Raise Your Energy Any Time You're Low

You know when you're feeling on your A game, when you're showing up authentically with high energy and performing your best. But what about those weeks, or sometimes months when you feel like your energy is lower than usual? What about those times when challenges in your personal or professional life drag things down and you feel like you just can't get out of a rut? Sometimes it's a random morning and sometimes it's a whole season of struggle. Well, today we're talking about how to raise your energy at any time we whether you've been low for a few minutes or whether it's been a much longer time than that. When you master the principles in this episode, you'll find you have access to unlimited energy every day of your life. You're listening to the Universe has yous Business. It's the podcast for rising entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants and change makers who are here to achieve more while letting the universe do the heavy lifting. And I am your host, Andrew Donovan. Well, as always, today's episode is really inspired by some recent personal life events where I found myself in one of those, you could call it, ruts, where the energy is just lower than I'm used to, or where I want it to be. And if you can relate to that tendency toward perfectionism as I can, you probably know what I'm talking about. As entrepreneurs, I think we frequently expect ourselves to be on our A game all the time. We expect peak performance, top energy, a great attitude. We expect ourselves to be in inspiration on a high flying disc, riding the high vibes. And when we catch ourselves in an off moment, it's really easy to punish ourselves, isn't it? To say, oh, I should be doing better, oh I'm not doing enough or oh, I feel awful, something must be wrong or I must be inadequate or I must be falling short or I must be letting somebody down or letting myself down or letting God down or whatever. These are all little snippets of conversation that I catch running through my head sometimes and I think they're really common little bits of self talk that don't really serve. So let's just get one thing clear. It is not only impractical, but impossible to for a human being to always be in peak performance mode. Alright? That's just not how life works. Life ebbs and flows and has ups and downs. And that doesn't mean that you should just accept the down moments and say, oh, there's nothing I can do about it. Because truly I believe that life is meant to be a joyful Experience. Life is supposed to be fun. Funny too. Life is supposed to be fun, and we're here to have a good time. And that includes business, that includes your professional experiences, in your career path. It's all meant to be a joyful unfolding. And there are periods where you experience contrast, where something doesn't go as planned. And all of that is an essential part of the equation because expansion always is birthed from contrast. And if you only lived in high energy and high vibes all the time, you would get pretty used to them and they'd lose their luster. So there's a part of me that really rejects what I just said because it almost in some ways sounds like you're supposed to feel bad, because if you didn't feel badly, then you wouldn't feel good. And that's not quite what I'm saying. So pay close attention here. The reason why contrast is essential is because when you know it, you don't want, you know more of what you do want. Anytime things are going great, you'll have a new set of contrasts. When you manifest something new, when you achieve that next level of success in your business, or when you manifest the next, I don't know, breakthrough in your life, whatever arena we're talking about, well, you'll experience a new set of contrast. And contrast typically feels like low energy. And low energy can be experienced in many ways. I mean, we can be talking about something that's just like really low energy, where you feel powerless, you. You feel depressed, you feel like you're just stuck and stagnant. And low energy can also be something more like boredom. All right, so bottom line is it's normal to feel low energy sometimes, and it's impractical for you to expect yourself to feel high energy all the time. All right, but there is totally something you can do about it because you are an expression of source energy. You are an expression of the universe, of divinity, and you have unlimited, all the time, incontrovertible access to love, to energy, to inspiration. All right, so how do you shift from a low energy mode to a high energy mode? Well, first, you should understand that when you're in a low energy state of being, Law of Attraction makes it difficult to shift from the energetic space that you're currently in. Now, this is interesting. Why would that be? Well, if like attracts like, if law of attraction says that which is like unto itself is drawn. Well, if you've been having a crappy Monday morning and you've been just keeping score of all the things that are going wrong with your day. There's a lot of momentum that Law of Attraction is responding to, right? You've been thinking a bunch of thoughts that have a certain vibe to those thoughts, and Law of Attraction brings you more of the same. That's how Law of Attraction works. And so when you've got a lot of momentum spun up, it's actually difficult to shift out of that because Law of Attraction brings you more of where you're trending. And so then that begs the question, how on earth do I get out of my rut? How do I get out of this downward spiral? And I'm gonna share with you a few simple principles that will allow you not only to leverage Law of Attraction, to shift the spot, to shift the momentum, but also to be able to tap into unlimited source energy at any given moment. All right, so first of all, let's start with this rule. If you're overwhelmed, you're being too specific. If you're bored, you need to be more specific. Now, I just named two low energy states that feel very different. When you feel overwhelmed, that's a low energy state of being. Correct. When you're high energy, it feels like you feel inspired. You, you can't wait to get to the next step in your day. You are anticipating good things coming to you. You just have a sure knowing that things are working out for you. That's very high energy, high