I have already addressed the issue before the elevation of the benefits of early in the morning (see 10 Reasons to get up early in the morning ), highlighting the benefits in terms of productivity, mood and health. But how
may be able to set your alarm at 5 am, get up every day at dawn, and resist the temptation to dive back under the covers?
Indeed, it is rather difficult to get used to waking up early in the morning if you take the wrong approach. On the contrary, following a successful strategy the task becomes somewhat easier.
The most common mistake is to think about that if your goal is to first get up in the morning, then you'd better go to bed early. So it is sufficient that you calculate how long you sleep each night on average, and then just move back a few hours of your sleep habits. If you usually sleep from midnight to 8, allora basterebbe andare a letto alle 10 di sera per svegliarti con semplicità alle 6 del mattino. Sebbene questo ragionamento sembri impeccabile, normalmente è destinato al fallimento. Vediamo perché.
Ci sono due principali scuole di pensiero riguardo al sonno e ai suoi ritmi.
Una prima corrente ritiene che dovresti andare a letto e svegliarti agli stessi orari ogni giorno. Dovresti dunque cercare di dormire lo stesso numero di ore per ciascuna notte, seguendo uno schema orario predefinito. Dunque dormire ogni notte dalle 11 di sera alle 7 del mattino, per esempio. Tale impostazione sembra adeguarsi all’esigenza di determinazione e di prevedibilità che molte persone ricercano nella propria quotidianità e mira ad assicurare however, a reasonable number of hours of sleep to ensure sufficient rest.
A second school of thought, on the contrary, far from proposing the adoption of a strict time schedule, says you should simply listen and respond to the needs that your body manifests. So they went to bed only when you're tired and wake up naturally without using any clock in the morning. This approach relies therefore to our bodies, which should be well-aware of how much sleep we need and we would only be responsible for meeting its demands.
I have personally tried and tested both methods that I have just explained, but in neither case, however, has produced results satisfactory. Both have, in my opinion, weaknesses.
Regarding the first approach, in fact, it is clear that if you intended to go to bed and wake up at the same times every day, then there will certainly be times when you go to bed without being really tired and sleepy. With the result that you could find yourself spending some time to turn over in bed before falling asleep. Another drawback is the fact that this school of thought believes that you need to sleep the same number of hours each night, which is an incorrect starting point. Your needs in terms of sleep are variable from day to day.
If, however, to adopt the strategy the number of hours of sleep in a natural way that your body requires, you end up sleeping very presence was probably more than you actually need. Many people who follow this approach more than 8 hours sleep per night. That is certainly not a bad thing, but often ends up sleeping too long to be almost counterproductive, leading us to a state of laziness and inactivity. In addition, most of us, whether we like it or not, organize your days based on specific times and justify late for an appointment on the grounds that we needed to listen to our bodies and stay as long as it might sound, in fact, little Respect for our party.
The best solution, as I am concerned, was to combine the two metodogie illustrated so far. It 's a very simple strategy, which many people who get up early certainly take without even thinking about it already, but for me it was a pleasant surprise. In essence, the approach is to go to sleep when I'm tired and sleepy (and only when I'm really tired and sleepy) and get up in the morning with the alarm at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time every day (5 am), but I go to sleep at different times every night.
I go to bed only when sleepy, so do not stay on my feet or they can not read more than one or two pages of a book without collapsing from sleep. Almost every night they spend more than two or three minutes after I put in the bed when I fall asleep. Most times I go to sleep between 10 and 11 at night, sometimes at 9:30 and at other times, if not sleepy, I do not go to bed before midnight.
the morning when the alarm sounds, the turn out, do some stretching for a few seconds and I just get up. Without thinking about. I realized that more delay to rise, it becomes more tempting to stay under the covers. So I do not concede any chance to think about it and get up immediately.
adopting this strategy for a few days, I immediately saw how my rhythms of sleep and wakefulness have acquired their natural cadence. If for some nights are not really tired and sleepy and go to sleep late, most likely in the evening after my body in advance manifest their tired and go to sleep before. My body has somehow learned to recognize that I get always the same time and then when he needs to show his fatigue, it makes me sleepy fall early in the evening.
The result is that, on average, 6 ½ hours sleep a night and when I wake up in the morning I feel rested and very pleased with the quality and intensity of my sleep.
So if you want to try to get up early in the morning (or at least exercise more control over your sleep habits), try this strategy: Go to bed only when you are too tired to keep you up and get up every morning at a fixed time.