Speaker 1: Our hormones, our energy, your digestion. They rise and fall
Speaker 1: at predictable times. We have a rhythm. We have a
Speaker 1: sleep rhythm, we have a hormone rhythm, we have a
Speaker 1: menstrual cycle. Everything works in rhythms and cycles in our body.
Speaker 1: And so when you work with that rhythm, mornings stop
Speaker 1: feeling like a fight. It's not about doing more, It's
Speaker 1: just about doing things at the time. Your body is
Speaker 1: actually designed for them. So our bodies thrive on routines
Speaker 1: and structure, and dysregulation causes disease in the body or
Speaker 1: disease in the body. I'm rather Wukiah and on my
Speaker 1: podcast A Really Good Cry, we embrace the messy and
Speaker 1: the beautiful, providing a space for raw, unfiltered conversations that
Speaker 1: celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune in to learn,
Speaker 1: connect and find comfort together. Hey everyone, and welcome back
Speaker 1: to this week's episode of A Really Good Cry. When
Speaker 1: we try to get really honest about our emotions, our
Speaker 1: health are healing, and all the habits that can change
Speaker 1: our lives, or at least we can try. You know,
Speaker 1: I really hope your day so far has been so
Speaker 1: wonderful and if it hasn't. I hope that this episode
Speaker 1: makes it a little bit better. I actually got a
Speaker 1: DM yesterday from someone asking me to do an episode
Speaker 1: on how to become a morning person. I have to
Speaker 1: admit I am one of those really annoying morning people.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love my mornings. I'm that person who from
Speaker 1: the moment I open my eyes, I'm awake. I have
Speaker 1: gone from zero to one hundred in energy. There is
Speaker 1: no in between. I don't have the oh, let me
Speaker 1: just wake up, and no, I am like, eyes open,
Speaker 1: ready to roll into my day, and I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to do it. So yeah, I am one of those
Speaker 1: people that you probably really dislike if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this episode, because you're trying to become a morning person
Speaker 1: and can't understand people like me. But you will because
Speaker 1: I am my best self in the morning. It is
Speaker 1: honestly my favorite time of day. And so when I
Speaker 1: read that message was created in my mind because I
Speaker 1: want everybody to feel how I feel in the morning.
Speaker 1: I want you all to have that incredible morning energy.
Speaker 1: I want you all to feel the brilliance of the
Speaker 1: morning sun and the energy that comes with it. So
Speaker 1: it became my personal mission to help whoever struggles with
Speaker 1: being a morning person, even if it's just waking up
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, not at the time I wake up,
Speaker 1: but just a little bit earlier, so that you get
Speaker 1: the joy that I have felt all these years for
Speaker 1: your mornings. And so what I thought i'd do is
Speaker 1: I'd share some of the things that I have done
Speaker 1: and that I now do that have helped me maintain
Speaker 1: being a morning person. That really helped me to want
Speaker 1: to wake up in the morning and have that energy.
Speaker 1: And so I actually have to start off by showing
Speaker 1: up my mom here, shout out to my mama, because
Speaker 1: I got it from my mama. I really did. She
Speaker 1: is a huge part of why I am a morning person.
Speaker 1: And I can't say I appreciated it when I was younger.
Speaker 1: When I say she was a militant human. She was
Speaker 1: militant in discipline about our mornings. And she actually got
Speaker 1: that from her as she always speaks about how my
Speaker 1: granddad would say you can't sleep. It will be in
Speaker 1: a different language in Gujhorati, but he would say you
Speaker 1: should not be sleeping once the sun is awake.
Speaker 2: He did not.
Speaker 1: Believe that you should be sleeping after the sun has risen.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, now that I've studied arada and
Speaker 1: understood nature and how these different things affect our body.
Speaker 2: He was onto something, and so was my mom.
Speaker 1: I did not appreciate it when I was younger, especially
Speaker 1: when I'd had a late night out and I'd hear
Speaker 1: her walking up the stairs to my room and I'd
Speaker 1: jump out of bed because I don't want her to
Speaker 1: know that I was still sleeping at like ten am.
Speaker 1: But I have to say it has definitely primed my
Speaker 1: body and my mind to help create this routine of
Speaker 1: early rising that I have come to truly deeply appreciate,
Speaker 1: and no amount of late night out or partying would
Speaker 1: ever ever be able to fulfill me the way that
Speaker 1: my mornings do.
