We all want more energy, whether it’s to help boost our vitality, give us more proactive hours in the day or simply to feel better. However, as we approach the holiday season, it’s time to give rather than receive. Why not offer your loved ones something we could all use: a boost in energy?
One of the hallmarks of good gift-giving is giving someone something they might not get themselves. Whether you are notorious for struggling to find gifts or are a die-hard gifter, this post collects some great ideas for presents that offer more vitality, energy, and zest to your loved ones’ lives to supercharge their new year.
Here’s hoping this list gives you some inventive ideas for gifts to make you the star of your holiday party, white elephant gift exchange, or family gathering. Some subtle changes, included in these gifts can help your friends transform their lives.
Organizer Session
One unique gift that can boost energy heading into 2025 is a session with a personal organizer. One of the biggest drains of our energy is disorder, clutter, and wasting valuable time looking for something in your home.
Organizers can help you streamline your closet, home office, or even your general home life. Everybody wishes they could have an amazingly organized calendar, a fully sorted closet, or a kitchen that runs like clockwork. However, not everyone has this skill set.
An organizer can look at your life and help someone craft a system to reclaim so much time they waste looking for rogue socks or sorting through a mass of paperwork in their inbox.
While this might not be the first thing you think of when you think of energy disorganization is the gift that keeps on giving with regards to robbing energy.
Disorder pulls focus, and wastes time and valuable energy. However, we often don’t know we’re doing it because we don’t know any other way to be. This is the perfect gift for someone in your life who doesn’t have the time or inclination for organization and is a treat that can give back in so many ways.
Coffee Alternatives
Do you have anyone in your life who is a caffeine-addicted jitterbug? Despite their regular re-ups of coffee they complain about sleep issues or a lack of energy. In some cultures coffee is sacrosanct, in others, people are dosing themselves to forget how tired they are.
Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors which is your body’s natural way to tell you you’re tired. While it works in the short term, your body will naturally react by creating more adenosine if you have not had adequate rest.
Our cultural caffeine addiction, while normalized, is often negatively impacting our energy levels. You get less sleep, which impacts your restorative sleep and while you may have jolts of productivity it can more readily lead to burnout.
If you’re too jittery, tired, foggy, or anxious how can you adequately get things done? One solution is to get off the crazy train of caffeine chasing. There are some coffee alternatives that you might want to get a friend or family member as a fun experiment.
There are certain blends of mushrooms popular in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic practices that can often mirror what caffeine does for your body. Reishi, cordyceps, and lion’s mane mushrooms can boost focus and mental clarity while also helping with gut health.
There are certain blends of mushrooms popular in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic practices that can often mirror what caffeine does for your body. Reishi, cordyceps, and lion’s mane mushrooms can boost focus and mental clarity while also helping with gut health.
If the idea of mushrooms has too much of an ick factor, matcha is another alternative to coffee. Matcha offers a subtler approach to getting caffeine. It has less caffeine and is also metabolized in a way that offers more sustainable energy. It also aids in fat oxidation which can help with weight management.
Matcha offers a whole host of benefits including more antioxidants, a more sustained source of energy, and is a good source of the amino acid L-theanine which promotes relaxation without fogginess and can also boost focus. This is a great healthy way to get caffeine and stress relief.
While everyone loves coffee this gift could give your favorite caffeine addict a healthy alternative that will boost their health and shift how they look at energy management.
Sleep Aids
We spend about a third of our lives sleeping. Sleep is vital for recovery, mental health, recouping our energy, and cellular healing but it can often be the first thing that falls off our radar.
One way to give your loved ones an energy boost is by giving them a gift to help them get better sleep. A luxurious sleep mask, high-quality sheets, a white noise machine, or even a weighted blanket is a gift someone might not get for themselves.
We all can neglect sleep but one of these sleep aids is a thoughtful gift and their success just might make one of your favorite people eternally grateful. This is perfect for someone perpetually groggy who complains of sleeping issues. A sleep treat can shift this major aspect of their life netting them a major boost to their energy.
Fun Physical Activity
Some of the most common New Year’s resolutions are to lose weight, work out more, and have a better diet. One thing that can help boost your energy levels is being more active. Like with sleep, getting physical activity can be one of the most common self-care things people drop when they get busy.
Giving someone a gift of a unique physical activity can supercharge their excitement about working out, physical conditioning, and getting physically fit. After all, not everyone has the same relationship with their bodies. A fun new activity can lead someone to a hobby that helps them reconnect with their body and find more excitement to get into joyful movement.
People who hate working out might not be likely to splurge on a fun physical activity. And yet, purchasing a fun new class could introduce someone to a new hobby or a whole new outlook on their body.
For example, offering a friend a boxing or martial arts class, aerial or trapeze lessons, or even a fun dance class can give them a new approach to connecting with their body. It could help supercharge their physical activity and by extension their energy levels.
An Energy Subscription?
If you want to cut to the chase you could even just purchase a subscription that provides your friend, loved one, or even a pet with pure energy. Quantum Upgrade allows you to purchase a subscription for a field of pure quantum energy.
Quantum energy is essentially pure positive energy. Energy is the flow of electrons. In some cases, like the human body, something will try to get these electrons from living cells. This causes aging, and energy depletion and can impact the body.
This could be unstable atoms in the electromagnetic fields surrounding our devices or even in some of the foods we eat and pollution in the air. Quantum energy neutralizes these natural drains and can also provide our body with extra electrons to avoid these facts.
Quantum Upgrade creates a field that ensures your cells are working at their highest potential by giving a burst of extra electrons while not just addressing any potential energy drains giving you more energy and vitality. Additionally, studies have shown it helps boost your cellular recovery and healing, and it also increases vitality levels by boosting ATP production.
This is an outside-the-box gift idea for someone who is a natural experimenter, a die-hard fan of healing energies, and someone who might need a boost to help them better manage their energy.
Conclusion
Finding the perfect gift can be a potential stressor. With so many issues in our lives stemming from the feeling that we don’t have enough time or energy, one of the most thoughtful gifts you can give is something that helps someone recoup, boost, or better manage their energy levels.
All of these options fit a few different gift-giving criteria, they are thoughtful, unique, and something someone might not get themselves. These can stand out as fun surprises that can help someone shift their energy, potentially change some of their habits, and supercharge their lives heading into the new year.