3 Ways to Boost Your Mental Energy When You Are Tired & Overwhelmed

In a recent podcast (episode #364), I talked about three tips to boost your energy when you tired and overwhelmed.

Why do we get tired? Our nonconscious mind never stops. It’s always trying to make us aware of issues that are damaging our resilience and causing neurophysiological disruptions in our brain and body. However, the conscious mind and braindo get tired because they work on energy, like our phones. This is kind of like when we have a whole lot of apps open, the brightness is on full and we are constantly using our phone — very soon the battery will die. And, like you need to recharge your phone, you also need to recharge your brain and conscious mind.

It’s best we do this in a regular way, by incorporating periods of rest into our daily schedule to keep the brain charged all day long. This will also help us better know when to switch off at the end of the day. If we go for too long without rest, we may think we are okay, but the next day we won’t feel as rested as we should, and may notice our creativity or ability to think clearly is off because we didn’t recharge regularly the day before and pushed the conscious mind and brain to the limit.

As we go through our day, everything we experience is processed by our conscious mind, nonconscious mind and brain. During this time, a lot of neuroplasticity (brain change) is occurring — we will have built about 8000+ new memories in thought tree clusters into our brain. This activity makes our…