Sometimes, I hit a wall and have to take a nap to carry on. My clients are too tired to do their homework due to brain fog. My friend is suffering from such chronic fatigue she can hardly walk a block.

What about you? Do you need and want more energy?

Contrary to what most psychologists believe, the laws of physics must be taken into account if you want to be mentally, emotionally and physically healthy. APA and traditional psychologists made a mistake to abandon the body psychotherapy movement. The laws of nature apply to you because you have a physical body. Let that reality soak into your bones and cells and never forget it. Body awareness is essential for good mental health, emotional health and physical health. Body awareness is a perquisite for holistic health and self-confidence.

 

If you are lacking in body awareness, you are trapped in your negative thoughts, ego states and defensive reactions. Vibrant moments are not possible in any of these states because you are being controlled by your past learning history and conditioning.

If you use the laws of physics instead of psychological theories, you dramatically improve your results. A simple thing like just a little bit of body awareness can immediately increase your energy. As soon as you increase your energy, you decrease your depression and anxiety. Yes, there is a direct relationship between body awareness and anxiety and depression. The more body awareness you have, the less anxiety and depression you have. This could be a psychological human energy law.

For example, the psychological research on depression repeatedly finds that physical movement is the only thing that consistently works. Physical movement is more effective than medication or meditation. Depression occurs when we depress our natural healthy flowing energy. To stop depressing your energy use body awareness activities. Body awareness, which is ncreasing the consciousness in your body is effective.

I coined the “ACE,” Active Conscious Effort, years ago when I first discovered the relationship between the flip flop behaviors of anxiety and depression. Do you flip flop back and forth between being depressed and being anxious? When you flip flop between depression and anxiety, you could be labeled by traditional psychologists as bipolar or in the old days, manic depressive, which is an accurate description of your energy. Holistic psychology does not use labels, we use evidence-based learning research which says that depression is an avoidance response. This means you depress your energy to avoid being anxious. It is your anxiety that is the source problem.

Put notes on your mirror that remind you that body awareness is essential for good mental health, emotional health and physical health. When you are depressed, you lack body awareness, you are numb and devoid of emotions and feelings. It is exciting that body awareness can get you out of depression. Yes, as soon as you use a safe “Active Conscious Effort” you can shift out of depression. Your ACE needs to be a comfortable, easy to do action because in learning research terms, small baby steps successfully desensitize your anxieties and big ones don’t. If you move, the result is your energy increases and you feel better. You feel better emotionally because your energy is flowing and you are in physical reality instead of stuck in your negative thoughts which are making you anxious in the first place. Use the ACE to get out of depression and use systematic desensitization to reduce your anxiety naturally. Body awareness exercises help you feel the tension that is in your body.

When you notice you are anxious, if you care about yourself, you immediately do something to reduce your anxiety naturally. For example, body awareness meditations help you relax and breathe more fully. When you relax your body and take deep breaths, you become more grounded. If you continue to use body awareness exercises during the day, you can become a conscious breather which gives you a great deal of power over your anxiety.

Imagine how full body awareness would feel. You sink into gravity and completely relax deep into the earth and feel at home. You sense the human energy in your body interacting with the physical world around you. You feel part of the whole, not separate and alone. You are having a vibrant moment of being alive in your body. This body feeling is genuine self-confidence. Self-confidence is not a mental concept; it is a physical reality.

You cannot achieve self-esteem if you lack body awareness. With body awareness you are safer because you can respond appropriately to any real dangers that exist. If you stop to think, the real danger could overpower and hurt you. The more you relax and surrender into gravity, the more self-confident and safer you will be. Let’s go back to the three examples of not having enough energy.

“I hit a wall and have to take a nap to carry on.”

This is a fact of life and the second law of thermodynamics. When you run out of fuel, you must rest and receive energy in order to move forward again. Filling your cup up with energy is all you need to do.
If relaxing and receiving energy does not increase your energy, then your lack of energy is due to something else.

“My clients are too tired to do their homework due to brain fog.”

“My friend is suffering from such chronic fatigue she can hardly walk a block.”

The other reasons we lose energy are we waste it or give it away to something or someone else. So, ask yourself:

Did you give your energy away without knowing it? Take time and ponder what is truly happening to your energy. Where did it go?

Another law is energy constantly changes its form and cannot be created or destroyed.

This means energy moves around and changes its form, it is not lost forever. Water becomes steam, steam becomes water.

Therefore, if you have lost energy, it is somewhere and you can find it and rekindle I’m serious, you can discover what drains you and what gives you energy.

 

I will discuss Energy Drainers and Energy Boosters in the next newsletter. You can find your desire and passion and rekindle the fire you lost or gave away so you have energy again. For sure. Trust the laws of physics and use them to empower you as a human energy force on planet earth who radiates light and love.