This story is about Edit: Summer issue. Our quarterly magazine celebrates rituals, recipes, and rhythms deliberate living. Theme at this time Carefree-The invitation to live greater deeply. Check the full issue or order of print edition HERE.
There’s a particular class in the morning I will always be on my minded feet in cool tile, windows open enough to get rid of me. This is not a memory tied to any place or age, but a feeling: heated by the sun, slowly, too little. The morning class ritual that just seems to exist in the summer.
Of course, these days, my mornings are marked by the calendar to invite and stand in meetings, not the freedom of an everlasting day. But I believe the feeling of summer is not reserved for PTO-it’s something you can develop, even if you work further. And maybe the secret is not going out of our life – but to choose how we are sorting each day.
This guidance is a quiet rebellion against the hurry routine and autopilot morning. Think of it as a resource for revising a sense of relaxation offered, good shifts carrying a lot of time gold in force.
Michelle Nash’s choice of image.
Reframing the morning
We always treat our mornings like a hurdle: something easy to reach the “true” part of the day. The goal is going out at the door, in our inbox, and the next thing. But what if instead of letting the day let us not, we start meeting it with purpose?
It does not require a call 5 am wake up or an hour journal session. It’s not about doing more, but about showing the kind of more today, more intentionally. It begins with permission: to go a little slowly, to know how good, make space for beauty and gentleness, even in small ways. If we stop measuring mornings by their productivity, we make space for them to feel basic and generous.
Shift 1: Cause the senses
If the summer has power, it is: the weather invites us to feel. The heat of sunshine of the naked skin. Listen to a favorite song as you make that first cup of coffee. Tapping your senses is one of the simplest ways to move your morning from mechanical in miracles.
Before you scroll, try checking your body instead. What are you hearing? Smell? See you? Maybe just opened the window just enough to run out the air as you prepare. Maybe a candle smells like citrus and the air of sea salt. It may have cleared your face slightly slowly, allowing your skincare routine as a rite rather than a task.
It’s not about the glossing of your to-do list – it’s about using your senses slowly to bring you back to yourself. Summer is not a place where you go. It’s a feeling that you do.
Shift 2: slow down at one time
If your schedule feels bad, the idea of a slow morning can feel unreachable. But what if you don’t have to slow everyone – just one thing?
Think of it as to insert a breath in your routine. A ten-minute walk before opening your laptop. Served to torture your coffee instead of drinking it while standing on top of the sink. Listen to a perfect song without checking your phone. You may be surprised how an incessant moment can soften the edges of the day ahead.
The key is not perfection. This is the presence. By choosing slowly one occasion, you prompted during the most subtle, powerful way. You remind yourself that you are allowed to be a participant in your morning – not just an administrator.
Shift 3: Set sound tone
There is a reason that a song can send you to a different place or time. Music is memory, mood, and momentum – and one of the most involved ways to move your morning energy.
Curate a playlist that looks like a summer to you. It may be 70s soul with windows open, or soft people who make your kitchen feel at a beach house. It’s probably Bossa Nova while espresso brews. Make your sound less about the hype, and more about the situation. Something preparing a scene instead of a scramble.
Sounds, like stink, you can heal a feeling. With the right music, your morning doesn’t have to be a count of work. It can be a slow opening – a little dream, a little gold, yours.
Shift 4: Make a room for pleasure
Summer mornings always hold simple joys – a new pastries, a quiet moment on the balcony, the taste of water with lemon. These little pleasures are not indulgences; They are anchored. They remind us to slow down and be with yourself. Here and now.
Carving a few minutes every morning for something to make a pleasure creating a rhythm of self-care imposing the rest of your calmer and clarity.
Pleasure, in this way, a habit. This is an invitation to start your day stable with what cares for you – not just what matters to your attention. It’s a gentle way to bring the calmness of summer’s clarity with you, no matter what calendar.
Bring summer with you
Summer mornings are not a time – they are a state of mind. They are not found on a calendar date but with the options we make at the beginning of each day: to notice, slow down, to properly, to properly, to properly, in order to properly, to repair the light and joy of the ordinary.
You don’t need a perfect moment to make this feel. It lives in minor shifts – the way you apply your skincare, my food your craft, the deliberate stop before emails. These are the invitations to get your mornings, making little space for yourself in a busy world.
So, while you are facing the demands of your day, remember: Summer energy can be reached. It’s waiting for your breath, your consciousness, your presence. All you have to do is start.
