Manage Your Energy

Manage Your Energy

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Last week I talked about finding our peak performance and how we can use and understand our peak performance to optimize our lives and health. While understanding our optimal level of performance is important it is not the whole picture. The peak performance we are looking for goes beyond just regulating our nervous system and understanding where we want to be. 

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We also need to understand how our nervous system reacts to others and situations that we put ourselves in. As I mentioned in a previous post about manifesting the life we want and retooling our inner world so that it becomes reflected in our outside world, a similar principle can be used when looking at the people and situations we surround ourselves with. If we want to experience joy and curiosity and abundance and we surround ourselves with people who are critical and negative and condescending our energy is going to become stagnant and we will not be able to become those traits we want to embody. 

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Additionally, if we continue to surround ourselves around these people and interactions that are draining to us we are going to be less inclined to chase after what you want because you don’t have the energy to go after it. These interactions and individuals are draining your energy and shifting you away from your optimal level of performance and shifting your nervous system to an aroused state of fight or flight. Continuing 

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So how does one manage their energy? How do you keep in mind and regulate your nervous system outside of the vacuum of just your life when interacting with others. The easiest thing to do is energy audit your life and the people in it. If there is someone in your life who makes you feel small or insignificant or you feel that you can’t fully express yourself around, maybe you need to remove that person from your life or limit the interactions you have with them. If someone is constantly not allowing you to fully show up, your nervous system is going to default to fight or flight and you will be on edge during the interaction. The same thing applies to scenarios and situations. If there is an event happening that feels uncomfortable with you or that makes you hesitant maybe you don’t need to go, maybe you go but you have an escape plan so you don’t shift to a deflated state. 

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The same thing happens on the other side. If there are people that lift you up or make you feel comfortable and safe they are going to positively affect your energy state. These interactions and people are going to help you come down from heightened and hyperarousal states and be able to come back into your body again. It is these people that can help you heal and find your voice and strength again. It is these people that can help you get out of a funk and help you elevate your life to what you want it to be. 

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It is these people and types of interactions that why I say it is important to have a community and support system during a healing journey. We can all go on our own journey but if we don’t have a support system and we are just going at it alone it becomes isolating and scary. We need those who can help us find and maintain a rest and digest state so that we can show up with love into the world. We need to critically look at our interactions and who we are surrounding ourselves with and ask ourselves if this is someone who has a positive impact on my life. Are the people in our lives a reflection of who we want to be and embody. Do they make us feel safe that we can fully express ourselves? Do they drain us or do they make us feel energetic and full of abundance? It is those people that help us elevate our lives and help us become who we are meant to be. 

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Understanding your nervous system, where you want to be, and who you are interacting with is virtually important for taking your life to the next level and living the life you want to live. While it may be an individual journey you still always needs the support system there to help you get to where you want. 

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