Circadian rhythm is our internal body clock that’s a part of nature and Ayurveda (the study of life). It affects how birds migrate and the happiness of our house plants. 🪴 These things affect us.
And circadian rhythm indirectly affects our mind-body and how tired or happy we are. 😊
Circadian rhythm quietly affects our sleep, feelings of energy or zapped energy and our cognitive ability or disability.
It’s an underrated important factor in our happy daily lives.
In this article, you can learn all about circadian rhythm from changes in our daily environment and easy tweaks you can make, so you can impact your happiness.
Circadian rhythms are deep and affect our spiritual lives deep within us.
It has a ripple effect from the outside…
So we want to make healthy tweaks to our lifestyles to keep the circadian rhythm balance humming along nicely.
One powerful way we can control our circadian rhythm is with the light and dark influences in our lives.
That’s as natural as the first verse and creation chapter of the Bible..
In modern terms, if you work night shifts and sleep in the day, your circadian rhythm changes.
Work shift shifts create mood swings. Try saying that 10 times fast.
We need natural visible blue light in the day that’s naturally strong from sun light.
…And yes daylight is the same blue light we’re warned about that comes from computers, but 100,000 times stronger. 🌞
💡And that’s the first easiest impact we can make.
My first understanding about circadian rhythm was not from light vs dark lessons, but in an Ayurveda class discussion about sounds.
From the experience we each received a unique, natural primordial sound that was happening at our time of our birth. It starts with “Om.”
As a miracle, those sounds are as natural and spiritual as birth.
These are part of the first earth sounds we heard in our echo chamber sound booth coming out of the womb. We could probably feel the sound energy happening then because we’re spiritual beings tied to an energy bigger than ourselves.
So I learned that circadian rhythm was part of light and sounds… and as part of our sight and hearing, it closely affect our minds.
Our minds are wired to our affected wakefulness, alertness, memory, mood, and slow (or quick) cognitive function that end up impacting our daily happiness and mindfulness with relationships.
And if our happy mood is down for a season, then we can feel dark or void inside.
As a visual, all you have to do is shut your usual window blinds for a week and that throws your circadian rhythm off.
And sliding down that slippery slope, you’d feel off. It doesn’t matter if you’re a sensitive person or not… all that matters is you’re human.
…Like when we change our clocks for daylight savings and we’re off of our rhythm for a day or two.
And this rhythm is tied to our sleep and how tired we feel.
When you sleep closer to 9 hours and still feel tired, you can rationalize the tiredness with working more hours, clock time changes, stress, season changes, or even getting too much sleep.
But more sleep isn’t the answer.
When you’re cranky and it feels like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and maybe carry around the bad moods, they creep into lower quality or less productive work. It takes more energy to get the same bare minimum things done.
And that can lead to our loving sides affected and our relationships taking a back seat.
This can become crippling if you shut out love and let in the negative and fearful spiritual tendencies that become the surrounding air breathed.
This can happen as easily as when you’re too preoccupied busy to notice your surroundings, or you let your ego take over your thoughts and play thought tapes over and over again.
It’s subtle to you as you pay less attention.
E.g.o. (edging God out) clouds over and those behaviors hurt productivity and happiness.
Letting in more light wind (spirit) is going to sway you in the right direction out. Instead of south, you head north in the opposite direction.
You can naturally find your way out when you know from experiences which way is up (as your natural wisdom helps you).
Knowing can come from tapping into your quiet space and spiritual self that often comes from gut instincts (not logic).
Sometimes answers pop right in… and sometimes you have to mull on the peaceful thoughts longer.
Because light and dark is a spiritual battle not based on reason…
Some of the battles can be avoided.
How? Patching a simple early fix like more blue light in the waking hours already mentioned, so you have more energy ⚡️ in the day that circadian rhythm regulates… and this helps you get to bed at normal times.
Blue light is a good answer, but it often gets a bad rap because of warnings to shut off digital devices late at night… which is good to do.
But in the same light, it’s not emphasized enough how much natural blue light you need in the day.
Tip: Be just be sure to wear UV-protected sunglasses and sunscreen in sunlight.
Because UV and blue light aren’t the same for your health, but often gets confused in today’s world. UV is harmful.
With enough blue light, then you can get the normal sleeping patterns that can reset the lower spectrum or first few hours of deep sleep (Delta sleep) when the body mostly resets and repairs.
That’s why you hear of people who only need 4-5 hours of sleep… and it’s enough.
Often they have a strong purpose (or busy season) and what they will do in life, like getting up for the New York Marathon race, voting, or taking in a new travel adventure.
Then sleeping at the bare minimum for the daily body repair is enough because excitement carries over or their Pitta drive drives them.
But if the minimum sleep isn’t achieved, then no amount of coffee, 80’s music, or a jolting pine eucalyptus candle is going to revive.
Sleep is irreplaceable.
In summary, these are a few healthy reminders:
-Get back to your light-dark/day-night schedule and normal sleep times.
What unnaturally took you off your circadian rhythm can be restored with natural healthy moves, such as:
-Listen to nature sounds like birds chirping by the river, or the pitter patter of rain. Those were part of nature when you were born and can revive you. Today, you can use technology to get those effects and drown out manmade construction and technology sounds.
-Add sleep-inducing foods with melatonin and B6 to help your sleep like eggs, bananas, nuts, yogurt, and avocado.
Those sound like breakfast food 💭 and if you’re having a hard time sleeping, like warm milk, these types of foods are helpful.
-Create a 3-day rule for yourself in self-discipline. If you don’t get better in 3 days or after the weekend has ended, then commit to fixing it in other ways like changing your routine that isn’t working for you now and in your quiet spiritual space.
-Breathe in words of inspiration like that from the Bible to get back to nature and your loving roots.
The Book of Psalms is one love letter full of natural wisdom and blessings of peace, love, and hope.
The timeless words are in weddings and funerals because those are the biggest pouring out-of-love events.
And those loving feelings and words can help turn your off-balance circadian rhythm feelings into happy good.
Turn on the light and naturally get a ‘lil happy today. You’ll be glad you did! 😎
