Increase Your
Aspiration in Life
Energy is a product of one's will. The more will, the more energy. But
what creates will in life? It is created by your aspirations in life.
Whenever you aspire for something it creates the will that energizes. If
you don't have energy, consider if you are lacking aspiration in life.
Then consider how to attain aspiration. Think about what you would like to
accomplish in life, what opportunities are out there, what you would like
to achieve, what you would like to learn, and so forth. When you find what
you want, you will feel aspiration rise, which will stir the will, and
energize your being.
Develop, Commit, and
Organize a New Endeavor
If you decide that you want to undertake a new endeavor, such as a new
project or a new business venture, great energy will be required on your
part. If however, you are able to think out clearly what you want, commit
to it, and work out the specific details (i.e. organize your vision and
goals), you will see your mental energy grow, which will then be followed
by a rise in your vital/emotional energy and will, and then your physical
energy, giving you the necessary propulsion to see your endeavor through
to great success. In other words, by leading with your mentality, your
mind's capacity for establishing direction and organization, you release
the a vast energy of the other parts of your being that can take you to
your goal in spades.
(For info on
how to follow the process of growth and accomplishment
from vision to manifestation, click here.)
Learn a New Skill or Niche
Whenever you learn something new, you will feel energy flowing into yourself. If you
implement the new skill or knowledge in your life, you will also feel a fresh
surge of energy and enthusiasm. Life will respond!
-A manager decided to train his
illiterate workers. They and the company thereafter were so happy and
energized. Even the machines started working better!
-An instructor learns a new program to
teach. He is not only feels a mental energy, stimulated there by what he
has learned, but feels additional energy in his being by the possibility
that he could extend this new knowledge into new possibilities in his
career.
Think about something new
you want to learn that's important to your work or your personal life. Then take it up in
full. You'll see your energy shoot up.
(For more
on this approach, click here.)
Prioritize Life Activities
Sometimes we spread our energy across too many activities and interests in our lives
causing us to have less than enough energy for the most important things. Try to evaluate
which items in your life takes the highest priorities, and devote more of your energy
towards these, and less to those of less importance.
Also, any way you can organize yourself one level higher than you are doing now, will
certainly help you with your energy level.
(For info on organizing
your life, click here.)
Develop Positive Attitudes
It's always best to have a generally positive attitude. A positive attitude attracts positive
circumstances and fortune in our lives, and at the same increases our energy. Having a
negative attitude attracts the opposite. Worry, anxiety, fear, anger, depression,
restlessness, impatience, etc. are inborn, primal negative attitudes that deplete one's
energy.
In the course of a day "watch"
your psychological state, and see if you get into any of these negative states.
(Normally people are demonstrating one of these negative attributes nearly every minute of
the day!). Now catch the negative attitude, and stop it. After a few moments
you will feel a sense of ease, peace, and soothing energy.
In addition, we can see
that in the course of the day one is always reacting to life in defeatist
ways. "Oh, I can't do this.", "Or that won't work
out," etc. These are the defeatist element that s in every one's
nature, and drains the energies. One must learn to control this automatic,
defeatist part of our consciousness in order to keep our energies high.
A Note on Patience --
Patience is
a source of energy of the highest order, the order of the soul. Patience
can effect the body, the nerves and emotions, and the mind. Physically
it creates quiet and makes the body function better. Emotionally it
creates calm that makes for greater affectivity of the nerves. Mentally
it creates peace that is the foundation of acquiring greater knowledge. This
is effect creates more energy for the person.
For example, often when
people are presented with a great opportunity or other positive
possibility (which brings in a higher level of energy), it is squandered
away by an over eager reaction by that person. If instead the individual
keeps the parts of his being calm, steady, undisturbed -- in short,
patient -- he absorbs that incoming energy and the opportunity or other positive
possibility gets completed and realized. If, for some reason, he is unable
to absorb the incoming energies, the energy is "spilled over"
and the opportunity or possibility evaporates and is lost.
In addition to having a general positive attitude to overcome the shared
set of primal negative attitudes that dog every human, there is the set of
negative attitudes that each human uniquely possesses. For example one
individual could show a propensity to close-mindedness, laziness, dislike
of the work you are given, procrastination, selfishness, ill-will toward
others, and
other less primal, more specific-to-the individual type negative
attitudes. Another individual would have his or her own unique set. If one can make
the effort to identify our unique negative attitudes, and then make a
sustained effort to overcome them, a vast reservoir of energy will flood
the being.
(For more on the
effect of our attitudes in our lives, click here. For a list of attitudes
described positively and negatively, click here.)
Overcoming Fatigue by
Eliminating Unwillingness
Energy in essence comes from the will of one's being. If one has the
will, there will be energy. If one doesn't have the will, energy will be
blocked -- e.g. one can become tired. If one is tired in life one needs to
consider if one is resisting the work we are involved with in some way;
where the will is in in essence is opposition to the work; i.e. we are unwilling
to do the work. Overcoming this unwillingness will release energy and overcome
such tiredness.
