An abundant source of energy is a must-have to live an enjoyable life and to contribute to the joy of others.  When you’re tired, you become more easily irritated and stressed out, which leads to poor relationships and poor health.  Left unchecked, it’s all too easy to end up asking what went wrong, with the pieces of what used to be your life scattered all around you.  Beside all that, let’s just face it — being run down Sucks!

So what are some ways that you can protect your energy levels?

1.  No more coffee.  The same goes for energy drinks.  99% of so called energy drinks aren’t actually giving your body energy, they are just stimulating your nervous system.  The end result is usually that your body becomes more stressed out and unbalanced and tired.  You can’t drug your way out of a problem that is caused by drugs.

2.  Eat raw fruits and vegetables.  An overwhelming amount of our energy is spent just digesting the cooked foods that we eat.  There is a reason you get sleepy and sluggish after you eat a meal.  It’s because your body is summoning all available energy to digest the substances you’ve just put into it.  Raw food has enzymes in it that help your stomach digest it, thus giving you more energy, not taking energy away.  As a plus, you’ll get much more nutrients from raw food, so you won’t have to eat as many calories, and eating less will give you more available energy and extend your life as well.

3.  Get more sleep.  This is kind of obvious, but all too often we just medicate our way through this with our coffee and red bulls.  When you are tired, sleep.  If for some reason, you can’t, see above and below.

4.  Avoid negativity.  This includes negative people.  There are some people, you might even call them your friends, that all they do is suck the life energy out of you.  They constantly complain and whine about every little thing.  You might even be one of those people.  All of this negativity zaps your energy faster than running a marathon.  Don’t believe me?  Try avoiding these people for a week and see how you feel.  You don’t have to be snotty about it, but whenever they open their mouths and what they’re saying isn’t positive, just be somewhere else instead.  If you’re the negative person, then try avoiding you!  Every time you say or think something negative, be somewhere else instead

5.  Exercise.  This seems counter-intuitive, but I promise you it works like magic.  The more active you are, the more energy you have available and the better you will sleep at night (thus giving you more energy again).  I always hear on this one:  “I just don’t have time to go to the gym or workout.”  Blah, blah, blah.  First of all, I wouldn’t recommend you ever go to the gym to workout, especially when you could do it for free and get some fresh air while you’re at it.  Secondly, you have just as much time as everyone else in the world.  Stop making excuses, you poor little victim, you. ;(  (Please read number 4 again, if this victim is you).

The fastest most effective exercises you can do are at home with no equipment.  That’s right!  You don’t need any equipment at all.  You remember what a push-up is right?  There are even a hundred different ways to do them, so you never have to get bored either.  Throw in some sit-ups, and some squats and you’ve just done a whole body workout in two and a half minutes (if you don’t break in between exercises).  That’s a commercial break.  Maybe you need a gentler work out?  You can do yoga, tai chi,  the five tibetan rites, ride a bike, or just go for a walk.  Don’t think about exercising, just do it.

Remember, if you’re ever going to take over the world, or the equivalent — raise your kids, then you need to have the instantly available energy to do it.  There is no quick fix for constant, steady energy, the only way to have it in your life is to live a lifestyle that cultivates it.  Dream that lifestyle, and then make it real.  You deserve it.Similar Posts:

