Getting up out of bed can be an extremely difficult task to do. Fighting against that ever so enticing feeling of staying in a warm cozy bed and wanting to give in to those desperately tiered heavy eyes, it’s no wonder it can be quite the challenge. Although it’s tough, it’s not impossible. In fact, it begins to get so much easier when you apply working tactics that urge the body to get up and going.
Below are 8 useful tips you can use to get out of bed a lot easier. Each tip is catered to a certain part of a sleep experience. Learn these tips and use them all to your advantage shamelessly!
Let’s begin!
1.) Take Deep Breaths To Wake Your Body Up More
Our bodies love and thrive off of oxygen. It’s not only essential to survival, it increases energy and alertness as well. Having said that, using oxygen can be a really helpful way to quickly gain energy to get out of bed much faster.
When you are trying to get up, concentrate on doing deep breathing exercises. When taking your breaths, make sure you focus on abdominal breathing. Abdominal or diaphragmatic breathing is when you fully engage the stomach, abdominal muscles, and diaphragm when you take your breaths. You know you are doing it right when you see your abdominal region expand and contract during each breath.
This type of breathing will allow your body to take much fuller and deeper breaths, letting in far more oxygen to come into your body. After doing this for even a minute or so, you’ll be surprised at just how much of a difference this one breathing technique makes on your overall energy levels when trying to get out of bed!
2.) Get Higher Quality Sleep
A vast part of not being able to get up out of bed when you should is due to a lack of quality sleep. When you don’t get quality sleep, your body will want to keep sleeping when you wake up, so it can regain what it lacked during that night’s rest.
So it is essential to make sure you get good quality sleep so that when you wake up, your body feels refreshed enough so that it doesn’t feel like it needs to stay in bed and rest more.
For advice on how to get higher quality sleep, read our post “5 Ways To Get Higher Quality Sleep”.
3.) Set Your Alarm Sound As Your Favorite Pump Up Song
Everyone has their favorite song that gets them excited and pumped up! Why not use this to your advantage? By setting your favorite pump-up song as your alarm clock, hearing your alarm go off will be a lot more exciting instead of frustrating.
It’s much better to hear something you really like when you wake up instead of hearing a typical alarm clock noise that is annoying or can be slept through easily. So definitely make sure you give this one a go. It will help put more of a smile on your face to get out of bed instead of feeling a sense of lethargy.
4.) Use A Sleep App Instead of A Traditional Alarm Clock
Traditional alarm clocks are useful, but they come with one major problem: traditional alarm clocks wake people up based on a specific time set instead of a person’s sleep stage. The issue with waking up at a specific time is that you could be in deep sleep during that time. And being woken during that type of sleep is asking for nothing but the feeling of grogginess.
It is important to be woken up during your lightest sleep possible to prevent feeling groggy in the morning. Sleep apps like Sleep Cycle offer this distinct capability that ordinary alarm clocks lack. Their advanced sensory technology provides an accurate analysis of people’s sleep stages, so it wakes their users up is in their lightest sleep within the timeframe they set. Based on 152 thousand user reviews (4.5 stars out of 5), the vast majority of users are satisfied with the service that Sleep Cycle provides
By using a sleep app like Sleep Cycle, you will be able to wake up easier feeling more alert and refreshed ready to get out of bed. You will also be able to track your sleep data so you can see your sleeping patterns and make relevant and healthier sleeping decisions.
5.) Set Your Alarm To Wake You Up Near The Same Time Everyday
Another thing that influences how difficult it can be to get out of bed is waking up at an inconsistent time frame. Our bodies absolutely love routine. When you stick to a routine, it allows your body to adjust and adapt properly to work with that schedule. When there’s no routine, however, it’s very difficult for the body to adapt and be able to predict when it ought to wake up.
So try and set a specific time frame of when to wake up every day. You might be a fan of sleeping in on days you aren’t working, but the more you stick with getting up near the same time every day, the more your body will be able to sense when it should get up, and the easier it will become to get out of bed in the morning.
6.) Snoozing Will Only Make You Feel More Tiered
A big temptation when waking up is wanting to hit that snooze button. Why? Because of the strong belief that it will make you feel better than feeling tired when you wake up. The thing to remember though is snoozing doesn’t make you feel better. When you snooze, your body just becomes more tired and groggy when you wake again.
As hard as it is to not hit the snooze button, it’s vital to remind yourself that that won’t do you any good in the end. If you have to, just lay in bed a give your body some time to gather itself and wake up a bit. Incorporate other tips that you could use in that moment. The worst thing is to fall back asleep and have your body get into a conflict of wanting to get back into a sleep cycle and needing to get up. So always remind yourself that snoozing does no good and will only make it harder for you to get up next time.
7.) Plan The First Part Of Your Day As Doing Something You Really Enjoy
Have you ever noticed that it’s easier to get up when you are excited about doing a certain thing that day? It’s important to leverage this! When you wake up, give yourself something to be excited about doing next. Go straight to doing something you really enjoy!
If you are someone who really enjoys looking at your phone, go straight to looking at your phone when you wake up. If you are someone who fonds over a certain show, grab the remote and put the show on. Whatever gets you amped and really excited, put that as the very first thing you do when you wake up. The more you make waking up and getting up as something fun and enjoyable, the more driven you will be to get out of that bed in the morning!
8.) Realize The Challenge Is An Opportunity Where You Either Choose To Gain Or Lose Long Term Self Respect
It can be really dreadful to get up in the morning, but not getting up has an even more painful blow. The difference between the two is not getting out of bed has long-term lasting effects, not just temporary effects.
When you don’t get up knowing you should, it decreases the amount of overall respect you have for yourself. This only creates dissatisfaction with yourself in life as a whole, which leads to poor choice-making down the road and a unfulfilled well-being. Unlike the temporary pain of getting up when you don’t want to, self-disrespect has lasting effects that create a very displeasing way of life overall.
So instead of looking at the challenge of getting up as something that’s temporary, look at it for what it really is in the long term perspective and what it creates. You either take the opportunity to lose more respect for yourself which results in you living a more displeasing way of life that’s lasting, or you can use it to gain more respect for yourself so you can live a happier and a more fulfilled life overall.
Get up for yourself and for your overall satisfaction in you!
Conclusion
Use these tips to your advantage to get out of bed. Just make sure you are always ready to be in battle mode because this challenge will never go away. The body loves doing things that feel the best during each moment so you have to be ready for every morning for the temptation to come. All it takes is a little lack of quality sleep or waking up at a bad time to want to stay in bed and sleep. Since the urge will never go away, it is mandatory that your battle mode will never go away as well. So, apply these tips shamelessly and relentlessly. By doing so, you will give yourself a much easier way to get out of that bed every morning.