Me skiing at Deer Valley Ski Resort in Utah last week!
Have you ever noticed my tagline ‘Thriving Body + Unstoppable Life”? Something I’ve learned on this journey of healing is that there is always better. You can always feel better than you feel right now. There are still new discoveries and technologies awaiting us in regards to our health, mind, spirit, and emotional states.
The vast knowledge of the balance between us and nature along with the practices and ways of being that are lost to us from our ancestors has set us back tremendously.
We have so much to learn and re-learn about feeling amazing.
One ancient practice is about power and energy.
When you build your personal power and energy levels more and more becomes possible for you in your life.
Power and energy are interrelated. The more energy you have; the more power you have and vice versa. When I speak of power I am referring to personal power. The ability you have to maintain full control of your decisions and actions. This is what makes you a creator and enhances your elegant abilities of manifestation.
In order to do this you must first take inventory of your current personal power and energy.
Take this quick quiz to find out if you have enough power.
- Do you feel powerful in your day to day life?
- Do you always get what you want?
- Do you easily get what you want without taking others power through manipulation, lying, coercion, or violence?
- Do you know how to ask for the things you need without demanding, fighting, or throwing a tantrum?
- Do you know how to commit to getting what you want without giving up, going passive, giving in, or conceding with another person?
- Do you know how strive to get what you want without putting someone else’s needs in front of your own?
- Do you know how to resolve confrontation where everyone gets their needs met in the end?
- Do you embrace confrontation knowing that it can be a process that bonds people together as a means to get everyone’s needs met?
If you answered yes to 2 or less of these questions, you have some personal power-building work to do. Keep reading to learn more.
If you answered yes to 3 to 5 of these questions, you have some decent personal power skills. Personal power-building work would still benefit you greatly. Keep reading to learn more.
If you answered yes to 6 or more of these questions, you have solid personal power and have done good work in building your power in healthy ways. Keep reading to learn more so you can have enough extra power to create an unstoppable life.
Take this quick quiz to find out if you have enough energy.
- Do you get your daily needs for survival met? (food, shelter, water, clothes, preparing healthy food, health insurance, etc)
- Are you able to heal your body of any nagging, acute, or chronic health concerns? (This includes supplements, wellness support, proper foods, personal chef, nutritional counseling, herbal consultants, testing, consults with practitioners, body work, healing work, etc.)
- Do you save money for the future?
- Do you go on vacations, play, have fun, and enjoy yourself on a regular basis?
- Do you take daily actions towards your long-terms goals and dreams that you are confident you will reach?
- Do you have the ability to exercise on a regular basis to keep your mind and body growing stronger and stronger?
- Do you have even keel energy levels all day long without the use of stimulants like coffee, tea, herbs, yerba mate, chocolate, sugar, etc.
- Do you sleep easily and deeply while waking rested and restored?
If you answered yes to 2 or less of these questions, you have some energy level-building work to do. Keep reading to learn more.
If you answered yes to 3 to 5 of these questions, you have some decent energy levels. Building more energy reserves would benefit you greatly. Keep reading to learn more.
If you answered yes to 6 or more of these questions, you have solid energy levels and have done good work in building them in healthy ways. Keep reading to learn more so you can increase your energy levels even more to create an unstoppable life.
Now that you have an idea of where you are power and energy-wise, I want you to consider where your energy and power is leaking from your life.
Let’s get an idea of where you are letting your power and energy slip away.
The most common power leaks start from not knowing what you want***. Learning to tap into your desires, dreams, hopes, and wants will create the basis for building power. Knowing yourself – who you really are – and honoring your unique desires will create a the foundation for co-creating an amazing life with other people in your life.
***Note: Distinguish needs from wants. In order to consistently build power you must actively make sure your basic needs are handled. Some people try to skip the basic needs and move ahead to the wants. Make sure you have health insurance, healthy food, clothes that fit and make you feel good, access to money, and a safe, comfortable living environment.
Once you know what you want you now need to learn how to get it. Getting what you want means cultivating clarity, focus, and energy. Building power becomes a daily practice. Building power means having your thoughts and actions fully aligned. Integrity, intention, and will are all at the heart of cultivating power.
Some of the most common PERSONAL POWER leaks are as follows:
- Not asking for what you want.
- Putting other people’s needs in front of your own.
- Viewing your needs as less important than others.
- Not taking 100% responsibility for every single one of your actions.
- Having an emotion that rules you such as fear, anger, sadness, regret, disappointment, humiliation, embarrassment, shame, rage, or guilt.
- Being afraid of one of these emotions (in yourself or in others) so intently that you will do anything to avoid it.
