You set an alarm for 5 AM, because it’s been very long since you watched the sunrise or there is a test of the subject you didn’t touch the whole sem. Whatever may be the reason what most of us do is hitting the snooze button several times until it’s 7 AM, the sun is all the way up from eastern horizon and your test is about to begin in one hour or so. This lifestyle came with so many drawbacks one of them being watching TV until you fall asleep on couch itself, so when you want to wake up early next time you may need a list of top 10 healthy things you can do by waking up early daily, and a few of the perks of these activities are really very tempting.

10. Water Yourself

Water is the life fluid, and there is nothing better than a having 2-3 glass full of plain water or slightly salted lemon water in the morning. Water intake at early hours of the day helps you to get rid of all the toxicants left from last night digestion. It fills you with energy to keep your eyes open and cleanse the body, and now you can perform the bathroom rituals and probably take a cold bath so that your eyes don’t tell you to sleep again.

9. Jogging/Cycling

Get out of your home, fill your lungs with fresh morning air, stretch a few limbs and get your body in motion, jog around the corners when it’s still gray, and you may see the paperboy delivering news papers. You are going the love the solitude, nature and you. The fresh air in morning acts as an elixir for body. Cycling is a nice warm up activity too and it’s fun racing your ways through empty streets.

8. The First Cup

Now when you get back do the first thing first, the first cup, depending upon what you like, tea, green tea, coffee. Just make sure to keep it low on sugar and preferably use low fat or no milk at all. Enjoy brewing you drink, watch the water change it’s color. Don’t just do it as it is the first thing you’ll taste in the morning and your entire day will depend on it. Green tea and coffee are known to have a particular amount of anti-oxidants which retard the synthesis of toxic waste hence making it the best thing to consume in morning and the caffeine from coffee will shoo away your sleep.

7. Get into Balcony and Watch the Nature

While holding your precious cup, the best start of the day you can have. Nature is changing its color. According to many scientific studies it has been proved that brain is most active at this time of day. You can contemplate the beauty of rising Sun, while the earth beneath your feet has completed one full circle. Morning has many psychological and physical health effects, as the sun at this time bearable up to an extent of being pleasant.

6. Meditate

Meditation has been used since centuries to involve with nature and find wisdom inside oneself, now meditation is widely used to reduce stress. It has been scientifically proven now that meditation improves addiction, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and cognitive functions. Meditation changes our brain, known as neuroplasticity ultimately resulting in a brain designed to improve its own health.

5.  Yoga

One single set of exercises designed to gain complete control over body and mind. Yoga has been here for centuries just as mediation but one step beyond, more than the mental health it improves all the physical aspects of the human body. Yoga consists of deep breathing cycles of different patterns and postures and movements of different body parts in a specific manner. It’s known for its healing effects on body. Yoga brings strength and flexibility to body.

4. Exercise

In this modern world everyone craves for an athletic body or at least a body that’s in right shape, but the process to achieve such body is not very easy especially for those who’ve gone out of shape. A regular and proper workout schedule in the morning can do miracles and get you what you imagine of. Now it’s up to you whether you want a body like Christian Bale from The Dark Night or from The American Hustle.

3. Schedule you day

Okay, this might not sound as healthy but believe me it’ll keep your health intact for years as long as you stick to it. Scheduling your day in morning is going to help you go through it without any hitches. While you make your list make sure to prioritize tasks so no two of them clash. Go to bed with a content feeling of living one more good day of your life.

2. Pursue Your Hobbies

Read, write, draw, paint, dance, pray, plant or do whatever you want to do. Hobbies are what that makes us more human every day. The declining health is same as getting older, while you pursue your hobbies you let the child inside you bloom and grow, you feel younger and energetic when you do what you love.

1. Eat your Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and gives the energy required to work efficiently through the first half of the day. Make your breakfast healthy by adding a glass of fresh milk, some sprouts, a few fruits, a handful of nuts and some leafy veggies. Surely you’re going to enjoy waking up early and live your day as you want.