20 Secrets to Getting Up Early and Feeling Your Best (Full Guide)
By: Noizio, Focus, Relax
Tags: Sleep, Guides And Tutorials, Secrets, Music, Morning

7–8 hours of sleep. That’s exactly how much time a healthy adult needs to feel completely awake. It is advisory to go to bed and wake up at the same time, even on weekends. This is how a regimen is created. It will not let you ignore the alarm clock. No time for a healthy night’s rest? You get 4–5 hours of sleep a day and want to feel awake and energized? It is possible. The following tips from doctors, psychologists, and coaches will show you how.

Why can’t you fall asleep on time and what to do:

1. You got up late in the morning and now can’t sleep a wink.

If you woke up at 4 PM, then going to bed at 10 PM will be quite hard. No rituals can help here. Even if you worked out for hours, you would feel sleepy only at 2–3 AM anyway. The only solution here is to get up early.

2. You are afraid of sleeping through your alarm.

Let’s say you need to wake up early to get on your plane on time. The trip has been planned, it is incredibly important, and the tickets are expensive. You are afraid of sleeping through your alarm, and this fear prevents you from falling asleep. As a result, you go to sleep an hour later. You hear the alarm go off, but don’t turn it off just to lie in your bed for 2 more seconds. Then you fall into a deep sleep. To avoid that, solve the real problem. You aren’t afraid of sleeping through, you are scared to be late for your plane. That is why you need to convince yourself that you are going to wake up full of energy, completely awake, and energized. Imagine how you get up on time and feel great.

3. You can’t fall asleep because of severe stress.

If you had a difficult and stressful day, you need to prepare yourself for sleep. It is recommended that you use drawing as a way of relaxation instead of using sedatives or any other pills. Drawing can actually calm you down and help you focus on the tip of your pencil. It is important that you don’t think about anything for a while. It doesn’t matter whether you can draw or not. It doesn’t matter what you’re drawing on or how you’re drawing either. What’s important here is the process itself.

4. Tomorrow is a difficult day.

Lots of planned things for the next day, an important event, exam, or a project presentation. All this can leave you wide awake in the middle of the night. You are scared of failing, but you can also anticipate something exciting and pleasant. Drawing will help you with that again, it will protect you from niggling fears and thoughts. Even simple geometric drawing can help you abstract yourself from the present moment.

5. You are depressed.

If you’re trying to overcome depression and feel its presence, then your biochemistry might force you to stay awake rather than your mental state. The best way to fall asleep in this case is to exhaust yourself. Take a math book and try to solve some problems. Try to find a solution. Intensive mental activity has the ability to drain you. Physical activity is a great choice as well. Clean your house, have an evening walk, do some exercises at home. You need to tire yourself out.