Speaker 2: So thanks Mama.
Speaker 1: Always come to appreciate the things later in life that
Speaker 1: you absolutely despised when you were younger. So our body's
Speaker 1: actually designed to be mourning people if we're in sync
Speaker 1: with them. At night, our brain actually produces melotonin, which
Speaker 1: is the hormone that makes us feel sleepy, and in
Speaker 1: the morning melatonin naturally drops, and around thirty to forty
Speaker 1: five minutes after we wake up, our body gives us
Speaker 1: what's called this cortisol awakening response. Now, cordo gets this
Speaker 1: bad reputation as the stress hormone, but in this context,
Speaker 1: it's actually a good thing. It is what makes us
Speaker 1: feel alert and already to roll into the day. So
Speaker 1: if we're consistent and regular with our sleep schedule, morning's
Speaker 1: actually become the time when our body is wired to
Speaker 1: feel the most fresh, clear, and energized. I recommend that
Speaker 1: if you end up having a full night's sleep and
Speaker 1: you're still feeling tired in the morning, that could be
Speaker 1: a sign that there is something going on in the body.
Speaker 1: So whether it is a lack of deficiencies, it could
Speaker 1: be something as simple as that, or whether it's the
Speaker 1: quality or quantity of sleep you're getting. You might be
Speaker 1: getting the right amount, but are you getting as deep
Speaker 1: sleep as you need to? And so you have to
Speaker 1: start thinking about your sleep hygiene in this too, because
Speaker 1: obviously I can tell you all these tips and tricks
Speaker 1: on how to be a morning person, but if fundamentally
Speaker 1: you're not getting the right amount of sleep, it can
Speaker 1: be really difficult to wake up feeling energized, and so
Speaker 1: really work on your sleep. I think sleep is one
Speaker 1: of the pillars of good health in every single science
Speaker 1: and every single health system to exist. Sleep is a
Speaker 1: fundamental part of being able to have healthy immune system,
Speaker 1: to be able to wake up feeling energized, to be
Speaker 1: able to have motivation in the day, and so it's
Speaker 1: a really important area that we have to focus on
Speaker 1: to help get us better sleep. And just want to
Speaker 1: add that taking sleeping pills is not a way to
Speaker 1: do that. It can be a temporary solution, but even
Speaker 1: with things like melotonin, when you end up take you
Speaker 1: actually don't get deep sleep. You get very surface level sleep.
Speaker 1: So that's why you can wake up in the morning
Speaker 1: after taking malatone in and you know you've slept through
Speaker 1: the night, but you still feel groggy in the morning.
Speaker 1: I think it also suppresses this quartisole production in the body,
Speaker 1: which means that you don't get that zach in the
Speaker 1: morning to say hey is them to wake up and
Speaker 1: you feel fresh and clear and energize and stead you
Speaker 1: feel groggy and probably like you've drummed a lot because
Speaker 1: you're in that kind of in between phase most of
Speaker 1: the night. All that to say, try and sort your
Speaker 1: sleep schedule out. There are so many ways to do.
Speaker 1: I've actually done an episode on sleep, and it might
Speaker 1: take a while if you've been irregular for a long period,
Speaker 1: but it is definitely possible. Our body loves a routine,
Speaker 1: it loves schedule, and it thrives off having a routine
Speaker 1: that is absolutely to the tea, like everything happening on time,
Speaker 1: and so it's just getting yourself back to that, you know,
Speaker 1: Invading philosophy and in Arabada. So when I studied Arabada,
Speaker 1: I absolutely loved it because it started to make life
Speaker 1: make sense, like everything that I was doing in my day,
Speaker 1: everything I was it put into words, and it put
Speaker 1: into some sort of science. And in Vadic philosophy and
Speaker 1: in Aravada, it is said that this morning time is
Speaker 1: the most cleansing, most pure time of the day.
Speaker 2: It's called Brhmamurath.
Speaker 1: And I actually learned about it when I decided to
Speaker 1: go to the temple near me when I was living
Speaker 1: in the UK, when I first started getting into my
Speaker 1: spiritual practices. There is a beautiful prayer called Mangolaraiti that
Speaker 1: happens in Vedic temples, and I decided that for thirty days,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go and I'm going to do my
Speaker 1: meditation there In this time period.
