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Stop waking up facing the bed sheet!
Program your brain to tell your body to jump out of the bed
There are two types of mornings: good morning and bad mornings. Sometimes, you can’t wait to get out of bed. You get up really quickly. Other times, you barely want to leave your nest, although you went to bed early. When you take off the blanket, you feel like trying to get out of a tomb… Have you ever wondered why? Maybe you think that your indisposition has a physical cause: a considerable amount of beer, playing on the computer until dawn, having had sex with the wrong woman (who didn’t take off her hair nest until now) and so on… Well, your problem has most of the times a mental cause. "The body wakes up because of the increased blood flow in the brain, produced by stress hormones", explains dr. J. Christian Gillin, from the Medical Center of San Francisco. The problem is that this mechanism gets into a contradiction with another physiological resort, that which stimulates the body to more rest. "The situation is similar to the movement of a rocking chair", says dr. Timothy Roehrs, director at the Research Center of the Ford Hospital in Detroit. "A mechanism activates the sleep state, and the other activates the wake state". The result of this confrontation can be decisively for the configuration of that day. The secret is to nourish the wake state in the detriment of the sleep one. "Sleepy persons don’t have the brain invaded by an intense blood flow at the moment when they wake up", says dr. Gillin. "They need ten to twenty minutes to get over this". But if you have a positive motivation of waking up (that satisfaction feeling that activates stress hormones), you won’t feel the need to sleep anymore and you will jump out of bed.
Here is your weekly plan of nice waking up. Have something good for breakfast, make love to your wife… Or, if you need it, have sex during breakfast. The important thing is to find something that would motivate you get out from the sheets. You can invent a “pancake morning”. (But not more than one every week!). If you bought a box of chocolate cream on Saturday and you can’t wait to see how the cream spins under the blade of the knife, open it only Monday morning. If you are addicted to the breakfast coffee, buy a coffee machine that can be programmed to prepare the wanted liquid at the time you get up. Its sound will allure you in the kitchen. Or you can choose a treat conditioned by reaching an objective at your work place. If you say "I have to get up to go to work, otherwise I won’t get a promotion, or worse, I will get fired", you will never get up. Better "I wake up now and solve ten files, to have time to go to a basketball game with the guys". You will like the idea that you will have lots of time at basketball and you will get out of bed easier. Tuesday: You need something new. Have you ever had a relationship which started like a burst of sex and passion, but which quenched faster than a straw fire? Almost overnight, everything that used to be new and interesting became old and ordinary. Routine is a serious obstacle in the relationship with a stable partner. And why should you always wake up next to the same woman, wear the same clothes, and drive the same car on the same crowded road? You better stay in bed, right? When you always do the same thing, you get into routine, in a so-called "comfort area". So, every time you go to bed, think about an interesting activity that you will do the following day. You don’t need a new car to eagerly wait to go to the office. Why don’t you “fix” the old one? Or get out of your closets the audio tapes with rock pieces of the 70s. and it wouldn’t hurt to have a new shirt or a new tie that would create a positive image of yourself. "In the past, women who suffered from depression were advised to buy new hats", say dr. Michael J. Salamon, New York psychologist. The hat wasn’t the satisfaction, the feeling of new was. So, go out and find a new woman with a new hat. Wednesday: You need something surprising. During the sleep, your brain looks like nocturnal services of clients’ assistance: it never closes completely, but it is very selective in its activity. "The mothers of new-born children wake up immediately when the baby cries, but they may sleep deeply when a train goes near them", says Roehrs. While you are sleeping, your brain decides which the most important stimuli are for you. To convince it to "wake up", you have to make it believe that in the morning you have something exciting waiting, like going on a trip or meeting the girl of your dreams. Here are some ideas of this kind.
If your problem is caused by the long range of tasks you have to fulfill before getting to work (ironing, walking the dog, preparing the sandwich for lunch, filling the car with gas, and rereading the file for the meeting), then go on strike from the evening. Finish your work day by giving the file to someone else and finish all your work as to start from zero the following day. Friday: You need a break. Why did you use to get up easier when you were in the 5th grade than now? Because you were playing with the ball in your breaks between the classes. And even if you would spend your entire day making up sentences and solving equations, it was still a game, wasn’t it? Now you have to schedule by yourself the moments of break and to take care to involve the others in them too. Socialization can be an extremely thrilling process, like the activity you carry on in common. Maybe in one of the days of the week you schedule having lunch together. At a different restaurant every time, of course. Use your lunch break to go to have lunch; don’t just eat a sandwich at work to win time. It is easier getting up when you know that you have a break after three hours of work. I order pizza around 11.30… Saturday: You need a controlled environment. You would think that the weekend is a fairly important moment to get out of bed, but… you knocked yourself out Friday night. It is time to play a little with the temperature of your body. Turn the heat on. "A temperature decrease tells the body that it is time to hibernate a little", says dr. Rosalind Cartwright, sleep expert at the Medical Center St. Luke of Chicago. Heat means it’s time to wake up and get out of the den. Fool your body by attaching a chronometer to an electric blanket, so as this to get warm when the alarm goes on. (Make sure that the chronometer and the blanket are compatible-and don’t forget to deactivate them when you go on a vacation). Sunday: You need light. You probably told your body that this is your day of total rest. It isn’t such a good idea. If from Monday till Friday you get up at 6, and during the weekend you sleep until 10, you only shift your biological clock with four hours. For every extra hour you sleep, you will need a day with a waking at the usual time to reset this internal clock. In these circumstances, only next Friday you will be fully recovered. Give up without any slogs to these supplementary sloth hours, with the help of the next tricks:
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