If you check your mobile or laptop or even TV early morning as soon as you wake up, you are actually letting others or external influences to control your day. Subconsciously what happens when you check your devices for notifications or likes on social media is that you are defining your emotions based on others or uncontrollable news or events externally. These external influences could be in the form of expectations, demands, recommendations, suggestions, wishes, likes, hates, negative news, irrelevant or trivial video notifications. Basically we are letting others agenda to act upon us and define our priorities for the day.
We are in alpha and theta brain wave states in the morning. We are very suggestable and influenceable in this time of the day. Whatever we are picking up and letting to go into our brains is how our actions are defined for the rest of the day. We basically rewire our brain based on kind of info we allow inside our brain and kind of activities as do. So as a result directly or indirectly our behavior first thing in the morning affects our productivity and performance .
- Beta is conscious state.
- Delta is when we are in deep sleep.
- Theta is a state when we are transitioning in to sleep (in and out of sleep). We are having subconscious thoughts even though we are not fully awake. Basically we are not affected by the external influences. This is also a clear state of mind. Sometimes we transition into this state when we are taking showers while bathing or when we are all by ourselves and suddenly get a creative innovative thought.
- Alpha is state of learning. It is a state of focus and deep attention. Meditation also falls here. For example when we are watching something we love, we get mind state where we are not affected by the activities around us, we do not respond even when somebody is calling.
So choose activities like meditation, exercising, journaling, feeling grateful or having gratitude for all the things you have and for this day, learning something and doing something challenging, reading and writing. All these activities are important for us to take control of the day. Doing what is important to us and completing the tasks that add value to life first thing in the morning gives us the sense of appreciation and reward. It reprograms of brain to be the best version of ourselves and perform better. We tend to give our best in rest of the tasks for the day and make better choices and decisions. It signals our brain that we have control our promises we made and we have the discipline to work on them.
If we ask ourselves what is one thing that is important to me, that adds value, that makes me stronger either physically or psychologically, how can I control my day and feel impactful and feel that that I matter to me and for others. Begin the day with those kind of activities. This empowers us thorough the rest of the day with intention.
Take one day at a time. If this is the most important day of your life and what is one decision that I could make that improves your self-confidence. What are the things that you are grateful for and how grateful you feel towards the all the privileges, facilities, opportunities, relationships, money, health, job that you have.
When we try to do this consciously, our brain struggles to remain in the path because it is hard, it wants you to just give up and free itself from all the effort that goes into this morning routines. When you persist and try to do it in spite of all the resistance, you get to control your brain’s subconscious wiring and slowly rewire and bypass your self-limiting beliefs. This is the process to improve self-confidence as well.
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Excerpts taken from expert articles and my experiences