Manage Your Energy

Have you ever wondered why some individuals are always energized while others are emotionally exhausted? It is because they manage their energy well.
Energy management offers an array of benefits like enhanced performance, keeps you 100% active whenever the conversations occur, and help you contribute creatively whenever any critical task is allotted to you.

What Drains Your Energy & How Can We Boost Them?

Incomplete Tasks/Unsettled Past Issues

Did you know that incomplete or unsettled past issues can impact one’s energy detrimentally? If a person doesn’t complete essential tasks, he experiences intrusive thoughts, resulting in stress, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and mental and emotional depletion. One way to overcome them is by dividing your tasks into smaller ones and doing them individually. Completing the tasks allotted during the day gives a feeling of closure and significantly improves a person’s psychological well-being.

Unresolved Issues/Internal Conflicts

Sometimes emotional experienced happen in the past, and emotions pop up in our minds continuously. As a result, they can prevent us from moving ahead in life. According to Dr. Alireza Sharifi, “It is vital to be aware of old patterns, experiences, traumas and challenges and how they will impact our present life.” This process is both challenging and rewarding. Therefore, it is vital to consult a professional therapist to address past issues to create momentum for the present.

Interpersonal Conflicts

It is normal to have interpersonal conflicts in relationships. Every person has different values, beliefs, and opinions. Their differences often lead to interpersonal conflicts. Specific conflicts are healthy, while others can be unhealthy, stresses the person out, and drains his energy. If the interpersonal conflict has seriously damaged your relationship with the other person, consult a therapist who will guide you in ways to deal with it.

Not Enough Rest

Did you know that lack of sleep drains our energy levels, as being tired creates stress in the body? That is why it is imperative to get adequate rest to derive optimum performance from the brain. Therefore, ensure you sleep for at least 7 to 8 hours to deliver the best performance.

Dehydration

Dehydration significantly impacts an individual’s mood, energy, and overall health. Lack of water intake hinders the body’s electrolyte balance resulting in muscle pain and cramps. In addition, it inhibits the use and production of digestive enzymes in the body. As a result, you experience scratchiness in your eyes and throat, which makes a person lazy and angry and degrades energy levels. The only way to combat this issue is to keep water handy and drink it at regular intervals.

Note: Another thing that can prevent dehydration is that a minimum of 70% of your daily intake should include water, fresh fruits, and vegetables instead of processed foods.

Having a Negative Mindset/Attitude

Negative experiences often make the mindset negative. For example, overthinking the future sometimes makes a person’s mindset negative. It drains the energy out of a person and leaves us with little or no power to do anything in the present. Whenever negative thoughts pop up, make sure that you think about the moments when you felt peaceful and happy. Once you recall those positive moments, try to jot them down. It helps your mind to view the bright side of things. Treat your negative thoughts like Spam emails. Don’t take such emails seriously; delete them. Reading these emails will do more harm than good.

Having Limiting Beliefs

Beliefs are one of the most critical drivers of our behaviors. They influence our thought patterns, emotional reactions, and unconscious actions and reactions. In fact, limiting beliefs limit our ability to generate enough energy. They act as thermostats and as a result, our unconscious will not be able to gather, generate, distribute, and even transmit energy throughout the body. This is why they exhaust us to the extent that we feel disappointed, hopeless, weak, burned out, or depressed.

Keeping Negative Emotions

Every emotion is charged with energy. If we pay attention to our feelings, we will notice that every single emotion provides us with different levels of energy. For instance, some negative emotions, such as frustration and anger give us high level of energy, while some other negative emotions, such as sadness, powerlessness, hopelessness, or disappointment bring down our energy level. At the first glance, it seems like intense negative emotions are okay, but the fact is they harm the body. They significantly lower our body’s energy after they subside. On the other hand, the other category of negative emotions will impact our energy level right away. People who never let go of their negative emotions will not be able to maintain a satisfactory level of energy.

Not Breathing Deep Enough

Studies suggest that appropriate breathing can be one of the best ways boost our energy easily. We have forgotten its true value, and most people do not know the importance of it. Here is an easy way for you to boost your energy in a few minutes. All you need to do is to apply the following steps:

Try deep breathing exercises when occupied with negative thoughts:
Intake for two counts through the nose,
Hold for eight counts,
Exhale for four counts through the mouth
Do this twice daily, each time for ten reps

In Conclusion

Several things drain our energy and hinder our productivity. Instead of letting these things affect us we must channel them positively so that we experience a better life. It is in our hands. We can create a lasting change by learning effective strategies to ensure that the appropriate coping mechanism is implemented based on the issue at hand to maintain our energy levels. Sometimes situations like unresolved traumas can linger on for extended durations and impede us from moving ahead. Don’t let them affect you and your energy.

In Conclusion, Interpersonal skills not only bring personal but also helps a person develop professionally. These individuals exhibit qualities that set them ahead of the crowd and help them climb ladders of success at later stages of life. If you are looking for ways to improve interpersonal communication, consult ‘Dr. Alireza Sharifi’ at (647) 671 0002 or email me at alireza@altatc.ca.

Manage Your Energy