Are you a morning person? Are you happiest and functioning at your best early in the day?
Many of us might be, more than we think. A study published last month by University College London suggests that people generally wake up feeling in the best frame of mind, and that their mood is at its worst around midnight.
Michael Beckham, a clinical counsellor at Central Minds HK, says that treating anxiety has given him the opportunity to explore in detail people’s mood upon waking and variations in their energy.
Not everyone is in a positive mood upon waking, he says, but many factors can affect that. One in particular, he says, is their level of cortisol, the so-called stress hormone.
It fluctuates throughout the day, he says, “peaking in the early morning to help us wake up and feel alert”.
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