I was told when young that getting up early is a good habit. The climate is cold, the air is pure, and according to Hinduism it falls under Brahma Muhurta when most saints across the world are meditating. So whatever you do getting up early would have good results on your body, mind and soul. But then I never could get up early when in school or in college. The last thing I would want was to get up early and study organic chemistry or calculus for that matter. I of course have tried it. I would get up, wash my face, take a book, take a bed sheet and then doze off. The simple reason was - I wasn’t interested in studies!
The change had to come. After I met my spiritual teacher in the year 2002 and started to learn astrology from him, I have been getting up at 4 am most of the days. My Astro class used to start at 6 am, and it was 1-hour bike journey from my place. I used to get up at 4 am, get ready at 5 am, and reach my teacher’s place at 6 am. So getting up at 4 am is not a problem for any of us, but then why do you want to get up so early is what matters!
In college days more than those boring Chemistry classes, I loved the NCC parades on Saturdays. And more than watching movies, I used to love my karate classes. These things made me get up early and made me be there on time always because these things interested me a lot.
Famous self-help writers have been telling that getting up early is about conquering mind, and that it is all about mind over matter, and people who don’t get up are lazy. This creates guilt in someone who wants to get up early, and is unable to do so. In the process, people pay up heavily and join gyms. They work out for couple of days, and then stop going to the gym. It is simple - when you aren’t interested in exercising how will you be able to get up early?
End of the day - it is something that interests you pushes you to get up early, and it has nothing to do with mind over matter or conquering your mind.
Given a choice most people would love to get up at 10, but then what if there is a final cricket match between India and Pakistan at 3 am? I am sure most Indians would get up early. It is simple because cricket interests us.
So you need not get up at 4 to meditate, you need not get up to jog or to squeeze yourself at the modern gym. Just take some time to think what interests you the most? It could be sports, it could be books, it could be gardening, it could be cooking, it could be taking pets for a walk, or it could be watching porn or having sex with your partner. Whatever it is – chalk it out, and go to the bed accordingly. You automatically will get up at 4 am. If you don’t find anything that interests you so much so to make you wake up early – just cuddle yourself in the bed, and sleep. There is no hurry or there is no need to worry – your getting up early won’t make any difference to the world. Just drop the guilt and have some sweet dreams.
All the best!
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