Let us see, in a nutshell, the most important factors that are effecting the level of our vitality, energy, productivity and competitiveness.

Sleep

Probably the most important and simplest factor although only a few people know and appreciate the real importance of sleeping. Not only the number of hours we spend sleeping is important, but also when we sleep. The measurements we made so far have confirmed the old rule that the most useful is to start sleeping at 9 o'clock at night, or 10 o'clock at the latest, i.e. in the summer when the sun goes down. If we follow this natural ancient rhythm, the habit built into our organism during many hundreds of thousands of years will favourably effect our life. We will be able to rest much more efficiently than if we had started our sleep after midnight and continued to sleep during the day. This natural sleeping rhythm is much more restful and replenishing. The simplest way to improve our vitality level is by re-establishing our resting periods, so it's worth starting with this.

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Relaxing exercises

Another very important factor is to learn and use relaxation methods. Very old methods are available to replenish ourselves. The most ancient method may be Indian yoga, but in the Far-East in China methods have also been discovered which replenish us with the combination of breathing and special excercises like Chi-Kung. It's important that after a short period of time we learn how we can bring ourselves into a stress-free status and through this fill our body with energy. This can be done in a very short time, even in some minutes. (Numerous detailed books, descriptions can be found about breathing techniques and meditational states). Medical science or psychology nowadays can separate some functional phases of the brain. On EEG measurements the name of alpha state is used to indicate the mental state of relaxation and energy replenishment. This roughly means that 10-11 Hertz of frequency can be detected in our brain if we examine its electric activity. You can learn how to reach this mental state. For example, a simple easy-to-learn method is Silva's Mind Control. The ideal method could probably be a kind of combination of the mental and breathing techniques and according to our experiences this is the quickest way to replenish. This is the reason why even our posture will make a difference. It is very important to sit with a straight back so that our lungs can fill up with oxygen and let our oxygen supply to be perfect. Hollow chests, stooping figure will make breathing and oxygen metabolism much more difficult and this will lead to low vitality level.

Sports

Sports are another type of relaxation and breathing exercise. We're also able to improve our vitality level by playing sports. It is important to know, though, that it is not useful all the time or to any extent. We are able to measure at what limit sports will recharge us, and over what extent it will be too tiring, where it decreases the vitality level dangerously by overdoing excercises. Ideal sports are: swimming, reasonable gymnastics, jogging, or tennis if it is done in fresh air.

The above viewpoints have considered the mental techniques and oxygen metabolism, so let us now examine other factors, or circumstances that are effecting our vitality values. A majority of it will depend on our eating and drinking habits.

Vitamins

It is best if you check whether you are getting the right quantity of vitamins. The best way to do this is eating many row fruits and vegetables. Only use artificial products if you are unable to get natural food. Many vitamin supplements are available, you can try and see if your vitality level increases after the intake. Sometimes the lack of one or two vitamins can significantly lower your VQ level which is the easiest to recover by taking these vitamins.

Short history of the energy of life

The energy that we're measuring as vitality has been well known for a very long time in the history of civilization and it's very hard to find a place where it wasn't used for healing purposes. Ethnographical researchers found traces of healing with this kind of energy among many tribes thought to be primitive in Australia, Siberia, from the Pacifics to America, and Africa. Since this energy is present in everybody, in smaller or greater quantities, and since we can pass it on to each other to some extent, it's known to be the oldest and a very effective "medical" treatment.

It had a name in all cultures. In India it was called Prana, in China, Chi, but it's also known by all the other old cultures. Healing with bioenergy is a wide-spread human ability. In the ancient times its importance was recognized in China and India roughly about the same time. In India, jogies worked out exercises to increase energy through meditation and breathing exercises. Even greater effects have been achieved in China by controlling and directing this energy. Acupuncture could probably be led back to this energy because in some points of our body there is more of it than in others.

During the measurements it came to the light that the greatest energy from the human body is released from areas where there are lots of acupunture points, while less active areas are where there are only a few or none of them. We suppose that the energy making the wheel rotate is probably the same as the one spreading through the acupuncture meridians. In China, though, this energy has not been used only for healing, but also for fighting. This is the so-called "soft" martial art (Wu-Shu) where the enemy can be defeated without any physical contact, simply with an energy "shoot". Some parts of the body can be hardened this way so one can withstand extremely strong hits. This martial art is unknown except for in China, making it quite incredible and difficult to imagine.

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