The Power of the Mind: Are You Managing Your Energy?

Imagine you’re in a rowboat with another person. No . . . imagine you’re in a sailboat with yourself. You are the positive you who understands and embraces the Law of Attraction, while the other you is burdened with limiting, low-energy thoughts. The two of you were having a lovely time, bobbing about in the pond in your uncle’s back yard. The sun was warm, the breeze balmy, and the birds singing a little tweety lullaby. You both doze off, fishing poles dangling from relaxed fingers.

The Power of the Mind: Are You Managing Your Energy?

You’re awakened when the boat tosses roughly sideways, and the two of you (or would it be, the two of You’s?) discover that you have drifted out to sea. From your Uncle’s pond. (this is my story . . . write your own story if you don’t like this one! lol )

Meanwhile, naturally, the boat has sprung a leak. Water is seeping into the bottom of the boat at a rate of two cups per half hour.

“Oh, great!” Negative You grumbles. “We’re out in the middle of the ocean in a stupid rowboat, and the boat is sinking! We’re going to die. There are sharks in the ocean, you know. And jellyfish. A sting out here will probably be fatal. We’ve got no way to survive. We could try to catch a fish, but what are the chances? This isn’t Uncle Murray’s pond, you know! We could try to use our cell phones to call for help, but do you see any towers? And even if we reached someone, the boat will sink before the Coast Guard could find us. We’re doomed.”

With that, the negative you slumps into the boat and sighs.

“But . . .” you say. Are you missing something? “I mean, don’t you think we should try?”

“There’s no point.”

You look around, at the shore in the distance, colorful with frolicking vacationers. At the sail boat streaming by. At surfers, tossing you a friendly wave before they climb on their boards to catch a wave of their own.

“Um,” you say. “Other people seem to be doing okay.”

Negative You scowls. “Other people aren’t in sinking boats!”

So what do you do?

Row.

Or use your cell phone to call for help. Borrow a surf board, flag down the sail boat, whack any oncoming sharks on the head with your oar. But above all, lean down every half hour and scoop two cups of water out of the bottom of your boat.

In other words, manage your energy. You have to understand the power of your mind. As I’ve discussed in other blogs, the Law of Attraction teaches that thoughts attract results. The negative You on the boat is more likely to look into the water and see deadly stinging jelly fish and hungry sharks, simply by virtue of the fact that she is entrenched in negativism.

But the power of the mind is more than the Law of Attraction. Your thoughts dictate what you do next. “We’re all gonna die!” screams the negative You. And she — how does the saying go? She puts her head between her knees and kisses her butt goodbye.

“No time for dying today,” answers the Positive You. “I’ve got things to do.” And you lift your head and begin to look for solutions. Cell phone. Sail boat. Surfers. Shore. You also address the problem at hand – water coming into the boat – immediately and consistently.

“It’s just going to keep coming in,” grumbles negative You.

“Yep,” you say. “And I’m just going to keep bailing it out.” You don’t allow two cups to become four, six, eight. . . You don’t allow the water to build up so that the boat tips over or the pressure of the water expands the size of the leak.

When you’re on a leaking rowboat in the middle of the ocean, you’re inspired to manage your energy – to problem solve. You might be tempted to think that managing your energy to save and build your business is less critical, but if you aren’t growing toward the success you were born for, isn’t that a kind of death? How can you manage your energy to control the power of your thoughts?

• Don’t let a single negative thought cascade into an avalanche. “Two cups every half hour!? Oh, my gosh! That’s 96 cups a day! That’s almost 3000 cups a month! There’s no way I can scoop that much water!

• Bad thoughts lead to bad feelings which can then lead to bad thoughts . . . When Negative You climbed into the row boat that morning, she wobbled and nearly fell. This scared her – gave her an adrenaline rush, and then that adrenaline recede with its accompanying moment of depression. Later (after you rescue her), she’ll be able to say, “I had a bad feeling about this boat ride. I should have known I can’t go near modestly-sized bodies of water without disaster striking.”

• Extreme thinking is fun. “I’m starving!” “I hit my head on a rock. I almost died!” “There was this bug crawling across my bedroom floor and it was the size of a basketball!” However, extreme thinking tends to be habitual, and it can spiral into chronic limiting thinking: “I always get bitten by sharks when I get stranded on the ocean in a rowboat!”

• If you find yourself jumping to conclusions, list the actual facts you know, and find out before you act on negative assumptions.

Negative, limiting thinking is crippling, but it’s optional. No matter how many years you’ve invested into “can’t,” you can. You must, if you want the time you have on this earth to be rich in joy and abundance. You must manage your energy, directing it away from dead-end defeatism and into productive, problem-solving, prosperity-minded energetical avenues.

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