Energy

[Dallaz]

how do you guys keep your energy up?

[Dallaz]

maybe I should explain myself.

I feel tired during most of the day and need the energy to focus on my work and studies,I also can get distracted very easily so..

[Lifeisamazing]

I wish I could help you. I've got too much energy and cannot concentrate on one thing more than five minutes. I'm like a madman, standing up from the PC every five minutes and running around in my apartment.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

I wish I could help you. I've got too much energy and cannot concentrate on one thing more than five minutes. I'm like a madman, standing up from the PC every five minutes and running around in my apartment.

UGH! I Wish I had your energy and drive man.

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

UGH! I Wish I had your energy and drive man.

You don't. You want a balanced energy levels, not too extreme nor low. I'm like someone who drank five cups of coffee a minute ago.

Let's think of ideas that could help you to become more energized. How about improving your diet? How about exercising more often? How about being very active by doing things you like?

[reiki717]

Coffee. Lots of it.

Kidding, kidding.

I get plenty of rest. Eat well. Exercise frequently. It's all good!

[HealthySoul]

Eat more raw fruits and vegetables. Cut out the processed foods. Avoid the evil hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, modified food starch, and stuff you can't pronounce. Preservatives will drain your energy.

If you can get a daily yoga practice in, that should help a lot.

[joelr]

When I was sedentary for a few months my energy levels dropped really low.

I eat and sleep well now and that improved things a lot but seriously coffee is still a huge factor for the first part of the day.

But like Healthysoul said sugar will zap your energy, so will high and even sometimes moderate amounts of carbs, any complex carb - oatmeal, potato, pasta, rice, bread. Make sure to get some protein and fat in your meals, don't just eat a pile of carbs.

But I think coffee is great.
I did try 1 year without it. I was on a max health kick, perfect diet, only 1 cheat meal per week, supplementing all vitamin/minerals/omega-fat/healthy bacteria etc.. 1 hr cardio 5x week, gym 4x, lowest possible bodyfat. I have video, man was I shredded. But tired.

Regardless of what external things you do your emotional state is also a factor. A lot of people have slight depression that isn't really noticeable directly but it makes you feel like NOT-doing things. Instead you seek relief by watching tv which releases dopamine.
But it's such an unproductive waste of time for most people.
I have so many friends who "don't have time" to workout anymore, and supposedly wish they did. But have plenty of time to watch every popular show.
But on the other hand, between working at jobs their not into and raising lots of kids I think some people just give up on any other goals for a while.

[LostMyMap]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

maybe I should explain myself.

I feel tired during most of the day and need the energy to focus on my work and studies,I also can get distracted very easily so..

First thing I thought of is, how is your sleep? The amount you get, and most important, the quality?

[Lifeisamazing]

Originally Posted by joelr

When I was sedentary for a few months my energy levels dropped really low.

I eat and sleep well now and that improved things a lot but seriously coffee is still a huge factor for the first part of the day.

But like Healthysoul said sugar will zap your energy, so will high and even sometimes moderate amounts of carbs, any complex carb - oatmeal, potato, pasta, rice, bread. Make sure to get some protein and fat in your meals, don't just eat a pile of carbs.

But I think coffee is great.
I did try 1 year without it. I was on a max health kick, perfect diet, only 1 cheat meal per week, supplementing all vitamin/minerals/omega-fat/healthy bacteria etc.. 1 hr cardio 5x week, gym 4x, lowest possible bodyfat. I have video, man was I shredded. But tired.

Regardless of what external things you do your emotional state is also a factor. A lot of people have slight depression that isn't really noticeable directly but it makes you feel like NOT-doing things. Instead you seek relief by watching tv which releases dopamine.
But it's such an unproductive waste of time for most people.
I have so many friends who "don't have time" to workout anymore, and supposedly wish they did. But have plenty of time to watch every popular show.
But on the other hand, between working at jobs their not into and raising lots of kids I think some people just give up on any other goals for a while.

I'm in for the video, man.

[RomanHD]

Originally Posted by Lifeisamazing

I'm in for the video, man.

LOL, me too!

[ginkgo]

When there is nothing wrong the one thing that gives you energy is enough high quality sleep. I know this since I have fasted a month and had no food. But a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. There are hundreds of things that can be wrong from lack of a nutrient to a brain tumor. So you have to find what is wrong but holisic healers say that the cause of most problems is toxemia.

Too many toxins. The way to fix that is with fasting.

