Leslie Kenton 10 Steps to Energy

Do you wake up each morning looking forward to the day? Work and play hard yet have plenty of energy to spare? Look terrific and feel good about yourself and your life year after year? If not, you need 10 Steps to Energy. The book helps you to assess your energy quotient then collar the energy thieves - from food allergies, low blood sugar, liver stress, candida and hypothyroidism to depression, anxiety and low self-esteem - and finally tap into your own natural energy potentials. This is your step-by-step guide to transmuting chronic fatigue into lasting vitality. Look good and feel great.

From the back cover 10 STEPS TO ENERGY by LESLIE KENTON

Do you wake up each morning looking forward to the day? Work and play hard yet have plenty of energy to spare? Look terrific and feel good about yourself and your life year after year? If not, you need 10 Steps to Energy. The book helps you to assess your energy quotient then collar the energy thieves - from food allergies, low blood sugar, liver stress, candida and hypothyroidism to depression, anxiety and low self-esteem - and finally rap into your own natural energy potentials. This is your step-by-step guide to transmuting chronic fatigue into lasting vitality. Look good and feel great.

Extract 10 STEPS TO ENERGY by LESLIE KENTON

All of us have a lot more potential energy than we ever access. For most of us our natural energy lies buried deep in a sluggish body burdened with excessive toxicity or a psyche wrestling with frustration or disappointment or even the sense that we are not really living the life we want to live. And we feel powerless to change things. Yet they can be changed. Each one of us can learn to release our energy potential and live it out. It is not even that hard to do once you decide it is energy you want.

This book is all about how to break through the barriers by making changes in how you think, eat and live that will help you turn potential energy into lasting vitality. It looks carefully at certain underlying conditions such as food allergies, yeast overgrowths and environmental pollutants which can undermine our natural energy rights. It can help you identify the presence of any of the big energy drainers in your life and then suggest how you can take steps to clear them. Inside you will also find loads of tricks and treatments to help you build steady energy week after week and year after year as well as suggestions about how to summon extra energy temporarily when you most need it. Finally the book is designed to help you discover for yourself the greatest energy secret of all, that living a high energy life is ultimately about learning to listen to the whispers of our own soul and to live out the truth of who we really are and what we really value.

Everyone has experienced the ability to summon up energy almost magically, almost magically when we need it most to cope with particularly demanding situations - the appearance of a ‘second wind'. It happens when you have been up all night nursing a sick child and thought you couldn't possibly drag up another ounce of strength. It happens when all-encompassing fatigue somehow disappears into thin air with the unexpected arrival of a much-loved friend you haven't seen for years; and when an athlete discovers he can call forth extra strength on the last lap of a long race. All of these things summon energy because, in our psyche, we ask for it right then to do what we want passionately to do.

Feeling passionate about anything releases potential energy both in immediate circumstances such as these where it is needed and also long-term where we need energy to carry out some task we are deeply committed to, or do something we love. And living with energy has a lot to do with living with passion.

The more passionately you live your life the more energy you will generate. Do what you love, love what you do and be honest about it. Much of our energy comes from within.

But this is only half of the energy picture. The amount of vitality available to you day by day to live your life also comes from external forces - from the way you eat, exercise, deal with stress, look after your body, as well as how skillful you can become at listening to its needs and its promptings. For most of us this doesn't happen automatically, nor does a high energy way of life. We have to learn what creates more energy in our lives and also learn to be wary of all the things which can impede it.

Take toxicity in your body for instance. The build up of waste products in the cells restricts metabolic processes and depletes us of energy both biochemically - so we become more prone to illness and premature aging - and in terms of over-all stamina and vitality - or how energetic we feel subjectively. Internal pollution can also result in a great variety of unwanted conditions - from cellulite to poor skin, anxiety and degenerative conditions such as arthritis, obesity and cancer. In the highly polluted environment in which most of us live these days our bodies tend to build up more waste than they are able to eliminate efficiently. Such a buildup suppresses our energy. It needs to be eliminated and prevented in the future. We will look closely at how to do this in chapters to come. To maximize vitality you also need to learn to manage your energies when they need managing - how to get down when you become strung up, how to stimulate vitality when it is low and how to create stamina and sustained power that acts as a foundation of energy which you can always call on when you need it. We will take a good look at how to do this too.

It may surprise you, but the first step towards a high energy life is not a physical one, but is a change in how you think: Begin to visualize what living with sustained energy feels like.

This can be hard to do when you feel chronically fatigued, depressed and discouraged. "Will my life ever get better?" We ask ourselves. I know. I lived for many years with chronic fatigue and depression - for which doctors could find no apparent cause. I have experienced the struggle and sense of hopelessness one can feel. In fact in a very real way those years helped shape the values of my life and set me on the road to learning, writing, and broadcasting on health - because nobody seemed able to help me I began to look for my own answers. What I learned did help me and I went on to share it with others through books, television, videos and workshops.