Speaker 2: It was starting at four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that turned into a year of me doing it
Speaker 1: because I fell in love with meditating at that time
Speaker 1: of day. I don't do it like that anymore, but
Speaker 1: I learned about Brummamura then how purifying and how beautiful
Speaker 1: that time of day is through that process, And that's
Speaker 1: why monks wake up early in the morning to pray
Speaker 1: at that time because it is the most calming time
Speaker 1: of day. It's usually about nineteen minutes before sunrise, and
Speaker 1: it says it's the most statific or mode of goodness
Speaker 1: time of day, meaning your mind is naturally more peaceful,
Speaker 1: more clear, more light and also creative.
Speaker 2: During that time.
Speaker 1: And it makes sense, right, there's less noise in the world,
Speaker 1: your nervous system is calmer, you haven't had many things
Speaker 1: that have come into your eyes or your ears or
Speaker 1: through your senses. You've had no time for anyone to
Speaker 1: annoy you, hopefully to irritate you, to basically break this
Speaker 1: new fresh opportunity that you have to see life in
Speaker 1: a different way. And so using this period, this time
Speaker 1: of when you first wake up to set the tone
Speaker 1: for the rest of your day.
Speaker 2: What a blessing.
Speaker 1: You get to be in control of that rather than
Speaker 1: waking up in a rush and going straight into your
Speaker 1: day where other people have time to affect it. So
Speaker 1: there's less heaviness and overstimulation during this time, which is
Speaker 1: why the yogis and the sages woke up during this
Speaker 1: time to meditate. Because the atmosphere around us supports this
Speaker 1: deeper focus and connection. You also get the cooling energy
Speaker 1: and the calming energy from the moon that's still around
Speaker 1: before the sun rises, and the sun brings this go
Speaker 1: go go energy, and it fuels us to want to
Speaker 1: get up and do things, and so in Irarada also
Speaker 1: has this cycle, and it talks about the different energies
Speaker 1: that govern different times of the day. So this period
Speaker 1: that we're talking about is the vatter time. It's the
Speaker 1: time where your body can wake up feel soothed, calm,
Speaker 1: but still feel very creative, and it's meant to be
Speaker 1: the best time for you to actually wake up. If
Speaker 1: you wake up after sunrise, sometimes you can end up
Speaker 1: feeling even grogier. Irada says that you're more likely to
Speaker 1: wake up in a kafa time. Kaffa is like this heavy,
Speaker 1: sluggish energy that is brought about when you wake up
Speaker 1: during this time period. That's why waking up later often
Speaker 1: leaves you grogia. Now, when I share this episode on Instagram,
Speaker 1: I'll share the different times that are governed by these
Speaker 1: different modes, and it will be really interesting for you
Speaker 1: to see if you feel that way during the day
Speaker 1: depending on when you wake up. And so if you
Speaker 1: find that interesting, definitely go check out our Instagram page.
Speaker 1: I'll definitely share.
Speaker 2: It on that Now.
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest mindset shifts is realizing
Speaker 1: that becoming a morning person is not about forcing yourself
Speaker 1: to be productive before sunrise. It's really about alignment. It's
Speaker 1: not about how much you can get done before sunrise.
Speaker 1: It's about aligning back to nature externally and our true
Speaker 1: nature internally. Actually, in our radio talks about how we
Speaker 1: are in we end up being out of alignment. As
Speaker 1: soon as our body is out of alignment with nature.
Speaker 1: For example, you know when it's winter and the sun
Speaker 1: rises late, well, actually our body probably needs a little
Speaker 1: bit more sleep then, and so the sun rises a
Speaker 1: little bit later and the sun goes down earlier, which
Speaker 1: means we should be sleeping a little bit longer. Nature
Speaker 1: is telling us this. The animals do this, the animals
Speaker 1: going to hibernation during that time, whereas in summer the
Speaker 1: sun rises early, we have a little bit more energy.
