Ways to Boost Your Energy

Fatigue is one of the biggest problems of modern life, but we’re trying to fix that problem in all the wrong ways. Trying to “get” or “find” energy is like trying to grab a fistful of water. If you want water (energy) to sit in your hand, you have to first create the conditions under which it’s possible—in the case of water, keeping your fingers tightly together and your hand cupped while open will do the trick—but trying to grab the water will not. It’s the same thing with energy.
Energy isn’t something you get or grab, rather it’s the by-product of certain conditions that allow it to show up in your life. If your health, attitude, body, and mind are all aligned in the right way, there’s nothing else for you to do but feel energized. It’s the natural “side effect” of a healthful life—it just comes with the territory.
Let’s say you were a swimmer wearing a weight belt, and you wanted to increase your time in the 50-yard freestyle. You could spend a lot of effort researching the latest high-tech swim suit—which might add a second or two to your time—but wouldn’t it be a lot more effective to simply drop the weight belt? Most of us are carrying around weight belts and looking to increase our energy with coffee and stimulants, but if we just dropped the weight belt, we’d automatically go faster.
Some of the items that make up our weight belt are too little sleep, disorganization, toxic relationships, high-carb diets, undetected food sensitivities, and all sorts of other facts of modern life.The following are seven of the most important ways to help drop the weight belt from your energy tank. Do them and you may be surprised at what a boost in energy they give you.

Support Your Liver
You can help your liver do its job more effectively—and boost your energy in the bargain—by taking a daily dose of an herb called milk thistle. Also, eat liver-supporting vegetables, such as carrots, beets, beet greens, garlic, artichokes, and burdock and dandelion roots. I consider the liver the most misunderstood and underappreciated organ in the human body; when it’s not working right, your energy level is the first thing to suffer. Giving the liver all the nutrients it needs to perform its daily tasks is one of the most important things you can do to boost your energy.

Get 10 Minutes of Sun Every Day
“The sun gives you strength, lifts your spirits, and is a source of energy,” says my friend Al Sears, MD, author of Your Best Health Under the Sun. Like a growing body of health experts, Sears thinks we’ve become so sun phobic that we’re missing out on the myriad mood-boosting and energy-enhancing benefits that the sunshine vitamin has to offer.

Disconnect for a Day
One of the great energy drainers of the 21st century is information overload. We’re deluged with stuff coming at us from e-mail, RSS feeds, blogs, social networking sites, TV, magazines, radio, fax machines, Blackberries—you get the picture. Knowledge may be power, but information overload is just … well, noise. Try a media-free day and feel your own energy accumulate rather than letting it dissipate as you attend to millions of distractions, most of which—when you think about it—won’t make much difference in the long run anyway. (If you find the idea of disconnecting for a day is a frightening thought, you are exactly the person who needs to do it the most!)

Get up and move
We all know that exercise helps with energy. Even if it's a walk around your neighborhood or some yoga in your living room. Get up and move!!

Unclutter
 The more stuff you have cluttering up your life, the less energy you have. Believe it or not, the condition of your desk, office. and living space actually reflect a lot of what’s going on in your head.

Take the Right Supplements
While supplements don’t really “give” you energy, they can correct metabolic issues that are draining it. They can also speed along certain pathways that are nutrient- dependent and get sluggish when those nutrients are in short supply.

This was taken from Better Nutrition Magazine


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