Manage Your Energy

Sleep deprivation is getting a ton of press recently and I’m not surprised. We’re spending our vital energy at an incredible pace these days!

And while, it’s managing your energy is not about sleep alone, sleep is the bedrock of recuperating your energy.

Here’s the recent article by John Hopkins Medical:

One more reason to get a good night’s sleep: a recent study shows that people who sleep the least weigh the most!

Unfortunately, more and more Americans suffer from chronic sleep deprivation, with over one third of American adults now sleeping less than seven hours each night. Getting less than the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep a night can lead to poor concentration, raise the risk of colds and other infections, and leave you feeling worn out and easily irritated. Now new research has uncovered an association between chronic sleep deprivation and obesity. Whether sleeping more can help protect people against weight gain and obesity, however, is not yet clear.

Does less sleep=more weight?

Read the full article here:

John Allen Mollenhauer “JAM”.

If you are, you are likely over stimulating yourself and causing yourself to suffer from exhaustion maybe even fatigue and living unhealthy.

“Boosting your energy” is an industry term for increasing your energy, but the reality is, when you boost your energy you are not really increasing it. It only feels that way in the short term. You are stimulating it, which means you are you are forcing your body to make a withdrawal from what some people call your reserves of life force, the amount of energy that you have available to you during your lifetime.

Yet, many more would say you have access to unlimited amounts of energy, only, if you don’t recuperate your energy and rely on boosting your energy, the wear and tear from all the stress will breakdown your body and ensure that you lose your power.

The problem is not that you are stimulating your energy, if you do it right that’s a normal function of life, but doing so without giving your body a chance to recover, causes your body to break down, excessive hormones to be released, toxicity to accumulate depending on the type of stimulant you use, and causes you to spend more energy than would be normal in a given 24 hour or other period of time.

All of this takes a major toll on your body, and your well being in the sense that you have to keep performing while living on the edge of exhaustion which negatively affects your emotions…

This is what happens when you rely on stimulants for energy, vs. proactively creating the space and time you need to make a healthy withdrawal and recuperate your energy.

You are not simply recuperating your energy when you recuperate, you are accomplishing soo much more.

1. You are recharging the nervous system
2. You are allowing the body to recover and heal from the prior stress
3. You are rejuvenating your spirit, your mindset.
4. You are maintaining homeostasis of the body and an alkaline environment.
5. You are giving yourself a change to refuel your body the proper way, with Nutrient Rich food.
6. You are giving yourself the chance to stabilize and get ready for what’s next…

When you just keep going, and rely on boosting your energy (stimulating) your energy to increase your energy, you are not in fact increasing your energy, it only feels that way. You are simply exhausting yourself, with a negative impact on your body and your personal power.

If you want to increase your energy, you have to manage it better, learn what that means and then recuperate (learn what that means) not only so that you increase your vitality but do it in way that helps you maintain your power, the very system that will utilize that energy, and convert it to performance and goal achievement.

At Manage Your Energy.com you will learn what it really means to increase your energy, manage your personal energy, and get your power back. Stay tuned.

John Allen Mollenhauer “JAM”.

Feeling Overwhelmed, Exhausted and Being Overweight Go Hand in Hand.

Why are so many people tired, stressed and overweight? It seems the majority of people have a motivation problem; overeating and lack of exercise are implicated as the causes of the overweight condition.

You could say we are overweight because we eat too much and live sedentary lives and that both are causes of obesity and you would be right, at least in part, acknowledging the obvious.

But what is not so obvious, are all the hidden causes of obesity and overweight that are by far more influential in the rise of the obesity epidemic, that reinforce our food and fitness habits to begin with and many motivated people fall prey.

These are matters of lifestyle. How we manage time, spend and recuperate our energy, including but not limited to, the quality of the food we eat and our activity levels every day as we achieve our goals are things that factor into this equation. (Read More)

Do you routinely find yourself with too much to do, and not enough energy to do it?

There’s no doubt about it, we are pushing harder, faster and longer than ever before, for a variety of reasons. We are doing it for weeks, months, and even years on end. Our jobs expect more of us, our families are involved in more activities, we join more and more clubs and committees; we are sick and tired of being sick and tired! The problem is that we are trying to get the energy we need from a cup of coffee, a can of soda, a sugary snack, or an energy pill. When your energy is low, everything else is slow: your metabolism, satisfaction and success. (Read More)