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Medical Corner sions first thing in the morning, putting your ACTIVATE THE MIND AND BODY: Activate

mind at ease and avoiding panic and rush. If
it’s not too much, you can even devise a day- the mind and body after waking up, a light
workout is just what you need. It stimulates
to-day routine to ensure that you’re ten steps the mind and the body. How? For starters, it
ahead of schedule from the start.
starts the day with a positive attitude, pro-
HEALTHY LEARN TO WAKE UP ON TIME : Wake up on moting focus, optimism, and, as with making
the bed, a sense of accomplishment.
schedule. By failing to wake up on schedule,
MORNING you are giving in to temptations and opening Your mind gets all perked up. It also helps
the door to regret, setting the wrong tone for
in blood circulation, so you’re more likely
the rest of your day. So, no matter how difficult
to stay active throughout the day. Also, eat
it is, try to wake up on time every single day
ROUTINES (except sick days, of course). healthily, go to bed on time, and you will be
on top of it all.

Start the day by waking up early. In addition,
if you train yourself to wake up at the same KEEP SCREENS OUT OF BEDROOMS AT NIGHT:
Adding to the first point, it can be a good
time every day, you will eventually be able to idea to list down your goals and objectives of
get up without an alarm clock because your the day in a notebook or the ‘notes’ and skim
A body will begin to automatically wake up at through them after waking up. It will create a
healthy morning routine can drastical-
ly improve your life. We know that some
that time.
structure for the rest of your day and you can
of you aren’t morning people in gener-
Past research has al, but it’s important to have a routine on your MAKE YOUR BED: Making your bed shows that work with that. Ultimately, practice gratitude.
Wake up and be grateful for a new day.
shown that a own to keep track of it. you are disciplined and you can commit to
a task. This low-effort task is a huge morale
consistent morning When creating your morning routine, here are booster. The first task of the day often sets
a few things to keep in mind to ensure that you
your mood for the rest of the day and dictates
routine can reduce are your most productive. how it will go.

stress, boost your ELIMINATE AS MANY DECISIONS AS POSSIBLE HYDRATE Hydrate after you wake up, hydrat-

energy levels and BEFOREHAND: Make as many decisions as ing yourself can do wonders for you. When
you’re sleeping, you can go six to eight hours
possible ahead of time. Your morning routine
improve your should begin the night before. You can do this without water, so you’ll need at least a glass
or two of water after getting up. It improves
productivity at work. by eliminating every decision you will need to your alertness, aids with bowel movements
make in the morning. From what you want to
wear tomorrow to school, to ironing them, to and metabolism, releases more oxygen in
your blood, fuels the brain, strengthens the
preparing all the essentials.
immune system, and eliminates waste.

AJETUNMOBI TAYO MERCY
By taking care of things like this ahead of time,
you can relieve the pressure of making deci-
ODUDUWA HOSTEL NURSE/ MATRON

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