If you suffer from constant fatigue, this one habit may fix it
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When I was little, I was always the last person to get up in my family. I slept a lot, as many kids do and I also slept a lot as an adult. Every morning, that snooze button was my "savior" from facing reality. I'd hit it at least eight times before I finally got up.
Despite averaging eight to nine hours of Z's, I still wanted more. I'm sure you know the feeling: as soon you open your eyes, the heaviness of not getting enough closes them right back. This was my morning habit for many years. I got regular, restful sleep yet I felt even more tired during the day.
When the pandemic happened, I wanted to try something different. I decided to get up as soon as my body woke up, with or without the alarm. In the first few mornings of practicing this new habit, I grumbled. Then something miraculous (for me at least) started to happened.
When my body woke up after seven or eight hours of sleep, I could no longer go back to get more. And like clockwork, morning after morning, my body naturally awoke at the same time.
Today, I rarely use an alarm clock. Instead, I rely on my internal alarm, my circadian rhythm. In a nutshell, the circadian rhythm is our internal clock that regulates various functions in a 24-hour sleep/wake cycle. One sleep cycle (REM or non-REM state) typically takes seventy to ninety minutes. It happens four to six times in a good night's sleep.
When you hit the snooze button, you’re essentially starting a new sleep cycle over and over again. Hence, feeling "drunk" with each waking moment. Hitting the snooze button one too many times also means throwing our bodies out of whack, which can lead to fatigue throughout the day.
How does this resonate? Are you an alarm clock pro who gets up as soon as it goes off? Or are you a snooze pro?
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