ENERGY AWARENESS TIGER TIPS

ENERGY AWARENESS TIPS

to help you better understand and manage your life energy

Excess Strength = Less Energy

When we start to explore ideas about our life energy, a concept many of us struggle with is that excess strength diminishes the amount of energy we have.

This is hard to believe because many of us are accustomed to the idea that strength is good, and the more strength the better.

Yet this is not necessarily the case when it comes to your life energy.

Before we go any further, let's define what we mean by strength. The strength we are discussing is any strength that we create in some way by holding, whether muscularly, emotionally, or mentally.

These types of strength make us more rigid and hard. Unfortunately, rigidity blocks the flow of life energy in our bodies, and diminishes the total amount that we have available to us.

In the United States, we sometimes use the phrase “to squeeze the life” out of someone or something. This phrase reflects our common understanding that if you take something that is alive, and put too much pressure on it, then you deaden it.

This is what happens to your life energy when you hold yourself too tightly with your muscles, or for that matter, with your emotions or your mind.

This doesn't mean that you should let yourself go soft and flabby. It's also true that for your life energy to flow in your body, your muscles or other soft tissues need to have what we call “good tone”. In this state you can think about your muscles having some strength, but not too much.

Think of a young child's body. Their muscles have great tone, yet are soft to the touch. This is the type of body that easily carries lots of life energy.

Or think of great athletes or dancers in their prime years. As they perform, they always look so relaxed and natural, with no sense of the holding or effort that you often see in their less capable peers.

So as you go through your day, try to recognize when you are holding yourself with excess strength and then let go of that strength. Try it as you walk. Try it as you exercise. Try it when you hold something. Try it when you are having a difficult conversation.

Let go a bit and let your life energy flow.

Enjoy.

Bill Ryan

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