Sleeping is one of life's great pleasures.
But too much sleeping, makes you more likely to have a bad night's sleep and have negative thoughts during the day, and in some cases develop depression.
But a lot of successful people say, “If you win the morning, you win the day.”
They say the early bird catches the worm.
Here are some benefits to being an early bird.
Recently in an article in the Wall Street Journal, a journalist interviewed several billionaires and discovered that they all seem to find 4am, as their "most productive time of day." If you want to learn, why this will only work out for about 15 percent of the population?. keep watching.
The group of people were not a huge surprise: Tim Cook (CEO of Apple). Richard Branson (CEO of Virgin Atlantic). Michelle Gass (former President of Starbucks). But what was interesting is, most of these people's saw this 4am time of the morning as "personal time" for their productivity.
They used the time to set up their day, in a positive manner, exercise, read for personal growth, meditate, or pray.
For many of us, on the other hand, there's no greater pleasure than sleeping in, staying in bed, and not getting up until you absolutely have to! But if we turns out, "there may be more benefits to getting up early". If you struggle to get up with the early birds, and consider yourself more of a night owl, here's why you should start get up, earlier in the morning. "It might just change your life".
You should actually give your body, sometime to wake up, before starting your day.
Studies prove that sleep inertia, — that slow-moving period between "sleep-induced brain fog and full wakefulness". It last anywhere from between two to four hours.
If you're rolling out of bed at 8:30 a.m. to get to work at 9, you're not going to arrive ready, to do your best work. Getting up early gives your body a chance to reach peak wakefulness naturally, (which means you won't have to depend on, "triple shot of cup coffee to do your thinking for you").
It may not be easy to start setting your alarm for an earlier hour, and you may have to drag yourself out of bed, for the first couple of days or weeks, but once it becomes part of your routine, you'll likely notice a major difference, in your energy levels and mental clarity in the morning.
You'll be less likely to suffer from mental illnesses like depression.
Research published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research revealed, that women who get up earlier are far less, likely to develop mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, than those who sleep later.
This makes a lot of sense, especially shows how restorative sleep, is for our physical health — it makes sense that the benefits, would carry over to our mental and emotional health as well.
According to a 2014 study, early risers were less plagued with negative thoughts, than those who stay up late, and sleep even later.
Consider just how many of us, tend to let our minds move round, with stressful, anxiety-ridden thoughts, when we can't sleep at night. so it's impossible to simply away from negative thoughts, or keep ourselves from having insomnia, until we are trying to set good habits.
Research has repeatedly found that those who get up early, set themselves up for better quality sleep, when they hit the sack that night.
Other research has shown night owls are, more likely to develop sleep disorders and tend to sleep less overall, than the early birds.
We hear all the time how important it is to get a solid eight hours of rest a night, If you get up early, chances are you'll be ready for bed earlier, setting you up for a good night's rest.
Lastly, when you combine all the benefits of waking up early, it is easy to see why, early risers experience higher levels of productivity and success. The quantum effect is tremendous, and makes us more likely to achieve our goals and desires.
Reference:
Time course of sleep inertia dissipation in human performance and alertness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10188130
Prospective study of chronotype and incident depression among middle- and older-aged women in the Nurses https://www.journalofpsychiatricresearch.com/article/S0022-3956(17)31165-2/fulltext
Longitudinal study of self-awakening and sleep/wake habits in
adolescents https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23620684
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