Why no energy: 10 channels where we drain energy without noticing it

neurocoach

When it’s plentiful, we’re enthusiastic and ready to move mountains. When it is scarce, we find it hard to even get out of bed. Meanwhile, almost every day a person wastes his or her energy without recording where and for what it is spent. I propose to analyze ten specific channels and learn not to drain your internal resource.

1. Uncompleted tasks

Our brain is organized in such a way that when some process remains unfinished, it is regarded as a task that needs to be completed and periodically pops up, reminding us of itself. Unfinished tasks weigh on the psyche, creating unpleasant emotions and taking energy. This also includes debts and unfulfilled promises. The easiest thing to do in the first case is to give. In the second – to apologize, to admit that this case you will not complete.

2. Harmful habits

Smoking, overeating, alcohol – all this forces the body to spend resources to eliminate toxins and to recover. As a result, the nervous system, kidneys, intestines and some other functions of the body are very much affected. Especially strongly it is felt after long holidays, when we feel heavy, lazy and it is difficult for us to do anything.

3. Fear

When we experience it, the body is in stress mode and preparing to fight for survival. It doesn’t matter if you then have to actually do it or if it all happens only in your mind. Life forces are allocated for this in any case.

Processing information, the brain spends a lot of energy. Unnecessary fears and worries use up adrenal hormones, which can lead to kidney failure. It can also lead to feelings of fatigue and exhaustion.

4. Lack of sleep

During sleep, all of our organs and body cells renew themselves. Everyone has their own norm. On average, a healthy sleep is six to nine hours. To find out your personal norm, allow yourself to wake up without an alarm clock on a day off. This way it will become clear how many hours you need to fully recover. If a person does not sleep enough or does it in the wrong position, he does not renew his strength and does not replenish wasted energy. As a result, the body’s biorhythms are disrupted and the brain is overloaded with information.

5. Lying

When a person lies, he or she has to expend a huge amount of strength and energy to memorize and maintain a fictitious image or story. There is a chance that, while telling, we may misspeak, so we have to hold two realities in our head at once – the real one and the invented one. It’s a lot of work for the brain. And for the body, it’s a strain.

According to Oriental medicine, speaking untruths distorts the flow of energy between the throat chakra and the heart chakra – the most important organ in the human body. This has a negative effect on health.

Here we mean deception of any kind: hypocrisy, self-deception, and trying to appear to be something you are not really.

6. Living in the past or future

The habit of overthinking and going over things in your head, fixing what happened and looking at missed opportunities takes a lot of energy. Living in the past, as well as living in the future, takes resources away from the present. You need to decide what your values are today. What is important to you here and now? Meditation helps to clear the mind.

7. Excessive sex

During lovemaking a person exchanges energy with his partner: he takes energy from him and gives his own. Too frequent sex can lead to nervous and physical exhaustion. It is expressed in a strong feeling of fatigue, apathy, absent-mindedness, emotional imbalance. In addition, sex is a physical strain on the body, during which we lose a large amount of water.

8. Negative emotions

Envy, resentment, shame, guilt do not help to solve problems. All our energy is spent on fighting them and on general harmonization. They eat us from the inside out, preventing us from looking at the world in a positive way. When guilt is imposed on a person, it is one way to take away their energy and manipulate them. Negative emotions need to be worked through and let go. It is difficult to do this on your own. It is better to consult a specialist.

9. Inability to say “no”

Not protecting our personal boundaries and not knowing how to say “no” in time, we are forced to follow other people’s instructions and realize ideas that are not our own. This takes a lot of energy and deprives us of a sense of enjoyment in life. It is as if we begin to function under compulsion and forget about our true desires. Meanwhile, saying “no” is natural and normal. Believe me, people are ready for rejection. The world will not collapse if we give up something and do what we really want.

10. Old stuff and chaos

An apartment overflowing with junk does not fill with energy, but takes it away. Especially negatively affect us things that we do not like, but for some reason we do not throw them out.

Also dangerous is the general chaos in space. It is better to live by the principle of “few things, but they are all favorites” than “many things, but nothing to wear”. Chaos on the outside creates chaos on the inside of us. Decluttering your space regularly, donating things to a charity can be a great solution.