Hello, this is Kim Young-mi from Ah TV. I am just a sister who chats about everyday stories that happen to anyone, and also a sister who thinks a little. Today, I am thinking about talking about mornings. So far, I have mainly focused on incidents that happened around me that touched my heart. However, as I continued with a somewhat similar format, I felt like I was getting a bit tired of it. Therefore, while taking a walk, I decided to change it up a bit. Instead of sticking to that same format, I thought about telling a story using everyday words we use, like morning or evening. I suggested trying to tell a story using these words, thinking it might not be very interesting, but my sister encouraged me to give it a try with everyday words. So, I gained confidence, and today I will talk about mornings.

I'm trying to talk about mornings. When I tried to talk about mornings, I started to think, What exactly is morning? I was curious about how to define mornings. So, I looked it up in the dictionary. It says, From the time when the day begins to brighten until around mid-morning. However, I feel like what I'm trying to convey about mornings is a bit different. If we say it's until mid-morning, it could be considered morning until around 9 or 10 a.m. But what I'm trying to focus on is more like dawn. So, I looked up dawn, and it said, The time when the day starts to brighten. Therefore, I thought that rather than morning, dawn might be more appropriate for what I'm trying to say. Are dawn and morning unfamiliar to some of you? They might be unfamiliar to some, but for those who have similar thoughts as mine,

This is correct. I wrote a lot before the end of the year. I will do it for myself because we used to clean up in the early morning at that time. Do you remember that kind of song? It's like 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. at the end of the year. In the middle of the conversation, there was such a place, right? Oh, like this, I naturally wake up around 5:00 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. Every day, without even setting an alarm, my eyes open by themselves. It's a habit that my body has remembered for decades. Sometimes when you wake up in the morning or in the early morning, there are days when you haven't heard the alarm, right? Then it feels like a waste of time, but I can't help but not get up for anything else. It's not about being addicted to work. I just fall in love with that time. After enjoying the time at the boundary where darkness turns into bright light, have we now become morning people?

When morning comes, everything feels fresh, doesn't it? Because we wake up, right? It's like being dead and coming back to life. In a way, it's like a resurrection. So, do we really need to say that things like our mind or body define us? Isn't it just you who thinks that way? I might sound like this too, but in my case, it's like my brain becomes all mushy. You know how babies are born with chubby cheeks and soft skin, like they're full of life? It's like that. Whatever it is, we have to face our daily lives, deal with obsessions, and not avoid things. Various things happen as soon as we wake up, things that weren't there before. They weren't there as soon as we woke up. So, I enjoy that time in the morning. That soft feeling in my consciousness makes me happy. It brought up things I didn't know, and when those things come together, they bloom like flowers, becoming the motivation for all kinds of creative and vital things.

These things happen at that time, so you might wonder how you enjoy your morning at the age of 2100 that you set. You might think I will talk about it like this. Let me briefly talk about how I keep my morning. When I wake up in the morning, I'm sure many of you do too. First, to satisfy the physiological needs that have been endured all night, I go to the bathroom. And then, I do some stretching for about 30 minutes. After stretching, I go straight to the computer and write something called the Morning Page. Many of you may have heard of this Morning Page. Even if you search on the internet, you will find a lot of information about it. Some people even share what's on their page, but I have been writing this Morning Page since 1999 until now. I write it every day, but not necessarily every single day.

Make an effort and put it in at least once or twice a week. This is one of the methods to increase your support for your own chapter, which is a book by the artist of emotions, Julia Cameron. The key on this page is exactly this: writing as soon as you wake up in the morning. In that book, it says to treat morning pages as drainage of consciousness. When we write, we usually draw, right? Not only that, but as we proceed, we think about how others will think if I say this to them. Inside my consciousness lies a strong perfectionism. Different sensors work, right? When criticized, the sensor automatically says, What did you respond to? Because we have to live with others, we have to be careful and considerate. However, as soon as you wake up in the morning, as I mentioned earlier, your consciousness gently supports you, so that the critic

The sensor has to be moved before it operates, so it flows with the flow of consciousness and that's how it was. People ask me, Are you going to write everything on that morning page? When I wake up and start writing, I know, but what else should I write? In the beginning, I wrote on that morning page. In the beginning, I mainly wrote about other people's demands. Now, looking back, we can see that there was a lot of courage towards others, to the extent of being warm. So where would I do that? Oh, I would go directly to that person and either end up fighting or creating a conflict, or distance, right? So, my own diary that no one knows about, the morning page I write as soon as I wake up, I wrote a lot of complaints. So, who would say such things then?

