The thing is there’s probably no one-size fits all answer. However, there are clearly ways to increase energy… And food is at the heart of it.

For me at least, here are some of the guidelines.

1) Low carb food

My body reacts to carbs (and especially grains) with serious fatigue. Maybe I have latent gluten insensitivity. In any case, if I want stable energy, I have to avoid carbs, and especially sugar.

2) Plenty of protein

Protein gives me energy. Especially fish, meat, and eggs. Not so much soy and dairy. So if I want to feel good, I eat a lot of eggs and meat;/fish. Apologies to the vegetarians among my readers.

3) Plenty of green stuff

Salads, with lots of hearty greens. My newest (old) favorite is Mache. It’s that bright green salad stuff that has small leaves. Sometimes it’s sold in little bushels, and sometimes, the leaves have been separated. The second variety yields quite a lot of salad. And it’s very tasty.

Why old favorite? My Mom grew it in our garden when I was a child, and it was my favorite salad. We called it mouse ear salad because, well, the shape of the leaves is pretty darn close to mouse ears…

Oh yeah, and those green foods I can buy at the health food store also are quite energizing. Then there’s Maca though I haven’t quite figured out how to incorporate it into my diet. I don’t really like its taste.

4) Other fresh veggies

Colorful veggies galore. Basically, I feel great if I get lots of meat and lots of veggies, especially fresh ones, and can resist the rest of the stuff.

5) Some berries and nuts

Meat and salad can get a bit boring, so I add in berries and nuts. One of my favorite new “fast food” is one of Green Giant’s veggie mixes that you can nuke — the one with the cauliflower and the cranberries. Yum. Berries are great, but too much fruit doesn’t seem to agree with me either.

6) Goji berries and vitamin B

Okay, that stands for supplements. I have a friend who sells goji berries and he sells them to me at cost. And I found that they’re quite energizing. And I also feel better when I get my regular dose of vitamin B, along with my multi, and other stuff.

Of course that’s hardly revolutionary. We all know that good nutritional supplements can be very helpful.

7) Green tea and not too much coffee

Okay, this goes into the subject of beverages … but it’s really important. I don’t really enjoy drinking water too much, so I tend to drink lots and lots of tea. Green tea, herb tea, roibos tea, and so on. In all different flavors. It keeps me well hydrated. And it keeps me from overdosing on some medicinal tea or other.

Oysters etc.

It may be the seafood aspect of oysters or maybe just my imagination, but I often crave oysters when I’m tired and they do give me more energy.

9) Chocolate

Yeah! Dark choclate, the really dark kind. I generally avoid sugar, but when the chocolate has 85 or more % cocoa, there’s hardly any room left for sugar. Plus it’s so intense that I don’t eat much, so the sugar is a minor aspect and apparently doesn’t bother me much. And it really does raise my energy.

Of course high energy food and diet isn’t the only thing that’s needed. I also add naps and some time outdoors in sunlight if at all possible.

Those last two need some more work, but I find that I have lots more energy when I find time to do them.

Anyway, this is already way too long, so I’ll stop. Hope you all have tons of energy yourself. And listen to your body — keep tabs on what gives you energy and what drains it, and you’ll be on the way to YOUR personal high energy diet.

Not in my book. I find it incredibly difficult to “find” the time to get enough sleep. and yet, I am getting every more aware that I MUST make it a priority if I want to remain productive — and healthy.

Which makes me wonder why in the world I’m typing this at 2:30 in the morning?

So much for that one. But now, I haven’t REALLY officially resolved it, and messing with my sleeping patterns is always a bit of an ongoing struggle.

The thing is sometimes I’m more alert and awake late at night than I am at other times of the day, and it seems like such a waste to not take advantage of it.

Meanwhile, once I do go to sleep I tend to sleep like a baby (or a log), which I suppose is a good thing. It wasn’t always like that.

A few years back, I had a huge problem with insomnia. I threw all sorts of things at it, from herbs to aromatherapy to soothing music and even the occasional prescription drugs, and STILL had trouble.

One thing that finally fixed it, literally overnight, was the Mind-Body-Spirit meditation from the Quantum Touch Supercharging workshop I took. I literally fell asleep lying on the floor, in the middle of the meditation exercise we did in that course. Twice! How embarrassing.

But I figured I was on to something. when I did the meditation that night after going to bed, I never made it half-way through before I went to sleep. And when I woke up in the night, I just continued where I left off, and zzzzzzzzzz

It still works. On the rare (very rare) occasion that I make it all the way through, I just start over, and I don’t think I ever made it through twice without falling asleep.

Oddly enough, I can do the meditation with my eyes open during the day and it will NOT make me fall asleep, so I even do it sometimes while going for walks. It has a wonderfully energizing effect then.

How does it work?

You can find out the details in the Supercharging Quantum Touch book by Alain Herriot (sp?)

Basically, you visualize yourself being bathed and literally soaked in a series of 12 colors, from white to purple, indigo, copper, silver, gold, yellow, green, blue-green, blue, magenta and mother-of-pearl. There’s also a special breathing pattern, but I never mastered it and simply do slow breathing while I do the exercise.

