This content was created by Kim Gaskill. This content was uploaded by Kim Gaskill. This is a YouTube video titled "027 Sunrise Sedona" (Daily Spark) published 2019-04-30, featuring Kim Gaskill presenting a solo wellness vlog from Sedona, Arizona. In a first-person monologue she describes seeing the sunrise after days of gray skies, explains circadian rhythm, jet lag, and seasonal affective disorder, and emphasizes physiological benefits of sunlight beyond vitamin D. She encourages viewers to try watching the sunrise, meditating and journaling for a week and reflect on effects to mood, energy, and focus.
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Good morning from Sedona, Arizona. I'm Kim Gaskill and this is the Daily Spark. I finally got to see the sunrise this morning. I'm so happy. It's been 3 days, gray skies, since I left Arkansas, so I haven't really seen the sunrise. And that's a big thing for me. I like to get up in the morning and watch the sunrise every day. I start my day that way. My day goes much better because I get my sunshine, I get my meditation time, and it really is a physical, not just a mental thing for me. I don't know if you've heard of the word circadian rhythm. That is your body clock. That is how our body releases its hormones to do its job, to run our metabolism. We're supposed to be in sync with the sun. There's a ton of studies out there, you can look them up, but your circadian rhythm gets messed up when you travel to different locations where the sunrise and sunset are different. It's called jet lag. You— most of you have probably experienced that. It's because our body clock is trying to catch up with where we are of the rising and falling of the sun. Because it's different. And if we're not there for more than 24 hours, our body has a hard time getting in sync with that. That's what we call jet lag. You may have heard of seasonal affective disorder. That's when there's not enough light and it affects our mental state, gives us anxiety, depression, restlessness, sleeplessness, irritability. Our mood is affected by the sun. That's because the physical benefits of the sunlight, the— not just the vitamin D, but the actual ultraviolet lights from the sun does things in our skin. Our skin and our cells absorb that energy and it makes things happen in our body. It makes cells do things in our body that they're designed to do. So if we don't have that, if we don't get out in the sun, that never happens. We can take vitamin D to try and help boost our vitamin D levels and, and help with some of the mental sadness and mood change and anxiety and depression, but the physiological benefits of being in the sun are way beyond vitamin D. So I challenge you, if you're not getting out in the sun every day, please start. If you don't get up and watch the sun, try it for a week. Watch the sunrise, take a moment to meditate and journal, then start your day. And then at the end of the week, reflect and see if you had better days, less irritability, better energy, more focus? I'd be curious to know. See you next time on another Daily Spark.