I don't know what you'll say when you see it, but in the first chapter of Morning Pages that I wrote in 1999, there was a title on the cover that said, My Own Journey for Creativity. Inside, it said, This is about clearing the accumulated trash of my consciousness, so whoever sees this, please never forget. So, I put that there. That's why I think no one has seen it strongly. So, I wrote a lot of things like that. Then you can say that. I usually talk about the leaves of the ginkgo tree, like this, in a very vulgar way. I also wrote this kind of thing, logically criticizing. There are still unresolved issues that are really tasks and are intertwined with criticism from people, so I sometimes write logically critiquing while pretending to be a smart person.

So, you know, living like that, there were criticisms and such things written in this way. If we talk like this, you might say that it is really important to write safely. You might not necessarily drink this kind of thing. After emitting a lot of these things, you can also feel refreshed. You know, on a cold winter day, when you should be cold, you should pay attention and fight for victory, right? When you go there, open the door to a different world after spending some time and come out, don't you feel a refreshing feeling, right? It's like receiving such feelings. Julia Cameron talks about this as a way to express herself, right? And if you keep doing this, you will realize that there are various thoughts inside you that you didn't even know about, not just criticism, but also puffing out various thoughts.

You will experience that kind of creativity, so you will tell that story, right? So, what do you demand besides the piano? Specifically, when you wake up in the morning, you should write what comes to mind. So, when you wake up abruptly, you had a dream, right? Then, remembering that dream, that's the material to write. What are you writing for? It's like changing diapers for a baby, right? People think writing is done with the mind, writing with thoughts. But as I kept writing, I realized that writing is not done with the mind but with the fingers. When you write continuously, you think you should write well, use this expression, or what will others think if I use this expression. If you write honestly without worrying about what others think, that's when the writing comes out.

You will experience things like getting rid of dislikes. So, you can write a story like this, or write about a problem that has not been solved. When you start writing, you will experience things that you didn't even know, like opening a notebook. Still, you may ask how to do it. Maybe you will understand it by trying it yourself. Even if I speak a hundred or a thousand words, you may not understand it well. However, let me give you one tip. Write without formality. When we do that, we gradually write more organized sentences, pay attention to spelling, write quite a bit, divide into paragraphs, and think about these things. But for this, just start without any rules. So, in my case,

Although it's like finishing writing and not doing things like line breaks afterward, if you just write like that, it's about one to three pages. Originally, when I started, it was a notebook. It's an old-fashioned word, a notebook. Nowadays, we write it on the computer with Word. It takes about 30 minutes. After writing the morning pages like this, I experience my consciousness expanding and various things being written out. Not only do I write down my complaints or criticisms, but I also reflect on myself. While writing such things, I end up looking into myself. How can I just write about others' flaws? Oh, at that time, I felt like this, and these are my thoughts. In a way, it can be said that it is meditation on paper. One day, when I looked at the morning pages I wrote like this, I felt much clearer.

So, without mentioning consciousness, in a free state, just freely writing down as the flow of consciousness, I didn't even know that I had thoughts of 2 trillion. How did I say such things? These kinds of things are deeply embedded. Everyone climbs their own mountain in their own way, right? It's important to find your own way in many ways, just like climbing a mountain. I simply talked to you about my own way of enjoying the morning today. I love mornings because it's when you wake up, right? So everything is fresh in the morning. I'm sure each of you has your own way of enjoying the morning.

I hope you rest well. Sang-geun and Kim Young-mi from Eunha.

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