Preparation

Warming up, or ‘priming’ your brain for as little as 5 minutes before a task shows immediate performance improvement, and significant lasting improvement of overall performance following a 4 month course.

When u expose yourself to daily low light intensity, like the kind of dim lighting in most indoor environments, it significantly INCREASES MELATONIN SUPPRESSION at night if u are exposed to night time artificial lighting. The test group who got outside and was exposed to bright sunlight many times during the day did not have nearly as much melatonin suppression at night.

In addition to making you more alert during the day, improving your mood and sleep, the blue in bright morning sunlight acts as a countermeasure or antidote to some of the damaging health effects of artificial light at night.

It doesn’t give you a free pass to use artificial light at night without bad health effects, but it reinforces your circadian system so that exposure to a blast of artificial light at night doesn’t hurt you as much.

Brief morning light exposure preceding a day shift is effective in improving performance during the day, sleep at night and reducing fatigue for the preceding two weeks in nurses working shifts.

Mental rehearsal improves performance

Morning daylight will help to lift the mood, reduce stress and improve cognitive function

Interactions with natural environments and nature-related stimuli have been found to be beneficial to cognitive performance, in particular on executive cognitive tasks with high demands.

Lack of daylight can lead to problems with the liver and gut.