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Four Steps To Tripling Your Energy
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Tired? Tired of being tired? You arent alone. There are few human qualities more highly sought than energy. It determines our ability to enjoy life, to attract mates, to finish projects, to protect our families, to shape our bodies effectively, and so much more.
While there are endless specific suggestions about herbs, exercises, meditations, supplements, rest patterns and so forth that I could mention, the most important and over-arching components are relatively simple...
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health, advice, energy
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Tired? Tired of being tired? You arent alone. There are few human qualities more highly sought than energy. It determines our ability to enjoy life, to attract mates, to finish projects, to protect our families, to shape our bodies effectively, and so much more.
While there are endless specific suggestions about herbs, exercises, meditations, supplements, rest patterns and so forth that I could mention, the most important and over-arching components are relatively simple, and available to anyone with the willingness to begin.
Basically, your energy level will be controlled by three physical and one psychological factor.
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A) Fitness. There are a variety of different things that contribute to the quality called fitness, but a few of them are specific to energy level.
Strength. Contrary to popular belief, strength is more in the mind than the body. It is a matter of leverage, concentration, and controlled excitation even more than it is the size of the muscles involved. On a physiological level, it is a matter of the percentage of your muscle fibers you can recruit at a given moment. Weight training, or body-weight exercises like Hindu Pushups and Hindu Squats, are great ways to increase strength, which makes physical tasks much easier and less fatiguing.
B ) Controlling food intake. A critical factor. Note that I didnt say diet. At this point, we all pretty much understand that diets dont workthat any eating plan intended to have long term benefits must represent a change in lifestyle. A few pointers:
Eat today for how you want to FEEL tomorrow. Not for emotional reasons, or just for taste.
C) Rest. As a culture, we arent getting enough sleep. The human body seems to need 7-9 hours of sleep a night, and if youre getting less or more than this, you may be having stress reactions, and compromising your health as a result.
1)Find out what your ideal sleep pattern is, and stick to it.
2)Try to get to sleep before midnight. Folk wisdom says that every hour of sleep before midnight is worth two hours after.
Eat today for how you want to FEEL tomorrow. Not for emotional reasons, or just for taste.
3)Take naps during the day. A quick power nap for 10-20 minutes can renew your energy like magic.
4)Make your bedroom a place of rest, healing and recreation. Keep your stress in another room of the house. Your sleeping place should be a womb of comfort and pleasure, specifically designed to lull you into the depths of dreamland.
D) Focus. In some ways, the most important tool for increasing energy. You need to know EXACTLY what you will do with the energy when you have it. This means written goals, clearly delineated. It means being task-oriented, believing that if you can do A,B, and C, there will be pleasure and satisfaction on the other end. I know people who are AFRAID to have more energy, because they think their kids, mates, or boss will just exploit them further. You have to have PERMISSION to be energetic, alive, and sensually involved with life.
Eat today for how you want to FEEL tomorrow. Not for emotional reasons, or just for taste.
But if you will give yourself this permission, if on a daily basis you will move your body, eat responsibly, rest intelligently and write out your goals and steps to achieving them, you will begin to take control of your body/minds energy-generation apparatus, and youll be shocked at the energy that will flood your life. It is your birthright. Own it!