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• Each year in the United States alone, over one hundred million cows, pigs and sheep are killed in slaughterhouses. An additional four billion birds (chickens and turkeys) are slaughtered annually. THE ABOVE STATISTICS REPRESENT A LINE OF DEAD ANIMALS STRETCHING OVER 750,000 MILES — A LINE FAR LONGER THAN THE DISTANCE TO THE MOON AND BACK!
• It is more efficient to eat low on the food chain; when we cycle grain through animals we waste most of the protein and other food values. The population of the United States is: 243,000,000. The number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is: 1,300,000,000.
• The number of people in the world who will STARVE TO DEATH THIS YEAR: 60 MILLION. The number of people who could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their meat intake by 10% is: 60 MILLION.
• Only 20% of the corn grown in the United States is eaten by humans. 80% of the corn grown in the United States is eaten by livestock.
• Only 5% of the oats grown in the United States is eaten by humans. 95% of the oats grown in the United States is eaten by livestock.
• THE PERCENTAGE OF PROTEIN WASTED BY CYCLING GRAIN THROUGH LIVESTOCK IS: 90%
• THE PERCENTAGE OF CARBOHYDRATE WASTED BY CYCLING GRAIN THROUGH LIVESTOCK IS: 99%
• The percentage of dietary fiber WASTED by cycling grain through livestock is: 100%
• HOW FREQUENTLY A CHILD DIES OF STARVATION: EVERY TWO SECONDS.
• Number of children who starve to death EVERY DAY: 40,000
• The length of time the world’s petroleum reserves would last if all human beings ate a meat-centered diet: 13 YEARS. The length of time the world’s petroleum reserves would last if all human beings ate a vegetarian diet: 260 YEARS.
• 40 pounds of soybeans are produced by the same amount of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef.
• The percentage of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy expended to produce it) of the most energy efficient factory farming of meat is: 34.5%. The percentage of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy expended to produce it) of the least energy efficient Plant food is: 328%
• Principal reason for U.S. military intervention in Persian Gulf: Dependence on foreign oil.
• The percentage of raw materials consumed in the U.S. for all purposes presently consumed to produce the current meat centered diet is: 33%. The percentage of raw materials consumed in the U.S. for all purposes needed to produce a fully vegetarian diet would be only 2%.
• The number acres of U.S. forest which have been cleared to create cropland to produce a meat-centered diet: 260 MILLION ACRES. Amount of trees spared per year by each individual who switches to a pure vegetarian diet: 1 ACRE.
• Historic cause of the demise of many great civilizations: Topsoil depletion. The percentage of U.S. topsoil already lost: 75%. The percentage of U.S. cropland lost each year to soil erosion: 4 million acres, the size of Connecticut! THE PERCENTAGE OF U.S. TOPSOIL LOSS DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH LIVESTOCK RAISING: 85%
• OVER 50% OF ALL WATER USED FOR ALL PURPOSES IN THE UNITED STATES IS USED FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION.
• The water needed to produce 1 pound of wheat is: 25 gallons. The water needed to produce 1 pound of meat is: 2,500 gallons.
• The cost of common hamburger meat if the water used by the meat industry was not subsidized by U.S. taxpayers: $35 per pound.
• The cost per pound of protein from beefsteak if U.S. taxpayers ceased subsidizing the meat industry’s use of water: $89
• The current cost per pound of protein from wheat: $1.50. The current cost per pound of protein from beefsteak: $15.40
• IT TAKES A HUNDRED TIMES MORE WATER TO PRODUCE MEAT PROTEIN THAN VEGETARIAN PROTEIN. One chicken slaughterhouse can use 100 million gallons of water — enough to serve a community of 25,000 persons — in a single day.
• The number of medical schools in the U.S. is: 125. The number of medical schools with a required course in nutrition is: 30. The training in nutrition received during 4 years of medical school by the average U.S. physician is: 2.5 hours!
• The most common cause of death in the U.S. is: Heart attack. The risk of death from heart attack by average American man: 50%. The risk of death from heart attack by average American vegetarian man: 15%. The risk of death from heart attack by average “pure vegetarian” man (“vegan” – no dairy, meat or eggs) is: 4%.
• Increased risk of breast cancer for women with heavy meat diet compared to vegetarian women: 400%
• Men with heavy meat diet are 360% more likely to die of prostate cancer than vegetarian men.
• The average measurable bone loss of female meat-eaters at age 65: 35%. The average measurable bone loss of female vegetarians at age 65: 18%.
• THE DISEASES WHICH ARE COMMONLY PREVENTED, CONSISTENTLY IMPROVED, AND SOMETIMES CURED BY A LOW-FAT VEGETARIAN DIET INCLUDE: Strokes, Kidney stones, Prostate cancer, Cervical cancer, Diabetes, Peptic ulcers, Hiatal hernias, Gallstones, Irritable colon syndrome, Heart disease, Breast cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Stomach cancer, Hypoglycemia. Constipation, Osteoporosis, Diverticulosis, Hypertension, Salmonellosis, Colon cancer, Ovarian cancer, Endometrial cancer, Kidney disease, Hemorrhoids, Obesity, Asthma and Trichinosis.
• The breast milk of meat-eating mothers has 3,500% more pesticide contamination than the breast milk of vegetarian mothers.
• Less than 1 out of every quarter million slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues.
• Percentage of male college students sterile in l950: 0.5%. Percentage of male college students sterile in 1978: 25% Sperm count of average American male compared to 30 years ago: Down 30%. THE PRINCIPLE REASON FOR SPERM COUNT REDUCTION AND STERILITY IN U.S. MALES IS DIETARY INTAKE OF CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON PESTICIDES. 94% of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in the American diet comes from meat and other animal products.

