The Inspired Morning

You imagine breathing in sky energy through the top of your head into your heart, then exhaling down through your stomach, pelvic floor, knees and feet into the earth. Then you reverse it, drawing earth up through your feet and releasing it out the top of your head. You're invited to sigh out loud, which helps let go of tension and land in the present moment.

The prompts are gratitude for your body, your mind and your life, followed by what you're grateful for in general and for today. Your hands rest on your heart while you think of them. The gratitude is then pictured flowing through every cell like a hot drink in the morning.

You exhale golden and white light from your heart, first filling your room and then spreading to your town, forests, deserts and oceans. Then you picture people you love facing you and share it heart to heart, including those who have passed away. Finally you send it down through your feet to the Earth. It turns gratitude into giving, and the track says that starting your day this way means nothing can go wrong.

Katia says it doesn't matter whether answers come consciously or subconsciously. If they don't arrive as words or sounds, you may receive feelings, and she asks you to go with them. For the final question about your one action, she reassures you that if the answer comes later, it always comes.

After asking how you want to feel today, you may get a bodily sensation or a single word. You then imagine that feeling as a wave of water and yourself as a sponge, soaking it in until you expand from within. It gives you a feeling to return to throughout the day.

You ask what you want to create today, then imagine the day's end: you're happy with yourself, loved, rested and grateful, and you see the results of what you planned. Feeling that result in advance gives your intentions a clear direction. You finish by asking what single action you can take right after the practice.