[DavidPro]

Yeah, I agree that food, sleep and exercise have huge effects on your levels of energy. And part of realizing what is affecting your level of energy and what works for you is trial and error. For example, try changing your diet slightly, adding more fruit and veges, and eating less meat. Sugar is a huge energy killer. Eating less and a big energy builder. So is eating whole foods.

About a decade ago, I was experiencing very low energy, and it lasted for years. I found that breathing techniques helped me enormously. Deep breathing fills your blood with what it's craving - oxygen - as well as circulating blood, moving nutrients to cells and clearing out the lymphatic system.

You can also get pretty high....

David

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[homemadehappiness]

a vitamin B complex sometimes help to get your system going. And as posted, activity, healthy eating and good sleep.

[Franco904]

If you want more energy without the side effects of too much coffee, perhaps you should try out SOME breathing techniques e.g. Pranayama

* Try it for 10min daily, Then go for 15min daily in week 2 ... it really works!

Look it up on youtube or google, pranayama breathing is a very cool technique for more energy, better health, better sleep etc.

It worked great for me, I now sleep 6 hours a day, I have more energy than I had before.

Of course exercise and diet are important too!!!!

[Ikkyo]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

how do you guys keep your energy up?

You need some form of exercise. The best form of exercise is by doing a sport you like. I don't really like running or working out in the gym so I prefer martial arts. But before I did go to the gym 3 times a week and I got a lot of energy from it. Hell it could even be golf or walking as long as you do something. When I don't exercise I don't have much energy so there is a direct relation here. Daily meditation also helps, because thinking is a terrible energy waster and by living in the NOW you can save a lot of energy you would otherwise waste on thinking about stuff that's not really important anyway.

I am no food expert but I'm 100% sure that it also has a big effect.

What you need to do:
Exercise ==> Healthy food ==> Meditate

[ENTP]

Red Bull, Adderall, twizzlers.

[livelove18]

Quick power naps are the way to go. I take usually 2 5-10 minute power naps per day that totally refresh me. Make sure they are no longer than 10 minutes or else you will sleep longer and feel groggy. Remove all stimuli and totally go to sleep for those 10 minutes. You will feel recharged and focused afterwards.

[Dallaz]

Thanks for the replies guys, they really help.

Originally Posted by LostMyMap

First thing I thought of is, how is your sleep? The amount you get, and most important, the quality?

My sleep is crap. I haven't had the proper amount of rest since last summer.
been spending time catching up with classwork. About like 5 hours a day

[LostMyMap]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

Thanks for the replies guys, they really help.



My sleep is crap. I haven't had the proper amount of rest since last summer.
been spending time catching up with classwork. About like 5 hours a day

Well I hate to be Obivious Man here, but, you say your sleep is crap, and you feel tired, no energy or focus. You know where to take it from here.

Remember sleep is not just your brain. Your whole body needs sleep to rest, heal, re-energize. Good restful sleep. You can have eight hours in the rack, but if you toss and turn, it doesn't really help that much.

Interestingly, good sleep can be helped by the other things people suggested, like regular exercise. Everything affects everything else.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by LostMyMap

You know where to take it from here.

Yeah, I do. To bad I still have a lot of homework.

[neilpage]

I love you guys/gals.... everyone is so insightful and smart!
Learning.... I thankyous much!

[neilpage]

Originally Posted by ENTP

Red Bull, Adderall, twizzlers.

Yup........diz'sa work!

[Living2xcess]

I wrote this on an old blog about finding energy. Since I wrote it, I've learned it is only the starting point... but it is a huge starting point. I apologize for the length in advance.


Discovering Your Inner Energy

Ever feel fatigued when you know you have had enough sleep? Feel tired and lethargic but not sleepy? Then you need to discover your inner energy. We all have an abundance of inner energy, but unfortunately there are thousands, possibly millions, of factors that robs this energy away from us.

Discovering your inner energy is extremely important because without it, you aren't truly living life. With out your inner energy you are only going through the motions of living life. You are not living it to its fullest. You aren't experiencing events and emotions the way they are meant to be expressed. You may claim to be happy, but can you truly be happy if you are only reaching half of your potential... looking at the world through the eyes of sedation, dreading to get up in the morning only to go to a job that feels pointless? Discovering your inner energy is far more valuable then all the money in the world. This discovery leads to happiness. It is you living your life the way it is meant to be lived. It is seeing the beauty and appreciating every 'mundane' thing that makes this world so wonderful.

