Four Steps To Tripling Your Energy

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Tired? Tired of being tired? You aren’t 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.

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.

1) Cardio-vascular fitness. A dead minimum of twenty minutes

three times a week, just to stay in the game. If you want to

create a swift, powerful change, try forty minutes four times a

week. Walking is sufficiently intense, if you stay in the

“aerobic zone” which can be described as a level of exertion

where you can’t sing, but you can still talk!

2) Body-mass index. Unneeded weight is like a sack of wet

cement strapped to your back. It eats up energy like crazy.

Regardless of what anyone says or implies, there is only one

basic way to lose fat: to change the ratio of calories consumed

to calories burned. In general, this requires discipline on BOTH

ends. Fat loss is a two-headed snake. If you diet but don’t

exercise, your metabolism can slow down to a crawl, denying you

success. And if you exercise but don’t eat sensibly, well, a

pound of fat has about 3500 calories. An hour of running only

burns about 350 calories. Do the math.

3) Flexibility. Often overlooked in the search for energy,

flexibility is a measurement of tension in the body. A stiff

body is like a car with its brakes on. Think how much gas your

car would waste!! That gas is your energy, when you carry

unnecessary tension. Most stretching activities are less a

matter of “lengthening” muscles, tendons, or ligaments than

learning how to communicate with your body, to learn how to

breathe into tension.

4) 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

didn’t say “diet.” At this point, we all pretty much understand

that diets don’t work—that any eating plan intended to have long

term benefits must represent a change in lifestyle. A few

pointers:

1) 3:2:1 ratio of fresh fruits and vegetables to complex

carbohydrates to lean proteins. Note that this ratio works for

people who are ACTIVE—they need the carbs. If you are trying to

lose fat, or are relatively inactive, try reversing the ratio of

protein and carbs.

2) Drink more water. The classic recommendation of eight

glasses a day is debated, but the truth is that a lot of hunger

and fatigue is actually dehydration in disguise. Note: this

means water, not beer, soda, or even milk, all of which contain

various nutrients or chemicals which actually require water to

process through the body. In other words, they use up as much

water as they give you.

3) Eat six small meals a day. This helps keep your bloodsugar

levels even, which will keep your energy from crashing in the

afternoon.

4) Eat today for how you want to FEEL tomorrow. Not for

emotional reasons, or just for taste.

C) Rest. As a culture, we aren’t getting enough sleep. The

human body seems to need 7-9 hours of sleep a night, and if

you’re 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.

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.

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/mind’s

energy-generation apparatus, and you’ll be shocked at the

energy that will flood your life. It is your birthright. Own

it!

About The Author: A NY Times bestselling author with three

million words in print, two black belts, a 19-year old daughter

and a 2 year old son, knows about energy. Learn

more about his exclusive high-performance systems at:

http://www.lifewrite.com

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