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Morning grogginess, also known as sleep inertia, is a common feeling of disorientation, drowsiness, and impaired cognitive function that can occur after waking up.
It typically lasts for 30-60 minutes but can extend for several hours in some cases.
Morning grogginess can interrupt your morning and delay your life as you struggle to shake off sleep and start the day strong.
By mastering the morning, you set your life up for success. Invigorating your body in the morning can truly help you achieve that "rise and shine" feeling.
Fortunately, Ayurveda can help your morning reboot and kick grogginess to the curb.
Read more to boost your mornings, and wake up feeling refreshed and alert.
Sleep by Dosha
Kapha individuals have the most trouble waking up without an alarm clock. Kapha needs the least sleep and should wake up early.
Kapha people are also the most likely to wake up groggy and hit the snooze button, due to blood stagnation.
Pitta people love to wake up early. Their natural intensity and drive gets them out of bed to tackle the day.
Pitta people need medium sleep and are the least groggy.
Vata people are the most likely to suffer from insomnia, yet need the most sleep.
Vata people wake up groggy due to poor quality sleep.
Is Your Alarm Clock Making You Groggy?
One cause of morning grogginess could be your alarm clock.
Your body sleeps in 90 minute cycles, and when the last sleep cycle of the night completes, you wake up gently, feeling fresh and bright.
Traditional alarm clocks use sound to jar your body out of sleep, and break your sleeping cycle unnaturally.
How you wake up is as important as when.
If you have to wake up early to get the kids to school on time, or for work, or to finish the book you are writing, these tips will show you how to wake up your body more naturally, feel fully refreshed when you wake, and wake up on time.
The Importance of Completing Your Sleep Cycles
Have you ever noticed that the likelihood of having a bad day increases when you don't sleep properly?
Incomplete sleep cycles are a leading cause of illness, poor cognitive performance and mood disorders. Poor quality sleep leads to slower reaction times and is a leading cause of car accidents. It also causes irritability and depression.
Sleep cycles are also an important part of learning.
When you fall into deep sleep at night, your brain processes the stimuli of the day and integrates it. Each sleep cycle processes stimuli at greater and greater levels of abstraction.
Whereas early night dreams are more specific in nature, late night dreams are more abstract.
Completing this integration of new experiences allows your brain to operate more accurately.
Adequate rest and waking appropriately also allow your neurons and organs to fully repair. It helps your memory improve, improves clarity of thought, and even improves your mood.
Nature's Alarm Clock
Nature's alarm clock is the sun. Sunlight tells your body it's time to wake up more gently. Your body is programmed to wake up with the sun, not an alarm clock.
As the light streams through your bedroom window, your body slowly adjusts to nature's cues, and you wake up more naturally.
Sunlight gently rouses you from sleep at the end of your sleep cycles and with appropriate rest. You lift gently out of completed dreams.
This allows a great deal of repair and regeneration to complete, sharpens your thoughts, improves your memory, and even your mood.
Sleep & Hormones
Cortisol, a hormone usually associated with stress, but also responsible for waking you up naturally in the morning, rises with the morning light.
Specifically, when the eye detects the presence of blue light, your brain raises cortisol. This is why exposure to blue light at night, before bed, is so disruptive to sleep.
The highest cortisol level you experience first thing in the morning, steadily decreases throughout the day.
This high morning cortisol makes some individuals anxious or nervous when they wake up, with their mind racing. This is particularly true of cortisol sensitive individuals.
Those who have low cortisol levels, or are less sensitive to cortisol, may not wake up at all. These individuals may experience morning grogginess.
Chronic stress and waking unnaturally or unrested can create spikes in cortisol at the wrong times of day. This stress drains your adrenals.
Tips for Waking Up Naturally
A very simple, easy, free way to complete your sleep cycles and balancing your sleep hormones is to simply ditch your alarm clock, and click back into bio-rhythmic cycles of nature.
But many people don't have the luxury of sleeping in - and need an alarm clock to wake up on time. They should try a sunrise alarm clock instead.
