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How To Boost Your Personal Energy
Personal energy makes you feel more alive. Once you learn how to connect with your empowering emotions, you will move in the direction of your greatest good and move away from apathy.
How do you come alive?
The short answer: You move away from apathy.
Apathy is a low-vibration emotion that does not serve you; it is the opposite of creative dynamism.
Here are several ways to move out of apathy:
1. Move your mind.
Examine your thinking process and find out what causes you to withdraw into apathy. You can do this through contemplation or journaling.
2. Move your emotions.
Move through the stagnant emotion to a higher level emotion like frustration or anger, rising up the emotional scale until you can get to courage.
3. Move your body.
Exercise, get in touch with your more primal physical energy, and raise your endorphins.
If you look back on your life, you will see that your failures were due to your inability to overcome your apathy. Jobs, relationships, and dreams collapsed because there was not enough personal energy to keep them alive. You simply did not have enough interest to reverse adversity. Apathy prevailed. When personal energy was high, you overcame insurmountable odds and did something that earlier seemed impossible. You had enough power to adopt new strategies.
Notice that when apathy prevailed, you failed and experienced a loss and when personal energy prevailed, you succeeded and expanded the quality of your life.
Apathy comes from the Greek word apatheia. The etymology of this word is "a" or "away from" and "pathos" or "emotions." Thus, it means a lack of feeling. It also means a lack of personal energy.
A person who is apathetic, then, is someone with low energy, someone who does not create anything useful, meaningful, or expansive. Impassiveness and indifference inform their experience.
In the days of the Roman Empire, apathy was extolled as a positive state. In Stoic philosophy, the condition of being totally free from "pathe," the emotions and passions, was seen as a very good thing because it meant relief from grief, fear, lust, anger, and pride. It was a way of surviving the chaos, travail, and tragedy of life in those days.
But can vegetative living be a virtue?
The human soul, after all, comes to life when it is sparked by personal energy.
Personal energy awakens the brain to perceive, conceive, and achieve. Apathy is the antithesis of this state. It is a state of dullness and deadness. There is little value in it.
Apathy is in fact an elaborate defense mechanism created by the subconscious mind to ward off pain. But since the energy of this emotion is not life-affirming, it is closer to the Freudian notion of thanatos, the death instinct, than eros, the life instinct. Someone who is apathetic is closer to the desire to be dead than the urge to be alive.
Apathy is a withdrawal from sensory experience. Like a tortoise, the psyche, withdraws into a shell of indifference.
Apathy can result in the death of individuals and cultures as a whole. When there is no personal energy in life, in the events of experience, in actively affirming values and creating meaning, things fall apart very quickly.
All human lives have pockets of apathy in them. These come and go, but when the inertia because overwhelming, then it can result in things necessary for well-being to fall apart.
Apathy is a reaction to trauma. It arises because some experience deadens your joy for life. Over time it creates the habit of withdrawal when things get out of control. As upsets accumulate, the life-force diminishes and a person not only fails to evolve but also drags down everybody around them.
Agitation, or reactivity, is not the answer to apathy, either. That is the other extreme, and equally dysfunctional and maladaptive. The answer to apathy is movement, re-inspiration of ideals, and a desire to serve all of life.
As you work on removing more and more pockets of apathy that you may fall into each day, you will find yourself coming alive with an enthusiasm for the things that excite personal energy. The joy of life increases as your sense of apathy, an elaborate defense mechanism against noxious stimuli, decreases.
It does take will and effort to overcome habitual states of apathy, but what can be more rewarding than feeling more alive? Life, after all, despite its relentless challenges, is about rising in consciousness and feeling more alive as your awareness expands.
About the Author Saleem Rana at MindPower Insights will show you how to get focused, increase productivity, plan your future, and take action to realize your dreams! Visit Mindpower Insights today and download free goal-setting software.
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