Press Release 10 STEPS TO ENERGY by LESLIE KENTON

"Once you make the decision to change one small part of your life, you will automatically feel empowered to do something about the rest" - Leslie Kenton

Leslie Kenton has done it again! The ultimate health and beauty innovator reveals how we can all discover and release our buried natural energy so we can burn the candle at both ends and positively glow with health. Few of us ever attain optimum energy levels because we unwittingly live our lives with our personal 'energy thieves' such as excess toxicity and negative attitudes which drain away natural power.

10 Steps to Energy is an essential guide which shows how to work and play hard, banish chronic fatigue through tricks and treats - and learn just how serious laughter is to stimulate vitality. "Being able to call on your energy potentials depends on how well you nourish yourselves - physically, emotionally and spiritually - day by day," says Leslie Kenton. "This means developing a lifestyle which incorporates exercise, good food, restorative sleep and the myriad of other possible factors - from hydrotherapy to super nutrients - that help support your own brand of vitality at peak efficiency."

FOLLOW THE PATH TO LASTING VITALITY There are ten steps to making the most of energy - ten ways in which to alter lifestyles to support mind and body. But each step works synergistically to support the others. Avoid rushing down the path and learn to take ... one step at a time.

STEP ONE - Claim Your Right to Energy Energy levels depend on self perception - how you think about yourself. There will be physical changes which revolve around exercise, diet and relaxation but just as crucial is to learn new perspectives. The body is no longer external to yourself, but rather a physical and energetic manifestation of who you are.

STEP TWO - Take Stock Before going forward, it is important to find out where you are on the energy scale by looking at sleep requirements, monitoring energy levels and drinking lots of pure water. Keep a progress diary and begin by completing the self-check list which offers multi-choice answers to determine negative and positive attitudes and five key questions - Who am I? - What do I want? - What do I think is stopping me? - Where am I right now in relation to what I want?

STEP THREE - Collar The Energy Thieves The world is full of energy thieves - excessive noise, environmental poisons, eating junk food and emotional stress from anxiety, resentment or depression. Fight back by learning how to use natural plant extracts to combat emotional stress and launch an internal spring-clean which focuses on maintaining optimum liver functions.

STEP FOUR - Face The Body Snatchers Certain conditions such as reactive hypoglycaemia - low blood sugar, mild hypothyroidism - underactive thyroid gland, candidiasis - overgrowth of a micro organism found in the gastrointestinal tract - and food allergies can reduce energy levels. Leslie Kenton charts how to identify the problems and find the cures.

STEP FIVE - Clear Out The Junk Eating too much junk food depletes vitamins and minerals and 'waste' builds up in the tissues. The body uses energy wrestling with these toxins instead of being able to maintain cells in peak condition. Discover the 10 pointers to help eliminate toxicity so you have more energy than ever.

STEP SIX - Bite Into Energy Never over eat: the body uses more energy to digest food than for strenuous exercise. The key diet for energy buildup is called Raw Energy Food Combining which involves keeping concentrated proteins and starches separate while eating fresh, uncooked fruits, vegetables, sprouted seeds and sprouted grains. All have high levels of water which contain electrolytes, vitamins, organic minerals, proteins, enzymes, amino acids, natural sugars and other nutrients.

STEP SEVEN - Fuel Up From Nature Go green. Green foods such as fresh vegetables, seaweeds and the new power plants fuel sustainable energy better than other kinds. The message is to experiment a little with algae such as spirulina, cereal grasses or dig out the weeds in your garden such as dandelion, nettles and ragweed for the table. Further afield there have been new energy-food discoveries: Guarana from Brazil and the root of the wild Suma plant.

STEP EIGHT - Charge Your Batteries The ideal workout involves regular, consistent and rhythmic workouts four times a week lasting at least 30 minutes. Ideal pursuits are walking, running and rebounding. After exercise there must be time for relaxation, breathing techniques and hydrotherapy. These are the tools and techniques to build up a high energy lifestyle.

STEP NINE - Grin and Beat It Three minutes of laughter a day is as good for you as 10 minutes of hard aerobic exercise. It benefits the heart, increases oxygen consumption, reduces muscle tension, pulse and blood pressure. Make a conscious effort to introduce humor into your life through friendships and daily life and learn all about the power of mind body connections and how to make them work for you.

STEP TEN - Dare To Be You The best way to a high energy lifestyle is to discover what gives you your greatest sense of satisfaction in life and make a plan to define your commitments and clarify your intentions. The previous nine steps provide the necessary information. High energy simply means an ability to live fully, to give your best and to be open to all the good things life has to offer. Go for it!