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Evading tiredness
What do you do when you’re tired? I mean when you are tired in the middle of your working day and suddenly your energy level is going through a low phase. I know people usually drink coffee and some drink coke. I personally don’t like any of those drinks. Also I know some people who take caffeine tablets which I don’t consider a good solution either. (anything that looks like a medicine that should keep me awake is out). I’m looking for creative ways of evading the fatigue, but it is difficult to know how one would react. I usually feel like eating something sweet which ends up making me more tired. Today I tried a sweet and sour and I think the sour woke me up and I changed a bit my work to another field as well which gave me energy and after sometime I forgot that I was tired and continued my day energetically. The question I often ask myself is if to fight it, ignore it and go on, or find ways of evading it? Any ideas?
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For me it usually needs to be mild physical activity. Going for a walk, doing a series of stretching exercises even can be very good -- or headstands. Any of the inverted postures in yoga, even the simple ones like shoulder stands, are restorative. 

People who know what they're doing can get a lot of energy out of breathing the correct way or in the correct rhythm, in one nostril and out the other, but I can't advise on this. "Ujjayi breathing" might give some pointers.

I find that even changing the light affects me. Sitting in the sunlight and soaking up warmth is great, but isn't usually an option.
As a physicist and a programmer I often get sick and tired of what I'm doing, or just plain tired, if it isn't going well.  If I'm in the office that's my cue to perk up and announce 'Coffee?'  Usually I can round up a few people within a half hour and we wander down to a coffee shop on campus.  The point is not actually to get coffee, since I only drink tea or juice nowadays anyway, but to take a break and have a chat with some engaging people.  That usually perks me up.
If I'm at home I read some sort of guilty fluff - a detective novel or something really engaging - and preset a time that I'm going to stop and go back to work.  Usually that perks me up enough that I can busy myself around the house (doing housework), which wakes me up even further, and then I can go back to work.
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