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How do you make a good morning?
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
What is the first thing you do when you wake up? Do you immediately go wash your face and make coffee with a gloomy look, knowing that you have to go to work soon? This is not a very good way to start the day. To get a positive attitude and recharge your batteries, you need to start each morning completely differently. And Web2Health will tell you exactly how.
Energy of color
According to the director of the Pantone Color Institute, Leatrice Eiseman, when a person sees a bright, vivid color, they feel a surge of energy and positive emotions. It is not necessary to do repairs and repaint all the walls in bright colors, it is enough to put something colorful near the bed, for example, a pillow or a blanket of red, orange or yellow colors. You can also prepare breakfast, visually stimulating the mood and well-being.
Leave the alarm clock alone
This means that by resetting the alarm for five minutes, then another five minutes, and thus delaying full awakening, we fall into a half-sleep, knowing that we cannot fall asleep, but we also have no strength to get up. It is best to set the alarm for the time when you really need to get up and cheerfully greet a new day. Interrupted sleep will not give you the feeling of a full rest.
Fantasize
Before you get out of bed, close your eyes and imagine yourself feeling alert and energetic, or in a situation where you are comfortable and engaged in an active activity. This will help activate the areas of your brain that come into play when you are actually doing something.
Water
A glass of water before breakfast will help replenish the fluid that the body lost during sleep. This will provide a surge of strength and energy. Everything that happens in the body requires a certain amount of water.
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If there is not enough of it, then all the body systems will have a harder time performing their functions, and this will affect your well-being.
Daylight
Daylight regulates our biological clock and stops the secretion of melatonin, which is responsible for our immersion in the arms of Morpheus. So open the blinds and let the rays of light into your home. This also increases the level of the hormone serotonin, a chemical that improves mood.
Light facial massage
Facial massage will help increase blood circulation and finally bring you out of your sleepy state.
Gymnastics or sex
Physical activity in the morning, whether it's gymnastics or sex, increases the body's levels of chemicals needed for normal activity throughout the day: testosterone is responsible for endurance, dopamine for energy, and oxytocin for calmness.
Enjoy waking up!