Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

re: Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

saynotoquacks — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:41:34 GMT

There is no better time to write than from midnight on. The peace, the solitude, the blurring of boundaries between reality and dream....I won't give it up! Daytime belongs to the corporocracy. Nighttime belongs to the spirit, the intuition.

I am a night owl, and my digestion is fine! I go to bed just as the dawn sky turns ultramarine and the robins start screaming. I wear earplugs. I long for a quiet place to write, preferably in mountains, where there would be no corporate noises of day to interfere with the writing process. Then I could do the aurora-worship thing too. But I just can't be creative in the daytime. It's the wrong ambiance for this delicate process. Everyone is different.

re: Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

Pwyll — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:36:31 GMT

Hi Amy-i used to live in Williams--(S. Or.) and places in that area Still do not have electricity! That slower pace is evident by those who are not slaves to it. Peaceful and fulfilling comes to mind...

re: Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

Alaskadude — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:34:21 GMT

Has anyone heard about how this affects folks in northern climates? If I slept around the rising and setting of the sun, I'd be a blithering idiot in two weeks time...
Do our bodies adjust with the seasons? If not, the only people with normal hormone functioning would live around the equator...
Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks.

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juorange — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:55:24 GMT

I sleep 10 hours a night, usually from 10 till 8. Is that unusual ?

re: Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

sandman4224 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:43:13 GMT

I found a wonderful book on the subject of sleep aptly titled "Lights Out", written by T.S. Wiley. It provides substantial evidence regarding the link between sleep and optimum health or poor health. It is a contrarian view of the current health paradigm that shares many of the views from this website. Clearly one third of the book is references from studies and reports.

The message: Try to match your sleep with the rising and setting sun throughout the year (more sleep in winter,less in summer) and eat foods that are in season (more fruits and vegs in warm months, more fats and proteins in cold months). The consequence for not adhering to the philosophy is disease (nature's way of taking you out).

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amysnaturals — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:09:54 GMT

I had to smile when I read Dr. Mercola's comment of rising with the sun and lying down as it goes down. I just recently lost my father in law; less than four weeks ago, and he grew up the first ten years of his life without electricity. We live in an extremely rural area of southern Oregon, and electricity didn't hit out here until 1938! He lived without the "benefits" of electricity for the first ten years of his life. His family had a ranch, which we currently live on that same property, and they milked the cows by candlelight or lanterns. When electricity was introduced, he said it was loud, like a buzzing sound all the time, and it went out frequently. Refridgeration consisted of a darn good root cellar and they had a box with burlap sacks hanging on all sides with ice on the top that dripped down the sacks and kept foods cool. Ice was harvested from the pond nearby and put into a silo of sorts with sawdust packed around it and lasted until July. A different life and in some ways I think it sounds a whole lot better. I know this was a sleep article, but I thought you all would enjoy hearing about life when they did get up with the rooster because of no modern technology.

re: Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

Diane Honaker — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:06:34 GMT

I also am an early person and when I sleep well I can get a lot done before lunch. I was always told that the hours you sleep before midnight are the best sleep. The best time for me is from ten P.M. to six A. M.

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Diane Honaker — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:06:22 GMT

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success4hannah — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:21:41 GMT

Well, it is all good and well to say it is better to get up early, and go to sleep early. Sleep is like metabolic typing. Different people have different metabolisms. For example, I have always been a late night owl. My body needs a shower in the morning to wake up, and it is 10:00am before I am fully awake. I blame HaShimoto's Disease because with that, my metabolism is non-existent. At night, however, my body is going and I am wide awake! If I go to bed before 10:00pm, I just lie awake until midnight. It would be great if someone has a magic pill or formula to change that.

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:28:58 GMT

I'm a firm believer and practitioner of early to bed, and early to rise (per Benjamin Franklin) makes one healthy and wise...as to affluence, it may go with the territory, if one remains vigilant, prudent, frugal and yet charitable and generous.

I'm becoming a believe in afternoon power naps, or siestas, also.

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re: Benefits of Being an Early Riser, and How to do It

Josh Rubin — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:38:41 GMT

Even though I am an avid sleeper and educator of getting to bed not later than 10:30 and up no earlier than 6am, there are some who can function on less. The cycle is just not to be a nazi, it has to do with the sun and the moon and the circadium hormonal rhythm of your body.

You release repair and regeneration hormones towards the end of the day and evening, while the awakening hormones come down. As well, at night, you repair phsyically from 10-2am and from 2-6am psychologically. There is research showing that if you have to skim on sleep, you are better off going to bed at a normal time and sacrificing the morning hours. For people who get up early, there is more research showing that morning exercise to get your cortisol rhtym on a rhythm, is beneficial.

Though my recommendation is that if you are getting up early and are tired all day, are unable to handle your stressors, are showing signs of dysfunction, than getting up early is not serving you!