Rituals to Help You Savor the Morning Hours - Even if You're Not a Morning Person

What I love most about the early morning hours are the stillness and possibility of a new day. The early morning hours are when I feel most at peace and rest in myself. This is when I pray, read, write in my journal, or just sit in the silence with my morning cup of coffee.

I know that's not how everyone feels, though. There are some people who are wired more as night owls and genuinely do their best work while burning the midnight oil. But there are distinct advantages to rising early: you have more time to soak in the sunshine (and all that vitamin D), for example. Rising early also creates a space before work begins, so that you don't feel like you're getting up for work; it's just one part of your day.
If that sounds appealing to you, here are some tricks and early morning hacks to help ease your body into that transition. Even if you currently cringe when your morning alarm goes off, it is possible for you to become a morning person - chirping birds not included!

Get natural light right away.
Create a ritual you look forward to.
Practice waking up the same time every day.
Do not check your phone or computer for 30 minutes after waking up.
Have a wind-down routine before going to bed at night.

Head over to Verily to read more about these ways to savor the early morning hours  . . .