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Updated April 5, 2024
The first few minutes of your day might be the most important. Instead of scrolling on your phone, set the tone for your day by waking up to music and grabbing your gratitude journal.
If you wake up to a blaring alarm and immediately scroll through emails and social media, it might be time to rethink your morning routine. A survey of 50 adults, 1860, suggested that participants who woke to melodies felt less sleepy than individuals woken up by neutral, less rhythmic sounds, according to a report in 2020 in the journal PLoS One. Cultivating gratitude was linked to improvements in perceived stress and depression in a review of nine studies published in the Journal of Occupational Health in 2021.
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