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Music for a Monday morning
The body remembers the weekend more than it remembers the work. A slow ramp, not an immediate plunge.
Monday morning at work has a particular reluctance to it. The body remembers the weekend more than it remembers the work. The chair feels slightly wrong. Music for Monday is closer to music for the first day back from a holiday than it is to a normal working day, even when nothing meaningful is different.
What I use is the focus room with the dial down by one. A slow ramp instead of an immediate plunge. Lo-fi for the first hour; light focus for the second; full focus by mid-morning. Going straight into the deep ambient end on a Monday is a way to be asleep at the desk by ten.
The mistake on Mondays is to over-correct in the other direction — playing energetic music to manufacture the energy you don't have. The energy will come on its own if you let the morning take its shape. The music for Monday is mostly about not getting in the way of a body that's still tuning back into the working week.
By Tuesday the rooms snap back. The week is itself, the desk is itself, and the music doesn't need to do as much work. Monday is its own thing. Treating it like Tuesday is a mistake the working week happily punishes.