Boosting Your Energy At Work And At Home Without Diets And Exercise
Dr. Paul Lanthois
September 20, 2008
Health Kicks. We have all started them; persisted for a while, found them too hard and most of the time we eventually gave up. Why? It is because the diet and exercise only approach to a healthier lifestyle is unsustainable for people with work and family obligations. It is a sure-fire recipe for failure.
When you focus on major lifestyle changes such as your diet and exercise, you tend to adopt a ´more is better´ approach. Eventually you find that the changes you take on require so much extra effort and extra time that you end up not having the time and energy to live your normal life. The day-to-day demands and responsibilities of life eventually take precedence over your best of intentions.
Don´t get me wrong, a good diet and a regular exercise program are important part of your lifestyle. If diet and exercise alone was the key to health then why do elite athletes succumb to the flu, colds, and mysterious viruses more frequently than the general population? In fact, elite athletes at the Australian Institute of Sport have been reported to have up to 8 times greater incidence of colds and flu than the general population despite them eating healthier and exercising more than the general population.
The reality is that your body´s health and energy is dependent upon a lot more than just exercise and good nutrition.
The key to unlocking your health and vitality is SYNERGY. Synergy means that small changes to many aspects of your lifestyle will combine to create an even greater total change in the function of your body greater than the sum of the changes you made. Synergy means that 1+1+1+1+1 = 8. So rather than trying massive changes to one or two aspects of your life try small improvements to many areas of your life.
By understanding how your body produces energy you can then work out what lifestyle areas that you need to tweak to will give you energy to burn. To do that lets look at how a fire can heat your home…
A good fire requires:
A spark to light it and keep it lit.
Good quality fuel.
Oxygen
A fire screen to protect your house from any damage.
A chimney to get rid of the waste.
To more efficiently heat the house and its occupants you can also:
Keep the doors and windows closed to minimize wasting energy.
Build another fireplace.
Spend time by the fire to absorb the heat and recharge.
Good nutrition and exercise helps to boost your own internal fire by:
Ensuring that you have a good quality fuel.
Exercise improves oxygen flow.
Eating fruits and vegetables act like a firescreen.
A diet high in fiber helps to aid elimination of waste.
Exercise that builds muscle stimulates your body to build more internal furnaces.
But there are so many avenues that you can take to boost your own internal fire of health and vitality that don´t involve nutrition and exercise…
Your natural spark improves by relieving pressure off your nervous system through improving your posture and spinal alignment. Chiropractic care is the most effective methods for doing this.
Your brain is the source of your internal spark. Learning how to use your mind differently through the many mental, emotional and motivational techniques available is a sure-fire way to give you energy to burn.
There are even ways to boost the oxygen flow throughout your body that don´t involve exercise such as massage and certain breathing techniques.
Washing yourself with a loofah when you are having a bath or a shower can help improve your capacity and efficiency get rid of waste. Rubbing certain pressure points on your body can even help your body detoxify.
Learning how to improve the quality of your sleep will have a dramatic influence on the amount of energy that you can bring to your working day.
According to Chinese Medicine, your health can dramatically benefit from improving your sex life.
There is an endless list of exercise-fee and diet-free options to boost your energy and vitality. No longer do you have to follow some regimented exercise and diet program that you have to try to squeeze into your fully scheduled life. Now you can develop a healthy lifestyle program that fits into your life, rather than the other way around.
With synergy working with you, you only require small subtle lifestyle tweaks to make a major difference. The good news is that these smaller changes to your lifestyle are easier to incorporate into your busy life than larger changes.
Time is vital in developing a suitable work life balance.
You need time for work, health, family, relationships and fun.The diet and/or exercise only approach to health requires you to invest a lot more time and effort to be effective. This robs you of time for all of your other equally important priorities. Use the synergy of a more varied approach to your health and you will then experience the additional synergy of a true work life balance.
When you focus on major lifestyle changes such as your diet and exercise, you tend to adopt a ´more is better´ approach. Eventually you find that the changes you take on require so much extra effort and extra time that you end up not having the time and energy to live your normal life. The day-to-day demands and responsibilities of life eventually take precedence over your best of intentions.
Don´t get me wrong, a good diet and a regular exercise program are important part of your lifestyle. If diet and exercise alone was the key to health then why do elite athletes succumb to the flu, colds, and mysterious viruses more frequently than the general population? In fact, elite athletes at the Australian Institute of Sport have been reported to have up to 8 times greater incidence of colds and flu than the general population despite them eating healthier and exercising more than the general population.
The reality is that your body´s health and energy is dependent upon a lot more than just exercise and good nutrition.
The key to unlocking your health and vitality is SYNERGY. Synergy means that small changes to many aspects of your lifestyle will combine to create an even greater total change in the function of your body greater than the sum of the changes you made. Synergy means that 1+1+1+1+1 = 8. So rather than trying massive changes to one or two aspects of your life try small improvements to many areas of your life.
By understanding how your body produces energy you can then work out what lifestyle areas that you need to tweak to will give you energy to burn. To do that lets look at how a fire can heat your home…
A good fire requires:
A spark to light it and keep it lit.
Good quality fuel.
Oxygen
A fire screen to protect your house from any damage.
A chimney to get rid of the waste.
To more efficiently heat the house and its occupants you can also:
Keep the doors and windows closed to minimize wasting energy.
Build another fireplace.
Spend time by the fire to absorb the heat and recharge.
Good nutrition and exercise helps to boost your own internal fire by:
Ensuring that you have a good quality fuel.
Exercise improves oxygen flow.
Eating fruits and vegetables act like a firescreen.
A diet high in fiber helps to aid elimination of waste.
Exercise that builds muscle stimulates your body to build more internal furnaces.
But there are so many avenues that you can take to boost your own internal fire of health and vitality that don´t involve nutrition and exercise…
Your natural spark improves by relieving pressure off your nervous system through improving your posture and spinal alignment. Chiropractic care is the most effective methods for doing this.
Your brain is the source of your internal spark. Learning how to use your mind differently through the many mental, emotional and motivational techniques available is a sure-fire way to give you energy to burn.
There are even ways to boost the oxygen flow throughout your body that don´t involve exercise such as massage and certain breathing techniques.
Washing yourself with a loofah when you are having a bath or a shower can help improve your capacity and efficiency get rid of waste. Rubbing certain pressure points on your body can even help your body detoxify.
Learning how to improve the quality of your sleep will have a dramatic influence on the amount of energy that you can bring to your working day.
According to Chinese Medicine, your health can dramatically benefit from improving your sex life.
There is an endless list of exercise-fee and diet-free options to boost your energy and vitality. No longer do you have to follow some regimented exercise and diet program that you have to try to squeeze into your fully scheduled life. Now you can develop a healthy lifestyle program that fits into your life, rather than the other way around.
With synergy working with you, you only require small subtle lifestyle tweaks to make a major difference. The good news is that these smaller changes to your lifestyle are easier to incorporate into your busy life than larger changes.
Time is vital in developing a suitable work life balance.
You need time for work, health, family, relationships and fun.The diet and/or exercise only approach to health requires you to invest a lot more time and effort to be effective. This robs you of time for all of your other equally important priorities. Use the synergy of a more varied approach to your health and you will then experience the additional synergy of a true work life balance.