Motivation Through Physiology.

How your body moves determines how you feel. It also determines your energy levels, emotions, and motivation. Even the smallest changes in facial expressions change how we feel and think at any given moment. This fact passes right through people's minds and is dismissed right into the toilet. Don't they understand that they have the key to changing how they feel and perform? It only takes a few seconds to change your movement patterns and regain energy and motivation.

Try it yourself!

How are you feeling? Tired, bored, demotivated, low energy? Whatever your state is right now, we can improve it. Try this with me for a second. Stand up with your spine straight, make sure your shoulders are not bent forward. Now elevate your arms and clench your fists. The next step is to harden your muscles and look upwards. On the level of your face, bite hard and frown. Do it as if you were infinitely powerful. If this is not enough, scream, punch something, or jump around with epic music.

If you did this with intent then you will see that your energy levels and attitude changed. Power poses and movements like this give you energy and increase feelings of power, motivation, and confidence.

Of course this doesn't work that well if you do it half-assedly and lazily. Do it intensely and it'll get you out of that negative mood rut.

It's those who maintain a proper physiology who stay energized and motivated. Look at any successful figure and you'll see it for yourself.

Choose how you feel

Do you want motivation or depression? anxiety or peace? You can choose which specific emotions and states you want to experience. This is because the mind and the body are connected. Whatever the mind experiences is reflected in the body, and the other way around is true as well. If your body is tense, your emotional state will be tense and anxious as well. By letting go of tension and relaxing your body, your mind will follow. This is why one of the most common techniques to relieve anxiety and nervousness is to do slow breathing.

Let's take a look at two different states; Anxiety and peace.

Whenever you feel anxious, your body takes quick and small breaths, contracts and tenses up various muscles, and you feel terrible. When you are relaxed and at peace, your muscles are loose and your breathing is slow, you have no worries and you perform better. Do you want to contribute to your anxiety by letting your body maintain that state of tension? or would you rather control it and feel optimal?

Improve your posture and stretch

If your muscles are tense because you're sedentary and sit all day long then you're really compromising the results you could be getting in life. Stretching, massaging, and foam rolling can help relieve a lot of tension from your muscles. Removing tension might seem like a minuscule, technical detail, but the reality is that it is a huge factor in your emotional state. You could be so much more relaxed, confident, motivated and a better human being overall if you weren't tense all day long since this influences your emotions much more than you think.

And the fact of the matter is that you are probably tense in many areas since that's the way most people are nowadays.

So make a good investment in yourself and get a foam roller, a massage, and/or a good stretching session.

Listen to music

This one is pretty straightforward. Music has the wonderful power to change our emotional state, it can make us happy, depressed, motivated, angry, etc. It's also a great source of stimulation that keeps us away from the boredom that certain tasks give us. If you need a motivational rush and stimulation throughout your work session, put on those headphones and some music of your choice.

I recommend dance music or techno for most tasks since the beat will pump you up to work. Also, keep it instrumental to avoid getting distracted.

Get external support

External support can make everything easier and more fun. Getting a mentor or trainer to help you and motivate you is the best example of this. You'll probably do better if you have a trainer motivating you and pushing you to work. If whatever you're doing would be better with someone at your side motivating you, then why not?

Of course this could be ridiculous if it happened at your desk job, but you get the idea.

Make life easier for yourself and seek ways to pump up that motivation, why grind more when you can grind less?