The first moments of day, before our mind is fully awake, can be a wonderful time for meditation.
Madisyn Taylor)
Just before the coming of dawn, Mother Nature exists in a state of flux. Earth's energy is stable, free of the disordered vibrations that are a by-product of humanity's comings and goings.
To wake and meditate in this peaceful yet energetically charged in-between time is to connect with the divine in an extremely intimate fashion. We discover a new kinship with the universal life force during morning meditations because our awareness becomes a mirror for earthly consciousness, we wake as the world wakes, quietly embracing the joy of being and setting the tone for a serene, fulfilling day.
There is bliss in the simple knowledge that we have been given the gift of another day of existence. We are inspired by sights and sounds of the sun's gentle ascension. Birds serenade the luminosity, which grows richer by the minute. And though we may feel a residual lethargy, our vitality returns as our meditation helps us to become one with the stirring of other beings rubbing the sleep from their eyes. At the start of each day, our destiny has not yet been written, and so there is nothing we cannot do.
My Thoughts:
I am usually awake by 6am and in the summer it can be even earlier. There is always a notebook by my bed as some of the best ideas for stories and poems filter through at that time of the day. The first coffee is taken either sitting in the garden listening to the birds and watching them devour the refreshed feeders, or at my study desk looking out to sea, with the window open (wide on a nice day and just a touch when the weather is being a little more enthusiastic). Not so much in meditation but allowing whatever is happening to wash over me.