{"id":1109,"date":"2010-06-18T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/06\/fresh-morning-set-your-intention.html"},"modified":"2010-06-18T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-set-your-intention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/06\/fresh-morning-set-your-intention.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Set Your Intention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>This morning, I want to introduce you Fresh Lifers to our new brother blogger, Jonathan Ellerby!&nbsp; Jonathan is an extraordinary writer as well as being the spiritual program director at Canyon Ranch Resort in Tuscon.&nbsp; His blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/practicalspirituality\" target=\"_blank\">Practical Spirituality<\/a>, is an inspiring, highly bookmark-able place to center yourself and learn how to find the sacred in every day.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, he shared a morning practice that he says changed his life.&nbsp; He writes, &#8220;Years ago, I made a commitment that I would never get out of bed in the morning<br \/>\nwithout<br \/>\nbeing sure that when my feet hit the floor my attitude and intentions<br \/>\nwere<br \/>\naligned for the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a powerful thing, to tease out of your morning that moment when your feet first hit the floor.&nbsp; What can you make of such a beginning?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/practicalspirituality\/2010\/06\/the-commitment-to-wake-up-a-morning-exercise.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read Jonathan&#8217;s entire morning exercise!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><font color=\"#023d89\" size=\"3\"><strong>Need more morning inspiration?&nbsp; Read<br \/>\nour entire Fresh Morning collection!<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Read more: <a href=\"..\/..\/freshliving\/#ixzz0rDH1FzMA\">http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/#ixzz0rDH1FzMA<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I want to introduce you Fresh Lifers to our new brother blogger, Jonathan Ellerby!&nbsp; Jonathan is an extraordinary writer as well as being the spiritual program director at Canyon Ranch Resort in Tuscon.&nbsp; His blog, Practical Spirituality, is an inspiring, highly bookmark-able place to center yourself and learn how to find the sacred&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-fresh-morning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fresh Morning: Set Your Intention - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/06\/fresh-morning-set-your-intention.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fresh Morning: Set Your Intention - Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This morning, I want to introduce you Fresh Lifers to our new brother blogger, Jonathan Ellerby!&nbsp; 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