Understanding Energy and Vitality On Several Levels - Then Pulling The Trigger

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Although caffeine is effective in your system for 6 hours, it can do all of it's damage (rather you can acting on the potential it creates for you to use it up) in the first hour. It's damage is not direct but a result of unlocking all the locked liquor cabinets and you're taking advantage of all the free (unregulated) supplies of feel good neurotransmitters.

Someone on caffeine is like a car with the gas pedal down and a board under the breaks- they feel POWERFUL but that power is an illusion. It's really there, but if you use it, you may as well beat yourself up- physically. This power is not "extra" it's just unbridled by your body's breaking system the adenosine molecule, because caffeine has taken a home in the receptor for 6 hours!

It's like if you had a bunch of criminals outside a store they wanted to rob, and you just left the front door wide open with lights pointing to the fact that you can now easily, without effort, enter and rob the store.

Left ungoverned (often due to lack of information), people tend to act irrationally against their better judgment! In that scenario the robbers are your decision to push yourself physically (because you can not necessarily "should") and the "goods" stolen are your feel good chemicals, and like the store owner when they find the mess- you will feel absolutely crappy when you realize what happened!

You can actually generate indigenous chemical releases from the brain that do what those energy drinks do only there is no crash afterward and there is no toxic effects to your body. In fact if you take the right supplements you can get the same result (but better), and it will be completely helping your body's systems to do their thing, giving the body what it NEEDS/resources, and you don't have to criminalize your brains functions (i.e. caffeine molecules shape being almost identical to adenosine molecules and hijacking the adenosine receptors (so they can't hit the breaks on you!).

You can use natural ingredients that won't rob your body/brain/chemicals, but that rather enhance your body's ability to create more (to use now without withdrawing from the stores already there). You can also generate chi energy through meditation and reprogramming the way you talk to yourself.

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Dopamine Reserves

Amino Acids

Serotonin Reserves

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Warning:

You DON'T want to take this every day- you can overwhelm your body so just take them when you feel fatigued and start with the lowest dose, regardless of the bottles instructions (i.e. to take 2 3 times a day- I can only take one in a day without overwhelming my body).

Always try supplements alone, take nothing else and give it a shot to do it's work. Take notice of how you feel, then later take it with something else (i.e. 5-HTP) and see how the combination works for you... it's a bit tedious to do but it makes all the difference in the world when you figure out your tolerances, and doses personally.

One of the things most responsible for energy drain is not just bad health or lack of nutrition. Although eating right and exercising help tremendously, and in and of themselves create energy through synergy, it is your state of mind that governs how your body treats, uses, or replenishes these chemicals.

You could be extremely healthy, get plenty of exercise but if you're stressing out over little things your countering the energetic effects of these things with stress chemicals. (for example)

You could be absolutely chalked full of energy but your body could be countering the benefits by intercepting them with things like stress hormones, adrenalin, and more. You could also have everything you need including water but lacking "salt" the magic "electrolyte" ingredient in Gatorade (yea just table salt). Without salt, drinking water all day won't help as it will not absorb correctly or become useful in the body without salt. Salt helps the body RETAIN more water, without it you will urinate and sweat it all out.

When your mind is in the right mental thought stream, you tend to notice things that cause energy drain like negative self talk, and even the foods you're eating.

You will eat something bad for you and actually feel it drain your energy.

Most people are so distracted by their lives that they have no idea what connection is between their energy and the reason they have none!

The first thing you need to get right is your internal dialogue. Once that is squared away, you will start to consciously think in ways that help you to solve this problem rather than being swayed towards a quick fix like an energy drink. You tend to think for yourself more and question things that claim to give you energy. You start to pay more attention to how that apple makes you feel vs. that candy bar.

Have you ever been beat down tired at work, bored out of your skull, and want nothing more than to go home and go to bed, then someone you haven’t seen in years, someone you absolutely are head over heals in love with comes into the office or you bump into them in the street and instantly you fee energetic, happy, and no longer want to go home and pass out, rather you want to go out and have a good time with them! This proves my point. The mind controls the energy by controlling perceptions, defining how you feel by visualizing actually feeling it!

We spend most of our day telling ourselves how tired we are, but we don’t spend any time saying how energetic we are. We are quick to think negative and affirm what we think we feel which may very well be simply auto responses from seeing OTHER people who are tired, watching someone yawn and then you yawn and “think” you’re tired because you yawned. The reality is that most people are not tired or worn out; they are simply HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO SUGGESTION!

What may be making you so tired is not reality, but what you actualize from your environment. If you’re not in control of your internal dialogue you are in auto pilot, and in autopilot you’re a reactive creature. If you’re simply reacting to everything you’re like a pinball machine and everyone else is playing you!

How would you like to escape this self created prison of reactive thinking and start living YOUR life, feeling energetic, thinking in energetic and optimistic ways, and not being affected by everyone else’s “bad programming”? The book mentioned below "Life Strategies" (I know I know but Dr. Phil Does know his stuff, this book literally changed my life around- it's incredibly powerful and a brilliant read. I've passed my copy around so much (and it's been stolen so much) that I've probably bought it again over 20 times and I feel the money is WELL worth it. I'd rather buy a new copy than have a friend I loaned mine to not like it or read it- them keeping it means it's helping them right? There are audio versions too- just click throgh the amazon ad to see more choices)

Before I end this article (for fear of it being too long) I want to bring up one more area of mental health and well being that affects us more than anything else- relationships.

Energy is also a result of stimulating conversations, debates, feeling appreciated through conversations that feel two way, and more.

What's ironic is people in our very forum accouse me of having way too much energy, but what they don't realize is my energy is a direct result of the excitement I'm feeling interacting with these amazing writers here!

The relationships we forge tell the world and ourselves who we are, how we see ourselves. One bad relationship i.e. a friend that's always stirring up drama, can create multiple relationships like this through association- this will inevitably wear you down and your energy with it. Not even an energy drink can help you.

It's important to realize and fully comprehend how relationships are nuclear sources of energy or incredible sources that drain it from you, robbing you of your vitality, focus, and even well being.

Anthony Robbins has an amazing take on this phenomenon I think you'll like, called Personal Power: How to increase your energy; the power of successful relationships.

There are far more supplements you may want to look into depending on your personal needs, but the ones mentioned here are the average used to combat fatigue related to things like caffeine hijacking and just overexertion in general. I hope you found this helpful, comments appreciated and definitely welcome! Have something to add/share, leave it in comments. Links ok, but will be checked for spam. 

Have A Powerful Day!