Thoughts on Energy

• Energy originates in Being through its extension to Consciousness to Force and to Will through the dividing action of the plane of Mind as determined by Supermind.
• Energy is the result of will which is the product of knowledge acting on the force of consciousness of the Being.
• Energy originates in Being in the involution and matter in the evolution. In the evolution energy culminates in Super Being.
• Though energy in life expresses physically, vitally, and mentally, its origins are spiritual; i.e. from the Being. So it is logical that it also can express spiritually, which it does.
• Energy manifest as results in life through a process of conversion, and withers and dies through unconscious dispersion.
• Energy gathers through right consciousness, emotion, thought, and action.
• True interest in another energizes; in separative self (i.e. ego) depletes.
• Moving within replenishes energy, as it is a movement toward the Being in the individual in the universe.
• Energy gathers by understanding the nature of energy, or for that matter, the nature of anything.
• How can we understand energy in terms of Nature? Let's try. Nature is the energy of life moving towards a Higher end through a lower means.
• To reenergize yourself, be still, and, if necessary, call energy into your being. Then wait for the energy to return. When it does, you can resume your activities.
• A doctor recommends rest to the ill patient to reinvigorate and energize. If he also suggests Stillness and Silence deep within, the patient can invigorate that much sooner, even instantly. If the doctor too lives this way, he can do it for the patient!

Hidden Deflators of Energy
There are some other very unusual, hidden ways that energy can get depleted. For example, one individual went to a funeral, where the atmosphere and consciousness was low, where the energy was somehow deflating, even if people were not conscious of he fact. When he arrived back from the funeral and touched his computer, it would not function. This is an example of how something outside, a person, a gathering, or some other force can secretly be debilitating and reducing the energy surrounding it, which can enter people, who when they interact with something else spread this unseen debilitation of energy. One can also feel depleted of energy if someone has a hostile will toward you, or is untruthful toward you, or is disorganized in their thoughts, or is expending the wrong type of energy, etc.
 

-For an explanation of energy's role in Spirit, Creation, and as source of Life, click here.

Factors that Determine Our Energy

Ways We Can Be Energized
We can be energized through our minds, through our emotions, and through our bodies, or any combination of these. For example, a new idea can energize us through the mind; so can learning something new or challenging, or following an ideal, sentiment, or value. Likewise a deep inspiration or feeling can energize us through our emotions. And, of course, living a healthy life, taking care of yourself, can energize us through our bodies.

Factors that Determine Our Level of Energy

The following diagram shows how we acquire mental, vital, and physical energy externally and internally; from family and from personal.

Energy and Accomplishment
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Energy, Accomplishment, and Knowledge
Accomplishment is determined by the energy we have. The energy we have depends on the knowledge we have. We get knowledge from education and social resources. This enables energy, and thus accomplishment. Ultimately our knowledge of ourselves determines our energy, and thus accomplishment. We have partial knowledge through mind to complete knowledge in Supermind. Thus Supermind enables the greatest knowledge, hence the greatest energy and accomplishment. Knowledge comes form education, social milieu, knowledge of Self. Self-conception of self is the greatest knowledge, which creates the greatest results and thus greatest accomplishment. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Accomplishment, Capacity, and Energy
Accomplishment in life is in proportion to the capacity of the individual. Capacity is a measure of the strength of personal character. Character is the formed structure of the personality built up by knowledge, will and values to generate, release and convert raw human energy into personal intensity. It is the intensity of personality that attracts to the individual forces of similar strength and nature in the form of opportunities for advancement and struggles for survival. (MSS)

Growth in Personal Capacity and Energy
Growth of personal capacity involves a progressive increase in the ability of the individual to generate, harness, release and control physical energy as skill, vital energy as behavior, emotional energy as attitudes and motives, and mental energy as thought, opinions and values. Human energy is generated and released by knowledge and willed effort. (MSS)

Ways to Increase Energy
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General

Ways to Increase Energy

• Increase your aspiration in life

• Develop, commit, and organize a new endeavor

• Learn a new skill or niche

• Prioritize life activities

• Develop positive attitudes, avoiding negative ones

• Fully embrace the work at hand

• Perfect the work at hand

• Shift your focus from self to others

• Feel gratitude for what has come to you

• Move your center of consciousness deeper to stillness

• Move to patience.

• Be calm and still inside.

