3 Things You Can Do to Immediately Have More Energy

We all know that a lot of sleep, a balanced diet and regular exercise help to generally have a higher energy level. But what do you do when you have a low during the day, the important tasks pile up, and you need an immediate energy kick? In this article, I will show you a few tried and tested tricks on how to get your mind and body going in no time.

You have probably already read many of these tips somewhere in the past. Nevertheless, you are reading this article now. This means that you have probably never really tried out these tips before.

Any advice is only as good as your willingness to put it into practice. I, therefore, ask you to do it differently this time. Don’t just read these tips, but apply them, and do it now.

When you experience the effectiveness of a method first-hand, you will be much more convinced than if you just read and understand it intellectually. So this article is intended to be a guide that you can apply immediately.

So that’s settled.

Then let’s get right to work and give you an energy boost.

1. Take in more oxygen

That doesn’t sound spectacular, I know. But the simplest things can often be beneficial, provided you do the simple things.

Why is this trick so effective? Everyone knows we need oxygen to function. Every cell in your body is dependent on oxygen, and the more you can provide your body with, the better it can perform.

Oxygen does not directly drive the cells, but it is necessary to produce the body’s actual fuel, ATP.

So let us remember: little oxygen = little ATP = little energy.

To get more oxygen into the blood quickly, open a window, and take several deep breaths of fresh air.

The deep inhalation at the window now causes two things.

Firstly, through conscious and deep inhalation, we ensure that the oxygen penetrates deeper than usual into our lungs and stays there longer. This gives the alveoli more time to draw a larger amount of oxygen from the air we breathe.

In everyday life, we usually breathe shallowly and too quickly. As a result, we give away a large part of the oxygen we take in. We breathe it out again without our alveoli having had the chance to absorb it completely.

Secondly, we now produce more ATP due to the increased oxygen intake into the bloodstream. The increased amount of ATP that is now produced is immediately available to drive our muscles and provide our metabolism with the energy it needs.

Multiple deep inhalations through an open window or on the patio, therefore, actually cause an immediate increase in energy levels.

Try it out. You will find that the effect is really noticeable.

2. Stimulate your circulation

Having a lot of oxygen in the blood is only useful if transported quickly to every part of the body. This is where our circulation comes into play.

You will have noticeable problems with your circulation if your blood pressure is too low. Low blood pressure causes a lack of energy in your body cells because there is too little blood available per unit of time.

There are several interlocking possibilities to boost your blood pressure and, thus, your circulation.

If your heart beats slowly, it pumps less blood through your body per minute than if it were beating faster. So the first thing you can do to stabilize your blood pressure is to increase your heart rate.

The easiest and fastest way to do this is to do short gymnastic exercises. Run in place for a minute, do a series of jumping jacks or knee bends.

The goal is to increase your heart rate to quickly bring more oxygen-rich blood to every corner of your body (including the brain, where it is immediately available for ATP production).

This also helps to raise your energy level in a concise time.

However, to ensure a fast transport of oxygen through the bloodstream to the cells, something else is needed: Fluid.

If you do not take in enough fluid, your blood becomes thicker and has to be pumped through your blood vessels with more force. Higher blood pressure is, therefore, only really effective if the blood is not too thick at the same time.

Another immediate measure to have more energy is, therefore, to drink one or two glasses of water. The dilution of the blood alone helps to make the oxygen transport in the body more efficient. If you combine this effect with an increase in blood pressure, you will quickly have more energy.

But the heartbeat is not the only component that influences the crescent run and blood pressure.

When high blood pressure hits wide blood vessels, you will find it challenging to raise your energy level. The wider the blood vessels are, the lower the blood pressure will be while the heart’s pumping power remains the same.

This is why you so often read the advice to take a cold shower or at least splash cold water in your face.

Cold causes your blood vessels to constrict. This is because the narrowing of the blood vessels reduces their surface area, which means that less heat from the blood can be lost through the surface of the blood vessels.

When it is cold, the constriction of blood vessels is a protective mechanism of the body that ensures that less body heat is lost so that the core temperature of the body is maintained when it gets colder.

So when you take a cold shower or go out in the cold lightly clothed, your body will simultaneously raise your blood pressure to transport blood through the now constricted blood vessels. So cold stimulates blood pressure as much as exercise.

In summary, the best way to increase your current energy level is to combine three things: increase your heart rate by exercise, dilute your blood by absorbing fluid, and support your circulation by keeping cold.

3. Change your body posture to improve your mental attitude

When you are tired and exhausted, this is also expressed in your posture. Your muscles are slack, your shoulders hang forward, and your head is tilted.

Your whole body is trying to save energy by reducing its tension. At the same time, your circulation slows down, which in turn reduces the above-mentioned energy supply. So as long as you don’t do anything about it, this state will continue to reinforce itself.

Usually, you would lie down and sleep now. This is always a good idea to regenerate, but this article is about generating more energy in the short term to overcome a period of weakness and get the rest of the day’s tasks done.

So you need to break through this feedback loop quickly.

Fortunately, your energy level does not only influence your posture, but you can also alter your energy state with your body language.

What do you look like when you are full of energy and drive? Your muscles are tense, your gaze goes straight ahead, and your shoulders are pulled back.

Your whole posture is upright and powerful.

When you consciously take this pose, something great happens. Your brain registers your increased muscle tone and concludes that you are about to do something that requires a lot of energy. Your mind now knows that it will be challenged as well and is adjusting to it.

By putting your body in standby mode by taking a powerful pose, you cause your brain to wake up as well.

The effect is almost instantaneous. If you need extra energy quickly, this is the fastest way. Combine this method with the tricks from sections one and two, and you will never again have the problem of running out of energy too soon.

Bottom line:

If you didn’t know what to do about it before, when you suddenly run out of power, you now know three approaches that will get you back on track in no time.

1. increase the amount of oxygen in your blood to immediately produce more ATP

2. stimulate your circulation to distribute the extra oxygen more effectively in your body.

3. use your body to change your primary mental state.

All of this takes only a few minutes and can help you save an otherwise lost day.

Just reading about it, however, will not help you. Only if you try these measures immediately will you know that they really help and only then will you use them if you need them urgently in the future.

All right then:

• Open a window.
• Take several deep breaths.
• Drink a glass of water.
• Wash your face with cold water.
• Do some jumping jacks.
• Tighten your body.

How do you feel now? Much better, I bet, than before. I hope these tips will help you in the future whenever you need an extra energy kick.

René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.

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