Not exactly, not about the morning coffee itself – that’s just a pretext. It’s about peace, and peace comes from a sense of security, and that sense of security comes from something certain and familiar. Something that’s truly ours.
I went to yoga this morning. I do yoga, but usually in the evenings, and today, for the first time, I went in the morning, and it was amazing. I started the day with a long moment of mindfulness, directed inward, and it gave me absolute peace of mind. Sure, my body got a bit tired, but it’s that good kind of tiredness – cleansing, releasing tension.
Because, really, it’s rarely about what’s literal and surface-level. Beneath what we see lies something deeper, a second, third, tenth layer that we often don’t perceive. What we see is just a facade, which doesn’t always reflect true intentions, emotions, or needs.
I think that morning yoga was so wonderful for me because usually, in the mornings, I leave the house doing a hundred things at once. But for the past few days, I’ve been learning to start my day with calmness. I get up, and my mornings are longer, quieter, simpler… And this hour I spent today with myself, listening to the instructor guiding my breath (I love it when someone guides my breath) was the pinnacle of tranquility and kindness directed at myself. I’m sitting here in the office now, knowing that today will be good because I started it right – really right.
So, coming back to it. With the morning coffee, it’s not about the coffee itself; it’s about the morning, that moment of peace, which becomes a good start for the rest of the day. But it doesn’t have to be coffee – it could be tea, water, breakfast, a skincare routine, a walk, jogging, yoga, anything – because, truly, it’s not about the coffee; it’s simply about peace. About starting the day with mindfulness, setting an intention – a small promise to ourselves that today will be exactly as we want it to be. And I think that’s not a habit; it’s a conscious choice. Every time.
maddie