If you want to discover your inner energy, you need to make a commitment to yourself. You need to acknowledge that this quest is so much more important than your job and your bank account. You need to make a commitment to prioritize your Life before your so called "responsibilities". I hope I have emphasized the importance of discovering your inner energy because without it you are better off living in a coma, where you don't have to deal with all the negativity and lethargy that plagues your life.


An Awakening

I've chosen to write this about discovering your inner energy because I am finally starting to understand it myself. I have begun waking up. I am finally finding my inner energy. After going through my entire life half asleep, overwhelmed by fear, anxiety, sadness, and exhaustion, I finally decided to do something about it.

In December of 2009, I decided to move to Bangkok, Thailand. It was a decision I made because I felt angry, discouraged, and defeated. I gave up on my life. I didn't care anymore. I decided the only thing worth doing was to fly to Thailand where I can at least offer someone else the chance for happiness. I left my life behind. I gave up on it and moved to the other side of the world to focus on making the woman I loved happy. This became my life purpose. My only purpose.

This idea of desperation turned out to be the best decision I ever made. I quickly learned that she cared about me more than I cared for myself. Because of her love and my one purpose in life, I did what I had put off for a lifetime. I sought medical help. A month later, I came to learn that I was very unhealthy. I received a storm of bad news about multiple problems with my health, my lifestyle, and the consequences. I didn't care. It just gave me an excuse of why I was the way I was; why I was a failure. After receiving this news, I started seeing multiple specialists to fix my problems. I did this for Siri, my new wife, to make her happy.

Two months went by and things started to change. Something happened. I started feeling different.I started seeing life in a completely new way. I began to discover love in ways I didn't think existed. I started noticing the beauty in everyday life. I was now experiencing a type of energy from deep within me, and I felt alive... for the first time in my life.

I chose to share this story because I don't want you to wait until you give up on life to discover this amazing feeling, this amazing life, and the incredible clarity that I never knew existed. Please, make the commitment now to discover your own inner energy and maybe I can help guide you there.


Document Your Life

The first thing you need to do is to start monitoring your life. You can't just go to a doctor and say "help me". You need details, you need what is happening to you, what you are doing to empower it, and exactly what outside and inside influences are affecting your quality of life. More importantly, your doctor needs to know. Start a journal and begin recording every aspect of your life. Record what time you wake up, what time you go to sleep, the amount of sunlight you received for that given day. Record what you ate and every ingredient in the foods you consumed. Track the amount of time you spend moving and the amount of time you spend dormant, sitting in front of a computer or T.V. screen. Write down every detail of every moment of your life.

Next, find out what people honestly think of you. You will likely be surprised to learn that your friends and family know more about you then you know about yourself... even though you pride will cause you to disagree with most things people say about you. Ask for their honest opinions about you and how you live your life. Learn their beliefs about how you would react and handle various circumstances and events. Make a request to have them imitate their perceived version of you. Observe their interpretations of how you are, how you act, and how you react. Write it down. Record every opinion, every word, every action , and everything you may or may not have learned from each friend and family member's feedback.

After you documented our life for approximately a week, and recorded everything that makes you who you are. Its time to make the hardest step of them all, full disclosure.


Let Your True Self be Known

Share all the information you collected with your journal to everybody you know and don't know. Type it into the computer and post it to message boards, forums, and social networks. Get as much feedback, advice, and opinions as you possibly can. Then add those to your journal. This will be extremely hard because opening up your personal life leaves you vulnerable and exposed to criticism and judgement. Its an invasion of privacy in the biggest way. You are exposing your thoughts, the most intimate details of your life, and all your flaws to the entire world for them to critique, judge, gossip and joke about. It will hurt at first, but after a while, you will feel liberated; No more lies, no more secrets, no more sugar coating the truth.

After everything has been recorded, documented, reviewed, critiqued, and redocumented... it time to see a doctor. You may feel like you are 100% healthy in every way, but you are not. There is something wrong with you, something that can be fixed or improved, something that is keeping you from living your life to the fullest. See many doctors at first. See specialists, therapists, nutritionists and keep searching and visiting doctors until you find one, or several, that is willing to invest in your life, discover who you are, and help you be who you can be.

Only then will you begin to discover your inner energy. The life inside of you that you didn't realize you had. It may take a long time and cost you some hard earned dollars. It may make you feel ashamed about everything you have done in your life. But once you discover your inner energy you will realize... it doesn't matter. You will realize you weren't really living.

If you don't make this commitment, to yourself, to discover your inner energy, you are just giving up... on life.