Energy Management - Stop feeling tired, overwhelmed and drained - Part 1
Let me tell you that isn't going to be the case. My intention here is to demystify the esoteric concept of energy from a simple and practical standpoint.
Here is what we will touch upon:
What does it mean to be an energetic being?
How to manage your energy in the way that works for you.
How to recognize an "energy drain."
What is the difference between spending versus investing your energy.
How to protect yourself from energy vampires.
How food affects your energy.
What to do to feel more energized and alive in your life.
Tools and resources you can use to affect your energy levels and also to protect yourself.
Since this would be too much information to cover in one e-zine, and I also don't want you to go to sleep while reading this, I'm dividing it into two parts. The first part we will talk about managing your energy. The second part will cover how to protect your energy and tools you can use, and will be discussed in the next issue of Live Your Life. So if this is of interest to you, be on the lookout for our next e-zine.
Let's start from the beginning. Why am I the person you should listen to? I don't think you SHOULD do anything in your life. Yes you heard me right. However, if what I'm saying is making sense to you and you feel attracted to it, then by all means read and draw your own conclusions about what I'm sharing with you. I always believe in questioning and trying things for yourself. Otherwise, how will you find your own way in life? This is my platform to share my own experiences with you and what I have learned through those experiences.
So if you are still with me, here we go:
The first time that I was introduced to the concept of energy was when I was 20 years old. Coming from a conventional medicine background you can imagine my response to the energy concept. (Too bad you can't see my face, because it would be so much easier to show you than to describe what that looked like back in the day.) It was kind of the same thing as talking about UFOs. Not something I ever knew about, had no tangible experience with, and on top of everything, I was coming from a very rigid place, which was, "If I can't see it, smell it, or touch it, then it must not exist." Does that sound at all familiar to you? I had 1,000 questions and I wanted to understand it NOW! I was functioning from my intellect and that is where I stayed most of the time. Why? Because that is where I was comfortable.
Here is the reason: There were events in my childhood so painful and overwhelming that at one point in my life I disconnected from my emotions.
The result was me disowning a very essential and important part of myself-my sense of knowing. Call it intuition. I found out years later emotions are your essential connector to your intuition.
Pointer #1: It is usually challenging to believe in something that you never had a tangible experience with (and know that it exists).
Pointer #2: If at some point in your life (due to overwhelming events) you disconnected from your emotions (which by the way most of us do), your sense of knowing (intuition) is greatly diminished or masked.
That is why lots of folks are having a hard time relating to the concept of energy. We don't operate in those terms in our lives, on a day-to-day basis. However, that doesn't mean energy doesn't exist and it doesn't affect our lives just because we don't believe in it.
Nowadays, it has been scientifically proven at the base of everything is energy. We are energetic beings that vibrate at certain speeds. The sooner you'll get this concept, the better off you'll be.
Pointer #3: You are in charge of your vibration.
However, if you don't know that, aren't aware of the energy concept and the practical application of it in your life, you most likely are the victim of your environment and people around you. What do I mean?
Everything you interact with on a day-to-day basis (be it people, things you do, or behavioral patterns you engage in) influences your energy levels and how you function in the world. So how do you recognize an energy drain?
Here are some things to look for:
People you talk to or interact with (in person or on the phone), afterwards you feel tired and drained (people who complain a lot, people you look at and don't feel right about, people who always just want to talk about themselves and their tragedies, etc.).
Places and circumstances that leave you feeling tired (places with a lot of people like subways at rush hour, movie theaters or shopping malls, places where violent things have happened-like the Twin Towers, etc.).
The food you eat-especially processed foods (those that come prepared in a boxes and cans, pizzas, hamburgers, chips, things you put into the microwave, sugar in any form, eating lots of red meat, and potatoes, overeating, etc.), after you eat them your energy greatly decreases.
Doing more than you can handle physically and emotionally, going to extremes.
Always taking care of others and not having time for yourself.
Mostly "doing" instead of "being."
Having unresolved emotional residue from the past (like childhood trauma, things you had a hard time dealing with, etc.). These things create energetic weight you carry around and make it harder to deal with things on a day-to-day basis. Basically you expend twice as much energy.
Excessive use of alcohol, coffee, or other substances including medications and recreational drugs. Energetically they create a gunk in your system and put you out of your body, so the more you use them, it becomes increasingly harder to function in life and be present with what's going on. They decrease your vibration.
EMF (electro magnetic frequency). This is a low vibration frequency that most of us are exposed to on a day-to-day basis from TV, microwave, computer, cell phone, fluorescent lighting, energy plants (nuclear or hydroelectric), airplanes, anything you plug into an electric socket (hairdryers, toasters, etc.).
In closing our talk about energy management, let me tell you how a combination of some of these or all of these things can result in your life.
Loss of physical energy
Being tired a lot
Feeling overwhelmed in life
Feeling depressed
Low sex drive
Reoccurring physical symptoms like eye strain, headaches, backaches
What's the point attitude
Having hard time focusing
Sleeping disturbances
Inability to relax
Inability to fully enjoy life
Various physical and emotional ailments
Stay tune for our next issue, where we will talk about ways to protect your energy and tools that have helped me that you can use to help yourself and take charge of your life.
Enjoy and don't forget to have fun!
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