• Speak less and in a low soft voice; the same with thinking

• Eliminate energy depleting activities

• Avoid those who deplete your energy

• Call to the spiritual Force for energy

Accept Givens, Perfect Work, Self-Giving, Gratitude as Solution to Too Much Work
[In response to a woman who was overwhelmed by too much work, pressures from life:] Happily accept all the work that comes to you and do it as perfectly and as carefully as you can, even more perfectly than ever before. But this time, think of the people to whom the work relates rather than merely the work itself, the students you are teaching, the family you are raising and give yourself emotionally 100%, meaning feel an intense joy in helping them, giving yourself to them and furthering their growth. You say you have a better life than anyone, but obviously you do not feel happy about it. Feel intense genuine heartfelt gratitude for what you do have. The joy and the gratitude will evoke a response from life. If you are aware and observant, you will see that the character of your life, your personal experience and people's response begins to change immediately. (MSS)

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Acquire New Skills

Learn a New Skill or Niche
Whenever you learn something new, you will feel energy flowing into yourself.  If you implement the new skill or knowledge in your life, you will also feel a fresh surge of energy and enthusiasm. 

Adding Skills, Moving to 100% Perfection Energizes You
Once you acquire a shade more of skill in one aspect of the work, you will see the work is not tiring. It has no end. To move from 70% of skill to 95% of efficiency is possible for all of us. At that level there will be job satisfaction and unflagging energy. To go beyond the 95% each one percentage of improvement will appear to require a Himalayan effort. That effort itself is energising. Suppose you reach 99% perfection and you are determined to reach 100%. You will discover that to cover that 1% you need as much energy as you spent in reaching at 99%. It is so because he who touches 100% perfection moves from the human effort to spiritual energy, which is endless. (MSS)
 

Will to Accomplish

Develop, Commit, and Organize a New Endeavor
If you decide that you want to undertake a new endeavor, such as a new project or a new business venture, great energy will be required on your part. If however, you are able to think out clearly what you want, commit to it, and work out the specific details (i.e. organize your vision and goals), you will see your mental energy grow, which will then be followed by a rise in your vital/emotional energy and will, and then your physical energy, giving you the necessary propulsion to see your endeavor through to great success. In other words, by leading with your mentality, your mind's capacity for establishing direction and organization, you release the a vast energy of the other parts of your being that can take you to your goal in spades.

Prioritize Life Activities
Sometimes we spread our energy across too many activities and interests in our lives causing us to have less than enough energy for the most important things. Try to evaluate which items in your life takes the highest priorities, and devote more of your energy towards these, and less to those of less importance.

Through Silence (i.e. non-thought)

Silence & Energy
Silence is Energy at rest.

Overcoming Fatigue through Silence, Stillness
When you are tired, move to silence (i.e. non-thought). Energy will regenerate. If your body is tired, be still.

Silence Energizes
Sri Aurobindo says Silence sustains activity. Further, He says all those who have reached a little of that inner Silence know the surging waves of energy that are welling up from that immobile reservoir of SILENCE. (MSS)

Energy Conserved of Silence Gets to Work
The energy conserved by Silence gets to work immediately.

Overcome Negative Attitudes, Opinions, Habits

Develop Positive Attitudes
It's always best to have a generally positive attitude. A positive attitude attracts positive circumstances and fortune in our lives, and at the same increases our energy. Having a negative attitude attracts the opposite.  Worry, anxiety, fear, anger, depression, restlessness, impatience, etc. are inborn, primal negative attitudes that deplete one's energy. 

In addition to having a general positive attitude to overcome the shared set of primal negative attitudes that dog every human, there is the set of negative attitudes that each human uniquely possesses. For example one individual could show a propensity to close-mindedness, laziness, dislike of the work you are given, procrastination, selfishness, ill-will toward others, and other less primal, more specific-to-the individual type negative attitudes. Another individual would have his or her own unique set. If one can make the effort to identify our unique negative attitudes, and then make a sustained effort to overcome them, a vast reservoir of energy will flood the being.

Overcoming Fatigue by Eliminating Unwillingness (and Accepting Work at Hand)
Energy in essence comes from the will of one's being. If one has the will, there will be energy. If one doesn't have the will, energy will be blocked -- e.g. one can become tired. If one is tired in life one needs to consider if one is resisting the work we are involved with in some way; where the will is in in essence is opposition to the work; i.e. we are unwilling to do the work. Overcoming this unwillingness will release energy and overcome such tiredness. 

