Mental energy has to do with what you hold dear and what is ongoing in your
mind…Generally we forget that mental energy frequently becomes blocked and this
happens due to being on one track all the time. Whether its with the way you are performing, teaching, or being with friends.

The famous person who opened other peoples eyes on how stuck one can become was: Jill Bolte Taylor in her famous U-Tube Video on “A stroke of Insight”…where she ‘had to have’ a stroke to open up her eyes to how her left brain hemisphere was completely out of balance with the right brain hemisphere of her brain (a stroke that took her 8years to recover from) a brilliant delivery on TED-talks where this now famous psychiatrist explains in detail how she recovered and how a spiritual insight opened up her eyes to the reality of life itself…

MENTAL STAGNATION

Is mostly due to being disconnected in some way. The ‘absent minded professor’ image is famous for how disconnected they can be. I have found that most males that I work with are totally disconnected from their feelings. The more disconnected a person is the longer
I have found they have been in denial about a situation in their life and have avoided facing it. As happened to Jill Bolte Taylor’s “stroke of insight” experience, that paralyzed her brain which took her 8yrs to recover from. Another way of seeing disconnection is seeing it as the flip side of the same coin as denial, which generally leads to stagnation. And unfortunately stagnation over time will only lead to some illness within the physical body, in one way or another.

I was at a talk once where a professor was addressing a packed audience of several hundred people from a stage, and said that; for a professor, the body simply serves to carry the head, he was making a joke on how disconnected professors really are referring to himself as well…

 When I go out on my walks I frequently see many people especially in their 20 – 30ys jogging. There’s a beautiful cliff walk overlooking the ocean not far from me, and especially in the morning its usually full of joggers. When we jog, naturally everything in the body is
working at a very fast rate including the blood circulation, and many people think that they can eat whatever they like and a simple jog or a weights program at the gym, will counteract body fat.

What people forget however is that whatever you eat no matter what, gets broken down and then circulates throughout the entire system much faster when you do any exercise. So if your eating lots of meat and fatty foods or fast foods especially foods you know are
not very good for you; then go out for your exercise or jog, whatever you have
digested, that residue is forced to circulate through your system at an
accelerated pace. This is why people may not feel very energized and put off exercising or get tired after their exercise….be wise consider what you are doing to your body long term….

SOME CLUES TO CONSIDER

If you’re feeling a little uncomfortable or tired as you jog or tired especially after dinner consider what could be the food you ate that may be causing you the discomfort.
Sometimes its not very noticeable but there is one rule of thumb you might want
to remember: there are some foods that ‘extract energy’ and some foods that ‘add energy’. The foods that will extract your energy are bread, meat, salty and preserved foods. The more you eat any of these the more your body needs to labor to digest it.

Another thing worth considering;  peoplewho really want to gain stamina and muscle avoid eating meat. The biggest muscle building foods are greens and fish. Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted once as saying that one of the fastest ways to accessing energy was by eating large quantities of broccoli.  Arnold Schwarzenegger – IMDb