Healthy Habits Become Energy

Take Control of Your Energy

Life is a constant ebb and flow of energy. Some you can control, but most of it is driven by external factors frustrating all your efforts to turn it in the desired direction, and maintain the intensity needed; sometimes to complete a task, but usually just to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Protons, neutrons, and electrons chase each other around at warp speed, giving the illusion of mass, when in reality, everything and everyone is energy configured into the shapes we recognize as people, animals, furniture, buildings, and everything else on Earth.

That’s not to say you can’t corral some of those wildly spinning atoms into a desired form. Often, it requires repetition of actions until a memory path is created, and the energy flows how and where you want it. You’re training yourself, but in reality, you’re training the energy that makes up the physical manifestation known to the people in your world as you.

Healthy Habits are New Energetic Pathways

To put it simply, forming healthy habits is a matter of creating pathways through which you want your energy to flow regularly and consistently. The same is true of each lesson you learn, be it intentional, or by Universal intervention.

Whether you decide to add a healthy habit to your routine, or learn a new skill, it begins with setting an intention. Sometimes the intention is very clear, like; “I’m going to improve my diet and release 20 pounds”. Others, it’s more of an action than words or thought like picking up a book, or registering for a class. Both are made powerful when there’s a strong, emotional commitment to an end result, or better still, continued improvement.

Although there are times a commitment which seemed powerful at the time gets dropped along the way, it’s easier to pick up where you left off if you’ve already set the habit energetically. Life happens, a class may end, a goal may be achieved. Sometimes, you replace one healthy habit with another.

Adding and Replacing Healthy Habits

For instance, during the lock down to slow the spread of COVID, going to the gym was, at first, not an option, and later, a place I felt unsafe due to lax adherence to mask mandates. I was able to add a Zoom ballet class on the days I’d designated as gym days, and those classes continue today. It’s turned out to be a bigger blessing than I realized because the herniated disc in my neck flared up which typically impacts the strength in my left arm, making it harder to do weight work.

Regular movement like stretching, sweeping, and ballet have supplemented physical therapy sessions, helping me maintain flexibility, and improve strength gently. It’s also meant I have to be ready to work at the same times every week, which is something I never managed to achieve while going to the gym. Finding reasons to keep moving when I spend such a large portion of time working from home has been instrumental in helping me release a few pounds, and tone parts of me I’d struggled with for years.

It’s also important to mention not all healthy habits are meant to last forever. Some have a finite life span. Others are meant to be a stepping stone to other things. I started my day by writing Morning Pages for years until one day, I decided it was no longer time well spent. I was no longer getting out of it what I needed, though I left the door open to the possibility I’d resume the habit at some point in the future. In fact, I’ve been contemplating doing that lately, as it did, at times, jump-start my daily writing.

Successfully Setting New Healthy Habits

The key to setting new habits is two-fold:

• Make sure any habits you’re already setting are well-established before adding another.
• Only set out to establish one habit at a time.

The second one is especially important because overwhelming yourself with too many changes leads to failure on all counts as often as not. I’m reminded of my dad when I think of this. Right after my mom died, he decided to quit smoking. Unfortunately, he was also taking medication for anxiety which was part of the reason he smoked. I suspect he’d have benefited from therapy, or at least being able to talk about his feelings with his friends, but his own upbringing and habits precluded that option. Ultimately, he took up smoking again, which ultimately led to emphysema and lung cancer.

I don’t honestly believe giving up smoking at the time would have made much difference, as he’d been smoking most of his life. I also don’t believe he wanted to quit badly enough, or he’d have found a way to succeed. My dad was nothing if not tenacious when something was important to him.

Know What You Have to Give Up to Achieve Your Goals

Which leads to another important factor. Though not all healthy habits require some kind of sacrifice, success is more likely when you’re “all in”. If you want something badly enough, you’re more likely to move heaven and earth (and energy) to achieve it. When there’s less intensity behind succeeding, it’s too easy to let your goals slip, and your dedication to the habit falter.

Think of all the things you’ve started but never finished. How many of them did you feel so strongly about, you’d let nothing get in your way? Now, consider the things you’ve set in place, and perhaps, built upon. Whether it was quitting something like smoking or drinking, changing your eating and exercise habits to release weight, or learning a new skill. when you were emotionally committed, you probably succeeded.

Though the success you achieved might not have reached the levels you imagined, it brought you closer to a goal, and perhaps gave you a jumping off point to create new, better, more easily sustainable habits to take you closer. Often, you set one habit that fits your current abilities, but won’t take you all the way to your goal. As you grow stronger, more flexible, or more skilled, another opportunity may reveal itself. When you’re ready, you can level up a habit, and shift your energy with something else that challenges you.

A Time and Place to Reroute Energy

Like my Morning Pages, there’s a time, and a place for every change. Some things require prerequisites, much like college courses. Until you master certain skills or habits, it’s difficult, if not impossible to attempt a higher level of skills, strength, and determination. Nothing kills formation of a new habit faster than frustration and overwhelm.

In short, know what you want. Decide what you want badly enough to devote time and energy to it until you reach a goal. Pick the one you’re most passionate about, and take the first step. You can do anything you want to, if you feel strongly enough. You can be anyone you want to be, if you have enough strength, determination, and motivation.

The energy is flowing in you, ready to be directed to new and exciting things. What are you waiting for?

 

About the Author

Sheri Conaway is a Holistic Ghostwriter, and an advocate for cats and mental health. Sheri believes in the Laws of Attraction, but only if you are a participant rather than just an observer. Her mission is to Make Vulnerable Beautiful and help entrepreneurs touch the souls of their readers and clients so they can increase their impact and their income.

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