Do you want more energy? Yes!
When do you want it? Now!
Yes, it could be a protest song. Give me more energy and give it to me now.
If you answered yes, you are in good company. I have been traveling all over the Washington D.C. region lately asking people if they want more energy. The answer is an unanimous YES!
I also see these same people downing sodas, 5 hour energy drinks and even yerba mate energy shots. Bleck!
But something doesn’t compute. If soda, coffee, 5 hour energy drinks and even organic yerba mate don’t work, then what does?
Is there anything out there that give me not just 5 hours, but 12 or even 16 hours of energy?
I have spent the last 2 years figuring this out. How was I able to go from fatigued and sugar and caffeine addicted to running a business while working a day job and going back to school without collapsing or blowing out my adrenals? How did I do that?
When I walked across fire last month, the beginning of the true answer came to light. I’ve been writing feverishly ever since to get it all down.
Instead of holding it all back from you until it’s in final book form, I wanted to start sharing with you hat I have been discovering so you can learn and energize with me.
In today’s installment, I want to introduce you to the concept I have been working with that underlies not just mine massive energy levels, but the astounding energy levels of other really successful people.
I am currently calling my philosophy The 3 Pillars of Energy Creation. This philosophy is based on everything I’ve learned from my own life experience, to my observations of my clients, to my years of research and education, as well as, my observation of the human condition. Across the board there are 3 things that each one of us require to experience maximum energy. Without all 3, our energy is less than its potential and our life is less than fabulous.
The 3 Pillars of Energy Creation Are . . .
Fuel Your Body
Fuel Your Mind
Live Your Purpose
These pillars are simple in their complexity. Each one is a doorway to living a fulfilled life. Each one is essential for a fully energized, passionate life.
We all know someone who eats a “perfect” diet but is wanting for energy. We all know people who are positive and spiritual, yet fatigued. We even know people who love their job, but are fueling their lives on sugar, caffeine, alcohol or worse.
So what gives? Why the fatigue? The lackluster? The wanting? The wondering if there is more?. . . One of the pillars is missing.
There is so much to say about each pillar. But before I get in them in any depth, I want to briefly introduce you to what is become the overriding philosophy of my life’s work and the work I do with my clients.
Fuel Your Body
Energy starts at the cellular level and how we feed our cells and mitochondria. That’s why my mantra is alkalize to energize.
What we eat is the foundation of our energy output and has been the primary focus of this blog. Fueling your body for energy is about eating high energy, nutrient dense, alkalizing foods. Its about removing energy draining foods like sugar, gluten, dairy, excessive meat consumption and artificial sweeteners.
I teach the foundation of fueling your body in the Get Up & Go Diet Bootcamp, as well as the Anti-inflammatory Diet 101 class. I’ll also be diving deeper into Fueling Your Body in this Get More Energy Now series.
Fuel Your Mind
Our thoughts affect every cell in our body. As as Bruce Lipton refers to it, this is the biology of belief.
Our thoughts can make us happy or they can make us sick. Our thoughts and pent up emotions can turn cancer genes on . . . of off. Yet I talk to many who don’t believe they can change their thoughts. They believe our thoughts just are.
Not true.
Thoughts are a by product of our belief system. Our thoughts will always be in line with your beliefs until we change them.
What are your beliefs? Who do you believe you are? What do you believe is required for you to be successful? Or healthy? Or happy? All your beliefs play into whether you have the energy and life you want.
Consider a person diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. They are told they have 3 months to live and that there is no cure. How likely do you think it is they will be living 4 months from now? Of course, it depends. If they believe what the doctor tells them – that they only have 4 months to live, than it’s not very likely. In fact it is likely that they will not be around in 5 months. Dr. Bernie Siegel has shown us the truth of this paradigm.
Yet if this same person has the belief that they will be able around to see their 16 year old daughter graduate from high school, that person has increased their odds of living a long and happy life. They believe they will be around. Of course, this belief also makes it more likely they take action to stop the cancer. They will do what ever it takes to live in alignment to that belief of being around to see their daughter graduate.
When people learn I’ve been diagnosed with MS and they seeing me walking in heels and living symptom free, the first thing they want to know is what I ate. I cringe. Yes, how I fueled my body has been important. But eating kale would have done very little if I believed I would end up in a wheelchair. Instead, I chose to believe I could do something about the diagnosis. I believed that by taking action, not only on my diet, but on everything in my life, including my beliefs and my thoughts, the result would be different. In fact, this belief made a huge difference.
Live Your Purpose
We all have a purpose in this life. From raising amazing kids, to creating art, to contributing our talents to a start-up, to volunteering for a cause. The possibilities are endless.
Yet many folks believe they don’t have the time.
I know how it is to be so busy on the hamster wheel of life to pursue the things we love, i.e., the things that give us energy.
How do you know if something gives you energy? Do you want to tell everyone you know about it? Do you dream about that thing when you sleep? Do you find it consumes your thoughts or that you fantasize about it when you have a rare free moment? Is there something that makes you angry when you see it happening? These are all indications that that thing is your purpose.
Living your purpose doesn’t mean you have to quit your day job to pursue it. There are many stories of authors who worked a day job and at night penned a master piece. Or maybe there is your co-worker who makes the time to volunteer at a homeless shelter every week, you know the one who glows when she talks about it.
This is purpose. This is living an energizing, anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
From hobbies to avocations and from side businesses to entrepreneurs, we all have something that makes us want to get out of bed in the morning.
Take my story for example. The part of my story that occurred before leaving my day job and becoming a full time health coach. My attorney day job was not my purpose, nor my passion. But in 2003, I signed up for a pottery class. But my art as purpose didn’t really take root until I was diagnosed with MS in 2009. In 2010, I spent almost 2000 hours in the studio. That simple decision led to budding artist career with published articles and my work being exhibited around the country. I was completely consumed. I had found my purpose, at least a facet of it, and that was to bring beauty into the world by transforming mud into artistic functional pottery.
When you discover your passion and purpose, you are consumed and energized by it. Sure you still have to do the laundry and pay bills, but all of that becomes just a part of the background as your life is lit up by your purpose.
When you want to double or triple your energy. . . When you want to overcome dis-ease. . . the best thing to do is to work the 3 pillars. The 3 pillars are the foundation of my Fatigued to Fabulous SystemTM where I take people through the steps to live a fabulous life free of dis-ease, overwhelm and fatigue. That means fueling your body with energizing, alkalizing food, fueling your mind with energizing thoughts and beliefs, and living your purpose.
How do live the 3 pillars? Are you fueling your body for energy? Are your beliefs and thoughts energizing? Are you living your purpose?
With love and energy,
P.S. If you are ready to Energize Your Body, then start by removing sugar. I know that sounds hard, but here is what I have to help you make it easy: Super Sugar Shake Down: 10 Days to Super Charged Freedom Detox. This detox will give you more energy, more clarity and better health in just 10 days. Even better, everything will be done for you so it’s super easy to get off the sugar roller-coaster. So if you know you need to get off sugar, then enroll now because I am limiting enrollment to 20 people and I already have 9 enrollees. Yes, I’m only accepting 11 more people into Super Sugar Shake Down. So enroll now and reserve your spot.
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