Increasing Your Mood & Energy

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The Secret To Increasing Your Mood and Energy

Mood and energy play important role in your health and wellbeing. What could you do to naturally improve on your mood and energy? As mood affects your quality of life and energy can also have an impact on your mental and physical health. Have you ever suffered with low mood coupled with low energy? How did this make you feel? Many of my clients suffer with this health challenge and as a health coach it is my ambition to help my clients improve in these areas. It is amazing to see the transformation as we start to work together. in fact 4 out of 5 clients will present with health and mood challenges. I usually will run a mini test to check where their health and energy score is when we initially start working together and then we check again in 4-6 weeks time. I am always amazed to how much health coaching has an impact on a persons wellbeing in these areas.

When you boost your mood your energy will increase,

When you boost your energy your mood will increase!

The good news is we can influence both your mood and energy with some dietary and lifestyle choices.

Tips To Increase Your Mood and Your Energy

1. Move more. Often when our mood is low so are our energy levels. Probably you would agree exercising is the last thing we want to do when we feel like this! However taking small steps towards incorporating more movement really will help to lift your mood. And movement outdoors is really effective.

2. You are what you eat! Yes the foods we eat and drink can have an impact on how we feel and our energy levels. Try adding in more vegetables lie leafy green vegetables and brightly coloured fruits in to your diet. If you add in raw nuts and seeds you will boost your essential fat intake that is great for brain health too! Don't forget to up your protein, include fatty fish and treat yourself to few squares of dark chocolate occasionally.

3. Power to the breath! take time to breathe. How about trying the 4-7-8 breathing technique. It is simple yet effective may help to lower stress and you only need to do it for a short amount of time. Find a comfy spot, close your eyes and count your breaths.

   • Breathe in through you nose to count of four

   • Hold your breath to the count of 7

   • exhale through your mouth to the count of 8

   • Repeat.

4. Take time out do something your love doing. Or re-engage in a a forgotten hobby that you enjoyed and found relaxing.

5. Sleep. Follow a healthy sleep hygiene. Go to bed early at same time every night and wake up at same time. Reduce screens 30 minutes before bed time and have a 60 minute wind down time if you can! Aim for 7-9 hours sleep per night.

6. Reduce sugary food and ultra processed foods. These are energy robbers and only give you quick boost of energy.

7. Look after your gut! Yes supporting your healthy gut bacteria that is beneficial to health can have an impact on both your mood and energy levels. a balanced gut flora (your microbiome) is crucial for the production of neurotransmitters serotonin, that affects mood and dopamine that effects motivation and energy. include prebiotic foods to feed your healthy bacteria leeks, jerusalem artichokes, garlic, onions, asparagus, fermented foods such as kimchi, sauerkraut, yoghurt are all good for your gut health. You can find recipes for these in my blog.

8. Reduce alcohol. Not only is it bad for your microbiome but it will rob your energy too impacting your mood.

These are a few suggestions to help improve your mood and energy naturally. A health coach my role is to help you reach your health and wellbeing goals. People that work with health coaches are more likely to each their goals then if they try to do it on their own. A good health coach will keep their clients motivated and accountable and mentor and support them where needed.

What Is The Role Of A Health Coach?

The role of a well-trained Health Coach incorporates helping clients manage emotions, challenge negative thinking patterns, improve relationship skills, reduce stress and anxiety all that support mood and energy levels. I use a pillar approach that looks at food choices, stress and exercise and sleep. Also working closely with thinking patterns and how we relate to our health challenges.

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