It is better than coffee, stronger than a multivitamin, and more energizing than sleep or a good workout. It is the warm feeling of the early morning sun.
Bathing in light, not yet too hot, which seeps into my body, much deeper than my skin. While it warms me from the outside, it also invigorates me from the inside. I feel a radiance that is not just an absorption of energy but an emergence of it from within.
This is the power of the early morning sun. Caffeine for the soul.
I love waking up to my room getting lighter. My body just tells me it’s time to get up. As each day has slowly gotten longer we are now at the point where light creeps through the edges of our darkened curtains and signals me that it is time to rise. With a 5am wake up time, it takes until this time of year for that to actually happen.
My perfect routine would be in bed by 11pm, wake up at 5 to 5:30am, then a nice siesta in the afternoon. But I can’t siesta at work, so I force myself to bed before 10pm. Still, a night like last night had me up until almost 11 anyway. Even a couple sleep meditations couldn’t get me to sleep.
Yet it was easy to wake up before my alarm this morning. With daylight sneaking into the room my body told me it was time to get up. And so for the next few months my mornings will be a lot easier, and I’ll awaken ready for the day… all thanks to the morning light.
