"Why Am I Always Tired?" - Free Resource For Ending Tiredness

Chronic fatigue syndrome, otherwise known as just feeling really freaking tired all the time, is the “silent epidemic” of today.  In my opinion, its overcome a lot of the more “serious” conditions we are faced with for two reasons:

 
1)  Because (as far as we know) we’ve only got one life to work with.  Nobody wants to spend their days dragging around their body and feeling like they don’t have enough energy to do everything they want.

 
2)  Because it’s curable!  This is what really gets to me.  So many of us needlessly suffer from feeling tired day after day but in all honesty, we could all have this whole issue beat if we had the right tools. 

 
            Today, I’m going to go through 5 easy little things you can do to boost that energy level of yours, and even point you towards some more advanced resources for abolishing tiredness altogether and learning to have more energy for good.


Step 1)  Drink up!  Well, water, that is.  Hydration is key in tiredness and energy level because our blood is made up of primarily water.  If our water levels drop, the blood thickens and we place more stress on the heart because its harder to pump thick blood.  In turn, our body begins to wear down from the extra work and we feel tired.


Step 2)  Sleep smart.  Unfortunately, some silly people decided to spread the word that just getting more sleep will solve our tiredness problems.  Actually, their logic does make sense, but health researchers have known for decades now that this logic is flawed… it’s just hard to convince people they’re wrong when something makes so much intuitive sense.  What it comes down to is sleep cycles; a 5 stage process that our body completes once every 90 minutes.  The key to feeling rested is hitting numbers divisible by 1.5 hours, giving you COMPLETE sleep cycles (6 hours. 7.5 hours, and 9 hours are ideal).  If you sleep 8 or ten hours, you are waking the body up in the middle of a sleep cycle, and will carry that drowsiness around with you all day.
 

Step 3) Let it go, just let it go.  Stress is a huge factor in tiredness.  Most people overlook it, but if you truly want to formulate a way to get more energy and get to the bottom of your tiredness, be warned that this factor is very important.  Just like dehydration, excessive stress wears your body down.  In this case, your heart-rate and blood pressure rise, leading to eventual exhaustion.


Step 4)  Do some good!  Those looking to learn how to have more energy ofter overlook this little known mental factor of tiredness:  You know that good feeling you get when you genuinely help someone else?  It’s a very real, psycho-physical response.  Factors often enhanced by those who regularly do charity work include happiness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, sense of control over their life, physical health, and mood.


Step 5)  Tune out!  Personally, I like electronics.  I listen to my son’s ipod and watch ‘24’ with the family each week.  However, the bright screens of TV’s and computers can throw you out of kilter!  Because the screen is bright, it can suppress the release of melatonin (a chemical in the brain that tells you its time to sleep when it gets dark).  You can left with a brain that is overly active and alert when you want to fall asleep, meaning it takes you longer to fall asleep and don’t get as good of a rest for the next day.

      Learning how to get more energy isn't all that difficult, folks!  But you have to take it a step further than reading articles... You have to take ACTION.  How do you do that?  I've got some excellent resources for you right here on this site.  For those of you that haven't, please grab my free Ecourse in the sidebar to the right.

     Also, a major step in my own journey to eliminate tiredness was purchasing the "End Tiredness Program".  You can find a full review about halfway down my homepage.

Tiredness affects millions of people across the globe.  In fact, many, many adults have experienced long periods of day-after-day-after-day exhaustion that seems unbeatable.  If you’re dealing with tiredness, your mood is often affected as well, and dealing with the issue as a whole can seem discouraging because so many factors go into tiredness and energy level.  However, there is hope for those trying to learn how to get more energy and in this write up I’m going to share with you 3 of my favorite techniques for increasing energy levels over time.  While there are no “quick fixes”, you can do several simple things to start seeing a boost in your energy level over time.  Remember, there’s a first step in every great journey, so let’s get started!
 

Water to the rescue!  One of the most overlooked factors of energy level and tiredness is hydration.  Water accounts for the majority of your blood content, meaning that your heart is used to having and easy, lubricated system to work with.  However, when your water levels begin to drop, the blood becomes thicker and requires your heart to pump more and more just to keep up a flow of circulation.  This extra stress on your internal organs diverts energy from your external ones and your body will (not so nicely) tell you to lay down at the next opportunity.  In summary, drink lots of water throughout the day!
 

You ARE what you eat…  And your energy level is going to reflect it.  In fact, most of those yummy foods that can be detrimental to other aspects of your health also can have an adverse affect on your efforts to learn how to get more energy.  High fat foods have the nasty side effect of releasing serotonin in the brain when consumed.  Serotonin is the chemical associated with drowsiness.  This is why after a giant thanksgiving meal everyone starts to feel tired.  No, it isn’t the turkey itself, it’s usually the gravy and stuffing that put you over the top and into sleep mode.

 
Sleep SMARTER, not longer.  That’s right, sleeping 10 hours a night is likely to leave you getting less energy for the day than if you had slept 9 hours instead.  How can this be?  Because we used to be living out in the wild, in danger of being hunted by other animals with larger muscles and sharper teeth (bear with my for a second, I have a point, I swear!).  Because of this, we evolved to sleep in short, 90 minute CYCLES.  This way, we could recharge in small bursts, rather than trying to sleep for say, an 8 hour cycle, where we might be interrupted and therefore get no real benefit from our rest. 
 

You have to adapt to your own sleep cycle if you ever want to have effective rest.  For example, because 7.5 and 9 hours are evenly divisible by 1.5 hours, they are ideal sleep amounts because you are getting complete rest cycles in.  When sleeping 8 or 10 hours, you are interrupting your body in the middle of such a cycle, and you’ll pay for as your body makes you feel tired throughout the day in an attempt to make you complete the last stages of the sleep cycle you deprived yourself of.

Tiredness can be a complicated issue and if you're truly dedicated to getting more energy then WHY wouldn't you want to give yourself the best opportunity possible?

My homepage (found HERE) has a nice overview of tiredness and potential solutions for it, including a look at the incredibly effective "End Tiredness Program".  Also, don't forget to grab my free newsletter/ecourse (found in the sidebar to the right) before you go!

                                                                                                                        - Angela Daniels