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PERSONAL ENERGY

What is Personal Energy?

The term “personal energy” refers collectively to those parts of you that are subtle and non-physical, such as your sense of aliveness, feelings and emotions, thoughts, memories, conscience and beliefs. You can’t see any of these things, yet you know they exist and are vital to your sense of self.

Your energy is an integral part of who you are and how you perceive the world.

Our energy weaves inextricably throughout the fabric of our lives. It’s present in the unspoken communication between people, in the subtle shifts in power, in our maneuverings for attention, and the manipulative, comforting or inspiring currents that affect us in our relationships.

-Gail Christel Behrend

Why is Energy Awareness Important?

When you have low energy, it can affect your life in many ways:

  • Physically – you may find it more difficult to work or do what you love.
  • Emotionally – you may feel burdened by the demands of others and lash out at them, causing your relationships to suffer.
  • Mentally – you may feel confused, make poor decisions, or let others decide things for you.
  • Spiritually – your life may feel empty, hopeless or overwhelming.

BUT when your energies are strong and healthy, your life improves dramatically! You have energy to spare. Your relationships become fun and joyful. Your love flows. Your mind is clear and decisive. Your sense of self expands and your creativity bubbles up with new ideas for self-expression. Life becomes exciting and meaningful.

Energy awareness is the first step to achieving health and balance. 

Energy awareness ensures that we pay attention to the things that are important to our happiness and well-being, while they are happening.

-Gail Christel Behrend

Why Manage My Personal Energy?

Once you understand how your physical, emotional, mental or spiritual energies get drained or thrown off balance, the next step is to be able to consciously manage your energy in the moment, so that you can respond to any situation more resourcefully and effectively.

Benefits of being able to manage your energy include:

  • Better health—Energy skills enable you to restore energy flow in the body to relieve pain and activate healing of chronic conditions.  You can boost vitality, endurance and strength within minutes. You can also improve your mood or mental state quickly and easily by changing your energy.
  • Empowerment—When you’re aware of energy, you’re less likely to be deceived by those who try to manipulate you. You also have the energy skills to assert yourself effectively in any situation. When you understand the energetic results of your actions, you make wiser decisions and become more responsible for your behavior. Rather than blaming others, you begin to do what it takes to improve your own life.
  • Improved relationships—By creating an energetic buffer of safety around you, you feel calmer and less anxious in relationship. You’re able to honor your own needs, while respecting others. You feel safe enough to allow deeper intimacy with loved ones. Your positive energy makes you more attractive to others and because your energy feels good to them, people are more likely to trust and support you.
  • Better work environments—Energy skills can change conflict situations into creative win-win situations, improving your work life and relations with colleagues. You feel more motivated and more confident. You become a highly-valued team member. Your company also benefits from higher productivity and profitability.
  • More creativity and passion—As you use your energy awareness to explore the truth of who you are, you’ll discover many of your previously accepted roles and beliefs to be false or limited. Once you open to your energy nature, you free yourself for more creativity and exploration. You have more passion and zest for life.

 

When we identify where we’re not fully expressing ourselves in any area of our lives, we can learn to use our energies in new ways to bring those areas back into balance, so our lives work for us, rather than against us.

-Gail Christel Behrend

So, How Do You Manage Personal Energy?

In order to manage your energy effectively, you need to be able to:

  • Be aware of the energy of other people, situations and your environment and how they are affecting your energy in the moment.
  • Protect yourself energetically from distracting outside influences so you can become clear within.
  • Connect with yourself – find out what you most need in the moment and what is the best action to take.
  • Perform proper self-care to keep your energy strong and clear throughout your day.
  • Use basic energy management skills to change your energy state quickly as needed.
  • Work effectively with your personal energy wave and its natural expansion and contraction cycles.
  • Restore your inner equilibrium to recover from upsets or stressful events.
  • Identify imbalances in your life and use energy awareness to find creative solutions to resolve them.
  • Handle specific situations effectively using energy skills.

Don’t worry. It’s not as hard as it looks. The secret is to start small and build up slowly as you develop confidence in your skills.

Here is a suggested roadmap to get started.

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