One of those mornings?

17-05-2026 12:00:00 AM

khush raho with sangeeta

Some mornings, the bed holds onto you. The sun is already finding its way through the gaps in the curtains, the day has clearly begun, and yet your legs don’t quite want to become vertical. There is a sweet, heavy stillness. Sleep is gone but the body hasn’t quite agreed to wake up.

We all know this feeling. The antidote is a small, powerful practice. Before your morning tea, before you reach for your phone, or anything else, keep your eyes closed and simply send out words of gratitude to the universe.

I started this many years ago, not by choice but by circumstance. I opened my eyes and saw that I was not in the hospital room, but home post-surgery. I thanked the Universe that I was alive, and home. From this grew my gratitude practice, slowly. In a few days I could walk unattended to the balcony to welcome the day, see green leaves reflecting sunlight. We often forget the small ordinary gifts we swim in constantly, forget to feel them.

Think of the Optometrist, patiently adjusting lenses until the letters snap into focus. That is what this morning gratitude does. It calibrates our inner eye. We begin to see clearly what is already here, what is important.

Here is what I cherish about this practice. A new day is not just another day; it is full of potential, each one carrying its own energetic vibration. Possibilities for joy, for connection, for something unexpected and lovely.

We rarely pause to feel this. But when we do, something shifts. Because energy follows the thoughts. Words of gratitude carry a highly refined frequency. By uttering these we are tapping into a cosmic reservoir of this energy and sending a shower of this to power and enhance the good in our life.

Here is a simple affirmation to guide you. Make it your own, add what feels true to you:

A MORNING GRATITUDE AFFIRMATION

To the divine cosmos, I thank you for today. For all my material gifts. My bed. The food I will receive today. The shelter that holds me. For my senses: touch, taste, smell, sight.

For the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. For the simple joys I will notice today: a gentle breeze, morning light, the green leaves outside my window. For the beautiful people in my life, those who made me laugh, who helped, who simply showed up. For all the love I receive and all the love I give. For my own unique gifts and abilities — to live a life that means something.

Visualise every cell of your body filling with this energy of gratitude and well-being. Thank you. For this present moment. For all that is already unfolding today. Stay with that for a breath or two. Feel your whole being become a little fuller, joyous, whole.

Then open your eyes. Pull the curtains back. Let the light come in. If there are trees outside, really look at them, the green of the leaves, the sunlight moving through. In summer, perhaps the Gulmohar blazing in its reds and oranges. Your body knows. The circadian clock is set. You are awake, and the day ahead becomes charged.

Try this every morning for a week to begin, just a couple of minutes, eyes still closed, before anything else. Keep a small note of how you feel. Notice if you feel the heaviness lift, any subtle changes in your day-to-day. The shift you experience might not be a result of any external changes, but because you have remembered your connection and completeness.

Khush Raho. Stay happy, stay healthy.