Personal energy management

  Personal energy crisis

  Having enough energy is a result of proper fuel, rest, and managing our energy consumption. If it was that simple hardly any one would be having this personal energy crisis right? Simplicity practiced will find that the balance of those 3 things are how to have energy to progress in physical and mental performance. I have worked in the health and fitness industry for well over a decade and I hear this on repeat.

   I have done two previous post about rest and a nightly routine for quality sleep. Today will be looking at energy management.

  Managing our energy 
   
   This is first done by observing where you spend your energy. For some work is the most, some their work outs, or involvement of family life. Notice if you enjoy your work outs they don't drain you, they add to energy created.  If we find a reason to enjoy where we are we won't be wasting energy wishing we were some where else, or angry burning energy with only suffering as a result.

  We sadly waste alot of time on mindless entertainment and constant drama about some one else's business. We are no longer surprised by murder and acts of violence as we have invited it into our homes by watching it. This leads us to take the living being person from the story and just think of another headline. Social media is the best example of being a attached to a status or image rather than a person. Stopping things that take our energy with no return is wisely using our energy.

   Allowing greed,anger, hate, stress and anxious thinking to run out mind is another way we waste energy.  It's like picking up and holding hot coals. Makes no sense. Observe that those thoughts are there, but don't embrace them. No good result comes from spending time with any of these things.

  Inviting good energy is something we can do. That can be acts of kindness, meditation, prayer, body energy work, engaging in a creative process. I  always say the gratitude is the one of the best things to do with time. You can invite great energy any time by doing this.

  Being in a clean space certainly effects energy.  How relaxed in a clean space you are in comparison to a bathroom off the New Jersey turnpike,  I believe shows two entirely different experiences. Driving in traffic will feel better when your vehicle is clean, and adding gratitude for your morning commute will change how you function through out the day.

  Over time you will find where to no longer invest, and how to better. I think the best way to experience an immediate impact is just being outside and exposed to all the elements of nature that provide energy for every living being. You can collect that energy for personal use. This is the most over looked and totally free energy source.

  We can waste energy, spend energy, or invest energy. Think of energy the same as our time. Now is the only certain time, now is giving space for that energy. How are we investing this limited time experience of life?