Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to watch the sun rise or set.
Speaker 1: If you're in the Northern Hemisphere these days, the rising
Speaker 1: and setting happen at times that you are probably awake,
Speaker 1: and seeing this daily miracle can connect you to nature
Speaker 1: and be a great occasion for awe. Today's tip, like
Speaker 1: a few others I've talked about lately, comes from Melissa's
Speaker 1: Stagonus's book Everyday Mindfulness. This book features over a hundred
Speaker 1: ideas for building moments of calm and observation into daily life.
Speaker 1: Tip number sixty eight is to watch the sun rise
Speaker 1: or set. Watching the sun rise and set is a
Speaker 1: simple practice that can feel so magical. Melissa writes, not
Speaker 1: only can you observe the opening and closing of the day,
Speaker 1: but you also get a front row seat to a
Speaker 1: live art show in the sky. As we all know,
Speaker 1: even a relatively modest sunrise or sunset can be beautiful.
Speaker 1: The good ones can just blow your mind. And the
Speaker 1: crazy thing is we get two opportunities a day to
Speaker 1: see this wow. In other words, attending this awe inspiring
Speaker 1: show is pretty easy. Check your weather app to see
Speaker 1: when the sun is rising and setting over the next
Speaker 1: few days. Choose a day when there won't be complete
Speaker 1: cloud cover, then go outside or sit near a big
Speaker 1: window and watch. In my neck of the woods, the
Speaker 1: sun is rising around six forty am and setting around
Speaker 1: four pm these days, and so it's not like this
Speaker 1: requires waking up at four am or anything. But it's
Speaker 1: easy enough not to pause and notice, because hey, the
Speaker 1: sun does rise and set every day, Thank goodness, it
Speaker 1: all this happens, so it's easy not to notice it
Speaker 1: happening this morning. On the other hand, I watched. I
Speaker 1: woke up at four am because the baby woke up
Speaker 1: and he went back to sleep, but I did not,
Speaker 1: so I went to my desk and worked from five
Speaker 1: to seven am. During that time, I made sure the
Speaker 1: curtains were fully open, and I kept looking up from
Speaker 1: my desk as the sky brightened and then turned orange
Speaker 1: and pink before finally going blue for the day. If
Speaker 1: mornings are rushed, the sunset might be more doable. If
Speaker 1: the sunset happens during your work day, which might be
Speaker 1: the case in winter, plan to take a fifteen minute
Speaker 1: break around the sunset to get outside and see it.
Speaker 1: We need breaks anyway, and we should get some physical activity.
Speaker 1: Watching a sunset can add a moment of awe to
Speaker 1: even a normal afternoon. In any case, this is so
Speaker 1: easy to do. We just have to do it. So today,
Speaker 1: look at the sunrise and sunset times and commit to
Speaker 1: pausing in your day to watch one of them. Coffee
Speaker 1: on the back porch watching the sunrise, a late afternoon
Speaker 1: walk to see the sunset if you'd like. This is
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for gratitude for the sheer marvel of
Speaker 1: this planet, for these extravagant displays of beauty that are
Speaker 1: there for free for everyone. Melissa writes that you can
Speaker 1: simply sit in silence, appreciating how the light transforms the
Speaker 1: guy while remembering that you are part of a magnificent
Speaker 1: world an infinite universe. Sounds good to me. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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