• It has been estimated that, due to the high level of uric acid in meat, the kidneys of a meat-eater must do ten times the work than the kidneys of a vegetarian

It’s been said that hurt comes to the hurtful… perhaps we should start being less hurtful to the animals of this planet.  The quality of life for everyone on the planet would improve as well.

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Be honest.  Chances are that any area in your life that you are unhappy with, is an area where you have settled for less than what you believe you deserve.  Or perhaps you may have settled for believing that you deserve less than what you do deserve.

That’s right, you get to choose what and how much you deserve in this life.  And you definitely get to choose what you believe about what you deserve.  Take a look at your beliefs.  What do you settle for right now?  In what area of your life do you deserve more?  And why do you deserve more?  Is it a right that you have as a human being, or have you done something to deserve it?  Here’s a neat thought:  We are all created equal, right?  So then, we all deserve the same as everyone else, right?

So, Happiness?  You deserve it.  Love?  You deserve it.  Peace, and Joy, and Health, and Abundance?  You deserve it.

Now that we’ve taken care of those limiting beliefs, by replacing them with beneficial beliefs, let’s take a look at why people don’t have what they deserve:  It’s because people settle for less than they deserve.

Do you see a vicious cycle here?  People don’t have, because they believe they don’t deserve to have, so they set up their lives in such a way as to keep them from getting the things that they don’t think they deserve to have.

First change your beliefs about what you deserve, and then stop settling for anything less than you deserve.

Want relationships that are drama free?  Stop settling for those relationships.  Be better than that.  Persist until you find the relationships that you deserve.

Want more money in your bank account?  Stop settling for the circumstances that keep you in your present condition.

Do you want to be healthy and vibrant and full of energy?  Stop settling for feeling like a run down, overweight, flesh eater.

See the pattern emerging?  In order to stop settling and achieve the results you want and deserve, a LifeStyle Change is required.  If you want to be healthy, than going on a diet will never work.  You have to live a healthy lifestyle.  If you want abundance, you must live an abundant lifestyle.  If you want loving relationships, you must live a loving lifestyle.

You can’t grow good fruit from a bad tree.  You have to have a good tree to grow good fruit.  The fruit comes from the tree, so if you don’t like the fruit of your life, heal the tree, don’t try to heal the fruit.

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What are some of the things causing pain in your life? What are the things that are stopping you from absolute bliss?

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1. Are our goals living or dead?

Consider what you want in life, is the end goal worth having?  Is it alive, will it bring vibrancy and light to your life?  What good is it to have everything you ever wanted, only to find out that the price you paid to get there was too great?  If you’re not happy on the path to your Happiness, then you’re probably on the wrong path.  Make sure what you want is indeed, what you want.

2. What is our Blueprint?

As any builder can tell you, if you don’t know what the building is supposed to look like, then you can’t build it.  Who or what are you modeling your goals after?

