How to learn to get up early?

Whoever gets up early, God gives him. Everyone knows this Russian proverb, but almost no one follows folk wisdom. It's hard for us to get up early. But after all This is useful not only for the wallet, but also for the physical condition of the person. And yet it’s hard for most of us to even imagine that you can wake up neither the light nor the dawn and at the same time not even resort to the help of the alarm clock. Why this happens and how to fix the situation - this article will tell.

The first reason anyone who cannot easily wake up early in the morning calls is lack of sleep. It is due to many factors. The most commonplace - you just stay up late. Take the habit of going to bed no later than 10 pm. Do it every day, including on weekends. At first it will be difficult to force yourself to go to bed earlier than usual, but over time it will become the norm.

To do this, a number of important conditions must be observed.

1. Refuse to communicate on social networks and view news at least an hour before bedtime. Reading newspapers, and not only Soviet ones, which are contraindicated by Professor Preobrazhensky from Bulgakov’s “Dog’s Heart”, is harmful both before lunch and before bedtime. The same goes for emotional television programs and movies. Let your nervous system calm down, do not overexcite it.
2. Do not eat heavy food at night. Even better, if the last appointment will be on time for 3 hours before going to bed. Sleeping on a full stomach is harmful not only for the figure. The body, instead of resting, will digest food. In this case, there can be no talk of quality sleep.
3. Create comfortable sleeping conditions. Ventilate the room, turn off the light. TV, telephone and computer should not be in the bedroom.Get dark opaque curtains. They form an environment of comfort for someone who went to bed.
4. Buy comfortable sleepwear. It’s convenient, not beautiful. It should be made of natural materials and without a huge number of ruffles, beads and bows, so that your body feels in it like in a cloud, and not like a knight in armor usually feels.

Getting up in the morning is really easy, if you make it a habit. Of course, first you’ll have to force yourself to leave the bed earlier than usual. But believe me, the results are worth it. As noted earlier, you need to start going to bed early.

What do you spend time at bedtime for? Watching videos on the Internet, correspondence with friends, acquaintances. Waking up at 6 in the morning after sitting on the Internet until midnight is really difficult. Therefore above all change your habits and stop wasting your evening time. Very soon you will realize that you can get up at 5 a.m., and even at 4 and at the same time be awake during the whole daylight hours.

And this will help get rid of a lot of problems. Some argue that they are “owls” in their psychotype. For their livelihoods, night time is much more suitable than the morning hours. In most cases, this is just an excuse that helps to justify our desire to stay longer in bed. As soon as a person begins to accustom himself to live by the new rules, the body obeys him. The main thing is not to be lazy and work on yourself.

An adult needs to sleep at least 8 hours. Therefore, before accustoming the body to early awakening, it is necessary to get used to bed early. In this case, you should try to fall asleep as quickly as possible.

In order for your sleep to be as strong as that of a child, in addition to the above rules, a number of recommendations should be followed.

• Be in the fresh air more. Walk at least once a day. Give hiking part of your way from work home. Get off the bus a couple of stops earlier than usual, or if you use your own car, leave it not in the nearest parking lot, but at least a few kilometers from your home.
• Go in for sports. Do not want to go to the gym? Take your morning jogs. Believe me, as soon as you start getting up earlier, you will have time for them and much more. Life, in principle, will sparkle with new colors.

Below are a few positive points that an early rise will bring to your existence.

Just imagine, you will never be late again. You will begin to drink morning coffee not on the run, but with pleasure, looking at how the city is just beginning to wake up outside the window. You will never forget your home phone again (car keys, passport, etc.). Everything will be under control in the morning. You will look much better than your colleagues who get up 10-20 minutes before going to work. While they are putting themselves in order, you will already fulfill part of their official duties or household chores, if at the moment you are sitting at home with the child on maternity leave, for example.

Another undeniable plus of early waking is your effectiveness. As soon as the day begins earlier, there will be less and less outstanding tasks. Judge for yourselves: if you got up at 11, by noon they swayed with difficulty, had lunch, cleaned the dishes, and it was not far from evening. You simply don’t have time to tune into the working rhythm.

Another thing if you got up at 6 in the morning.And you will have time to have breakfast in comfort, and put yourself in order, and check the child’s lessons, and take him to school, and come to work yourself without delay. The main thing is to set a goal and clearly go to it. Do not be discouraged if at first you sometimes have difficulty lifting yourself out of bed, over time it will become a habit.

