Energy Audit Podcast: Find your Rhythm. Restore your creative vitality.
It's time for an energy audit.
With any new season, schedules fill up fast. So quickly, we lose control and push well beyond our boundaries. We may need to find a way to honor our personal priorities while still getting all the other demands met. From social jet lag to work weeks that push well beyond 40 hours, schedules change and we have to adjust. Among many addictions that are endemic, this country struggles with productivity addiction. Capitalism and consumerism driving people to do and go. To work and buy. It’s a vicious cycle leaving us in the middle of a juggling act. It’s no wonder we are exhausted physically, spiritually and financially.
What no longer sustains you drains you. We’ve all had times in our lives where we feel low energy. Our mind is racing, but our body needs rest. We have a list of things we want to do, but don’t have the stamina to finish it all. Our creative ideas need some fire and focus. Our motivation and drive need the inherent power of passion. To reestablish our balance and get ready for a new season it can be valuable to do an energy audit. Our to-do lists are full of both essential tasks for mere survival and a lot of unnecessary busy work that never yields much gain.
Finding your rhythm is about more than surviving a busy schedule. It’s about more than where you will travel and what you need to accomplish. This is about the fullness you want to feel in these experiences. The whole approach of living with the seasons is that we begin to attune to the movement of life. Not only the world surrounding us, but our own internal pulse. Beyond the pulse generated by our heartbeat, even further to the pulse of our desire. Finding our rhythm is a bigger vision of how we wish our living to be. It is how we want to feel as we move through our days. It’s our pace and flow as we move towards our passions, goals, and dharma.
Energy Audit
The concept of an energy audit came from one of my favorite books on practical Ayurveda, Sarah Kucera’s, The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook: Holistic Healing Rituals for Every Day and Season. It’s one I refer to and recommend repeatedly. I have changed a few things, but the result is still the same. It reveals where your life force, prana, is getting depleted. Take a few minutes to look at how you spend your energy. See where you are out of sync and resolve to make changes to things that are diminishing your vitality. It’s important to get a clear picture of what (or who) is draining you, so you can let it go or find a solution to at least diminish its effect.
Grab some paper or your journal and let’s try this 3 part process!
There are so many new readers to Dharma Days - that I wanted to re-publish this one! Though this time around, I’ve done an audio version as a companion especially for subscribers! AND there’s a workbook in the community resource library to guide you through the process. I know you’ll find it helpful once you can see where your time an energy are disappearing. Every so often we need a serious reset to find our rhythm and restore our creative flow.