Energy – the secrets behind a healthy life. Give your life FIVE! A handbook for all who are interested in a healthy and happy life. From the series BEL - Books”© for Easy Living Irina Bjørnø, Ph.D. ISBN 978-87-993153-0-7
English Editor Ms. Jeanne Richardson , Bay St. Louis MS, USA
Preface This book was written to answer the most fundamental question in your life: How to build and maintain a high energy level throughout your life. What is health? Is it the absence of illness? Not really. From my own experience it is more the capacity of extra resources (energies) in the bodily systems. Good health, a big capacity, which means a tolerance and easy adaptation of changing external condition, where bad health is a low, sometime zero, capacity of tolerance over changing external conditions. How can you extend your capacity? The answer is in this book. Read it, think over it, and apply the parts which are appealing to you. Start with your nutrition – personal diet. It is the primary energy source. Everyday we eat to build our energy deposits in order to use this energy during the activities of day. Physical, emotional, intellectual and external activities need the energy while at the same time introvert activities also demand part of the energy resources: cell maintenance processes in the body for re-building, cleansing and waste carrying processes. We all have our individual eating habits, which we call our personal diet. Some times we follow the eating habits of other people and sometimes we are pressed to follow special eating rules or diets to correct imbalances in our bodies; weight control diet, cholesterol reduction diet, or other diet to correct health problems.
All diets are correct: low carbs, low calories, vegetarian, vegan, South Californian, Kremlin, blood type and many, many more. They are all correct, but for specific cases or selected people. They have wonderful results for limited time periods, some times long periods. What’s wrong with them? Nothing is wrong – they work well, but not for all and not all the time! Why? Because they are static! The same day after day, months after month…. But your body IS a dynamic system, not static! That is the first thing you need to learn and accept today as a truth: Your wonderful, clever body is a changing biological system, you are growing older day after day – it is a fundamental law of life! You cannot neglect this fact! There exist fundamental laws in life which you cannot change. One of them is the law of constant increasing in the level of entropy – what the hell she is talking about? A little bit of explanation. Entropy is the measure of chaos. All this scientific fizz is about chaos, disorder, disturbance - in your system, in all systems. Your body is a biological system. This means that the law about increasing chaos is applicable to you, too. It does not matter what you do in your life - chaos will increase in your system and it will be the reason of your death. No way out. I will not bring you a happy gospel about the possibilities to live forever. No way! You cannot deceive the fundamental law. Chaos means that after some time, with small changes here and there, you will start to notice some dysfunction in one or more of the body’s mechanisms. After a while the increasing amount of disorder (chaos) in your body will lead to the natural destruction of you as a person. The question is at what speed. You can live or die (which is the same basically) with the speed of race car, just following all of the impulses of your nature, or with the speed of a carefully driving modern family car, with some periods of speeding up (of course). A part of this speed you can not influence, it is in your genes – thanks to your parents! You still can control and adjust part of this speed. This book was created to help you manage driving your own car – yourself (as a sum of body/mind/intelligence). It is like a having a driver’s licence: if you know the rules you will not be surprised if you will receive a penalty in the form of an illness or dysfunction. This book is a manual for self study. It is not a medical book. It has the form of simple, but powerful, recommendations. We advise that some people should consult with professional health specialists before they make any adjustments in their daily lifestyle. If you are willing to implement some of the methods from this book into your lifestyle, please, remember that it is your own responsibility. As your body is a dynamic and individually designed system it demands a dynamic and individual energy supply system. We have designed for you something very useful – an Individual Energy Supply System. It is based upon individual lifestyles, including a personal diet, personal physical activities plan and personal anti-stress routines. We call this the “handy” system. Your hand has 5 fingers. Remember the rule corresponding to each finger and follow these rules. Give yourself a hand! Give 5! And your life will be filled with more energy, more fun and more happiness! I know that you are ready to change you life for the better. How do I know this? You are reading this book now. You took the first step towards building your high energy state. It is great! Congratulations! You are on the right path. But…. A lot of people read thousands of very clever books but their lives are still the same. Life needs your action, your active participation, your commitments and personal experiences! You need to practice this book not just read it! I promise you wonderful results – you will be amazed at your capacities!
