“Stop using your energy to worry.  Use your energy to believe, create, love, grow, glow, manifest, and heal,” Daniel Chidiac.  This is a lesson I’ve advocated for and forgotten countless times.  It’s amazing how the brain can be so engrained that it lies to itself and would rather keep itself running in circles with the same anxiety inducing thoughts than it would to create positive energy.  I often wonder when the mind started shifting toward fear and stress based behavior.  Naturally there was a time when humans, as animals, needed to be aware of dangers in order to survive and somehow that vigilance has translated to creating an environment in the mind that keeps us perpetually stuck in fear, a state of hyper awareness and preparedness.  Energy is an amazing resource and we can do amazing things with targeted focus and purpose.  The amygdala is doing what it’s supposed to do to keep us safe and it looks for any potential ground that may harm us—in today’s society that is mainly revolving around ego and loss of power.  And after our talk of manifestation, I think it’s pertinent to say that we should be more mindful of where our thoughts are and how we talk to ourselves and what our intention is. 

The amount of energy we focus toward the things we don’t want hasn’t stopped us from creating amazing things.  I would like to think about how amazing this world would be if we stopped anticipating all things negative and we started looking at all the positive things that could do with our time.  If we’ve done the good we have as we are now, the good can only increase if we focus on the good.  I know this is a hard habit to break, as I said in the opening line, I’ve advocated for redirecting energy toward productive pursuits for years.  There’s somehow this disconnect in the brain that brings us back to the same train of thought.  I actually don’t believe that anyone denies the power of the mind but I feel they still don’t believe in their own ability to harness that power.  We’re taught to doubt ourselves and distract because if we do then we more easily comply with someone else’s dream.  We are supposed to create and co-create and dream and we have the power to heal ourselves and each other.  We’ve become so content to sleep in this altered existence that we somehow believe is real life that we are willing to forego our own creative instincts.  We are in desperate need to find ourselves and get back to our roots—the roots of our individual connection to source and the thing that drives us. 

The choice of our focus is always ours.  It may not seem like that at times and that is by design.  If we are focused on the things happening around us rather than what we can do with the energy within (and when that energy is directed within) then we won’t have the opportunity to create what WE are meant to create and we won’t have the opportunity to collaborate to create what we are meant to do collectively.  Using the energy to worry is another drain and waste of time.  There was a line from Van Wilder that said, “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.”  What adventures, what kind of lie could we live with our energy directed correctly?  What if we lived connected and in the moment all the time, aware of our triggers and aware that we are safe to create? An entirely new way of life would open before us.  How amazing would this world be if we all could put away the crap we tell ourselves and allow the full beauty of what we see to be released and shared with the world?  If we can believe the lie that we have to live a certain way or that the world isn’t ready for what we have to offer, we have the power to change that story and share the gifts we have received with the world.  Use energy wisely and we will live with no regret.