High Energy Living: Switch On the Sources to: Increase Your Fat-Burning Power * Boost Your Immunity and Live Longer * Stimulate Your Memory and Creativity * Unleash Hidden Passions - Hardcover

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High Energy Living * Tap into Your Hidden Energy Reserves * Banish Stress and Fatigue Forever Imagine how you'd feel if you had unlimited energy--the mental and physical vigor to fully engage life at every waking moment.

Well, you can have that energy. In fact, you already do. In this unique and empowering book, best-selling author Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., shows you how to access key internal energy sources so you have the greatest chance to feel 100 percent alive all the time. Using a series of 21 simple switches, you'll turn off negative, energy-draining habits and turn on positive, energy-boosting behaviors. You'll enrich your mind and invigorate your body with a powerful, passionate zest for life.

With every switch, you'll learn ultra-practical techniques tailored to specific situations and times of day so you can draw on your energy sources whenever and wherever you need to.

* Practice the instant-calming sequence to defuse energy-sapping stress on the spot (page 56) *Take a strategic pause, a 30-second break that gives you 30 minutes of pure energy (page 156) * Sip a glass of ice-cold water to fend off fatigue and jump-start your calorie-burning metabolism (page 181) * Boost your memory power and turn back aging by using your senses (page 247) * Do 5 minutes of moderate exercise within 3 to 5 hours of bedtime for a night of sound, revitalizing slumber (page 342) *Enjoy Energy Bites, tasty snacks that stoke your energy furnace (page 433)

These and other strategies are the cornerstones of a high-energy lifestyle. Make them part of your life and experience High Energy Living now.

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High Energy Living

Do you ever find yourself wishing that you had more energy? Do you feel exhausted at the end of most days, unable to enjoy time with your family or engage in the activities that matter most to you?

If only you could tap into some secret energy source, you might be able to shake off fatigue and renew your youthful vitality.

According to Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., you can bring more energy into your day-to-day routine. Energy that gives you the strength and stamina to take on any situation. Energy that makes you feel alert, competent, and in control. Energy that puts you on top of the world so you're not weighted down by it.

Energy is Dr. Cooper's passion and a central theme of his work. He has spent more than 20 years studying worldwide research on the subject, determined to identify and refine the principles of a high-energy lifestyle. This has led him to the revolutionary discovery that energy takes four distinct forms--each one essential to High Energy Living, each one inside you, ready to be fired up.

* Calm energy brings you into a natural flow with the world around you. Things seem to go your way with relatively little effort.

* Active energy recharges your physical and mental batteries so you feel stronger, sharper, and more responsive.

* Sensory energy intensifies your interactions and experiences by sharpening your five senses. It feeds your creativity and desire for learning.

* Heartfelt energy fosters positive, successful relationships and deepens your drive for a meaningful life.

How do you tap into these four internal energy sources? Dr. Cooper has developed a series of 21 switches, each one tailored to a particular source. Designed for the real world, the switches are easy to learn, and they produce results fast. But you don't have to use them all at once. Choosing just one or two and practicing them regularly can make a profound difference in your energy levels.

With Dr. Cooper's guidance and expertise, you'll plug the energy drains that leave you fatigued, frustrated, and even physically ill. You'll unleash the positive energy that's at the very core of your being. You'll feel and function at your best every day.

Embrace High Energy Living and your power to be 100 percent alive.

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Cooper, author of Low-Fat Living (1996), has identified four forms of human energy--calm, active, sensory, and heartfelt--and he teaches readers how to activate them with energy "switches." Awareness of these subtle cues, such as breathing patterns, facial expression, muscle tension, posture, and moment-to-moment attitudes, can make profound differences in the way our entire system responds. It begins with the way most people awaken, which, according to Cooper, is far too brutal; he recommends nixing the alarm clock in favor of soothing music, followed by easing into the morning with a healthy meal and a few minutes of bright daylight. All his suggestions are similarly striking in their simplicity. Hydration, high-energy eating, activities away from computer and television screens, and handling stress with ease, humor, and well-timed breaks are all part of his energy routine. So turn off the TV, move around a little, drink a glass of water, have a good laugh, and enjoy the boost. David Siegfried
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The promises made by the subtitle of this volume reveal a key element of Cooper's (Low-Fat Living) success as a writer and motivational speaker for the Lessons in Leadership lecture series: authority. Most of the suggestions offered are grounded in common-sense approaches to a healthy life, and Cooper's charismatic attitude is sure to be welcomed by those seeking relief from fatigue and lack of purpose. Cooper's program for accessing innate sources of energy begins by recognizing four sources of human energy: calm, active, sensory and heartfelt. According to Cooper, most people are running on the antithesis of these energy sources: tense, reserved, routine and surface energy. He explains in detail 21 "switches" to combat habits that reinforce the negative energy sources and turn on the positive ones. While exercise, relaxation techniques and a change in diet can be hard to implement, regardless of how "simple" they are made to seem, ideas drawn from neoteny, a field of research focusing on "growing young," introduce a playful sense of experimentation that is appealing. Frazzled career-aholics and those juggling the roles of breadwinner and parent may wonder if the answer to fatigue is as easy as laughing, yet Cooper forcefully makes a case for trying. Those who do may be surprised at how subtle shifts in perception and five-minute breaks can inject needed energy into their lives. (Sept.)
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