- Giving up control of your own actions though cravings, addictions, and unhealthy relationships.
- Treating situations as if they are happening TO you instead of FOR you.
- Blaming things on other people or circumstances.
Some of the most common ENERGY leaks are as follows:
- Not getting enough deep, restful, proper sleep.
- Eating things that lowers your energy levels such as foods you are allergic to, calorie-rich nutrient-weak. foods, bad food combinations, industrialized, chemicalized, processed, and artificial ingredients.
- Not eating nutrient-dense foods, good fats, lots of veggies, and herbs that heal your body.
- Not getting enough body movement that helps you express your utter and extreme joy for the miracle that you have a human body.
- Relying on caffeine, stimulants, alcohol, sugar, and other addictions to control your moods and energy levels.
Let’s pinpoint your energy and power leaks and create a strategy to fix it. I call these power moves. In order to do that you can work with me privately or join one of my group programs and raise your hand during the group calls and ask me about where you’re stuck. I will help get to the bottom of it with you quickly so we can figure out the best use of your precious energy so you can build even more.
The benefits of cultivating power and energy for me personally have been profound. I think back to myself as a little kid throwing temper tantrums, allergic to gluten without even realizing it, eating sugar to numb the pain, struggling immensely as a teenager and turning to drugs as the solution, being completely broke and house-sitting and couch surfing to get by, feeling hopelessness and impending doom most of the time.
I started cultivating my personal power and energy by noticing which foods made me feel weak and tired. I kept eliminating those foods. I developed sensitivity and awareness about which foods built energy and sapped energy by doing cleanses two to four times per year. Cleansing also helped deepen my awareness of the emotions I was stuffing down and not dealing with. These emotions were keeping me sick and sapping my energy.
I wrote down endless lists of goals and dreams filling up notebooks with my intentions and desires. I stayed true to my heart and let my inner voice guide me. I started with easy interactions where I worked to maintain eye contact with those around me. This was the beginning of me building my personal power.
I started eating only foods that built my energy levels. I worked diligently to heal my body of every single health concern that plagued me. This meant that I was able to increase my energy levels even more. I started learning how to move my body in ways that feel amazing versus ‘exercising’. I listened to my body and added more and more activities slowly to prevent injury.
In my personal relationships I didn’t settle. I frustrated the hell out of my exes because I was so headstrong and stubborn. But I was learning how to get what I wanted in the best way possible. Before some of these relationships I had nearly given up on believing that it was possible for me to have what I wanted. I believed I had to fight and work hard to deserve anything I asked for. I felt as though I had to earn every single thing in my life…including love.
Over time I’ve diligently and intentionally taken one step at a time towards my dreams and goals.
For many many years it felt as though I was trudging through mud. It took all of my energy every single day just to pull that boot up out of the sticky suctioning mud and take one more step. Knowing that the next step was right back in the mud.
For decades I didn’t even know where those steps would lead me because for miles and miles all I could see was brown, sticky mud.
It takes all of your energy and personal power to go against the hard worn patterns of self sabotage. It takes all of your energy to not feel bad about yourself for messing up all the time. It takes all of your energy and personal power to set the course of your life and point it in exactly the direction you want to go. It takes all of your energy to heal. It takes all of your energy to manifest your dreams. It takes all of your energy and personal power to make your life fully yours.
So now do you see why energy and power are so crucial?
Let me share with you some of my favorite strategies and resources for building energy and personal power:
Read (or re-read) the book, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz http://amzn.to/1Bp0QFZ
Read the book, Eating for Energy by Yuri Elkaim http://amzn.to/1Cg6sYz
Do a cleanse. I recommend my program, The Probiotic Power Cleanse. http://www.probioticpowercleanse.com/ Sign up now for the one that starts soon!
Do my program, Gut Rebuilding http://www.gutrebuilding.com/ to maximize your energy levels, detox your emotions, and create a thriving body and unstoppable life.
Remember, the first step is to get clear about what you want. Start writing. Create brainstorms, lists, journals, talk sessions with friends, drawings, visions boards – open up that part of yourself that dreams and desires.
I’ll leave you with this quote from Herman Hesse about the interconnection between goals and fasting and cleansing.
“When you throw a stone into the water, it finds the quickest way to the bottom of the water. It is the same when Siddhartha has an aim, a goal. Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through the affairs of the world like the stone through the water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal, for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal. This is what Siddhartha learned from the Samanas. It is what fools call magic and what they think is caused by demons. Everything can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal if he can think, wait and fast.”
Join me for The Probiotic Power Cleanse to reach your goals for everything in life.
