Everything is energy. Energy is all there is. That’s the First Principle of Energy you can count on.
Here’s the Second Energy Principle: Your talent, ideas and inspirations all spring from a source of energy.
They are received by others as energy. Others may see your performance and think of it as a concert or a speech or a character role or a really lucky hole-in-one. That’s the filter through which they experience it. Beneath that label – it’s all energy.
Third Energy Principle: You perform better when you’re in charge of your energy than when you leave it to chance. WAY BETTER!
Fourth Energy Principle: You know how to read energy. In fact, you do it all the time.
When you walk into a room and see two people NOT talking, you instantly know what’s up. You read the difference between two people NOT talking because they are in the midst of an argument versus two people NOT talking because they are engaged in their own thoughts.
You instantly know when it’s okay to ask your director if you can try a new idea – or whether you better off just showing her what she’s asked for, and nothing else.
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When your spouse is upset or your kid is sick – you read that without them saying a word.
It’s not a mystery to most of us when a meeting goes brilliantly – you feel it. WHY it goes so well may remain mysterious, of course. But even that can be read when you know how to look for it.
The Fifth Energy Principle is a biggie: Energy is contagious.
That’s why you feel lousy when you walk into a room where two people are NOT talking in a fight. It’s why you feel bubbly when two people NOT talking are sharing a secret.
It’s why the whole room is lifted when someone has a flight of inspiration in rehearsal. It’s why a meeting will take off with one exciting idea.
Sixth Energy Principle: You can deflect bad vibes easily.
Here are three strategies that work:
> Don’t wallow in other people’s bad vibes. Avoid the complainers and whiners around you. Don’t let your energy field be infected by their need to vent. It doesn’t help the whiner to whine – it just slimes you with the bad energy they are carrying and usually don’t really want to give up anyway.
> Don’t spread your own bad vibes to others. Sometimes YOU want to be the whiner. Spreading your bad energy to others ensures that the situation gets mired in more bad energy, not less.
> Defend your energy field with the two exercises in the box at right.
Harness the Energy Around You!
And finally, the Seventh Energy Principle: If you aren’t in charge of your energy, others will be. Why would you want that? Your energy is too important to let it be wasted by someone else.
Remember these principles and use your energy for your greater good!
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Zip up your central vessel before walking into a potentially unpleasant situation. Using the palm of your hand, draw it up to your bottom teeth from the pubic bone, like you're closing a zipper. Then turn an imaginary key a quarter turn and toss it away. Brush off the bad energy. Take your right hand and put it on the left holder. Swipe down your arm to the hand. One final sweep with the right hand down the left arm - and then turn both hands palm up to the sky to send the bad stuff up to the ether. |