This is not the place to be cheap or modest… Shoot for the moon here.  Find the best at what you want and devour everything you can find about them and what they did to achieve the thing you want.  An example… if you want to be successful in real estate, don’t model yourself after the agent from Century 21, model yourself after Donald Trump… if you want to play in the NBA, don’t model yourself after your high school coach, model yourself after Michael Jordan.

Don’t mistake what I’m saying though, you can still learn a lot from the high school coach and the local real estate agent, in fact, that’s a great place to start, but what I’m saying is pick a Blueprint of Perfection for whatever goal you may have.

3. How is a Temple built?

Here’s where most people fall away… It’s built one stone at a time.  You create your body one cheeseburger or one vegetable at a time… you wanna know why people are dying all around you?  Because they eat flesh that is dead… and as we all learned as children, you are what you eat, and one dead stone after another, they have  created a temple of death around them.

In the same way, you create your goal one step or mini-goal at a time.  You’re not going to become a millionaire, or an enlightened being, or an amazing lover and spouse and parent overnight.  Some people are able to work faster than others.  It depends on where you are when you begin.  Some have more natural resources than you might… which is why there’s no time like right now to begin.Similar Posts:

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Thanks to Anthony, the WildAlchemist for bringing this and other great posts to my attention.

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It begs the question, what’s really going on here?…

They’re giving away millions of tax payers dollars… enough to where they could give every person in the US a million dollars each, and why isn’t that money going to the people?

Well my brother has argued that if everyone were suddenly millionaires, no one would work, and inflation would be insane… and that may be true, but let’s think for a moment about what we would all do if money wasn’t king… if we all didn’t need money.

My counter argument to this is why not pay out the million dollars to each US citizen as monthly payments, in such an amount as to keep everybody working (which is really all this is about, keeping us enslaved to money)…

Or why don’t we pay off everyone’s personal debt with the bailout money?  The system would come crashing down that’s why…  All the little worker bees (that’s you and me) would suddenly be free…  Oh no! what’s going to happen to the honey production?  How will our hives get built?  What about the Queen?  Who’s going to protect, and provide, and feed her?

We are not a Hive species… we can be if we want, but I think we are all happiest when we are who we were created by God to be… and that is the Children of God.. literally, sons and daughters of the Creator and independently Sovereign Beings.  Sovereign, do you remember what that word means?  Are you beginning to remember what it feels like?

It’s been a long time since we were domesticated into what we are today…  Let’s face the sad truth that most of us couldn’t even feed ourselves if we wanted to.  We think food comes from a store, or a plastic bag.  We think of Nature as being dirty, and a harsh environment… something to be scrubbed off of us as soon as we get back out of it.

Let’s consider where we are right now in Human existence, which is at a cross roads…  will we continue down our path which has us heading for worse environmental conditions… to the point where we could end up with an environment like the moon, or Mars, and we would all be living in giant malls (which some marketer would probably call a space station or some such thing)… or will we clean up our environment and work with it to create a Garden of Eden on the earth?  We possess the technology (i.e. knowledge + tools) to do both, and we’re at a beautiful place to choose which path we all want to head down.

We have to help wake people up so that they can choose for themselves instead of having the advertisements choose for them.  A pattern interrupt, if you will.  Talk with people, friends, family… don’t be scared to discuss the path that Humanity is on.  And together, we can create for ourselves The Golden Path, without the need for a Tyrant like Leto to do it for us Similar Posts:

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If something is causing you pain, Let Go Of It!

That’s it…  It took me years to figure that one out… I should have listened to myself as a child with the stove.  Let’s think about it though.

Physically, if you were to grab a hot pan, what would you do?  You’d get it out of your hand as soon as possible, right?  Does this mean you’ll never use or relate to that pan again?  Hardly… it just caused a pain in you that was undesirable, so you let it go.

It is the same thing with emotional pain… you don’t stop feeling or loving or expressing, you just let go of whatever it is that’s causing the pain.

This can be difficult as most people confuse how they feel for who they are.  You are not your emotions.

