Going to bed on time and getting up on time both have a powerful effect on your meditation. The focus here is getting to bed on time. Why? If you stay up too late,  chances are you’ll sleep in the next morning. Even if you do manage to roll out of bed on time, you’ll be contemplating your fatigue instead of your mantra.

Even if meditation is not your goal, routinely staying up past your optimal bed time will leave you feeling chronically run-down. As Jerry Seinfeld put it, “Morning Man pays for the sins of Night Man.” It’s not so much a matter of how much sleep you get as when you get it. If you go to bed at two and get up at nine, you are likely to have less energy the next day than if you go to bed at eleven and get up at six. So, if you want more get up and go, get to bed on time.

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