Speaker 1: The sun is giving to us so much. So as
Speaker 1: soon as we come out of alignment with nature is
Speaker 1: usually when we feel not at our best. And so
Speaker 1: every time you're confused about what your body should be doing,
Speaker 1: look out in nature and it will probably tell you
Speaker 1: that's what you should be doing. And you know, our
Speaker 1: bodies already have these natural rhythms, our hormones, our energy,
Speaker 1: your digestion. They rise and fall at predictable times. We
Speaker 1: have a rhythm, We have a sleep rhythm, we have
Speaker 1: a hormone rhythm, we have a menstrual cycle. Everything works
Speaker 1: in rhythms and cycles in our body. And so when
Speaker 1: you work with that rhythm, mornings stop feeling like a fight.
Speaker 1: It's not about doing more, It's just about doing things
Speaker 1: at the time. Your body is actually designed for them.
Speaker 1: So our bodies thrive on routines and structure, and dysregulation
Speaker 1: causes disease in the body or disease in the body.
Speaker 1: And that's really what our REDA says. As soon as
Speaker 1: we come out of alignment or we become irregular. It
Speaker 1: causes disease and disease in the body. So having anchors
Speaker 1: in the day that create regularity and routine is so important.
Speaker 1: Your body and your mind need to know and need
Speaker 1: to be trained to know what's coming when, so that
Speaker 1: it's not an anxiety of the unknown all the time.
Speaker 1: We are predictable people. We don't like things being a surprise.
Speaker 1: It's such an interesting thing because when I start become
Speaker 1: more discplined in my life, people saying, God, don't you
Speaker 1: feel so restricted? Listen, people, that is the biggest myth
Speaker 1: from my experience. Having discipline in my life has created
Speaker 1: so much more freedom than I've ever had. Actually, I've
Speaker 1: been reading this book called Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday,
Speaker 1: and he says, discipline is not deprivation. It actually brings
Speaker 1: rewards and it's freedom because you are not being controlled
Speaker 1: by your mind or your emotions or your senses. You
Speaker 1: are in control of what you do, and true greatness
Speaker 1: is being in control of yourself when everything else is
Speaker 1: out of control. That's what building a morning rhythm can do.
Speaker 1: It gives you calm ground to stand on. It allows
Speaker 1: you to build up your patience, your tolerance, whatever it
Speaker 1: is you are trying to build in the morning, whatever
Speaker 1: it is you want for yourself. It gives you this
Speaker 1: time to be able to do that, so that when
Speaker 1: you go into this chaotic world, you have a little
Speaker 1: bubble around you that you've created to protect yourself from it.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about what's stopping you from having the
Speaker 1: best morning of your life. If you have a regular
Speaker 1: sleep wake cycle. We've spoken about this already, get it sorted.
Speaker 1: If your body never knows what to expect, how is
Speaker 1: it supposed to get into a routine that's not a cycle,
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: So here at ten things you can do to become
Speaker 1: the morning person.
Speaker 2: You want to be.
Speaker 1: Number One, Wake up every single day at the same time,
Speaker 1: despite what time you sleep, even if you go to
Speaker 1: bed later than usual. Try to wake up around the
Speaker 1: same time every single morning. That's how you train your
Speaker 1: body clock. If you are constantly irregular with the time
Speaker 1: you sleep and the time you wake up, you will
Speaker 1: never create a cycle, and so it will feel like punishment,
Speaker 1: But hopefully it will also make you go to bed
Speaker 1: earlier and at the same time. By knowing that no
Speaker 1: matter what you are waking up at this time, regardless
Speaker 1: of what time you sleep, and so your body starts
Speaker 1: to create this clock and this cycle and learns when
Speaker 1: to release the right hormones to help you sleep, to
Speaker 1: help you wake up and give you energy. Honestly, the
Speaker 1: most successful people in the world keep their wake up
Speaker 1: time within a thirty minute window, even on weekends. And
Speaker 1: to be honest, having done this for a really long time,
Speaker 1: I do not even need an alarm clock ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the year. Like my body will wake me up
Speaker 1: by five point thirty every single day, whether i want
Speaker 1: it to or not. Obviously, when I'm traveling that can change.
Speaker 1: When I'm on my period, maybe give or take half
Speaker 1: an hour if I'm not feeling well, But generally I
Speaker 1: can actually count on my body clock to wake me up.