Pain is often a teacher that helps us to realize what we need to grow and heal… Hence, why we tend to repeat painful lessons over and over again, until we’ve finally learned them.  Often we become addicted to the emotional pain/depression, and like a drug addict (which is literally what’s happening to your brain chemistry), every time we begin to feel ok again, we trigger a memory or something else that sends us spiraling into emotional pain again, and our brain gives us a chemical fix for that depressing feeling.

In the same way that a drug addict has to detox and quit the habit, if you’ve become addicted to the buzz of your emotional misery, than you’ll need to quit as well.

How do you do this?  A Higher Power always helps (hence why it’s part of the programs NA & AA), and then you take responsibility for your thoughts.

When your thoughts begin to stray down a path that you know will tear open the healing wound and cause you pain, you simply don’t go there anymore… You let go of it, or maybe a better way of looking at it, is You Stop Holding On To It.

In the end, it all still comes down to healthy thoughts.  Garbage In, Garbage Out…  You are what you think you are…  and you truly are what you eat (literally, it’s what your body is physically made of).

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How can we call ourselves free, when we clearly aren’t?  Sure you can own land, as long as you pay for it…  So you spend years of your life working for someone who is working for someone else, doing a job that you hate, all so you can “own” a piece of land in a country that supposedly belongs to you in the first place.  And then what happens when you finally ‘own’ this piece of land?  You are required to pay taxes on it every year, like some serf or peasant in service to some far off dictator king.

Who have we let take our land from us and then ransom it back to all Americans at a price that they must pay for the rest of their lives?  Is this freedom?

And we wonder why the planet and environment is going to hell, it’s because nobody cares about what isn’t theirs.  We don’t view the Earth as belonging to us, so we don’t take care of it.  And pretty soon, it’s not going to be able to take care of us any longer either.

Why can’t every family own their own piece of the Motherland?  Why can’t every family have a garden where they can do whatever they see fit to do without fear of making money to pay taxes or buy food?  Do we as Man not deserve this?

Where along the way of human “development”, did we decide that all land belonged to the state?  And if it doesn’t belong to the state, then why are you taxed on it?  In fact, what would happen if you didn’t pay taxes on it?  The government would take your land away.

Land should be available for every family who desires it to create for themselves a family domain where they can live free and happy.  This would solve every problem plaguing society today.  Think about it…   No more crime, no more poverty, no more hunger, pollution would begin cleaning itself up, diseases would be nearly wiped out, medicinal plants would be free to all those who needed them…  Free healthcare wouldn’t even be needed because no one would be sick…  Obesity, gone.  Diabetes, cured.  Cancer, a sick thought of the past.  If everyone had the best of what they needed to be healthy and happy, then what kind of world would America be then?

Let Laws be passed that provide for private land ownership without taxation, and let’s begin cleaning up the mess we’ve made of God’s creation.

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What about you though?  Are you happy?  Be honest.  If you aren’t, then why aren’t you?  Why do we do things (like our jobs) that we don’t want to do?  Some people might call this lying.  This was just one quick example, but is it any wonder why we find it so hard to be happy in our technocratic world?  We lie to ourselves first and foremost, and then somehow expect ourselves to be happy with ourselves?  What have the Sons and Daughters of God done to themselves?  Why is it that Man feels helpless, powerless, and miserable?

Is it time for a change?  Time to take back what is rightfully ours?  Time to be free.  Free from the worries of money, food, clothing, shelter… Free from jobs that you hate, and a purposeless life.  Free from selling your children into the same slave producing lifestyle that has us weighed down beneath a pile of debt, all because we’ve let ourselves believe that we need this car, or that house.  Man was meant to be more than a Consumer of products from a lifeless society.

God gave Man all of creation, and all we’ve managed to do with it is rip it apart and create inferior mechanical versions of it that constantly break down and rob us of our time and joy.

It’s time for Man to realize that what we’ve been given (Everything) is already perfect.  We don’t need to “fix” or “invent” anything to help us be happy.  Our only requirement is Co-creation and the enjoyment of its contemplation.

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