Boost Your Energy, Fight Fatigue

One of the biggest complaints wellness professionals hear from clients is a lack of energy and always feeling tired. You know– feeling pooped, sluggish and wondering why you don’t have more get up and go?

Many of these feelings are caused by natural changes in the way your body operates. Hormonal balance changes with age, so does the speed of your metabolism. As a result, internal organs change the way they operate too, and sometimes those changes effect the processes in your body that create energy. The good news is that very often there are some simple dietary changes that can help compensate for body changes over time and, in turn, pump up energy levels and drastically reduce fatigue.

Here’s a short list of easy-to-do dietary and behavioral tips to keep yourself going strong. Bet you’ll find at least one surprise here!

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The Energetic Element Of Healing

Perhaps you’ve heard about healing practices that involve working with what’s commonly referred to as “energy”. For example, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) techniques, like acupuncture, and the ancient Hindu Ayurvedic traditions are some of the most widely known and used around the world. These practices have placed a focus on “balancing the energies” of the body through manual therapies like massage, wide-ranging and tailored edible remedies, and even surgical procedures to encompass the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness for 2000 to 5000 years.

Five Ways to “Ground”

groundedladyAre you grounded?  “Grounding” is an individual process.  For some it means taking a moment to breathe, to others it is a more active process.  Staying grounded helps you control your emotions, mellow your mood and brings focus and purpose to the task at hand.  In massage, therapists use grounding to help them shut out and protect themselves from the negative energy and noise around them so that they can focus on the bodywork.

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