Speaker 1: I don't even need an alarm to wake me up
Speaker 1: because of how rhythmic my body has now become. Think
Speaker 1: of it like training a puppy. The more consistent you are,
Speaker 1: the quicker it will learn. And look, that might mean
Speaker 1: you have to make sleep your number one priority, which
Speaker 1: means you might have to leave places early or not
Speaker 1: watch that extra episode of I Don't Know Love Island. Look,
Speaker 1: discipline definitely takes sacrifice, but it's positive sacrifice. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be seen in a negative way. That's really
Speaker 1: based on your own mindset. If you want to become
Speaker 1: a morning person and this is what it takes, then
Speaker 1: maybe sleep has to become your priority, and your late
Speaker 1: nights and going to parties, going to events and watching
Speaker 1: stuff may have to take a knock. But I think
Speaker 1: if you try to do this for three months even,
Speaker 1: you'll notice you won't even want to be staying up
Speaker 1: that late because your body will be so regular that
Speaker 1: it desires to be in bed by that time.
Speaker 2: Next up.
Speaker 1: No snooze button, Yeah, no second alarms, no third alarms,
Speaker 1: no fourth alarms, no snoozing. Every time you snooze, you
Speaker 1: get back into this fragmented sleep cycle, which leaves you
Speaker 1: groggier than if you just got up the first time.
Speaker 1: I'm so sure you've had this sleep where you're not saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to sleep a little bit longer, And
Speaker 1: then you sleep a little bit longer and you wake
Speaker 1: up and you feel like absolute shit because your body's
Speaker 1: gone back into this awful sleep that you get into
Speaker 1: a deep sleep and then you have to wake up
Speaker 1: with your alarm, whereas if your body's already woken up,
Speaker 1: it's better to just jump out of bed and get
Speaker 1: your day going. That little bit extra sleep is actually
Speaker 1: not going to make you feel how you think it will,
Speaker 1: and that's what you need to remind yourself. Unless you're
Speaker 1: getting a good two three hours more to fifteen minutes, twenty.
Speaker 2: Minutes is not going to make a difference.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're someone who really struggles to get yourself
Speaker 1: out of bed, you might want to keep your alarm
Speaker 1: or your phone across the room. It will force you
Speaker 1: to physically move to turn it off, and it will
Speaker 1: avoid you having new pressing snooze and maybe finding yourself
Speaker 1: back into bed.
Speaker 2: It will force you to get up.
Speaker 1: Even if you're going to crawl out of bed, at
Speaker 1: least you'll be out of it and then you can
Speaker 1: crawl yourself to the bathroom, brush your teeth, and get
Speaker 1: ready for the day. Now, this one may sound really crazy,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you I've done it. I did it
Speaker 1: for years, and what a difference it made. I actually
Speaker 1: slept without curtains, I kept all my blinds up, and
Speaker 1: I really loved falling asleep under the moon, seeing the
Speaker 1: dark sky and then waking up to the sun rising
Speaker 1: and it was such a so beautiful. Or you keep
Speaker 1: a little gap in if you don't want the full thing,
Speaker 1: keep a little gap to let sunlight in so that
Speaker 1: it can be less of a shock in the morning,
Speaker 1: but sat that you can see the sun coming in.
Speaker 2: Through through your windows.
Speaker 1: Or lastly, just open your curtains straight away, expose yourself
Speaker 1: to natural light as quickly as possible when you wake up.
Speaker 1: Light is actually one of the most powerful signals for
Speaker 1: your body. And when light hits your eyes in the morning,
Speaker 1: that's natural sunlight, not artificial lights in your room. It
Speaker 1: tells your brain to stop making melotonin that is your
Speaker 1: sleep hormone, and to start producing quartisole, which I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: which helps you to feel awake and refreshed.
Speaker 2: In the morning.
Speaker 1: And so if you sleep with your curtains open, the
Speaker 1: sunrise can actually wake you up. Actually becomes a really
Speaker 1: beautiful process. Or if that's not possible, open the curtains
Speaker 1: straight away, which is the next best thing. It's honestly
Speaker 1: like flipping your body's internal switch to on as soon
Speaker 1: as you wake up. When I was going through a
Speaker 1: period of struggling to wake up as early as I
Speaker 1: wanted to, instead of using a sound alarm, which are
Speaker 1: which would really annoy me.
Speaker 2: I don't know how people wake up.
