go to bed early
Except I can’t fall asleep so now I’m scrolling Lemmy or I’ll just be lying awake for like 3 more hours
People struggle with falling asleep for many different reasons, so take this with a grain of salt, but I have found that using grounding exercises, such as 5-4-3-2-1 or body scan, can sometimes be helpful to short-circuit the thought-chains that keep my mind awake long into the night. I also found pracitcing these techniques regularly in “meditations” help reinforce the skill during times of stress.
Anything backlit is bad.
Do sth. Really tiring.
Learn vocabulary, read advanced mathematics. Do sth that is really boring. And you will get tired in no time
This comic written by an early bird person blaming night owls for not being early birds using an owl as the token of knowledge is quite insulting.
You can sleep going to bed early? then enjoy the present life gave you and how much work life is architectured around you and stop preaching to the people that naturally has an internal clock different than yours.
you preachy little shit.
So weird that when you don’t get up super early in the morning you are somehow lazy, but if you’re in bed super early that’s somehow admirable?
What the fuck are you doing in bed at 22:00 you lazy fuck? There’s stuff to be done.
Maybe I’m naïve but I read it as “going to bed early relative to when you normally go to bed”. For example, if I normally sleep at 9:00pm, then being in bed at 8:30pm so that I actually get all the sleep that I’m supposed to; instead of going to bed at 9:30pm and missing out on a whole hour’s sleep (assuming it takes 30 minutes to nod off).
idk, I’ve preached at about this so many times that at this point I don’t give the benefit of the doubt, I just read it as “get in line, night owl == lazy / early bird == healthy positive people”
Like I know sleeping is important, but assuming early bed time is a choice and doesn’t have a natural component is really arrogant. Your assumption that takes 30 min to nod off is wildly naive, many night owls like myself have the challenge that if we go to bed “30 min earlier” we might not sleep at all, if it was a constant time most of us would have become early birds by societal pressure.
I too read it as “get enough sleep”.
Yeah I’m a noncompliant sleeper myself. 26 hour circadian rhythm so I just sleep whenever I happen to be tired that day. Doctors told me I’m being unreasonable and should just sleep hygiene harder as if I’ve not tried that lol. But I try to be an optimist when reading stuff I guess, like reading it in a generous way if I can
fair enough, I just wanted to raise awareness to avoid people reading it not feel “just guilty” because of their nature, but rather feel a bit of support on a world designed for others.
Of course we all just try to get by and do as good as we can to different levels of success, I just dislike the “all is voluntary” discourse, I find it quite non diverse disguised as “healthy life”.
And yes, specially infuriating when coming from doctors who should know better.
You can adjust to be being an early bird, at least I managed. You may not be a HAPPY bird, but you will be up.
You might, not everyone can, trued it for a while and was having way worse and shorter sleeping in the end, with the added pressure of being angry all the time because I was fighting my internal clock.
I might sleep less, but letting it flow makes my overal mental health be much better. And I’m very positive and happy most times.
Go to bed early should really be get the recommended amount of sleep everyday. Getting 8 hours within a 24 hour schedule is more reasonable especially since there are people who work night shifts
I agree on exercise properly, but i think people confuse that with gymming and athleticism when exercise can just be a walk around your neighborhood
I don’t agree with a daily schedule. Imo that makes life too monotonous and you lose track once you start doing repetitive tasks. I try to alternate after work activities and every weekend I’m attempting something new (event wise)
My wife does all of these but still made the rookie mistake of adding me into the equation.
Checkmate owl
People never stop to consider that “life” and “control” are diametrically opposed.
Choose wisely - no one on their deathbeds wish they had ‘controlled’ more.
My life is out of control and it makes me want to die.
How so?
Cognitive Therapist: so you need to work on these exercises…
Patient with ADHD: don’t you get it? If I could do those exercises I wouldn’t fuckin’ need you! Tabernac!Ah, I see you are a Quebecer. May I offer you some booze, poutine and “damn those anglos” in this trying time?
Consistent diet, exercise, and sleep. If you do it to “get in shape” and then go back to your slovenly ways, you might as well just not do it at all.
If you don’t want to do that, don’t whine when you hit 50 and your body falls apart.
Whining is my primary source of cardio
You can whine all you want, it just won’t help a bit
Joke’s on you, dumbass owl, I wake up at 6:30 am, do the same shit every day, exercise regularly and my life is still out of control.
Wise Owl forgot to mention eating healthy.
I think the basic reason people don’t want to do the things that Wise Owl mentioned, going to be early, having a daily routine, and exercising, is two things.
The first reason is framing. What’s exercise and how can you convince yourself to do it? Maybe you don’t like exercising regularly, but you like doing some sport, or you enjoy some other physical activity like dancing. If you don’t like going to the gym, but you like playing a sport, then you can exercise by playing that sport more.
Exercising absolutely sucks if you’re just doing it to exercise. But it might make sense to exercise for some other reason. Like you want to do better at a sport or you want to learn new dance moves.
The second reason people might get into the things Wise Owl said, I think, is if you’re responsible for another human. There’s all sorts of stuff that I would have a hard time doing for myself, but I’d eagerly do so that I don’t disappoint other people. Like, I don’t have kids, but there are a lot of people who have gotten their act together for the sake of their children. I know I was much better about routine and stuff when I was the primary caregiver for my parents.
There’s a reason nobody keeps a treadmill for long… they’re machines designed only to exercise in the most boring way possible; cruel monuments of the worst possible method to maintain health. The actual answer is what you said: to find something you enjoy that requires movement and exertion, and do it every day.
The first one hit hard. Fuck going for a jog, but give me a ball to chase…
stupid owl of wisdom
If I have to do all those things I don’t want to get my life “under control”, is my life really under my control?
Think about it.
ugh… for how long
I feel seen
but not heard
😵 Mein fasces!
O Wise Owl, if the habits of a lifetime make it difficult to keep to such resolutions, how can I give myself every advantage to be better able to keep to them?
Use technology, like appointments in your agenda that tell you when to go to sleep. And then try to follow them as best as you can.
Pavlof yourself. If you notice you are doing something you shouldn’t, slap yourself in the face until it hurts. It is something you can do afterwards when it already happened. And after a while you will get an aversion.
Owl: skill issue tbh, git gud
Take advantage of your weaknesses and find sports that you enjoy doing. Set up positive feedback loops. Will post more later
Or just do what ever you feel like doing without worrying about ‘control’.
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