Here is the sequence of topics which we will discuss together in this book: 1. Rule 1 (thumb): Nothing should be too much or too little in life: food, work activities, rest, pleasure, or excitement – find your own Golden Path. 2. Rule 2 (index finger): Invest a little time everyday to learn the basic knowledge about body, mind and intellect! It is an investment in your future. How does 10 minutes a day sound, not too long? 3. Rule 3 (long finger): Less is more: What you eat today you will be tomorrow, how much you move today will affect you tomorrow, what you learn today you will become tomorrow. We will add “what and how much”. Build your unique “just and now” life strategy. 4. The law of optimal energy 5. Rule 4 (ring finger): All changes take their time; therefore, accept this fact and trust in yourself that your strategy is the best for you. 6. The “5 fingers” rules of natural eating habits 7. Positive stress in our life 8. Rule 5 (Little finger): – enjoy your life scenario! 9. Energy is your personal background for happiness 10. Energy Food Strategy 11. A little bit about weight problems 12. Hot Spring Drink – a useful recipe 13. Our final story to you
1. Start with understanding the first rule: Learn from your past experience. Rule N.1
Nothing is good for your body and nothing is bad: everything can act as healing for body and everything can be poison for body: the difference is that if you exceed your body’s ability to utilize the food or another external energy (as activities, pleasure of different kind, experiences or more) which your body uses daily in order to build the amount of energy enough for internal reconstruction and cleansing processes and for external work: physical, emotional and intellectual – you are in trouble! Balance in your body shows that you (and your body) are a good working team and the rewards are good health and a happy meaningful life. From this we draw first rule: Rule No.1 (thumb): Nothing should be too much or too little in life: food, work activities, rest, pleasure, or excitement – find your own Golden Path. One wise man was asked: what is good for you and what is bad. His answer was very short and fully complete. The correct question is not WHAT but HOW MUCH…. Think about it. How to learn about the right measure? Only one way – to make mistakes and to learn from them, what does this mean: Know yourself! You are the most important person in your life! You share your own company all of your life! Nothing can change this marriage! Be curious: who are you? What are your likes/dislikes, habits, special feature? Are you happy or unhappy with your life as it is now? Take 10 minutes everyday to reflect on your personality. Only 10 minutes, which will change your entire existence – it is not a big issue.
Start to have reflection by asking several questions: How about my…(fill these dots with the questions below) today? 1. Health - the same? Some positive/negative changes? Would like to do something about it? 2. Eating habits – the same everyday? Overeat? Big party? What, when, why? Would like to try something new? 3. Personal body habits - hygiene, hair, clothing, appearance (face) - the same everyday? Anything new? What would you like to try different? Why? 4. Physical activities – was I active 1 hour per day (at least did I walk my 10,000 steps today) the same everyday? Anything new? What you would like to try different? Why? 5. Social activities/personal network/family – anything new here? Are you satisfied as it is? Plans? Challenges? 6. Job/work/obligations – repeat the same problems, repeating patterns? New projects? New position? 7. Emotional input – how many positive/negative emotions did you experienced today? Why? Do you feel ok? Why not? Be honest! You can write, you can record you voice, you can do this exercise mentally. Everything is OK but you need to do it! Only one minute per question. It could be the best new habit in your life! And the conclusion you should make: what NEW did you learn about yourself today? In which area? (1-7)? What should happen in these areas tomorrow? How will you use this knowledge to make your life better/more interesting/different? It is so easy! This way you will notice coming changes before another person will notice them (as it happens usually). Do not wait for the question from your friend: “What is going on with you, dear? You look bad/depressed/fat/unhealthy/different”. Be your own reflector! Be your own coach! Be your own expert! As Socrates once said: Know who you are! In order to be your own expert you need to build your own expertise procedure. It is very individual, but the elements as mentioned before are approximately the same: 7 area of existence gives us 7 direction of life excellence! Why it is important? Growth is natural for life. Question is: in what direction of your life you would like to travel and with what speed? Stagnation (absence of movement) in any of these 7 areas is a sign of misbalance and death in the end. When fruit is not growing it becomes rotten. It is important to watch and observe yourself in order to catch the first sign of stagnation. It is a life saving procedure for YOUR self. No one can help you apart from yourself. Another person can motivate you, share their experience with you, show you some possibilities, inspire you, but you are the captain. Your team (body/mind/spirit) is eager to serve you in your life travelling adventure. But you need to be a good team leader.
2. Rule No. 2 (index finger): Invest a little time everyday to learn the basic knowledge about body.. Rule No. 2 (index finger): Invest a little time everyday to learn the basic knowledge about body, mind and intellect! It is an investment in your future. How does 10 minutes sound, it’s not too long? It is fun to know who you are. At school and at college we learned some basic information about biology, sociology, psychology, but let’s be curious: the internet is the biggest information net with all the blogs, chat rooms, specialists’ panels. Nowadays, it is all available for almost everybody. Why does the penis have no bone inside it (it could solve a lot of problems)? How can babies breathe under water? Can you live on only can food? What about life without any food? Stimulate your intellect by asking at least 10 new questions everyday! Be a child again (children are growing, old people who “knows it all” are dying)! One of my friends is a 94 year old Danish scientist, engineer and businessman. He is still going strong because… Because of what? Curious? If you would like to know more about his secret, please, purchase the full version of the book in www.belbooks.dk. Look at special offer. After we will receive your payment, you will receive the full version of this book.