A sunrise alarm clock improves your health by waking you up in a relaxed, gentle way. Instead of blasting a siren in your ear, they nudge your biorhythms by slowly increasing the light in the room.
Sunrise alarm clocks teach your body to wake up at a new time naturally.
Individuals who want to wake up early should also keep the curtains open at night, so morning sunlight streams into the room.
Ayurveda's Perspective on Groggy Mornings
Though technically awake, morning grogginess may make you feel half-asleep.
In Ayurveda terms, morning grogginess occurs because your agni, or metabolic fire, is not awake yet. Metabolism is naturally low in the morning while your body is still waking up.
The cause of this may be stagnant blood (Kapha). Circulation slows at night. Your heart rate may still be low in the morning.
Kapha individuals are especially prone to stagnant blood because their blood is thick, rich, and heavy. This thick blood circulates poorly and contributes to morning grogginess.
A heavy meal the night before greatly aggravates this condition and can cause grogginess. This type of grogginess in the morning is one of the early signs of high Kapha and poor circulation.
Establish a Good Sleep Routine
Another cause of morning grogginess is poor quality sleep (Vata).
If poor quality sleep is the cause of morning grogginess. Follow these sleep tips.
Your body will take a few weeks to adjust to a new sleep routine. Start by regulating your bedtime, getting into bed at the same time every night. This is the best way to train your body to sleep through the night, and wake up at a regular time feeling refreshed.
After an entire week of going to bed at the same time, just see what time you wake up on the weekend. Chances are (unless you are really exhausted) it will be the same time you wake up on weekdays.
Keep this system going for 2-3 weeks.
You'll be amazed how fast your body happily adjusts to this change, and how quickly your moods, clarity of thought, and memory improve too.
Tips to Refresh Your Body in the Morning
These blood moving tips wake up your Agni, invigorate your body and mind, and dispel morning grogginess.
Kapha individuals should keep evening meals light.
With the tips of your fingers and a gentle vibration / shaking movement, massage your head, chest and limbs. Rub your face. This will get your blood flowing.
Wash your face with cold water.
Roll your neck and shoulders. Stretch your legs.
Increase your heart rate with a vigorous exercise such as jumping jacks
Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Tired in morning'.
Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution.
Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.
Rajasic foods stimulate desire or nervous energy. Red meat, high protein food, garlic and onions stimulate desire. Rajasic foods include chili peppers, coffee, and anything that stimulates movement.
Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
Bland means doesn't have much taste. In Chinese medicine, bland taste refers to afood without little macronutrients, such as cabbage, radish or bok choy.
Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
Rajasic foods stimulate desire or nervous energy. Red meat, high protein food, garlic and onions stimulate desire. Rajasic foods include chili peppers, coffee, and anything that stimulates movement.
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body.
The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care.
Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.
Balance Your Body with Diet, Herbs, & Lifestyles Having These Biocharacteristics
Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using biocharacteristics (gunas).
Biocharacteristics are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body.
Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism.
Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism.
For 'Tired in morning', you should select foods with the following biocharacteristics.
Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.
FOODS TO FAVOR
MATCH WITH YOUR WELLNESS PROFILE
CLEAR
ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
Rajasic foods stimulate desire or nervous energy. Red meat, high protein food, garlic and onions stimulate desire. Rajasic foods include chili peppers, coffee, and anything that stimulates movement.
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
TIRED IN MORNING IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE #2 - AFFECTING BLOOD & EMOTIONS
Affecting Blood: Initially, imbalances are localized, often in the digestive tract.
As an imbalance grows, it starts to affect your body systemically, via the blood.
If you have symptoms in this category it means that your imbalances are starting to spread,
have entered the bloodstream, and are now systemic.
Pay particular attention to the biocharacteristics, tastes, and doshas out of balance systemically,
so you know how to strengthen your body as a whole, and reduce physical stress on your organs.
At this stage of imbalance you will begin to experience generalized discomfort, imbalanced emotions,
and may develop sensitivities to temperature.
It may take several weeks of strict adherence to a specific remedial diet to clear blood level imbalances.
Blood cleansing herbs may reduce symptoms.
