What Time is the Sunrise?
The body clock is most responsive to sunlight in the early morning, between 6:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Exposure to sunlight later is still beneficial but doesn’t provide the same benefit.
Shawn Stevenson • Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success: A Longevity Book
“Humans are not meant to keep exact time,” the Native poet Sandra Ball once said. “We are meant to live within the confines of seasons, light and dark, and our own body’s rhythms, which are not the same from day to day or from year to year.”
Mary Retta • on vibing
our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.
Linda Geddes • The Guardian
Getting regular sunlight implies that you are spending time outdoors, appreciating open space and breathing fresh air. The net effect of taking time to enjoy these positive environmental surroundings (perhaps during your daily moderate exercise sessions!) is an excellent stress-balancer to being in confined spaces with artificial light and stale ai
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