Each One Of Us Is A Perfect, Unique Energy Force
Each One Of Us Is A Perfect, Unique Energy Force | Where will your intention and awareness take you? | Donald Stevens | Olorin Coaching
“Mojo is, that positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside”
Opportunity
Neuroscientists can map the electrochemical energy flow in the brain. While electrochemical energy is used to initiate action, each of your thoughts, emotional responses, and subsequent behaviors also generate a reaction, or energetic consequence. Practitioners in the field of positive psychology have found that if you can become aware, or conscious, of the basis for your thoughts and emotional reactions and purposefully shift your perspective to a more optimistic stance, you can transform the energy that is generated and redirect its flow. By doing so, you open yourself to increased opportunities to learn and grow.
All things in our universe are constantly in motion, vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating, oscillating, resonating, at various frequencies. Resonance is a type of motion, characterized by oscillation between two states. And ultimately all matter is just vibrations of various underlying fields. As such, at every scale, all of nature vibrates.
Something interesting happens when different vibrating things come together: They will often start, after a little while, to vibrate together at the same frequency. They “sync up,” sometimes in ways that can seem mysterious. This is described as the phenomenon of spontaneous self-organization.
Intention
There are three components to managing your energy:
1. Alignment
Empowered by awareness and acceptance, creating choice. Knowing what your goals are creates clarity that keeps your energy high. You are driven by your values, yet those values may not reflect what you really want out of life. They may only be the things you were taught that you want. When things are going well, your conscious values are being honored. When things are not going well, a conscious value or more than one conscious value is being challenged.
2. Growth Mindset
As researched by Carol Dweck, with a growth mindset, you believe you have basic qualities and characteristics. You differ from others in regards to your inherent talents, aptitudes, interests and disposition, but with a growth mindset, you believe that you can change and grow.
3. Grit
As researched by Angela Duckworth, the passion and perseverance to achieve long-term and meaningful goals, conjuring resilience. There are four psychological assets you develop, in a particular order, to summon grit:
Interest is about enjoying what you do. We all have aspects of our work that we don't enjoy. When you have grit, you can see your work as the whole of many parts and find it meaningful and interesting. With grit, you love what you do and distinguish between “need” and “want”.
Practice is about perseverance and the daily self-control to do something better than you did it yesterday. With grit, you strive for mastery through regular and sustained practice. You identify your areas of weakness and work to improve them. There is no room for complacency. Practice is about devotion to improvement and embracing challenges. Adventure in learning is the goal, not the outcome.
Purpose is what matures passion. Purpose is the belief that your work matters not just for you, but for others. Without having a purpose, any interest will be difficult to sustain. You transcend your ego and come to see we are all connected.
Hope is not the last stage of grit but it is in every stage of grit. You are able to keep going and face your doubts and demons. You can name your blocking energy. You’ll get knocked down but won’t stay down. You believe you are enough and more.