Energy works in a similar system as a currency like money. In other words, after you have spent it, you need to regain some more before you try to spend again. Otherwise, you end up going into a deficit. Energy deficits are not pretty.
You know you are in an energy deficit when you are tired, irritable, stressed, frustrated, and generally unenthusiastic. Ultimately, a check and balance must be made.
The cycle of perfect energy management is one where you are fully engaged and using all of your resources for maximum productivity, followed by a period of intensive recovery where you regain all of your energy for the task ahead.
When your body, mind, emotions, and spirit finally declare bankruptcy, you crash and burn out as the eventual price of poor energy management is.
The key to effective energy management is to install habits into our life that promote cycles of deep engagement followed by recovery. Without this balance in the cycle, the system becomes unstable. Creating these habits means developing a ritual for recovering your energy. This could be as simple as sitting back and relaxing for fifteen minutes or doing some light exercise.
To increase your energy, you must stretch it beyond its current capacity, and then recover it. This stretching of capacity is what most people refer to as stress.
Energy is more than just the physical energy you use from exercising. There are other levels of energy that work in a similar fashion but are equally important.
Physical: Physical energy is still incredibly important. This is the primary and most fundamental source of energy. Physical energy is also regulated by diet, exercise, and sleep. This energy is tapped regardless of whether the task is physical. Most of us do not do, particularly physically demanding jobs.
Mental: I believe that mental energy is essential to the focus or direction of the energy we have. Mental energy can be increased through the stress and conditioning method, through challenging mental study and tasks, deep learning, and creative activities. Mental energy is our ability to concentrate, analyse and be creative.
Emotional: Emotional energy is our ability to control and maintain our emotions. People with a high amount of emotional energy will be positive, enthusiastic and happy. Low amounts of this energy are the manifestations of anger, despair and frustration. If physical energy represents capacity, mental represents direction, then emotional represents quality.
Spiritual: spiritual energies not as being a religious or metaphysical type of energy but the energy we get when we are associated with purpose.
Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, purpose seems to be a necessary ingredient to live successfully. Spiritual energy represents the power or force of energy.
Energy management continues to be a subject that will fascinate many. By undertaking conditioning and progressive increments of stress followed by deep restoration we can even expand our capacity for energy.
I am quite confident that, by recognising the multi-dimensional aspects of energy we can really take control of a force that guides our life.
Take a break and get back with cash rich energies.
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