Ashish Kothari explains why checking your phone first thing in the morning triggers your fight-or-flight response. Scrolling news, Instagram, and work emails floods your brain with stress that carries through the entire day.
Let's look at the ill effects of actually what happens when we check phone first thing when we wake up. When we wake up most people use it to check their emails or go to Instagram or check news. Well what is filled in news today? Negative news, a war here, a killing there, inflation data that is worrying us. The news is filled with sensational because negativity sells. If you go to Instagram we are instantly brought face to face with people's near perfect life. Rainbows, unicorns, perfect beaches, perfect bodies and we wake up feeling not that good about ourselves. Or maybe you're like most corporate where the first thing you do is you look at your email and right away you let all the troubles of your work and other people agenda for you enter into your brain minutes after waking up from a deep restorative, hopefully sleep. We have put ourselves into a fight flight or freeze response, a sympathetic nervous systems that get activated and that continues throughout the day.
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