You can get the more detailed instructions in the book or on the workshop video, which you can order form quantumtouch.com.

Meanwhile, it’s now 2:51 and defninitely time to catch some zzzzzs.

And as for my resolution… I’m working on it. Getting at least 7 hour of sleep a night, at least most nights, is the first stage of my resolution. Then work on getting to bed earlier and making my hours more regular. Update sometime in spring…

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I can’t believe we’re already into the second week of 2010! And I haven’t even gotten started with New Year’s Resolutions.

Of course, I have my different spin on that, and I’m going to write a few posts on that over the next week or two…

First of all… the traditional approach to New Year’s Resolutions doesn’t usually work and if anything is counterproductive.

When it comes to carrot vs stick, I’m all for the carrot. The idea is to focus on what we want and not punishing ourselves for our real or imagined short-comings.

One thing I will do is go back through that program by Jason that helps tremendously with overcoming some habits I’d like to live without.

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But go to the http:;//www.turboselfgrowth.com first because you’ll discover an offer where you can get it for almost half off…

And as I wrote in an article last year, I’m much more in favor of “New Year’s Projections” thank “New Year’s Resolutions.”

What is it that you would like to visualize for yourself?

As for me, I’d like a steadily growing business, books, courses with lots of students in them, happy clients, and a healthy body too, preferably with less weight on it.

And so one of the things I’ll be working on next year is a special low-aggravation system of releasing some of those extra pounds.

I’m going to call it Kitchen Sink Diet — not because it involves eating over the kitchen sink or because I get to eat everything but the kitchen sink, but because I’m going to plough through everything I can find out there that might be helpful and then put it together in to an “everything but the kitchen sink” diet plan of sorts.

Though diet is a misnomer. It’s more about adding things than subtracting things, though hopefully certain detrimental food stuffs will be crowded out by the good stuff… Much like what Jon Gabriel advocates in his Gabriel method.

In fact, one of the things on my to do list is to a) start listening to his audio again regularly (I’ve been slacking off) and b) get his newly available special Smart Music audios that put you in a smart state instantly and are great for starting the day off with. Can’t wait to get them and will report back once I have startd using them.

Enough for now. More on New Year’s Resolutions and related matters very soon.

And may YOU have a fantastic 2010 as well.

Elisabeth

Now I need at least 20 followers so it will show up easily when people go looking for it.

Would you please do me a HUGE favor and follow my blog on Facebook?

It’s actually very easy. Just click on the button on the Facebook “Networked Blogs” sidebar, where it says “follow this blog” and follow instructions.

You’ll be adding “My Favorite Self-Help Blog” to your networked blogs subscriptions. You MAY have to sign up for Networked Blogs first, which is a very cool feature to have!

I want lots of little pictures to appear on that Networked Blog widget in my sidebar, not just my own mug shot with a lot of empty space (for yours) underneath.

Of course, maybe you want to syndicate your own blog! I’ll teach my students in my blogging course how to do that… Now that I learned it myself.

In the meantime, if you want my self help blog posts to show up on your Facebook timeline, (or abbreviated versions of them anyway), you can get that easily by just clicking on that link and allowing that application (which is a safe one).

And once you’ve done that, there will be an option to syndicate your own blog on Facebook Networked Blogs, and so you can just follow instructions once again, and bingo! Yours will be there too.

Then leave a comment here with this post and tell us where your blog is (with the sign-up badge) and I, along with some of my readers, will come and follow yours

Thanks so much.

Elisabeth “Now with Syndicated Self-Help Blog” Kuhn

2009 was a toughie, and so a lot of us are REALLY looking forward to 2010!

And it’s time to look ahead to make the most of it right out of the gate, isn’t it?

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And… they also make fantastic gifts! Which reminds me of my friend Stefan whose birthday is today. He was always frustrated that his parents would combine Christmas gifts and birthday gifts… but then again, he always had US come on his birthday and bring him MORE gifts too.

I’m gong to give him a call today!

Have a fantastic day and a GREAT 2010!

Elisabeth

I’m sorry I goofed and got this here a bit late, but I was MEANING to post a Holiday post.

I’ve been on the phone with some of my friends and family who are all over the globe. Makes for lots of phone calls, but it’s also great to connect and stay in touch.

It used to be that it was actually difficult to get through around Christmas Even and Christmas Day, but apparently, the capacity has been expanded so that this is no longer an issue.

I hope you’ve been able to spend the day souurrounded by your loved ones and that Santa brought you everything you wanted.

And if he didn’t… It’s not too late to get some of those gifts for yourself

That’s what I’m going to do (and have done for years).

And well, if a new and improved life is on YOUR agenda, you’ll enjoy my little gift for you:

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Meanwhile, I also hope you won’t let that holiday glow wear off too quickly! Let the tree lbrighten up your days a bit longer, and go check out the tacky light shows around town. That’s what I will do in any case.

And continue to have

Happy Holidays!

It’s time I started writing about him though… After all, it was Bill who really got me started on my personal growth journey.

