at your phone or computer. You do not want social media notifications and news stories being the first thing your brain is exposed to immediately after waking.

Having these things enter your subconscious, especially if they are negative, will only serve to create more anxiety and low mood, which will make your vibrational frequency plummet. You will take this energy and these negative emotional states with you into your day and if you do this every day, they will be the primary contributing factors that shape your life.

It is crucial that you take this time seriously and utilise the powerful potential it presents to you. That is where carefully crafted morning rituals comes in. Using the morning ritual ideas here, as well as your own, you can create a beautiful and nourishing start to your day that will infuse your subconscious with positive, supportive ideas, serving to reprogram your thought and belief systems, raise your vibrational frequency, and consciously create your reality.

Final Thoughts

I hope this guide of morning ritual ideas has inspired you to cultivate nourishing and purposeful morning rituals of your own. If you would like more inspiration, check out this wonderful post from the blog Beauty by Neha.

Let me know in the comments below if you have a morning ritual, what you do, and how it has helped you. I’d love to hear your experiences!

I hope you have found this article useful. I have a number of ways you can receive further free help from me. These include:

• Dharma not Drama Podcast
• Self-Care Daily Planner
• Manifestation Journal
• Monthly Angel Reiki healing sessions
• Insight Timer guided meditations
• The Temple of Light newsletter for exclusive teachings, strategies and practices for inner healing, personal development and spiritual evolution

Love and blessings,

Natalie x