Before you sleep well, it would be nice to be a little tired. After all, if you get closer to dinner, then you are unlikely to be able to quickly move to the world of Morpheus (the ancient Greek god of dreams). Therefore, right in the morning, proceed to the most difficult work in the moral and physical plan. During the day you can afford to even take a little nap. The main thing - do not overload the body, but do not leave it idle.

After everything planned for the day is done, go for a walk, in the gym or pool. The body as a whole and the brain in particular will give you a peaceful and calm sleep as a thank you. The fact that an hour before bedtime is necessary to part with all the gadgets, we have already mentioned. But to sit, staring at one point, is also not suitable. Do some kind of creativity - draw, collect puzzles, embroider, knit.

To get enough sleep, you need to sleep not long, but high quality. The main enemies of good sleep are nervous disorders, stress. Of course, getting rid of them completely in the modern world is unlikely to succeed. But you can learn how to relieve stress yourself.

Here are some suggestions.

• Take a warm bath before going to bed. Preferably with the addition of aromatic oils or sea salt. This will allow the body to relax.
• Turn on soft music or nature soundsthat calm your nervous system and prepare it for sleep. No wonder little children have been singing lullabies for centuries.
• Try the simplest evening meditations. Before going to bed, just sit in silence and without movement for 15-20 minutes.
• Once in bed take a comfortable pose and stop tossing and turning in search of the most suitable for sleep. To fall asleep, the muscles must be relaxed, and each movement prevents them from doing this.
• Create the conditions for quality sleep - buy an orthopedic mattress or at least a pillow. The way you sleep also depends on what you sleep on. Therefore, choose bedding suitable. They must be made of natural materials. Their color should not be too bright. Give preference to calm colors and, of course, they should be to your liking.
• Comfort is needed in and around. Make sure that the room where you sleep is not too hot or cold. Let there be a pleasant smell. Just use aroma candles for this, and not chemical air fresheners.

By following all these recommendations, you will realize that sleep can be good and awakening can be easy.

Ideally, you should learn to wake up without an alarm. Your body must become one. But at first this, of course, is impossible. Therefore, first use an alarm clock, but at the same time follow the 2 main rules.

1. The melody on your alarm clock should give you joy, and not scare your own brain and everyone around you. Do not put oppressive music or evening ringing for awakening, find a melody that will bring you joy in the morning.
2. Never set the alarm for 5, 10, 15 minutes or even for a second. You should get up as soon as he rang, or rather sang your favorite tune.

Then follow approximately such a plan.

• After waking up, drink a glass of warm water. Brush your teeth and take a shower. It is better that it is in contrast. It is not necessary to pour ice water on, but you shouldn’t break the body early in the morning.
• Do at least a few physical exercises. Ideally, it is better to perform a gymnastic complex, do yoga or just meditate.
• Go to breakfast. Your body by this moment will already be dreaming of a hot dish.
• Get down to business. Wipe off the dust, wash the dishes, iron the clothes, collect the child’s lunch for school, and so on.
• Do it all with energetic, awakening music. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of performing household duties, dancing in the literal sense of the word.
• Get in order and go to work full of strength, energy and good mood.

Scientists have proven that in the morning our working capacity is much higher than in the afternoon. Yes, and popular wisdom says that the morning of the evening is wiser. And this applies both to mental abilities, and physical. It is known that morning workouts give better results than evening ones. It is easier to complete a difficult mathematical task with a fresh mind in the morning, the closer to evening, as well as to learn a poem, for example.

Before changing your mode of work and rest, change your attitude towards it. Understand that sleep is not a way to get rid of daily worries, it is an opportunity to avoid many problems, including health.

Some experts offer such life hacks.

1. Write yourself the goals you want to achieve. Mark how much you do in the morning. May you have a diary of your victories.
2. One more tip – do not allow yourself to break your new regime even on weekends and during vacations, do not go astray, otherwise it will be difficult to return to the right track later.
3. Try to start the life of an early bird, not alone, but with the whole family or find a morning run companion. Firstly, it’s more fun together, and secondly, a collective sense of responsibility will add strength and reduce the desire to “lie still a little”.

As a result, you will certainly understand that morning is the most beautiful and fruitful time, and you will feel that our ancestors were right, who accurately noticed that God is giving to those who get up early. And the point here is not that “the one who first got up is slippers”, but that the person who started his day at sunrise, creates his beautiful life full of good impressions and brings only positive emotions. So it's time to wake up and get out of dusk. And then your every morning will be truly good.