How To Increase Your Energy Levels By 300%
How To Increase Your Energy Levels By 300%
Do you feel you are performing at your best? Do you spring out of bed in the morning, excited and ready for the opportunities your day presents?
Imagine for a moment you are the proud owner of a champion, thorough bred horse worth in excess of one million dollars.
As the owner of this prized purebred, would you let him stay up half the night, drink coffee and booze, smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? What about your dog? Your cat?
You see, most people treat their own bodies with less care than they would treat a cat. If you did own a horse worth one million dollars, you would hire a nutritionist to make sure his diet was exactly right, you would also ensure he was getting his regular massages and spine alignment treatments; the best supplementation; you would have the best trainer in the country; an air-conditioned barn in the summer time, a steam-heated one in the winter time a million dollar investment. And here you have this BILLION dollar body.
When Was Your Last 100,000km Service?
The problem is that we expect our body will just do what it is supposed to do no matter what kind of treatment it receives. We often take better care of our car ensuring it gets regular service, appropriate maintenance and oil changes in the necessary intervals, but when it comes to our own bodies, the service is usually below par.
Our bodies have amazing coping, self-correcting mechanisms. It is able to handle, quite literally, long-term abuse, without much complaint for long periods. It waits patiently to be treated well with only slow and gradual decline in health and vitality, until the day it decides: That’s it, I’ve had enough!–only then we start paying attention.
The First Sign, Help Is Needed!
The first aspect of our health that starts to signal a need for ‘help’ relates to our general wellbeing and vitality: Our energy levels. We often misinterpret the body’s needs or simply ignore them–what the body really is asking for when it lacks energy is for us to take care: sleep more, eat well, exercise, re-hydrate. But instead of that we end up giving it lots of coffee, energy drinks, sugar and telling ourselves to ‘snap out of it’ as we go on abusing it. That is not a smart long-term strategy. In fact, it only leads to one thing: Disease.
How Do I Make It All Better?
The solution is to STOP and go back to basics. However, before you change anything it is vital to assess where you are at and where you would like to be. In my practice we have some fancy machines to do that, we also take our patients through very comprehensive and detailed assessments to ensure we are both clear about the starting point (a baseline is paramount), however one of the tools we use which is available to you right now is a simple question:–What are you energy levels on a scale of 0-10 10=excellent)? Once you have the answer to this question you can start implementing the following suggestions to substantially increase your energy levels. In fact, a 300% energy increase is very realistic. When a person is operating at 2/10 and for the time, that is their 100%, it doesn’t take long, when applying the tips below to increase levels to a generous and vibrant 8/10. Keep going and you will ACE it!
Practical Steps For Energy Maximization
Once you know where you are at, you can measure your progress as you go along. Here are 7 tips that will transform your energy levels and vitality within one week of diligent application. The catch is that you need to keep your practice up for at least 28 days to see the full benefit of your new investment in yourself.
1. Clean Up Your Diet
Let go of all junk. Base your meals on fresh, organic, seasonal produce (fruits and vegetables) and good quality protein (e.g. eggs, quark, chicken, beef, lamb, kangaroo, venison etc). The less unprocessed your foods the better. Avoid canned and pre-prepared meals.
2. Have Protein For Breakfast
If you could only do ONE thing on this list–this would have to be it. Eating good quality protein for breakfast is one of the only things that will ensure you do not get any energy slumps in the afternoon. So try poached or boiled eggs; fruit smoothie with quark; fruit with cottage cheese or quark; toast with sardines or (flaked) grilled salmon.
3. Eat Every 3 Hours
This will ensure your energy is leveled during the day. Ensuring your moods, focus, concentration are all optimum. This is easier than you think. Just divide up what you would normally eat in one sitting for a meal into two. Your digestive system will have an easier job and your energy levels will skyrocket.
4. What To Drink And What Not To Drink?
When cells become dehydrated, they don’t perform the metabolic
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