So who is Bill Burns?: Bill is a brilliant/absolutely amazing psychic in Los Angeles/North Hollywood.

I first met him many years ago, when I was a graduate student in Berkeley. And, well, my life has never been the same.

It was him who really introduced me to a lot of the personal growth and new thought ideas that I now live by. I didn’t realize it at the time — and didn’t always understand everything he was telling me.

But now that I’m familiar with the Abraham-Hicks material, a lot of what he told me about way back makes total sense. I guess it was part of the growth process.

In the meantime, his teachings set a lot of things in motion, and had a profound influence on my personal growth.

At the time, I was really stuck, and one day, I decided to drive to church (where I hadn’t been in years) with the express intention of praying for some kind of enlightenment.

And what I got — on the car radio no less — was Bill Burns, doing a call-in psychic radio show, where he helped a few people figure out what they were really meant to do.

He was so down-to-earth and right on, I found myself glued to that radio, parked on the street in front of that church, listening to Bill. I was amazed. If I had had a cell phone back then, I would have called in right then.

Well, I called the radio station the next day, and they gave me Bill’s number in Los Angeles. And when he came back to the Bay Area, I went to his lecture.

And when he did a “spot reading” on me, he so nailed something about me that I told him during the break that I had to have a reading with him — even though I didn’t know how to pay for it.

I got the very last slot and he actually let me pay in installments because he knew I needed the information “now.” And that reading changed my life. As they say, when the student is ready…

More on that in another post.

Right now, I just want to mention what triggered this post right now…

I was listening to one of Bill Burns’ tapes in my car earlier today and it was another one of those tapes that I needed to hear right then. It was about “financial feast and famine” and how growth sometimes can create a bit of a mess in one’s life. Very reassuring. I’ll write more about that later too…

If you’re curious about Bill Burns though, you can check him out at http://www.billburns.org — this is NOT an affiliate link by the way (Last time I checked he didn’t have an affiliate program although I really think he should start one).

He’s got some great resources and even some downloadable audios. I have a whole collection of his tapes, and they’re amazing (some more so than others but they’re all good). Again, more details about that in another post.

Meanwhile, since it’s the 23rd of December, and actually Christmas eve in Europe and in New Zealand, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a GREAT Holiday season!

Elisabeth

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Chocolate truffles.

I’ve just been experimenting with a super easy recipe… that allows also some amazing variation.

1) Take a bar or two of your favorite chocolate.

I happen to like sugarfree chocolate, but sometimes this can get kind of boring, which is why I came up with the idea for turning it into truffles.

See, I bought a huge stash at the grocery store when it was on sale, and I don’t like tham all that much.

So I decided to try an experiment. And by the way, if you like regular chocolate, this will work with regular chocolate too of course.

I broke a couple of bars up into small chunks and melted them in the microwave.

Then I mixed in some butter and some Coconut Oil (experiment with whatever combination you enjoy — I also like it with all coconut oil).

That will add the extra smoothness and softness…

Then, mix in whatever flavorings you like.

Try cinnamon, a bit of rum, vanilla, or get a bit adventurous. I tried 5 spice seasoning (the same kind I happen to like in hot chocolate), and wouldn’t you know it — it works really well in truffles too.

You can also add “mix-ins” from raisins to chopped nuts to…

Bacon bits! Be sure you get the REAL kind.

That’s right. There’s now a high priced chocolate out there that combines chocolate with bacon and it is a VERY nice combination. Mo’s bacon bits or something.

You can do that yourself at home.

Or you could cook some strips of bacon and drag it through the chocolate mix while it’s still melted and then put it on wax paper and refrigerate.

Ooooh. I’ve got to try that!

To make it even better, get this fancy peppercorn bacon!

Of course, this works with all kinds of other stuff too. Just have fun.

Oh, about finishing those truffles… Let them cool off enough to be able to form them into balls, then roll them in something suitable, i.e., cocoa powder, chopped nutws, shredded coconut, or whatever.

Or you can just deposit lumps of them on a piece of wax paper and enjoy it in various shapes.

Needs to keep refrigerated or else it will melt before you have a chance to eat it.

Experiment with various ratios of chocolate to coconut oil. I’m using about a couple of spoonfuls per 3 ounces of chocolate for pretty good results.

There are fancier recipes out there, but this one is great for turning your favorite regular chocolate into truffles. Also works with chcolate chips.

Enjoy.

Elisabeth

Read on for some last minute gifts for growing your business!

First of all, if you’ve been procrastinating, you should check out the gift idea in the P.S.

Otherwise (or in any case) read on because I’ve got a few cool recommendations… and all of them can be gotten instantly!

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Your gift recipient will be able to get started right away, and then will be able to join in with my next live class that I’ll start in January 2010!

Happy Holidays!

P.S.: And stay tuned for a couple of ridiculously easy truffle recipes that I’ll be posting here soon.

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And while I don’t want to mess with old posts or create duplicate content, I figured, I could LINK to it, right?

So here goes:

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Enjoy!!!

And I’ll post a few more treats here shortly

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More to come!

Elisabeth