 Everybody tends to think that if you want to have crazy amounts of energy It's about something you should be doing or adding to your life like coffee or a whole bunch of cocaine and other drugs But in reality the people that have the most energy tend to actually avoid those things and instead they focus on something else Now that's something else is what we are focusing on in this video here today What's up guys Alex Hain here author of the book master the day So the thing about energy is that everybody thinks it's something you add, right? You add the coffee you add the whatever vitamins you do the little five-hour energy shot You take vitamin C or whatever people think gives them energy green juices magical supplements bulletproof coffee None of this can add Actually add to your body's energy and here's why so the way we humans are wired is that basically we have a building up Regeneration phase which is our sleep our recovery our non-action are not doing and the active phase of our days Which is where we work we eat we do hard things we lift things we chop wood we hunt Etc. Now the thing is there's a certain ratio that needs to be dedicated to both and what is very absent in the modern world Is the recovery part of the equation often when we don't have too much energy? It's because we're ever over emphasizing that young active part and under emphasizing the recovery part now It's not just a matter of work or not work It's not just a matter of rest recovery or doing an activity It's more nuanced than that, but the first fundamental principle here The first habit I want to emphasize is stop emphasizing the increase part of the day the activity the ad more the coffee It's all drawing from the energy reserves Which is supposed to be that gathering part of your day Which is the non-work a non-action the sleep and the recovery? So right now what you could actually do is literally make a list of what is adding and what is subtracting and for almost all of us The biggest sorts of like energy leaks is the constant using of technology of being on the phone and Instagram This constant use of our nervous system to be active and firing and going rather than when we're in line Maybe ordinarily what we would have done is just sat there quietly for ten minutes waiting That would be recovery and gathering not flipping through the feed and like pondering and typing and researching and all this mental activity So the second habit here, how do you actually focus on that recovery aspect? Like I said, it's not just about sleep more and work less the second part is minimizing your energy leaks Now what I see is that there are three main types of energy leaks The first one is emotional So it's related to your internal state the second one is related to the external the things you're adding and the third Is related to the work life balance So the first way to minimize these kind of energy leaks is emotional states now Have you ever noticed how on vacation where they're kind of light-hearted you're pretty happy like hey, I'm in Belize Let's go to the beach and just swim and maybe we'll take a nap and hang out There's so much less of an inside like that pressurized feeling you feel when you're around someone you dislike or you have to Wake up and go to a job you hate that pressurized feeling especially in Chinese medicine drains your energy When the day is much more smooth internally again This is an internal feeling a subjective feeling you're gonna have a lot more energy throughout the day So the first thing is to minimize all those things that make you go Whether that means changing the external like getting a new job or it means better control over the internal like internal cultivation So that's the first thing for minimizing energy leaks focusing on the internal states That also means avoiding the people that make you go Which maybe is a friend or is someone in your family the second thing to minimizing your energy leaks is too much variation Too much variation in your sleep too much variation in your eating too much variation in all the regular cycles of your body if you look at the natural world it thrives on being cyclical on Consistency and not on variation right the natural cycles are predictable repeatable and there are not that many birds For example, that wake up at 5 a.m. One day and 8 a.m. The next day. This is the most natural way to keep the body regular You're gonna sleep better. You'll poop better. You'll have a better appetite. You'll feel better I don't know about you but the times when I let myself go to bed at like 4 or 5 in the morning Even if I sleep 10 hours, I feel like crap the whole next day now in Chinese medicine particular There are particular reasons for that in terms of which of your organs actually have time to heal and recover But in general Regularity is absolutely key for feeling good So you could think of that in terms of your eating in terms of your sleeping and in terms of your working and what you do And then the last thing is how many activities in your day-to-day schedule are minus signs and how many are plus signs? Minus energy plus energy, right? Purely subjective what you feel to be true It could be minus energy going to your job or it could be plus energy if you love your work It could be minus energy hanging out with your boyfriend or girlfriend or it could be plus energy You know pay very close attention to those internal states because it's not going to be a surprise How you feel the way you do if you literally wrote down everything you did in a day And if it was adding if it was subtracting or if it was somewhere in between and kind of neutral but the big thing I want you to think about here is that the key to having friggin massive energy is About de-emphasizing the plus part of the equation the active part We think we need to add coffee add this green juice add workouts But in reality for many modern people the minus part the recovery the yin the nighttime all that stuff is what's missing And I'm no better example the person who overworks and there isn't enough time for recovery But for many of us especially because of technology we're always on there is no chance to just stop and Recover and let the body build its stores again. So I hope that helps That's a little bit of a different look at how to have more energy Nothing to do with like the adding the green juice or more coffee or doing a whole bunch of cocaine Because those can only work in the short run and they're not gonna fix the really big stones in your life like maximizing this recovery cycle What's up guys? I hope that video helped a different way to think about having more energy now The best way to stay in touch with me right here is to number one download the free seven-day weight loss challenge on ModernHealthMonk.com forward slash YouTube or in the description right yonder there below and on top of that You can watch the last videos that just came out here and here or you can follow along my up-and-coming Traditional Chinese medicine channel in the description there below