Shift Your Focus to Others
A related way to increase your energy is at any moment in time to shift your focus from
yourself to those around you. As you do this, you will feel the eagerness, strain, or
flatness related to your own self-focus to be replaced by an ease, energy, and joy of your
focus to those around you. Moreover, others around you are more likely to respond
positively to you, giving you even more energy!
(For related info to this
approach, click here.)
Give Up an Opinion
What applies to a negative attitude also
applies to an overly held opinion. As an experiment, take one of your ordinary
attitudes or opinions -- something you like or dislike pretty strongly. Suspend for a
moment the idea that it's right, necessary, reasonable, essential to your existence. Throw
the attitude or opinion away. Discover the truth in the very opposite attitude expressed
by someone you vehemently disagree with. Energy will pour into your mind.
Speak Less, Speak Softly
Here is an unusual way to create energy that is guaranteed to work. Instead of verbalizing
everything in your mind, hold the thoughts to yourself. Do not speak them
out. After a while you'll notice that
your energy is replenished. Likewise if you speak softly and avoid speaking
loudly you will also notice that your energy will not be depleted. We
cannot say enough on how important these two points are!
If you learn to be more
concentrated inside yourself and as you learn to develop mental silence
within yourself, you will become more thoughtful. This will have the effect
of reducing the quantity and pitch of the sounds that emanate from you.
Words will be few, your voice will grow soft and thinking more organized.
Furthermore, as your speech is reduced by acquiring concentration and
mental quietude, one will feel one is more attractive as a person to
others, even charming. This is especially so at work. Reduced
verbalization of thoughts, speaking softly rather than loudly, creating an
inner calm and working from that silence all have a tendency to attract positive responses from life.
(For more on this
approach, click here.)
Change a Habit
Changing any common habit or activity can also increase one's energy. Take
any simple physical habit such as brushing your teeth, eating, or writing
a letter. Try to become conscious of every thought, feeling, sensation,
and movement which arises when you express the habit. Now change the way
you do it. Break the habitual movements. Think, feel and do it
differently. Energy will surge through your nerves.
An instructor had been
conducting a particular class the same way for months on end. The
results were flat; the students only mildly involved. He decided to take
a completely different approach in his training technique and
methodology. Now when the teacher uses this new approach for the course
the students are energized and enthusiastic, leading to far higher class
evaluations for the instructor.
Energy Wasting Activities
There are a number of activities in life that deplete one's energies. Many
of us accept then as a normal part of life. However, many things can wear you out,
drain your emotions, or cloud your mind. Think about some of the items you are doing
that are depleting you of your physical, emotional, or mental energy (e.g.
drinking, drugs, food indulgence, overripe attachments to others, sexual
indulgence, etc.). Then try to cut
back in these areas wherever possible.
Also:
-Reduce stress through one's psychological techniques (e.g. staying calm at all times, not
being reactive, putting aside quiet time for rest, relaxation, reflection, meditation,
etc.)
-Eat right, exercise regularly.
(For thoughts on physical
well-being, click
here.)
Hidden Deflators of Energy
There are some other very unusual, hidden ways that energy can get
depleted. For example, one individual went to a funeral, where the
atmosphere and consciousness was low, where the energy was somehow
deflating, even if people were not conscious of he fact. When he arrived
back from the funeral and touched his computer, it would not function.
This is an example of how something outside, a person, a gathering, or
some other force can secretly be debilitating and reducing the energy
surrounding it, which can enter people, who when they interact with
something else spread this unseen debilitation of energy. One can
also feel depleted of energy if someone
has a hostile will toward you, or is untruthful toward you, or is
disorganized in their thoughts, or is expending the wrong type of energy,
etc.
There are also "inner", spiritual-like approaches to increase your
energy.
Be Still to Eliminate
Fatigue
If you are feeling fatigued, there is a simple solution to overcome it.
Simply be still and quiet. Try to just relax, and remain quiet and calm. At a point
soon thereafter your energies will return. I possible wait for it to
return before acting. It is also helpful to have positive thoughts,
eliminating all pessimism during this period of stillness.
Develop An Inner Poise
One can
begin in one's life a movement from living on the surface of life to the depths within. As
one withdraws from the surface in our daily activities, as we move
deeper within, we are far less troubled by the outside, because we have
found the calm, Inner Being within. From that poise
problems on the outside melt away, because we cease to exist in our ego
state, or state of separateness. From this inner poise we are able to
calmly see all our mistakes, impulses, overreactions, poor attitudes,
assertive opinions, etc. that occur on the outside. By being stationed
within, our day moves along more calmly, sweetly, perfectly, integrally.
Things unfold more as peace and joy.
In addition, it has the effect of
sustaining and strengthening our level of energy.
(To learn more about
living in the depths within, click here.)
Infinite Spiritual Energies
We can know the ultimate
source of energy in life by opening ourselves to the higher spiritual
energies around us. We can come in touch with our inner spiritual essence
and being, or open to the transcendent Divine, to connect us with the infinite
powers and energies of the universe. It is in fact that Force
that connects us to the source of all energy in the universe.
There are a number of ways to open one's self to the higher
energies and forces that exist in the universe. If one opens to these
forces one can tap into energies that are infinite, which can translate
into infinite energy in your life. 
