To prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections, we have continued to refrain from going out and work as a teleworker.
Children may have shortened class or school closed, adults may be teleworked, and may even want to stay up late. If you can’t do what you’ve been doing so far, such as getting up at the same time every day and sleeping at the same time, you’ll be prone to mental and physical disorders such as a disordered body clock, lack of sleep, weakness, and depressed mood.
Early to bed, early to rise is the best.
“Sleep early, Wake up early ” is important as a means to adjust your daily rhythm. As the saying “The early bird catches the worm.” is a word that has been handed down from ancient times, but it is said that it has a biological basis, not a moral meaning.
Morning light can reset body clock and promote serotonin secretion.
There is a body clock in the human brain, which catches morning light and controls the functions of the body clock (sleep, body temperature, hormone secretion, etc.).
Morning light increases the activity of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps keep your mind calm. Serotonin is one of the substances that exists in the body, and is a key substance in the brain that activates the brain actively, such as stabilizing nerves,
feelings of security, normal mind and etc. It is an important nervous system that connects the parts that control advanced activities peculiar to humans, such as thinking, memory, and language. However, lack of serotonin can cause symptoms such as chronic stress, fatigue, irritability, decreased aspiration, depression and insomnia.
To keep your body and mind healthy, it is important to have a regular routine.
Avoid using your smartphone before getting sleep at night.
In order to get up early, it is a prerequisite not to stay up late.
Sleep is very important for humans, and if you continue to lack sleep, your brain
function will decline or you feel unwell.
It is thought that if you take a blue light from a smartphone etc. before getting sleep at night, the secretion of melatonin, which is also called “sleep hormone”, will be suppressed and you will not be able to sleep.
Melatonin acts on the body clock to switch between wakefulness and sleep, and induces a natural sleep. In addition, antioxidant effect promotes the metabolism of cells and relieves fatigue.
All you need to do is being aware of waking up early.
To get up early, start by THINKING that you will get up <prefereed time>.
This method is hard to believe, but research shows that most people are self-awakening (except for those with extremely disturbed sleep rhythms such as insomnia and day-night reversals). You will be able to wake up spontaneously without relying on alarm clock.
As waking up a little early, you’ll be able to work, study, and do housework much more efficiently. Also, it may be possible to maximize the human ability by sending a regular life rhythm. From today, why don’t you try to get up from 30 minutes to 1 hour earlier than usual?
BY MK