If it's so hard for you to get out of bed in the morning, please watch this.

If it's so hard for you to get out of bed in the morning, please watch this. I have such bad sleep inertia, which means that from the moment my alarm goes off to the point that I'm out of bed, it is such a struggle. And if you know, you know, like, my eyes, like, just keep closing, they roll back in my head. It's like almost impossible for me to get out of bed in the morning. But because I've had this problem for so long, I really have developed a couple of strategies to help me get from alarm going off to out of bed in, like, 20 minutes, which is really good for me, okay? So don't come for me. So I wanna share them with you, because I know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. So first, picture this. Your alarm goes off in the morning, you reach over and you snooze it. The first thing I try to make myself do before I close my eyes is make my breathing more energized. Because you know when you're asleep and your breathing is shallow and slow, I try to make mine a little bit deeper and more vigorous. So I try to take some deep breaths in through my nose, out through my mouth, like that, to try to get my blood moving a little bit quicker, to signal my body as passively as I can that I'm not sleeping anymore. I should, you know, start moving around. The next thing I do, too, while I'm still laying down, is I try to open my eyes really wide. Open really wide, look to the sides, look up and down, do circles with my eyes, and I'm sure I look crazy, but if I don't, like, activate my eyes, they're just going to close again. And in this phase, it is still really hard because they wanted, they want to just close so bad. So if you can't start with the eyes yet, like, keep deep breathing. Another thing I like to do is like stimulate my physical body, kind of bring my mind out of the sleep phase and into, like, this physical world. So I'll wiggle my fingers, I'll wiggle my toes in the sheets, and I'll even do light scratches all over my body. I'll do it on my face, gently on my neck. I'll, like, tap my eyes and my forehead. I'll tap my chest. I'll do anything to bring awareness to my body because that will help me not fall back asleep. Then as soon as I possibly can, I'll make myself sit up. That way, it's impossible for me to really fall back asleep. I mean, when there's a will, there's a way. But within reason, I'll sit up as soon as I can. I always keep my water bottle on my nightstand. Before I go to sleep at night, I fill it up so that there's cold water in here for when I wake up in the morning. So once I sit up, I'll start drinking a couple of sips of water, especially when it's cold. I know you're supposed to have lukewarm water in the morning, so do whatever works for you. For me, I like having just a couple of ice cubes in here so that it's pretty cold, because the sensation also helps me wake up. If my eyes are still closing at this point, I'll reach over and I'll grab a tissue that's on my nightstand, I'll pour some water on it and then I'll put those on my eyes, and that will really help me wake up. Another thing I have is this essential oil from Saje Wellness. This is the Liquid Sunshine blend, and it specifically has energizing essential oils in it. It's very, like, citrusy, bright, energizing. So after I've sat up, had my water, I'll put this on my pressure points and especially on my wrists. I'll rub it together, and then I'll sit there and I'll do some more deep breathing. Breathing in this essential oil mix, again, triggering the senses to help bring me out of sleep and into the awake world. Then I'll do my morning stretch. I just did a video on this a couple videos back, so go look at it if you haven't seen it, but I have a five minute stretch routine that I do from my bed, so it's before I even get out of bed. I'll sit, I'll start with some neck rolls, really simple shoulder rolls. Then I start twisting, waking up my spine, doing some, you know, side twists, and then by the end, the last two moves are out of bed. So this stretch routine loosens me up in bed, and then it ends out of bed, and then I'm standing up. Another essential part of my nighttime routine is picking up my clothes for the next day. So once I finish the stretches and I'm standing up, right there is where I keep my clothes for the day. So it's just like, foolproof, right? So I grab them, put them on. The next thing I do is I go into the bathroom. I put cold water on my face and wash my face. I used to hate doing this because who wants cold water on their face in the morning, but I gotta say, I've grown to really look forward to it and like it. And then also brushing my teeth with really minty toothpaste. Again, triggering the senses. I feel like that helps wake me up and it makes my breathing feel even cooler, and that just helps kind of give me the, like, refreshed vibes in the morning. At this point, I make myself go outside and take a quick walk, and if I can, a longer walk, but I just go outside because the, the final key to all of this is making sure you get sunlight in your eyes first thing in the morning as soon as you can, but ideally within, like, the first hour of being awake, because it tells your brain that it's daytime, so it stops producing melatonin and it stops doing all the things that are making you sleepy, hopefully. And then it also sets a long term timer so that later in the day you start getting sleepier when it's, when it's time to go to bed again later at night. So it helps in two ways. So anyway, if you have trouble waking up in the morning and, like, getting out of bed, I hear you, and it sucks. I used to snooze my alarm like 17 times before I even set up out of bed. So even though it still takes me like 20 minutes to get out of bed, it's so much more manageable. And the most important thing, I could tell you all these things to do, the hardest part is actually remembering to do them in the morning. In your really sleepy state, it's, like, near impossible to even have a single thought, let alone remember to do these, like, nine things that I just told you to do. So if this is something you're really serious about changing, one thing I would recommend is write down on a list what morning habits you want to do to help you snap out of the sleepy zombie funk and get you more energized. And I would put them on your nightstand, and if you can, maybe even, like, put it on a sticky note that you stick to your phone. Right? So then when you inevitably reach for your phone, which you shouldn't, but we do. When you reach for your phone in the morning and look at it, it has the list of things to do on it. Something like that. Because, uh, especially, you know, just with how foggy you are in the morning, it's so hard to implement a habit, so you have to make it easy and obvious. So good luck. If you have any questions, let me know. I'm happy to help.