4 Ways Embracing an Ayurvedic Sleep Pattern Improves Your Life

Ever since I was a little girl I've been up at dawn. While my family members were sleeping, I would get up and read a book, watch the sunrise, or sit down and pray. I didn't know if God could hear me or not. But I did know that if he was there, he was the only one awake to talk to. So remember that the next time you use the oxymoronic phrase, "ungodly hour." As I grew older and my peers started progressively staying up later and sleeping in longer, I still got up somewhere between 4 and 6 in the morning, and was still happiest when I could wrap myself in my down duvet by 9:30 at night. Which can be a real drag when you like to stay out dancing until 3 but your body still wakes you at the crack of dawn. So, you may have just taken your Tylenol and stumbled into bed two hours ago, but hello, 5 a.m. For years I tried to change my sleep patterns, thinking, 'What's wrong with me? Why can't I sleep in? I must have insomnia!' Until I learned about that there was nothing wrong, I was just naturally aligned with an Ayurvedic sleep schedule. So let me stand on my break-of-dawn soap box and proclaim the benefits in following an early-to-bed, early-to-rise, Ayurvedic sleep pattern: 1. You get a heck of lot done before most people even stretch their arms above their head, swing their legs over the edge of the bed, and think, "I need a coffee." As in, on my earlier mornings, I've meditated, read something thought-provoking, run up the mountainside, showered, had a latte, responded ...
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