TLC Application 06|12|2011 “Investing Our Energy”

Every day you make hundreds of small decisions about where to place your attention, your time, and your emotional investment. Most of us make those decisions on autopilot — reacting to whoever is loudest, whatever feels most urgent, or whatever fear is currently driving us. But what if you treated energy like a resource you could intentionally invest? The results would transform everything.

You Choose Where Your Energy Goes

Intuition and inspiration are great aids in guiding us to know exactly where to put our energy. We should recognize that where we put our energy is up to us. No matter where we are at, no matter what is going on in our world, where we place our energy is our choice. Whether or not we invest our energy into negative, scary or concerning areas becomes our decision. We can have a tendency to go into negative energy, but knowing that we can direct our energy into positive areas is an important lesson of life.

This principle of directing energy also has to do with the people with whom we engage and the endeavors we undertake. This even applies to the literature that we read or the programs we watch. It is all energy transference and interaction with the energy of our environment — the people we are around, the things we watch, the way we drive in traffic, the social settings we are in. We need to be aware of that energy and really try to steer ourselves toward energy that feels good and uplifts us.

Becoming an Energy Evaluator

We need to become “energy evaluators.” An energy evaluator is someone who can innately read someone else’s energy and know when people are uplifting and positive, and embrace them. We want to steer our energy toward vibrant people. In our friendships, even though we all go through things, are we positive? Do we stay on the positive side? Are we around people who like to look at things as challenges and opportunities? Who like to recognize perfect moments and relay those to you?

This is what life is about: embracing those perfect moments and aligning ourselves with the real energy of them.

It is about sharing passion with our friends. Sharing things that we are excited about and talking about new ventures. Thinking outside of the box and being around people who think outside of the box. It is so important to feel creative in every area of our life. Where we dole out our energy can be a very creative endeavor. It can be really fun.

Practical Steps to Better Energy Investment

Take the day and gear your energy toward anything that appeals to you. Put effort into it. Interact with it. Embrace it. Think about the people that are in your life. Who has the best energy? Give them a call, talk with them, and connect with them. Make a point of connecting with them. Start getting around uplifting people and see what happens to your demeanor.

Really make an effort to be around positive people. Watch things that make you laugh. Find places where you can laugh. It is important to laugh! Find places where you can consistently laugh and return to them. Laughter is a form of energy investment too.

Use your consciousness to think about where you can get good energy that you might want to interact with. Where do you get spiritual energy? Who are people you know who are spiritual? Call them and have a nice, spiritual talk. Mix it up. Interact in the energy of your life that you want to be aligned with. Make an effort to go after it and create it. There are others out there who want to create and interact in that positive energy with you.

What is it that represents a good moment to you? When it is happening, recognize it and align yourself with the energy. Be grateful that you get to share in it. See how much good energy you can share in — not for just one day, but start to make plans to meet people with good energy over the next week. See how things unfold. Enjoy every bit of it.