{"id":2408,"date":"2023-06-12T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2023-06-12T01:34:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:27","slug":"reprograma-tu-vida-episodio-1-manten-la-bateria-bien-cargada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2023\/06\/12\/reprograma-tu-vida-episodio-1-manten-la-bateria-bien-cargada\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprogram your life, episode 1: Keep your battery at full load"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This article is a follow-up from last week's post<\/a>, and more episodes will be published in the upcoming weeks)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I'm sure we have all experienced this at some point: no matter how top-notch and ultramodern our phone is, it becomes useless if we forget to charge its battery. A mobile phone with little battery has more limited functionality, and if it gets to the point of running out of power, it just stops working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, we as humans also need energy to be able to function properly<\/strong>, even if the kind of energy we use and the way we \"recharge our batteries\" are quite different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This may seem silly, but in reality, it's not. It is surprising how often we neglect our most basic needs<\/strong>, probably because we don't realize how that carelessness is robbing us of our energy and interfering with our performance. And even though we don't have an automatic gauge that tells us the percentage of battery left, our body does send us signals to let us know what it needs, but we can only notice those signals if we are paying attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, before we proceed to start the reprogramming work, I propose that we go through the essential care required by your device<\/em> (that is, your body), with special emphasis on your central processing unit<\/em> (your brain), and make the necessary adjustments so that they can maintain an optimal level of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Just as a mobile phone needs to be charged every now and then, a person needs to sleep and rest every day<\/strong>for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving aside the general fact that our body needs to sleep for several hours every night to recover from the day and regain strength, sleep time is especially important for our brain. This is because some of the processes that happen during sleep help us to assimilate what we learned during the day, while others perform cleaning and brain cell regeneration tasks. We could say that our brain takes advantage of the quiet time and uses it to perform maintenance tasks, just like old computers used to perform hard disk \"defragmentation\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to allow this to happen, we must achieve deep sleep, high-quality sleep<\/strong>. There\u00b4s no point in sleeping very little one night and then \"making up for it\" later on; that\u00b4s not how it works... The best thing we can do is give rest the priority it deserves and establish routines that favour deep restorative sleep, remembering that resting is not a waste of time but rather the opposite: it\u00b4s fundamental for our health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our body also needs to receive nutrients from the external world, to transform them and produce its own energy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n