Bookends of Consistency

During this time, and maybe forever onward, what keeps your day consistent?

I have spoken to many of my friends and colleagues about emotional triage. I start the day there. Where am I emotionally when I wake up? That can change throughout the day. Let it.

What can you then find consistency in each day? It can be one thing. You don’t need to fill your schedule just to stay busy! We are all exhausted right now. Give yourself permission to simplify if possible.

What is creating some consistency for you?

I start with my emotional triage. I don’t overthink it, I just check in.

Then, even before coffee (yes, I know…) I meditate. I have established a meditation practice for several years consistently, and this anchors me into my day. This is my consistency day to day.

If you don’t meditate, I highly recommend it. It gives permission to focus and slow down before you have to gear up. You can do it whenever and wherever.

There are free apps, free trial apps, paid apps and even youtube meditation channels.

The one I currently use is Ten Percent.

I also love Head Space.

Other great ones include Calm, Aura, Smiling Mind (also great for kids!), Inscape;

A free FREE app is Insight Timer

Another is Stop Think & Breathe

There are many. Just start to explore.

The other consistency for me, almost daily, is how I bookend my day: I have offered the singers in my studio the time in our FB Group to come together there during a LIVE where we do what I call “Vocal Grounding”. I lead a grounding that lasts between 15-20 minutes almost every evening during the week that allows us to focus on breath and vibration. Even though we can’t hear each other, we are together as a community making noise. It is an offering I can give to the singers that entrust me, and it gives me grounding too.

My Dad used to say that there’s great power in how you enter and how you exit.

I am taking that into the present and using that in how I enter and exit my day. What happens in-between can vary, but I can control the consistency I establish to greet the day and release it.

Find your bookends. Commit to them. Create the consistency. Lean into it. Somedays the in-between will be a mess; sometimes it will have order.

Just keep breathing, one at a time.