Speaker 1: To do do do do? I? The thought of it
Speaker 1: would ruin my whole entire day. I cannot do it,
Speaker 1: and so I actually, instead of using a sound alarm,
Speaker 1: I end up using this thing called hatch, which I
Speaker 1: put next next to me, and it's in the shape
Speaker 1: of like a little moon, and it gives you like
Speaker 1: a thirty minute perod. You tell it when you want
Speaker 1: to wake up, and you can decide whether you want
Speaker 1: it to start gradually waking you up thirty minutes before,
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes before whatever it is, but slowly. It's like
Speaker 1: the sunrise, and it plays really gentle music if you're
Speaker 1: on music. But I use just the sunlight part of
Speaker 1: it as the alarm, and it gradually shines like sun
Speaker 1: to help wake you up. And it was great. It
Speaker 1: really subtly woke me up, rather than it being a
Speaker 1: sudden sound that startles you out of your sleep. No
Speaker 1: one wants that an alarm feeling like you're being shouted at.
Speaker 1: Who wants to be a morning person if that's how
Speaker 1: they're welcomed into it.
Speaker 2: No one so gently wake.
Speaker 1: Yourself up with a lovely sound or some light that's
Speaker 1: coming in through your window, or if you get this
Speaker 1: light alarm, but definitely do not have aggressive alarm. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to wake up. If you have an
Speaker 1: aggressive alarm, next up, jump out of bed as soon
Speaker 1: as you wake up. No lazing about, no laying. It
Speaker 1: just keeps your mind in a sleepy, lazy state and
Speaker 1: you're more likely to nod off. And this one I
Speaker 1: did not realize how many people still nap during the day.
Speaker 1: What No no naps. If you're truly exhausted, you can
Speaker 1: do a ten to fifteen minute power nap, it's fine, But.
Speaker 2: Generally your body should not need to nap during the day.
Speaker 1: If you're a grown adult and you don't have anything
Speaker 1: medically wrong with you, it is abnormal to need to
Speaker 1: nap during the day. So if that is an issue
Speaker 1: for you regularly, then I highly recommend getting that checked out.
Speaker 1: But generally avoid napping. And if you know you're going
Speaker 1: to nap in a specific place, like you know, sitting
Speaker 1: on the sofa in front of the TV, then don't
Speaker 1: put yourself there during the day. You do not want
Speaker 1: to steal time from your night's sleep. Protect your night
Speaker 1: time sleep like it is sacred. And so usually if
Speaker 1: I even feel a little bit tired during the day,
Speaker 1: I just jump on the treadmill and I walk and
Speaker 1: it gives me energy. It gives me the focus that
Speaker 1: I need again, rather than taking a nap. Try to
Speaker 1: get out within thirty minutes of waking up, regardless of
Speaker 1: whether it's sunny, raining, whatever. Just connect back to nature.
Speaker 1: Get outside even if it's cloudy. It's one of the
Speaker 1: best things you can do for your circadian rhythm is
Speaker 1: to let whatever natural light is there into your body,
Speaker 1: into your skin, into your bloodstream. Natural light, even on
Speaker 1: gloomy days, is one hundred times stronger than indoor light,
Speaker 1: and it helps to reset your body clock, boost your mood,
Speaker 1: and helps you to sleep better that night. So get outside,
Speaker 1: even if it's for ten minutes while you're sipping on
Speaker 1: your morning tea, get outside and feel the sunshine on you.
Speaker 1: The secret you're waking up well is actually how you
Speaker 1: fall asleep, So make sure you've got a good sleep environment.
Speaker 1: Figure out what that looks like for you. What is
Speaker 1: your wind down routine that tells your body that it's
Speaker 1: time to shift gears. Whether it's dimming the lights, drinking
Speaker 1: and calming tea, journaling, or even rubbing oil on your feet.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite ones. It just helps to
Speaker 1: soothe your body. It helps to soothe your whole nervous
Speaker 1: system just by rubbing a lit up of oil on
Speaker 1: the base of your feet. And your sleep environment matters too,
Speaker 1: it call is it dark?
Speaker 2: Is it quiet?
Speaker 1: I love sleeping in cooler of temperatures, so I always
Speaker 1: have my windows open or put my AC down to
Speaker 1: below seventy. But really important what your sleep hygiene is
Speaker 1: and your wind down routine. A big part of that
Speaker 1: is that spaces carry energy, so don't bring work or
Speaker 1: stimulating screens into that space, especially if you are struggling
Speaker 1: to sleep. You need to make sure that you separate
Speaker 1: your spaces as much as possible. And this next one
Speaker 1: I think is the most important. It's optimism and excitement
Speaker 1: for life. For why you're waking up in the morning.
