We are living today the worst energy crisis the world has ever experienced: the personal energy crisis. The natural resource that we are depleting most dramatically is the human capital of the planet. During the last decades, we have learned to manage our time, our stress, our money and even difficult people. It is now urgent that we learn to manage our personal energy. Our survival as a specie depends on it.
In my medical practice, I heard this complaint from thousands of patients. Energy deficiency is a symptom that can be attributed to many different causes, including various acute and chronic physical or mental conditions such as depression, chronic anxiety and stress related disorders.
Often times, I saw that energy depletion had very little to do with a medical condition. Chronic fatigue was more often linked to painful relationships. People were being energy depleted from circumstances either at home with a spouse, a child or a parent, or at work with a coworker or an employer. At other times, lack of energy was caused by a lack of passion in the patient’s life, a lack of drive or purposefulness.
Fatigue, the modern plague, is only temporarily and partially relieved by medicine, which is more effective at treating acute problems like infections or surgical conditions. It has become more and more evident that medical science has very little effective long-term solutions for chronic energy depletion. Even “natural” medicine has its limitations in this area.
Personal energy management is simple but not always easy. It consists of two phases: avoiding leaks and revitalization. First learn to identify and avoid the black holes that sap your precious energy, things that drain you and drag you down. Concurrently, learn to recharge your batteries by identifying what gives you wings, what drives and motivates you to take good care of yourself physically and emotionally.
In order to shift from an energy depletion mode to a cycle of abundance, one needs to tap into the power of self-love, which resides in your heart.



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