vibe. When you're overwhelmed, you feel like there's not enough energy, there's a shortage of energy. And so it's very much a low energy state of being. You might feel totally frazzled, irritated, even frustrated. Or sometimes we feel so overwhelmed that we become depressed and stagnant. And all of what I've just described is not enough energy. Because again, true source energy feels amazing, right? And if you're not feeling amazing, you're disconnected from your source. So if you're overwhelmed, you're being too specific. Now, I love this idea because I catch myself in a state of overwhelm more than I catch myself feeling bored. Just because as a high achieving personality, I tend to put a lot of things on my plate. When I catch myself feeling overwhelmed, I have to remind myself that that's when I'm being too specific. What I mean by that is I have to remember that everything I desire is already accounted for in the greater equation of the universe. It's not Andrew Donovan's job to micromanage the details of my success. It's my privilege to get my hands in the clay and to have fun with it. But it's not my job to manage those details and the more I try to manage more and more details, the more overwhelmed I feel. Does that make sense to you? Now the flip side of that is that if you're bored, which is also a low energy state, you need to be more specific. So sometimes I catch up with a friend and I say what's going on? And they say, oh, you know, just the same old same old, just work like normal and nothing interesting is happening and, and they sound like they're bored in life. And I think, oh my gosh, you need to like get in the dirt a little bit and get some specificity going on in your thoughts and your vibration. You need to trend in more specific thoughts because if you're bored, there's not a lot of momentum and momentum is where the fun is. So if you're bored, you need to get more specific. That's a pretty base premise. It's a good way to stop punishing yourself for those low energy moments and just remember that if you're overwhelmed by be more general. If you're bored, be more specific in your thoughts. All right, now the next piece of this puzzle here is talking about the energetic scale. You've heard me talk about the emotional scale where you've got shame, depression, powerlessness at the bottom and then love, appreciation, gratitude, knowledge, inspiration, enthusiasm at the top. Right. And everything in between. Well, if we were to get out of the specific labels of all those emotions and just talk about general states of being, the energy emotion scale would look like this. At the far side you'd have specifically negative. Alright, specifically negative. Looks like you're hyper aware of the specific things that you don't like in your life. All right, so you're like I mentioned in the example a moment ago, you're counting all the things that aren't going well in your day. You're keeping score of things that aren't working out for you. You're harping over memories or projecting a negative experience into the future. You're very specific. That's specifically negative. An improved state of being from that, that is a much higher energetic state of being is generally negative. Instead of going over all the details of the stories of what's not working in my life, maybe I'm just saying, you know, I just feel kind of afraid. I'm just a little worried. You target the emotion, not the specifics of, of the circumstances or the experiences. Does that make sense to you? So you go from specifically negative to generally negative and just that jump Feels like a huge improvement. Specifically negative means you are very much in the realm of on the verge of powerlessness. So powerless means you're totally disconnected from your source. The energy feels very low. Generally negative means you're a little more connected, you're out of the weeds, and. But you're still aware that you don't feel great. All right, from generally negative, the next stage is generally positive. So maybe it's out of reach for me to make a big gratitude list and to count all of my blessings and to actually feel the emotion of gratitude. Maybe that's too specific, but I can go generally positive. So maybe I say, you know, I was feeling kind of badly this morning. Morning. I like to shift into just feeling satisfied, just in general, feeling a little bit better, feeling satisfied, feeling a little bit of relief, feeling a little bit of rejuvenation, just a little bit of refreshment. Do you see how there is already a lot more energy in what I've just described? And from generally positive, then the next stage is specifically positive. So we go from specifically negative to generally negative to generally positive to specifically positive. You see, if I've got a bunch of momentum spun up around a generally positive state of being or generally positive thoughts, it's much easier to spin into specifically positive thoughts. And the more specific your positive thoughts are, the better it feels, the more energy there is there. So when you see someone who's just one of your entrepreneurial or your life role models, your icons, and. And you hear them talking about specific things that are really working out, maybe they've launched a new philanthropic endeavor and they got tons of support and millions of views and lots of dollars raised. There's a lot of specifics there that are really exciting. Right? Well, you don't have to always be in the specifically positive. It's definitely more fun there. But generally positive is also a great space to be in. So here is how to apply what I'm talking about into any moment. Because the point of this episode is how do I tap into unlimited energy at any moment, no matter how low I am or how long I've been feeling low? Okay? The goal is just to find a better feeling thought. Not the best thought you've ever thought, not the best feeling you've ever felt. Just a slightly better feeling thought than the ones you've been thinking, and that's it. So if I've been generally negative, like, you know, I'm just kind of having a glum day, it's not a horrible day. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not enraged. I'm not, you know, it's not. It's not. It's not dreadful. It's just, you know, kind of a glum day. Just I'm feeling a little bit down. I remind myself, okay, that's fine. There's no problem there. That's just where I have been. Okay, now where do I go if I'm generally. If I've been generally negative, My goal is not to go speak specifically positive. That almost always backfires. It's what I call an energetic quantum leap, and it usually creates more resistance. My goal is to go from generally negative to generally positive. So I'm just trying to find a slightly better feeling thought than the ones that I've been thinking this afternoon, for example. So maybe I've been a little bit. Just a little bit down feeling, you know, like maybe I'm a little off purpose. Maybe some of my. My projects haven't been up to pace the way that I want them to be. Things like that. And instead of thinking about those, I'm gonna say, well, you know, I would like to find a thought space that feels just like a little bit of relief, a little bit of rejuvenation, a little bit of refreshment, not bouncing off the wall, ecstatic for what's coming, but just refreshing, a little more refreshing. And so I might think, well, you know, maybe I could contemplate a few things that have been going really well in my day, or some areas were where I've accomplished a few things that I actually feel pretty good about, not the best, but feel pretty good about. Or maybe I can find some thoughts that aren't related to my business projects at all. But I could say, you know, it's actually been a really nice day with weather. Like, I enjoyed walking to the gym today. That felt really great. In fact, hey, it felt nice that I went to the gym. That was good. To get my endorphins up. That was nice. I took care of my body. I actually feel pretty good about the. The fact that I've been. In fact, I drink a green smoothie after the gym. I put some nutritional things into my body. That was nice. Do you see? I'm not bouncing off the wall again in elation, but I've shifted from generally negative to generally positive. And I found some thoughts that feel a little bit better. But most importantly, what have I done? I've plugged into more energy, and from there, I can use that energy to do more enjoyable things with my day. And so I've Just, I mean, in like 35 seconds, I've gone from a generally negative space to a space where I have more energy to do, to enjoy, to live from, to create from. And my job is not say, okay, now I've got more energy, let me do hard things. My job is to say, ooh, I'm gonna keep spinning that up more and more and more because the more I spread at positive energy, the more inspiration I'm tapping into and the more things work out for me fundamentally. So if I were in a specifically negative state of being, meaning maybe I've had a really rough few months and I've just gotten in the habit of counting what's not working, keeping score of what's not working, and telling all of my friends about all the things that aren't working. And someone says, how are things? Then you say, oh, let me tell you about how hard this has been, and you give them all the juicy details. Well, that's specifically negative. And it feels really, really bad. It feels bad because it means you are totally disconnected from who you really are, which is your unlimited source energy, your unlimited inspiration, your unlimited creative power, right? So again, it's the same process. You go from specifically negative to generally negative how? By just finding a slightly better feeling thought than the ones you've been thinking. So if you've been telling all of your friends all the specifics about what hasn't been working, try saying, you know, it's been a little bit sluggish, I've been a little bit, I've been, you know, I've been having a hard time, and I'm just gonna leave it at that. And that's it, right? You don't even have to tell people that dialogue with yourself in your own head. And from there you find this slightly better feeling thought. And that's how you go generally positive. And then the more you practice thoughts that feel generally positive, the easier it is for Law of Attraction to bring you more, and you start finding yourself in the specifically positive thought realm. Do you see how this works? It's incredibly empowering because you no longer have to demand of yourself that you feel incredible high flying vibes all the time. Instead, you can say at any moment, you can observe where you are. Are you specifically negative, generally negative, generally positive, or specifically positive? And you can say, I've identified where I am and I'm going to find something that feels just slightly better to think about. And what happens when you do this more and more is you realize that all the power you needed was already within you, you realize that when people said, you can create anything, you can create the life you want, you are God unfolding. You are an expression of the universe. You are an expression of source energy. You have unlimited access to love. You have unlimited access to creative powers, to inspiration. You realize that that's not just fluffy talk, that's actually true. And you realize that the way that you access that unlimited energy, your unlimited creative powers, is simply by playing this little game of saying, I'm just gonna find a better feeling thought than the ones I've been thinking lately, than the ones that I've been trending in. And the reason why this works is, again, if you're in the specific negatives, Law of Attraction won't let you go to the specific positives because. Because it's bringing you more of where you're trending. And so you just gently turn it up and up and up and up. And the more you practice this, the more you realize that you can turn it up and up and up a lot faster than you thought you could. So, my friends, what are you going to do with this? I invite you to play this little game over the next 24 hours. All right? Just say any moment that you're aware of how you're feeling, say, could I find what's a slightly better feeling thought than the ones I've been thinking? And notice what happens to your energy. All right, well, if you found something useful in this podcast episode, please do me a favor. Scroll down, leave a five star review, and if you're on Apple podcasts, leave a rating. Just jot a couple sentences about what you learned, what you took away from this episode. 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