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<\/span><\/p>\nI was going to sit and glance at the paper for a minute and found myself just getting to it! I was as surprised as you!<\/p>\n
I gave myself several opportunities to quit. \u201cI\u2019ll do this much today and do the rest another day,\u201d sort of thing. No need. I just kept going. For someone who experiences low energy issues, this was such a blessing!<\/p>\n
It surprises me how much energy is spent on resisting, dreading, stressing, or dragging my feet on something. What a huge blessing it is to just get to it! <\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard for me to equate stress and resistance as usable energy \u2013 life force energy. They seem so different, yet are they really?<\/p>\n It\u2019s my energy taking form as tension or as action. My choice how to use that energy. On a low energy day, I can take a bit more time and awareness to release resistance\/dread so that I have more energy to do the things I prefer to do.<\/p>\n Some things are still not fun, yet they take half the time and not nearly as much energy. What a deal!<\/p>\n My next task is the pantry. God only knows what\u2019s in there. Usable stuff is up front, certainly, but who knows what\u2019s been shoved in those dark corners. I have a couple of things still on my counters that really belong in the pantry \u2013 but there is no room. So, on my next day-off, the pantry will get my attention. I am already feeling dread and releasing it. I\u2019m already feeling tired and releasing it. I\u2019m already feeling the exhaustion of choosing what stays and what goes and I\u2019m releasing it.<\/p>\n How to release? <\/p>\n Notice what you\u2019re feeling. Feeling dread is a pretty normal and appropriate action for a task like cleaning the pantry. I don\u2019t have to pretend I don\u2019t feel the dread. I don\u2019t have to push the dread away in the back of my mind (not really releasing). I don\u2019t have to shame\/blame myself because it\u2019s there. I just let it be there. (What a concept!) <\/p>\n Then I allow it to dissipate or fall away as best I can for now. If the dread reappears, I welcome it and let it go again. And again. The process takes very little energy, yet releases a ton of energy for me to use elsewhere.<\/p>\n I have a couple of tasks to do on the computer this morning. These are things I don\u2019t yet know how to do and I\u2019m feeling resistance coming up for those tasks as well. I think I\u2019ll take a few minutes to notice and release that resistance as well.<\/p>\n Releasing resistance could be called surrender. Surrender isn\u2019t about giving up, it\u2019s about giving up the struggle. Once the struggle is released, we slip into the flow. <\/strong><\/p>\n In the flow, energy becomes usable, decisions become easier, actions seem effortless, time shifts (things take less time than we thought they would), our minds open, and our spirit soars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent most of yesterday cleaning the kitchen. We had purchased a new over-the-stove microwave and the big old microwave was removed and given away. That left a pile of clutter and old dust that just had to go. While I was at it, I tackled another clutter spot filled with notes and pens and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"\n