Show You can love your job your breakand Tom Brokaw but still hate to get up in the morning What is it about having to rise and shine that is such a consistently Tiiroughout our evolution we awoke because our bodies not our dock radios told us to We functioned on what call “circadian” rhythms cycles of and wakefulness sleep dictated naturally by the rising and setting of the sun (An understandable reaction to being roused by an alarm dock 50000 years ago might have your family fast cereal - humbling experience? A number of things according to the Executive Fitness Newsletter most of us in the modern-daworld do it it’s not been to silence it with a stick) too the process of sleep itself has taken a turn for the worse since the good old days Prehistoric man no doubt went to bed physically T?ien exhausted relatively and sober We up with restless bad debts kids legs flunking out of school of stiff and a couple cuddle dnnks under our caps No wonder we wake up feeling ready for bed But even for those of us who live wisely and sleep well getting the old engines going can be tough in getting “Difficulty up is a widespread problem” says sleep specialist Jerrold S M D author of “A Good Night's Sleep (W W Norton and Company 1981) In a recent survey for exof 600 people fewer than ample said they awoke and refreshed feeling conseventeen percent fessed it took them a full hour or more to feel as alert Many people you may know take even longer than that Is there anything we can do about minimizing our a m plights? Yes but it's not apt to be easy because making it mure pleasant to get up in the morning is something that may have to be approached Dr Maxmen says from both ends of the candle not only b doing what we can to improve the quality of whether "Chemicals or alcohol getting up more ability of the days that we're waking up to And that can be difficult unbecause the two are usually fortunately beIndeed intertwined fore you can stop fouling up your sleep with alcohol or hypnotics it would certainly help to straighten out the aspects of your life that may be turning you to these aids in the first place - the sleep that we’re waking up from but also by improving the desir Five distinct get stages must be gotten through in proper order and style (see page 2) and if those stages are disrupted for any reason daytime inefficiency and can be the groginess result So tip number one for making it easier to get up in the morning is: Go easy on alcohol “You don’t have to be for alcohol to disrupt your sleep” Dr Maxmen notes Even an innocent nightcap can can How To Get Up in the Morning And Not Kiek the Alarm Clock drugs make difficult because they disrupt natural sleep and exert a direct fluence on the brain's arousal apparatus" reports Dr Maxmen Sleep is not the inert pasttime many people thing It is an intricate and psychologically active process that likes all the sobnety it the suppress and dream also stage of disrupt physiolo- sleep gically the deepest stage What’s more of sleep alcohol is a strong enough diuretic to have you visiting the bathroom with more than restful So even frequency though a drink before sleep delta (f SAFEWAY MILE III0II BRAND INFLATION FIGHTER VALUE! 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