I am told a good life starts in the morning with making your bed.
Do you make your bed?
I’ve heard all reasons of why folks do or don’t make their bed. It is a personal decision. But research shows that people who make their bed are more successful, productive and happier.
I make my bed. I feel energetically better when I do. The room appears neater and I don’t feel schlepy when I crawl back in it at night.
I have also heard people say “why bother?”, it’s only going to get messy again.
There is truth to that. But your body will also get dirty after you shower. Most of us don’t skip showers for that reason.
A lot of people tell me they don’t do yoga or meditate because they aren’t flexible or their minds don’t work that way or they aren’t flexible enough. A funny line in the yoga world is:
“Saying you don’t do yoga because you aren’t flexible is like saying you are too dirty to take a shower”.
Taking it a step closer would be to say that you are too out of shape to exercise.
I hate to break it to you – we are all the same. Our bodies and minds need maintenance and when we don’t maintain them we have a monkey mind and we get out of shape. It’s really that simple. Yes there are exceptions but almost all of them can be overcome.
We can skip cleaning our spaces and making our beds (or weeding our gardens- literally and metaphorically)- but while we are at it, why not skip that shower too? And why bother to exercise? Won’t we become atrophic again when we stop?
To live is to maintain. To live well is to maintain everything about our lives. Our health, our habits, our homes, our finances, our pets… and even our minds. They can all go to pot if we skip the maintenance and loose sight of their health.
Yes- this takes up a lot of the day, but it’s worth the clean and cleared space because what you see around you directly affects what you feel inside you. You can feel it in your energy if you quiet your mind and get in touch with it.
So make your bed and see if anything changes around you.
Namaste
“If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. This is perhaps the most famous line from Making your bed to perfection each morning is a reminder that if you do the little things right, it makes the big things possible.”
Admiral McRaven
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