Speaker 1: I think that's so important, Like what is it that
Speaker 1: you're looking forward to? What is it that you're excited about?
Speaker 1: Being grateful for life, just waking up saying thank you
Speaker 1: so much that I'm alive. I'm going to use this
Speaker 1: day the best I possibly can. I'm going to do
Speaker 1: all the best things today to show that I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for this life that I have. I think that's so
Speaker 1: important to like go to sleep. I have a prayer
Speaker 1: that I say I go to sleep and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: please let me wake up in the morning to do
Speaker 1: my meditation or to do all the things that I
Speaker 1: want to do to help serve the world in whichever
Speaker 1: way I want to whatever it is. Say prayer at
Speaker 1: night to set your intention for the morning, and then
Speaker 1: in the morning when you wake up, think about all
Speaker 1: the things that you are so grateful for that gives
Speaker 1: you this optimism and excitement for life, Because what are
Speaker 1: you waking up for? That's what you need to figure out.
Speaker 1: What am I waking up for? It could be a
Speaker 1: small thing, it can be a big thing. It can
Speaker 1: be the delicious cup of coffee that you got waiting
Speaker 1: for you, or it can be a bigger purpose like God,
Speaker 1: I'm just so grateful for this body. I'm going to
Speaker 1: use it to my best ability to serve whoever I
Speaker 1: can and for it to be an instrument of God.
Speaker 1: And that can be such a beautiful way to start
Speaker 1: your morning. And look, that can also be fleeting, right,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't have optimism. Sometimes we don't feel excited.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we wake up and we feel a little bit crappy,
Speaker 1: which is why the deeper layer to that is discipline,
Speaker 1: which is what we're trying to create. But you also
Speaker 1: need a motive to bring joy into the discipline, otherwise
Speaker 1: you're doing it mechanically without heart and this true desire
Speaker 1: to actually you do it. You need your reason to
Speaker 1: want to get up. Optimism and excitement for life makes
Speaker 1: your morning so much easier. But because they can be fleeting,
Speaker 1: that's why these practices that we're building help to remind
Speaker 1: your body and mind why waking up matters, and so
Speaker 1: doing that prayer before that night before it primes your
Speaker 1: mind to remember and prepares your mind and your body
Speaker 1: that it is a good thing that I want to
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning, and I do want this
Speaker 1: for myself, and my morning is a gift that I'm
Speaker 1: being given my grandma. Actually, when I went back to
Speaker 1: spend these last the last three months of her life
Speaker 1: with her, I have spent evenings, I've spent nights with
Speaker 1: her before, but I was sleeping with her every single night,
Speaker 1: and the most beautiful thing was at night she would
Speaker 1: pray and say rather sham, which is the way that
Speaker 1: she calls God. She says rather sham in Gauzuati, Please
Speaker 1: wake me up in the morning. Make sure I wake
Speaker 1: up in the morn for my prayers. That's what she
Speaker 1: would say every single night. God, please wake me up
Speaker 1: for my prayers in the morning. That's what she was
Speaker 1: living for. She wanted to wake up, and she wanted
Speaker 1: to pray, and in the morning she would say, thank
Speaker 1: you so much God for waking me up. And I
Speaker 1: learned so much just from those two things. Too simple sentences,
Speaker 1: but just filled with gratitude and desperation to have the
Speaker 1: morning that she wants in prayer. So, yeah, discipline will
Speaker 1: get you out of your bed, but purpose and this
Speaker 1: optimism for life is what's going to keep you out
Speaker 1: of bed. So ask yourself and try and really think deep,
Speaker 1: what is my true wife this morning? Without it, it
Speaker 1: will be too easy to drift back into your old habits,
Speaker 1: and so having this is really important. Another thing that
Speaker 1: can really help is having a consistent anchor habit, one
Speaker 1: thing that you do every single morning, No matter what,
Speaker 1: and so you kind of schedule that in your mind. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like, you know that I have to wake up
Speaker 1: for this thing, whether it's cooking your breakfast or your
Speaker 1: lunch and prepping for it, whether it's journaling, whether it's
Speaker 1: breath work, whether it's writing your to do list. It's
Speaker 1: not about what the habit is. It's about the stability
Speaker 1: that it creates. And so having this anchor makes your
Speaker 1: morning a little bit more predictable and safe, even if
Speaker 1: it's just this one thing.
