What are your evening rituals for ending the day?
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 6:43 pm
I was wondering if any of you have good / helpful mindfulness rituals for ending your day?
I've never been much good at ending the day. I usually start thinking about everything that happened during the day, which has me staying awake too long, which makes it unnecessarily hard to get up in the mornings.
Do you do a "night cap" meditation? Go outside and look at the night sky? Write a journal entry about your day?
I'd love to hear suggestions for mindfully ending a mindful day.
(Oh and I think I get a bit "theatrical" about ending the day sometimes... Too much pathos about the day "drawing to a close", the day "being over", sleep being "the half-brother of death", that this day will never return, yada yada yada... A bit melodramatic... you get the picture... So something a little more light-hearted would be great... Something along the lines of "just gonna take an 8 hour nap before continuing where I leave off now"...)
I've never been much good at ending the day. I usually start thinking about everything that happened during the day, which has me staying awake too long, which makes it unnecessarily hard to get up in the mornings.
Do you do a "night cap" meditation? Go outside and look at the night sky? Write a journal entry about your day?
I'd love to hear suggestions for mindfully ending a mindful day.
(Oh and I think I get a bit "theatrical" about ending the day sometimes... Too much pathos about the day "drawing to a close", the day "being over", sleep being "the half-brother of death", that this day will never return, yada yada yada... A bit melodramatic... you get the picture... So something a little more light-hearted would be great... Something along the lines of "just gonna take an 8 hour nap before continuing where I leave off now"...)