You need a certain amount of energy to function well every day. The amount of energy you have each day depends on how you invest your energy. How you invest your energy can increase or decrease your energy levels.

Imagine you wake up each morning feeling 100%. Your energy bank is full. How you choose to spend your energy budget determines the amount of energy available for living well.

How much energy do you have today?

Here’s a quick way to assess your physical energy, emotional energy, mental energy and spiritual energy. The sum of these energies constitutes your personal power. You’ll need a healthy level of personal power to function effectively each day.

How would you rate each of the following out of 25 today?

1. Your physical energy
2. Your emotional energy
3. Your mental energy
4. Your spiritual energy

How did you score out of 100? What’s the total percentage of your energy today? Is it enough energy to function effectively?

Positive Karma Living

You spend your energy on all types of thoughts, emotions and actions. Positive or constructive investments, such as unconditional acts of kindness, loving thoughts, and words of encouragement will not only boost the recipient’s energy levels. Positive investments increase your energy levels too. It becomes a matter of what you do comes back to you. It’s as though a positive investment yields interest, so it’s in your interest to make positive investments each day. I call this Positive Karma Living.

Negative Karma Living

On the other hand, when you use your energy reserves to finance bitterness, or resentment, or manipulation, or acts of vengeance, then you will deplete your energetic reserves. When you make negative or destructive investments, those investments become a burden for others to carry. Negative investments have an adverse effect on the energy levels of the sender and the receiver.

According to Caroline Myss, author of Why People Don’t Heal: and How They Can, when you leak energy, you’re forced to borrow it in order to make up the deficit. Borrowed energy can be drawn from two aspects of your life. Borrowed energy may be drawn from your own cellular matter. This can lead to poor health, fatigue and exhaustion. Borrowed energy may also be drawn from others. Borrowing energy from others can lead to unbalanced or unhealthy relationships that lack authenticity, connection or intimacy, or the support and encouragement you need.

Clinging to past wounds or trying to manipulate experiences to gain an unhealthy personal advantage can reduce your energy levels. Imagine the health implications these situations could have if they were long term.

When you find yourself making negative investments, use it as a reminder to ground yourself in the reality of your experience. Align your thoughts and actions. Get into a state of flow so that you bring yourself back to the present moment. Then make your positive investments from there.

Myss, C. (1997). Why people don’t heal: and how they can. Harmony Books. New York.