Give yourself a chance to adjust to the waking world,” said mental health and wellbeing coach Lily Silverton. “When you wake up first thing, the ideal is to wake up and spend a little bit of time within your own mind before you’re bombarded with everything else in the world that’s going on. “The re-introduction of an alarm clock gives me the time, space and separation that my phone didn’t.”Īs our use of cell phones continues to grow (a 2018 report by Deloitte found that American smartphone users check their phones 14 billion times a day, up from 9 billion in the same report from 2016), wellness experts say it is having a negative impact our morning routines.
And that’s when the luxury of waking up without notifications ended, and the misery of glancing at them in the middle of the night when I checked the time on my phone began. But I succumbed to peer pressure and did away with my old clock. Why don’t I? I probably didn’t even know I could at the time. “Why don’t you use your phone!” Oh, I thought. “You use an actual alarm clock?” they asked, as though it was a fax machine. I made the switch from alarm clock to phone about 10 years ago after I told someone what I thought was a funny story about how my alarm clock had once gone off in my suitcase while in the trunk of a taxi, forcing us to pull over so I could retrieve it. Riding the world's most luxurious train with the visionary designer who built it
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