Give Up an Opinion
What applies to a negative attitude also applies to an overly held opinion. As an experiment, take one of your ordinary attitudes or opinions -- something you like or dislike pretty strongly. Suspend for a moment the idea that it's right, necessary, reasonable, essential to your existence. Throw the attitude or opinion away. Discover the truth in the very opposite attitude expressed by someone you vehemently disagree with. Energy will pour into your mind.

Change a Habit
Changing any common habit or activity can also increase one's energy. Take any simple physical habit such as brushing your teeth, eating, or writing a letter. Try to become conscious of every thought, feeling, sensation, and movement which arises when you express the habit. Now change the way you do it. Break the habitual movements. Think, feel and do it differently. Energy will surge through your nerves.
 

Spiritual/Inner Approaches to Creating Energy

Shift Your Focus to Others
A related way to increase your energy is at any moment in time to shift your focus from yourself to those around you. As you do this, you will feel the eagerness, strain, or flatness related to your own self-focus to be replaced by an ease, energy, and joy of your focus to those around you. Moreover, others around you are more likely to respond positively to you, giving you even more energy!  

Speak Less, Speak Softly
Here is an unusual way to create energy that is guaranteed to work. Instead of verbalizing everything in your mind, hold the thoughts to yourself. Do not speak them out. After a while you'll notice that your energy is replenished. Likewise if you speak softly and avoid speaking loudly you will also notice that your energy will not be depleted.

Be Still to Eliminate Fatigue
If you are feeling fatigued, there is a simple solution to overcome it. Simply be still and quiet. Try to just relax, and remain quiet and calm. At a point soon thereafter your energies will return. I possible wait for it to return before acting. It is also helpful to have positive thoughts, eliminating all pessimism during this period of stillness.

On Fatigue When Undertaking a Great Project
Without energy nothing can be accomplished. To undertake a great project demands exhaustive energy on our part.  Therefore, if one is tired, exhausted or there are other physical symptoms on the project, it is best to rest until energy returns. Then the effort can produce great results.

Develop An Inner Poise
One can begin in one's life a movement from living on the surface of life to the depths within. As one withdraws from the surface in our daily activities, as we move deeper within, we are far less troubled by the outside, because we have found the calm, Inner Being within. From that poise problems on the outside melt away, because we cease to exist in our ego state, or state of separateness. From this inner poise we are able to calmly see all our mistakes, impulses, overreactions, poor attitudes, assertive opinions, etc. that occur on the outside. By being stationed within, our day moves along more calmly, sweetly, perfectly, integrally. Things unfold more as peace and joy.

Infinite Spiritual Energies
We can know the ultimate source of energy in life by opening ourselves to the higher spiritual energies around us. We can come in touch with our inner spiritual essence and being, or open to the transcendent Divine, to connect us with the infinite powers and energies of the universe. It is in fact that Force that connects us to the source of all energy in the universe.

There are a number of ways to open one's self to the higher energies and forces that exist in the universe. If one opens to these forces one can tap into energies that are infinite, which can translate into infinite energy in your life. 

Overall

Increasing One's Energy Level Attracts Positive Life Response
Anything in life that increases energy is more likely to invoke a positive life response. The reverse for a negative life response. Examples of what can increase energy are: getting the proper rest, learning a new skill, having a generally positive attitude, overcoming negative attitudes, giving up an opinion, changing a habit, and giving your attention to others.
 
LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
 
-Getting proper rest -- A man was very weary and tired. During that time work got cancelled. He finally began to get more sleep, and began to recover his energies somewhat. Corresponding to the level of rest, he got more work. Even work that had been previously cancelled by his weariness was recovered.
 
-Learn a new skill -- An instructor learns a new program to teach. He is not only feels a surge of new mental energy, stimulated there by what he has learned, but feels additional energy in his being as a result of the possibility that he could extend this new knowledge into new possibilities in his career.
 
-Changing a habit -- An instructor had been conducting a particular class the same way for months on end. The results were flat; the students only mildly involved. He decided to take a completely different approach in his training technique and methodology. Now when the teacher uses this new approach for the course the students are energized and enthusiastic, leading to far higher class evaluations for the instructor.
 
-Give attention to others -- A manager decided to train his illiterate workers. They and the company thereafter became very happy and energized. Even the machines started working better!

Energy Wasting Activities
There are a number of activities in life that deplete one's energies.  Many of us accept then as a normal part of life.  However, many things can wear you out, drain your emotions, or cloud your mind. Think about some of the items you are doing that are depleting you of your physical, emotional, or mental energy (e.g. drinking, drugs, food indulgence, overripe attachments to others, sexual indulgence, etc.). Then try to cut back in these areas wherever possible.

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