Speaker 2: And then preparation.
Speaker 1: One of the most underrated secrets to becoming a morning
Speaker 1: person is preparation. And I don't just mean laying out
Speaker 1: your clothes or setting your alarm. I mean preparing your mind,
Speaker 1: your body, and your environment. To think of preparation as
Speaker 1: giving yourself a head start. When you wake up with
Speaker 1: momentum already in your favor, mornings feel less like a
Speaker 1: mountain that you have to climb. It's basically like a
Speaker 1: future self handoff. Every time you prepare the night before,
Speaker 1: whether that's setting out your workout clothes, soaking your o's,
Speaker 1: filling up your water bottle, you're kind of leaving your
Speaker 1: future self a gift.
Speaker 2: That's how you should see it.
Speaker 1: It's like it reduces the chances of you not getting
Speaker 1: up because your mind knows that you've already done prep
Speaker 1: work for it.
Speaker 2: So then why would you not end up.
Speaker 1: Waking up If I've already done all the preparation that's
Speaker 1: required for you to have a great morning. It's a
Speaker 1: way of saying, I've got you covered, and I'm investing
Speaker 1: in you, you now, future self. I know you're going
Speaker 1: to be able to wake up in the morning, and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, I believe in you by
Speaker 1: doing this prep work. And another thing that can really
Speaker 1: help is reducing your decision fatigue. Mornings can often feel hard,
Speaker 1: not because we're lazy, but because we wake up to
Speaker 1: fifty tiny decisions before we've even brushed our teeth, what
Speaker 1: to eat, what to do first. So preparation really removes
Speaker 1: those decisions, so you don't have to think about all
Speaker 1: the little things, but you can think about the intention
Speaker 1: and the mood with which that you want to have
Speaker 1: the morning, and so get rid of the micro decisions
Speaker 1: by preparing beforehand. When you're preparing, that way, you're not
Speaker 1: leaving your mornings to chance. You're removing any friction possible,
Speaker 1: and you're setting your future self up to rise with
Speaker 1: ease instead of resistance. So the good thing about all
Speaker 1: of this is that you now know there is a formula.
Speaker 1: And if you've not been a morning person for your
Speaker 1: whole life, please do not expect this to work in
Speaker 1: a couple of days or even a month. Sometimes regulating
Speaker 1: your body takes patience and a whole lot of dedication.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it might be as easy as you'd hoped,
Speaker 1: but please know that getting into a sleep schedule and
Speaker 1: becoming a morning person is so worth anything that you
Speaker 1: have to sacrifice or go through. It is a deep
Speaker 1: investment into your health and you will not regret it.
Speaker 1: I actually have a friend who really struggles with sleep
Speaker 1: but keeps giving up or giving into late nights out
Speaker 1: on the weekend. And of course, if you've been unregulated
Speaker 1: your whole life, you really have to be prepared to
Speaker 1: be dedicated and commit to what it takes to get there.
Speaker 1: You most definitely can do it. It's just whether you are
Speaker 1: all in or not, and you're going to get out
Speaker 1: what you get into it. So the more you put
Speaker 1: into this, the more you will get out and the
Speaker 1: faster it will happen for you. So I really look
Speaker 1: forward to you all becoming morning people. We should start
Speaker 1: a morning people movement. Let's do that morning people movement.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to start that. Let's really I
Speaker 1: really hope that it's wonderful for you, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: the process to getting there might not be. But when
Speaker 1: you start getting the glimpses of feeling excited and happy
Speaker 1: about your mornings, I guarantee you all the effort that
Speaker 1: you put in will be forgotten and it will feel
Speaker 1: absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2: Sending your so much love.
Speaker 1: I hope you have a wonderful week filled with lots
Speaker 1: of early mornings and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, DM me message me.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear your experiences if you've tried this before,
Speaker 1: if it's failed, if you try this and it works,
Speaker 1: always nice to hear from you all. Take care and
Speaker 1: have a wonderful, wonderful week.