A several day cleanse may shorten the recovery time.
(See all disease stages on JB)
AVOID DIETS, LIFESTYLES & HERBS THAT AGGRAVATE THESE EFFECTS
According to Ayurveda, one or more of the following
doshas
and biocharacteristics may aggravate 'Tired in morning'.
If you have an excess of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics below, Ayurveda recommends reducing foods and lifestyle habits that aggravate them.
Click on the biocharacteristic to learn what foods and
lifestyle habits should be reduced.
Symptoms Tell A Story
The first step to healing is learning patterns from your symptoms.
Symptoms are clues that reveal underlying imbalances.
Symptoms show you where your body is weakened.
Ultimately, all disease has a root in tissues too weak to defend itself.
Ayurveda describes these patterns of weakness using doshas & biocharacteristics.
If you notice a biocharacteristic or dosha appears next to many of your symptoms,
it helps you establish a pattern that may be systemic.
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The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Tired in morning'.
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Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them.
Risk Factor: 20% more often Complication: +1.2 times as often
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Biocharacteristics of 11,732 People Reporting Tired in morning
On average the biocharacteristics
of people reporting Tired in morning were more aggravated than 52% of other symptoms.
From the 11,732 people who reported Tired in morning in this research study of 74,671 individuals,
average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:
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23.0% avg client level
17.7% (2,072) of cases
7,949 have Hot constitution
Risk Factors of Tired in morning
Below you will see general risk factors as well as the greatest risk factors, i.e. those who were also more likely to report Tired in morning.
Overall, 34.96% of people surveyed in this research study reported Tired in morning.
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360 cases with both
+1.4 times more likely
3% of cases
2.1% (712 cases)
WHAT'S NEXT?
DISCOVER YOUR BODY WITH YOUR FREE INDIVIDUALIZED BODY MAP
Find ideal foods, herbs and lifestyle tips.
See your imbalances, and locate intervention points.
Your body map contains a complete analysis of your Ayurvedic imbalances, organ by organ.
Give your chart to your functional medical doctor or any alternative health practitioner.
Ayurveda strengthens the body while opposing disorders. It takes a holistic,
systemic approach that looks at the whole body. Ayurveda
shows how to interpret signs and symptoms of imbalance, and how to address them
using diet, lifestyle adjustments, and herbs. It shows a person how to optimize their health on a continual basis. You can't
take the doctor home with you, but you can take Ayurveda home with you.
Ayurveda is the most advanced and easy to use home system for self healing.
HOW DOES AYURVEDA WORK?
Ayurveda starts by identifying your body type,
which identifies certain tendencies in your body to get sick (as well as identifying your strengths).
It uses body type to determine the likely root causes of your disorders.
Next, Ayurveda analyzes the nature of your disorder.
It fits all your signs and symptoms into a pattern, expressed as a combination of biocharacteristics (gunas).
For example, you may have a heat disorder, a cold disorder, or an oily disorder, etc.
This simple categorical approach shows you how to correct systemic imbalances and strengthen your body as a whole.
On Joyful Belly, we've created an extensive categorization of food so you can easily match food to your imbalanced biocharacteristics.
By eating an optimal diet that balances your biocharacteristics, your whole body is strengthened
and the conditions that created the disorder are removed. Once the root causes of the disease
are removed, the disease lessens in strength or disappears altogether. Additional remedies -
such as herbs and lifestyle practices - focused on the specific disorder, can greatly enhance
your healing.
GET STARTED
To get started on your Ayurvedic journey, we first recommend that your find your body
type by taking our free quiz. In Ayurveda, every solution is based on your unique body type, so
by taking this quiz, you’ll get the best results.
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John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
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His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy,
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His wife and family of 7 kids live in Asheville, NC.
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Ayurvedic Perspective on Tired in morning
Stage of Imbalance (Samprapti)
Diet Remedies by Dosha, Biocharacteristics (Guna), Action, etc.
Herb Remedies by Dosha, Guna, Action, etc.
Biocharacteristics & Herb Actions to Favor
Biocharacteristics to Avoid
Related Symptoms
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