3 Ways To Boost Your Mental Energy
There’s not much you can’t achieve when you have an abundance of mental energy.
Productivity feels easy, creative problem-solving feels effortless, and challenges are exciting as opposed to exhausting.
I now experience the resilient clarity that comes with mental energy, as opposed to the fragility that comes with sluggish brain fog.
One of the biggest mistakes I made was assuming my mental energy was directly linked to my physical energy.
Now of course sleep, food, water and sunlight all influence our mental energy, and a depletion of these things will deplete our mental energy. But you’ve probably had this experience, where when you’re working on something you’re passionate about you can, more or less, override any feelings of fatigue. Or conversely, you may have slept well etc. but then you go to work on something you find boring and instantly you feel like a nap…
There is something to the saying, mind over matter, in that it's possible to boost our mental energy regardless of our recent habits. I’ve found these tools and techniques to work successfully regardless of what I'm working on.
When we have more energy, challenges become opportunities, setbacks become lessons, and we’re more resilient to the fluxes of life while working towards our goals.
I'm Mollie a Certified Hypnotist and Energy Coach, one of the prime drivers for me researching, informally then formally, how to improve my body, brain and behaviour for the last 15+ years was my desire to answer the question “How do I increase my natural energy?” In pursuit of this question, I learned many things and successfully increased not only my physical energy but my mental and spiritual energy as well.
Hypnosis
I'm still in awe of the results people get from hypnosis. One of the key factors to the success of hypnosis is how it helps us retrain our minds, dialling up the abilities we want and dialling down the ones we don't. Also, the process of being in hypnosis and experiencing the alpha and theta brainwaves has all sorts of benefits on our neural pathways, nervous system and brain chemistry.
These are a few different ways I like to use hypnosis for mental energy:
Preparation: Before a task or workday, a 10-minute hypnosis will give me a boost of energy and depending on the hypnosis will also improve my focus and problem-solving speeds.
Recovery: I like reading fiction books at night and “another minute” often turns into another hour, and so I end up going to bed way too late and waking up feeling average. During a power nap, you're essentially dropping into Alpha and Theta brainwaves. We can of course use hypnosis to replicate that without you falling asleep. I found a 20-minute hypnosis works wonderful to (temporarily) recover from a lack of sleep.
Improvement: I started to notice something interesting in my hypnosis clients. Over the time working together, their voices became stronger, not in a booming way, but in a subtly powerful way. I know this might seem like a strange observation, but you can tell a lot about a person's energy, strength and confidence by the quality of their voice.
Side note: This is why subconscious reprogramming with hypnosis and NLP coaching works much more successfully on our self-confidence, charisma and magnetism than learning about how to be these things because they are states as opposed to skills.
Using a reprogramming hypnosis for approximately 30 minutes or more once a week helps increase your foundational energy and your energy reserves. Meaning that when you feel tired it'll be at this increased level, think “I need to sleep, I'm tired” versus “I can't move I'm so fatigued” and you'll also bounce back from exhausting situations much more quickly.
Timers
I often use a timer for productivity and I notice that by setting a timer I would get a boost of motivation which would increase my perceived mental energy.
I could be feeling drained by the idea of a bunch of boring tasks but setting a timer gives me something to aim towards. I get the feeling that I'm racing the timer as I work through my tasks, most likely giving me dopamine hits. I also find this technique helpful to just get going on tasks that I've been putting off.
The steps I take are:
Break a task down into specific action steps. I might ask myself, what does this action (not project) look like when it's done? The closer to a single-step action the better.
List the actions in order of priority or bunch them into projects or batch them. Essentially, you’re deciding in what order you'll do the actions.
Schedule: I like scheduling 2-hour time blocks, particularly for projects and batching.
Execute: Then I work through 4x 25-minutes work/5-minutes break. Which is known as the Pomodoro productivity technique.
Laughter
Yes, laughter.
Laughter is like vitamin D for the soul, it releases serotonin and oxytocin and decreases cortisol. This feel-good feeling takes the strain out of our nervous system, soothing our all too common stress and fear response. This gives the brain more energy to do anything other than be on high alert.
For that colleague who thinks having work buddies and spending time chatting is a waste of time, send them this piece of the article. Efficiency is not about how long you spend on something; it's about how well you get that something done.
When your stress response is lowered, then your capacity for creative problem-solving, memory recall and decision-making goes up, therefore so does the speed and quality of the work.
There is no prescription for laughter, welcome it, contribute to it when you can and reflect on who and what you can source your laughter from when you're feeling average.
A note on mental fatigue
Past traumas, large or small, can contribute to putting strain on our nervous system. Unless they are resolved and released using Matrix Therapies or a similar process, they will cause stress subconsciously, contributing to your stress at a conscious level, no matter how healthy your habits are.
Before I resolved and released most of my past trauma and repressed emotions, it felt like there was a limit to my mental energy and clarity.
When I cleared my past traumas, repressed emotions and programmed fears through Matrix Therapies and Hypnosis, it was like someone turning the tap up in my mind. I now easily choose when and how I want to channel that energy, as opposed to hoping my starts align when I need them to.
If brain fog, stress or mental sluggishness is an issue for you, book an Initial Consultation and we’ll make a plan to release and resolve all that subconscious stress.
Imagine, even after a day of work you can happily create and focus on your side hustles and passion projects. Imagine staying up late immersed in your favourite movie or book and still having the energy in the morning to be productive after listening to a short hypnosis. Or maybe there's been a last-minute request at work, and you take it in your stride because even though it's the afternoon you’re still clear-headed and certain that you can do it.
I know it's possible because this is how I experienced life now. xx