Mar 3 - What To Do When Your Energy Changes - Daily Drop #9

This week was a huge reminder for me, about the importance of working with energy changes in the body.

For the last few weeks, I’ve experienced a fairly sudden change in my energy: from winter vibes, feeling lowkey, relaxed, and chilled out, to more spring-vibes, feeling wilful, high energy, activated.

But, there was a transition from one to the other that was tricky.

Resisting energy changes

The thing was, I had gotten used to my winter vibe. I’d even gotten into a nice routine: walks, study, reading. It was nice! I liked it! I wanted to keep it.

Uh oh…. that’s partly why when my transition from low to high energy came along, I didn’t feel the energy as “wilful, high energy, activated”. I experienced it, and myself, as agitated, restless, and annoyed.

Basically, I was trying to cling to a mode of energy that was no longer there.

“No,” I thought, “I don’t want to feel ‘activated’. I want to keep on chilling. No, I don’t want to feel ‘high energy’. I want to stay in low key.”

This meant that, for a while, I didn’t experience wilful as wilful. I experienced it as agitated. I didn’t experience high energy as high energy. I experienced it as restless. I didn’t experience activated as activated. I experienced it as annoyed.

All because I was judging these new energies. I was resisting them.
This resistance transformed these energies into less pleasant versions of themselves.

Welcoming New Energy

It was difficult to move out of this. I stayed in the agitation and restlessness for a while. It was fairly uncomfortable. But, when I started to allow this energy in and finally asked, “OK, OK, what exactly do you want?” of the energy, things started to move.

For example, when I finally asked what the restlessness wanted, it said quite clearly “I want to express myself in physical activity. Like going for a run!”

I mean, for a while I still didn’t go for the run, even after I’d heard it. I was stuck in a routine. That didn’t help the restlessness. But, when the restlessness eventually reached a certain level, I did go for a run, and boy, did I feel better! I could even thank the restlessness for getting me out the door. The energy had gotten me moving again.

Now the restlessness is clearly a form of wilful activation.

And this worked in other areas. When I asked the agitated, annoyed energy what it wanted, it wanted connection, to hang out with friends and be more social. I had been hibernating over the winter, and this had worked well until now. But now, my system wanted to get back out into the world again. When I agreed and met friends the agitated energy changed. Then, the agitated, annoyed energy looked more like a wilful, activated, high energy. Something happily social.

My Point: Notice How You Label Feelings & Sensations

It’s interesting, isn’t it? Sometimes our feelings, or energy, can feel like one thing, or another, depending on how we relate to them. By resisting my energy change, I felt agitated, annoyed, restless. By embracing it, the same energy became a form of high-, activated, wilful energy.

This can work in other areas. Fear can turn to excitement. Low mood can turn into restful hibernation.

So, I took the reminder: working with, instead of against, my energy can make a drastic change to how this energy is experienced in my body.

Give it a try! See what happens.