discovering...day 23

I am taking Sunday off and handing it over to an article I recently read...enjoy!

Recharge Your Energy

By Jenna Avery, CLC

As a sensitive person, good energy-management skills are a must. This means tuning in to yourself on a regular basis and continually reassessing and adjusting what you take on. 

It's a real balancing act. 

And sometimes, despite your best intentions, your energy gets drained and you feel out of balance. 

The key, then, is to know how to quickly and easily recharge your energy.

Step 1. Make a Course Correction

You can take your power back by stopping to look critically at what you're doing and why you're doing it. Drop anything and everything that isn't aligned with your *own* highest priorities, and give yourself permission to seriously reconsider other events and plans. 

As a sensitive person, you absolutely have to prioritize your self-care and learn to manage your schedule and energy well, or you jeopardize your ability to engage with others or do your soul's work with any real impact.

When I get too busy, I do exactly this kind of strategizing, focused on rebalancing my energy. The first clue that I've entered the "spin cycle" of over-doing and over-giving is when I start feeling cranky or resentful. 

These powerful emotional messengers always get my attention and get me into action to course-correct. 

It's a powerful reminder of "oxygen-mask thinking" -- that in order to support the people who rely on me, I had to put on my own oxygen-mask FIRST by taking the time to renew my own energy.

Step 2. Recharge Your Energy

Once you re-orient your schedule and your life to your own priorities, including your own self-care, take some time to recharge before forging ahead. 

Sometimes you can get so "spun out" that you can't think of a single thing that will help. I recommend creating a list of activities, people, and environments that recharge, renew, and enhance your energy. 

Then when you're in crisis mode, you can get out your list and remember how to come back to yourself.

To get you started thinking about what works for you, here are some things that work for me:

    * Doing spa-at-home treatments
    * Getting a massage
    * Taking Epsom salts baths
    * Talking to close, mutually supportive friends
    * Reading
    * Listening to music on iTunes,www.pandora.com,   
or favorite CDs
    * Meditating
    * Getting outside
    * Being in the sunshine
    * walking