Be­fore I go any fur­ther, I must warn you that this top­ic may be con­sid­ered a bit con­tentious if one does not ap­proach it with an open mind. That said; let me say that pri­or to you en­ter­tain­ing the idea of im­bib­ing an­oth­er en­er­gy drink hop­ing for that surge of pow­er, you should know the not so pos­i­tive ef­fects that these well pro­mot­ed drinks can have on your body.

A ma­jor sell­ing point many man­u­fac­tur­ers of en­er­gy drinks pro­mote is that use of these drinks can sig­nif­i­cant­ly boost a per­son’s per­for­mance and sta­mi­na, in a bid to sub­con­scious­ly pro­gram one’s mind to ac­cept the hype sur­round­ing these drinks. How­ev­er this re­mains ques­tion­able to many health ex­perts.

One of the strate­gies a lot of the man­u­fac­tur­ers of en­er­gy drinks use, in­clude ad­ver­tis­ing the main in­gre­di­ents as vi­t­a­mins and caf­feine with the in­ten­tion of mak­ing them more ap­peal­ing. How­ev­er in most cas­es this is a mat­ter of false ad­ver­tis­ing be­cause en­er­gy drinks con­tain a lot of sup­ple­men­tary stim­u­lants, such as L-car­ni­tine l-tar­trate (LCLT), Gingko, Guarana, Gin­seng, Synephrine, St John’s Wort and Tau­rine. These stim­u­lants by them­selves are not bad but when com­bined with caf­feine they can trig­ger a num­ber of health com­pli­ca­tions that in­clude, anx­i­ety, chest pains, in­som­nia, weight gain, heart pal­pi­ta­tions, high blood pres­sure and seizures.

The truth is hav­ing an en­er­gy drink or two ever so of­ten is not a bad thing, how­ev­er, con­sum­ing them with too much fre­quen­cy, hop­ing to by­pass the req­ui­site “hard work” for that “bang­ing body” and healthy lifestyle will NOT do! This is where the pow­er of the mind comes in.

Be­fore you do any­thing, you must first be open to the world of your mind and see the im­mense pow­er it has. In or­der to do this, one must first tap in­to one’s sub­con­scious. You on­ly have to look around the world to­day and through­out the cor­ri­dors of his­to­ry to see the myr­i­ad ex­am­ples of peo­ple who achieved much and over­came seem­ing­ly in­sur­mount­able ob­sta­cles just by us­ing the pow­er of their mind.

To fol­low suit, you must learn how to fo­cus the mind and in­ten­tion­al­ly plant thoughts that are in align­ment with your goals and pur­pose. Change your think­ing! There is no need to de­pend on place­boic sub­stances like en­er­gy drinks to achieve your fit­ness / health goals! Root out your neg­a­tive thoughts whether they are about how dif­fi­cult an ex­er­cise rou­tine might be or how chal­leng­ing it is to elim­i­nate foods that you love but don’t serve your health/ fit­ness goals and sub­sti­tute them with pos­i­tive thoughts sim­ply like, I can... that im­pact your core be­lief sys­tem since this is key to your suc­cess or fail­ure at any­thing. Cre­ate a par­a­digm shift!

A num­ber of peo­ple try to al­ter ex­ter­nal con­di­tions by work­ing di­rect­ly on them but this al­most al­ways prove fu­tile or tem­po­rary un­less it is ac­com­pa­nied by a change of mind­set.

Re­place the en­er­gy drinks with a healthy di­et, nat­ur­al sup­ple­ments, reg­u­lar sleep and ex­er­cise to en­cour­age the es­tab­lish­ment and main­te­nance of nat­ur­al en­er­gy. Most im­por­tant­ly, re­pro­gramme your mind! Re­mem­ber “what­so­ev­er you ac­cept be­comes the en­gi­neer of your life.”