What thoughts feed my daily mind that can cause me to be fatigued? One of biggest challenges to Women – In – Business are the thoughts that race through our heads every moment of every day. These are the thoughts that can take you offline quicker than anything else.
Here's a great tip: If you are having a distracting recurring thought that will not stop; pull out your calendar or go onto your online calendar, actually give that thought an appointment, and then tell yourself that I will think about YOU at the appointed time.
Here's another great tip: If you are stewing in a mind-field of "WORRY"; get out your calendar and give "WORRY", a worry time appointment.
Simplistic? Maybe. But, think about it, if you actually are able to set aside those distracting thoughts in order to be more productive, isn't it worth it?
When I am coaching my clients, I frequently us this example and they get the message very quickly. I'll set the scene for you:
There is a client of mine sitting in my office and the "challenge" of today's coaching session is: "Having too much to do and not enough time to do all the things and the overwhelm that accompany all of this."
So, I ask the client how heavy do all of those items on your "To Do" list feel during the day as you try to do your job?
"These items feel like a ton of bricks. I am distracted most of the day and I am not productive at all. When the day is over, I have accomplished little, the worry is still there and so is the ?!>!?*#!? list!"
Well that sound pretty hopeless and very discouraging to me. If this were me, I'd feel totally drained!
"IT IS! and I am totally drained."
Are you up to a little experiment with me?
Well, what is it, I'm not sure?
It is very simple really. I am going to ask you to close your eyes and put out your arms in front of you with your palms up. Then I am going to place something quite common to you on your arms and hands. Then with your eyes still closed, I am going to ask you a couple of questions. How does that sound ?
Well……OK…..
Close your eyes. Now, put your arms straight out in front of you with your palms up. How are you doing?
OK
Now, I am going to place a common item in your hands but, it is too big for you to just hold with your hands so you will feel this item also on your arms. It may be just a bit cool.
(I place a common 10 pound bag of aquarium gravel on the clients hands and arms)
Now this is heavy, you're going to have to hold it until I am finished with my questions.
WOW!
NO, NO….no opening of the eyes.
Just concentrate on my questions and not what you are holding.
"But, this is heavy…."
Yeh, I know. So keep holding
1st question: Think about your list of "To Dos" …… Got it ?……
2nd question: Think about all the work that did not get done in the office today because of the distraction and weight of that To Do list…. Got it?
"This is really heavy….my arms are tired…."
Great, it's working!
If that item you are holding is the weight of your "To Do" list or your "Worries" or something that distracts you throughout your day, and now you feel just how much energy that carrying around that weight feels like…… How willing are you to put that weight down and leave it right here beside the road and move on with your daily activities?
I am ready! Can I put this down now?
Nope…..we still have some more things to think about.
What else in your life feels this heavy?
Lots of things.
Life What?
Now that conversation didn't take more than 5 minutes, but the client felt like it was an eternity. Using that bag of aquarium gravel was a stroke of genius! Every single client I have used it on get the message load and clear.
Did you get that message?
Fatigue, comes in many disguises! When that weighty thinking continues day in and day out you literally drain the energy and life right out of your being. You have nothing left to give for anything that you value.
Think about that.
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What do I drink daily that fatigues me? This goes hand in hand with the post from last time. Do you remember when I asked you: What do you have left when you remove all the water from your body? You get a pile of chemicals. How much of Y-O-U is water? I am using "water" as a metaphor for what we freely allow to come into all of the entry points into our bodies. When we drink from the world we get the world. When we drink in beauty, nature, sunshine etc, we get that benefit and it "hydrates" a certain part of our inner being. When we drink our "Spiritual Water" we enrich and hydrate our souls. When we give back to others through volunteering we actually hydrate and nourish a place deep inside ourselves.
My point here is that we have many "Gates" into our deeper self our soul if you will. Everything you eat, drink, see, hear, touch, & sense through that wonderful thing called intuition call penetrates your being just as water does. You have a memory of touch. You have a memory of feelings, experiences and so on that make up the very fiber of who you are.
Be very "Aware" of what you are putting in daily.
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What do I eat daily that "Fatigues" me? We all know where this is going! But, the fact is that if you put "garbage" into your mouth thinking that that "garbage" will calm you down, make the headache stop or nourish you, you would be mistaken.
Fast, and Quick do not necessarily mean nutritious or good for you. I am just as guilty as anyone reading this post. I do this all the time and them when I am finished I feel horrible about what I just did.
We started off talking about "Adrenal Fatigue" five posts ago and this component is very important to that discussion. What do you get when you remove all of the water from a human? Well you get a small pile of chemicals. When you add water back to the mix you get chemical reaction. I know that is too simplistic, but stay with me here for a moment.
When we put things into our mouths, we immediately start a chemical reaction in our mouth between the saliva and the food and your chewing it. This chemical reaction begins immediately. This great chemistry experiment continues right on down through your body and along the way, lots of very interesting things occur.
Your body is very smart! It has proven processes that have evolved over thousands of years and more recently has had to begin to cope with the additional burden of the processed foods, additives, and chemicals that are prevalent in everything we eat. When these foreign things get inside of us and they become part of the who mix and they are introduced into the chemistry experiment, watch out!
If it is not natural and your body is not capable of digesting it through your own natural chemistry breakdown process, what is your body suppose to do with it. Your body reacts as it has for thousands of years, it calls out the army and puts out the alarm that it has been invaded by a foreign thing and needs to get rid of it.
I am being very simplest here and a little tongue in cheek, but basically that's what happens. When we stress our glands, hormones, and organs with these things which are not good for us they become "FATIGUED". They have been called up into the front ranks for action literally every time you put something in your mouth and they are just laying down too tired to put up a fight anymore.
OK….so what can I do to regain my natural balance?
1. When you get up in the morning, your body has been fasting for some 6 to 12 hours and it needs high quality energy in order to begin its own work internally for you everyday, so eat before 10 am. When you wait or sleep in your body is playing catch up all day long.
2. Eat lunch earlier rather than later. Meaning 11 – 11:30 am.
3. Eat a nutritious snack between 2 and 3 pm. After 3 pm your cortisol levels drop and if you have a nutritious snack you are able to coast through those nagging, gnawing feelings so many of us have in the afternoon.
4. Eat dinner on the earlier side. I know that there are all kinds of things that get in the way of this and there are cultural norms and dining out, however, it is about how your body processes the food you give it and what it does with that food that benefits you and your well being that we are talking about. After dinner is when most of us with Adrenal Fatigue feel our best!
5. Before bed a high quality bite or two of food will keep you from waking during the night and not awaken ravenous.
If you are a person who is feeling shaky and very hungry, then the high sugar content of what you have eaten is the culprit. If your blood sugar rises too fast, you have a problem. If your blood sugar is too low for long periods of time you have a problem.
Everything is a balancing act. Fatigue is no different. Consume 30-40% Vegetables and 50% of those should be raw (it takes your body longer to digest them and so you feel full longer), 5 – 10% Fruits, 10 -20% Protein, 10- 15% Beans, Seeds and Nuts, and 30-40% Whole Grains. You can regain the energy you have lost and rebuild the "engine" that powers Y-O-U.
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