Depending on your school of thought, everything is energy…or then again everything is God, Source, the Universe, or whatever else you want to call it.

At the end of the day it all boils down to the same thing – your perspective on what it is that gives you your life force. Personally, I have no real preference and I tend to run with Source as it is neutral enough to not aggravate people – and it is close enough to Star Wars (“Use the Force Luke!”) sorry, couldn’t help that one.

It is important that whatever term and belief system you have that you manage your energy throughout your day. If we are to believe that we create everything in our existence through our thoughts/prayers and our ability to manifest, then it goes without saying that you will get better results with positive energy than you will with negative energy levels. Agreed?

Then if that is the case, what can we do to manage our energy levels throughout the day?

Firstly, meditation is a great tool. It helps you to calm your mind and allow you to use your mind in a much better state than if you don’t. I saw a great quote recently by Bill Keane that said

“Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.”

The second one is what many people call gratification, but my preference is appreciation. The way it was explained to me is that being grateful is thanking something/someone outside yourself, whereas appreciation is about being thankful for what you have manifested or are manifesting. The latter is about us all being part of Source, so how can anything come from outside of you?

The third area is mindfulness. This is about being aware of your thoughts and feelings to ensure that you keep your energy levels high and focused on what is going to allow you to manifest those things and people you want in your life. Not the one’s that just randomly appear.

If you had a choice to have a life of universal abundance or a life of abject poverty, I am pretty sure that you would choose the former.

What I am learning (have known but not applied consistently) is that the former comes from you living with your energy levels at the right level and focused on what you want and not what you don’t want.

It was explained to me today, that if you had a bow and arrow and you wanted the life of universal abundance, yet you aimed at the life of abject poverty, it didn’t matter how good a shot you were, you wouldn’t get what you wanted. So mindfulness is catching yourself when you wander off the path. Appreciation is about being thankful for what you have received and the law of abundance, means what you are thankful for, you will get more of. Meditation is about clearing your mind to allow you to focus & manage your energy levels.

So a good trick to play with yourself is to give yourself a score at the end of the day as to how well you managed to go in each of the three areas throughout the day.

If you score yourself out of 10 in each area daily, that will give you a total score out of 30. A weekly total of 210 will be perfect – if you get there, shoot me a message, maybe you should be writing this.

I know with my golf, that focusing on the areas that are important and keeping score has helped me lower my handicap by 6.1 shots in 9 months. Hopefully for you and me, keeping score in these three areas will help you increase your energy levels.

Love and Light

Paul