It’s sunday and I haven’t done any work beyond flicking through my notebook looking at all my ideas and having some conversations. I meditated, did breathwork and bit of yoga in the sun for four hours. After the winter i’ve had, I deserve a bit of a rest in the sun, especially as apparently it’s leaving us shortly again.
Wanted to post something though, and wanted to talk about caffeine. It’s been at least a quarter year since removing caffeine from my life permanently.
There are two insane benefits:
- I am way more relaxed, and that means I am way more happy
- I can concentrate and think in a much more sustained and deeper way
Caffeine literally causes your body to have elevated stress levels. Everyone has a threshold of stress beyond which things start falling apart. Life can be naturally stressful. When you add an artificial stressor to that, often first thing in the morning, and then often repeatedly throughout the day… and you do this for years… you are literally keeping your body in perpetual stress completely pointlessly.
I have realised that in my adult life I had never knew what feeling genuinely relaxed was until I got caffeine out of my life. And it’s obvious … caffeine is liquid stress … there is no nutritional value, it tastes bad when your tastebuds regain their sense, and there is no energy in it. So throughout my adult life, every morning I just added to my stress levels without knowing about it.
Do that for two decades, like most people do, the accumulated wear and tear on your body and mind will be apparent.
I’ll talk more about caffeine in the future. It’s a really interesting subject to learn about because it helps you understand how societal and cultural norms are often a form of brainwashing that do you no good.
That’s it for Sunday.
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