What Drains Our Energy

The toils of daily life.

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Energy management is a topic of great importance both from a practical and spiritual perspective, not to say those are mutually exclusive. There are thought patterns, negative assumptions, and struggles we face daily that drain our energy and make us unable to function. Each of us has ways of coping or making up for lost energy that allows us to push forward, though at the expense of our health.

Here are possible situations which may drain our energy:

• We feel as though we must change a circumstance we have no control over. And what level of control we do have, we do not exert due to learned helplessness or a hesitancy to take action due to fear, negligence, or a stubborn attitude.
• We get emotionally riled up by the behavior of another without communicating our feelings, distancing ourselves from the person or situation, or thinking logically about everything there is to think about on our own.
• We allow ourselves to get stuck in old maladaptive patterns and behaviors because we are too lazy to invest in changing, we do not have an open mind, and we are not humble enough to realize we must always keep learning new things.
• We remain in an environment or larger situation that harms us mentally and physically because we fear change. We fear…