How does energy manifest itself in a person? Very noticeable! A high level of energy is the presence of strength and a thirst for activity. This is enthusiasm, good mood and well-being. It's a delight. This is the feeling of love.
Low energy levels - weakness, laziness, heaviness in body and mind, bad mood, depression.
So where to get energy from? Ancient texts describe four sources …
1. A positive mindset
This is the first, main, thinnest and most powerful source of energy. Notice that when we think positively we are filled with joy, we are happy. When we are happy, we are full of energy! We are full of enthusiasm and desire to act.
To be more precise, the source of energy is the external environment - Nature. It gives tremendous strength, a huge boost of energy for activity, making plans, faith in oneself and in the future. But there is a condition: Nature gives energy exactly as much as a person is ready to take. And this readiness is due to a certain emotional state, and this, in turn, is a positive attitude of the mind.
So what is a positive mindset? First of all, this is a natural state of mind and a certain way of thinking, which are given from birth, and which we voluntarily give up. See the world through the eyes of a three-year-old and you will understand the source of his enthusiasm.
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To achieve, or rather return to a positive state of mind, yoga describes and teaches to follow three positions.
The first is the attitude to the outside world - to life, circumstances and people around us. When a negative situation comes into our life, most often we ask ourselves the question "why do I need this?" and "who is to blame for my problems?"
This formulation of the question is called the position of the victim. It creates negative attitudes and drains energy. And it also gives rise to complaints. Complaints fill the mind, which switches it from solving the problem to complaining itself. The chain is closed, and it is no longer possible to break out of it.
To avoid problems, it is necessary to change the attitude towards the outside world, i.e. in response to an undesirable situation, ask yourself the question "why do I need this?" The answer will come quickly. And this answer will allow you to gain experience, often a harmonious solution, and therefore benefit. And when we realize that we are receiving something from the outside world, we rejoice. A positive state of mind arises and our energy grows.
This approach to life also has a name - the position of the student. Therefore, when an angry shop assistant yells at us, we need to gain experience, learn. Learn, in this workshop to control your emotions. Learn to switch this person from a negative state to a positive one, because he shouts at us because he feels bad. And realizing this to be satisfied with the fact that life has sent us a lesson on the strength of qualities.
The second is to choose what to let into your mind. You can contemplate the beauty of nature, works of art, animals. Or you can watch a thriller or action movie. You can visit the exhibition. Or you can have a website with unambiguous content. You can discuss the topic of personality development. Or a neighbor. There are thousands of examples.
The third position is mental hygiene.
In life, it is not always possible to protect yourself from adverse impressions. An accident on the road, an unpleasant story heard, some kind of sudden event. In our age, information flows of high density, therefore, the issue of mental hygiene is more relevant than in ancient times. And in ancient times it was daily.
Yoga introduces the concept of mental hygiene - regular cleansing of impressions. It is achieved through breathing and meditation techniques.
2. Breathing
Breathing is the most important source of energy at the physical level. Air is the carrier of the universal energy - prana. It is called universal because it supports not only physical, but also mental and emotional processes within us.
With vast knowledge in this area, the ancient scientists created a breathing system that has survived to this day in the Vedic texts. The basis of this system is to increase the useful volume of the lungs and, at the same time, the time per inhalation and exhalation cycle. This leads to the receipt of a larger amount of energy and a decrease in the rate of metabolic processes, i.e. prolongation of youth.
How is this achieved …
Our lungs are made up of three lobes. These lobes are located one above the other and communicate with each other at the top, just like a bunch of grapes with a branch. This feature makes the lobes of the lungs independent from each other. For some reason, we have lost the correct breathing motor skills and breathe only one lobe of the lungs.
Men breathe with their belly, i.e. lower lobe of the lungs. And women are breastfeeding, i.e. average share. Nobody breathes the upper part. It turns out that we breathe in the third part of the total volume. According to breathing, we receive the volume of prana.
But correct breathing is only part of the process of getting energy. The amount of prana in the air is also important. Prana is the life energy given by nature. Therefore, prana is where there is nature - among trees, mountains, rivers.
In cities where the landscape is not natural, there is very little prana. And it is practically absent in rooms without windows, air-conditioned rooms and basements. The exception is parks - pranic oases of cities. We, city dwellers, are encouraged to visit the countryside and parks more often. Ventilate apartments - more often use outdoor air rather than conditioned air.
3. Sleep
During sleep, we receive a portion of energy, which we then expend throughout the day. Sleep energy depends on the impact of the Sun and Moon on the Earth and all living things. The interaction of these celestial bodies acts in such a way that only the dark time of day is possible for rest and gaining energy - the ideal is sleep from dusk to dawn.
Have you noticed that when you wake up late, lethargy, laziness, lack of enthusiasm and inertia of thinking persist? The person feels overwhelmed and dissatisfied.
It is very important to understand the mechanism of accumulation of this type of energy and to avoid extremes such as going to bed after midnight and getting up in the late morning hours (it is better to get up early).
4. Food (Parable)
In the east, they say: we are what we eat. And this is true. Eating an apple, we accept the building material that makes up this apple. Its energy. Its information structure. The apple becomes us, and we, accordingly, become it.
Advice from yogis - you need to eat only freshly prepared food, because 3-4 hours after cooking, the prana contained in the dish is destroyed. Therefore, it makes no sense to cook for future use, to which we are so accustomed.
There are secrets in eating. Sometimes, having eaten to the full, we continue to look with our eyes on the table for something else tasty, have you noticed? This happens because a person is saturated not with the amount of food, but with prana and psychic energy. And for the feeling of satiety, we mistake the feeling of heaviness in the stomach - a built-in defense mechanism.
Have you noticed that people under severe stress eat a lot and gain weight? In this way, they try to compensate for the lack of energy that is generated from the negative attitude of the mind.
Knowing that food intake is energy intake, you need to pay attention to taste, i.e. be aware of every bite eaten, its entire gustatory palette. To do this, you need to eat slowly and exclude TV, chatter and reading from the diet. Then you can get enough of a small amount of food.
Please note that the most delicious food is food prepared with love. The mood of a woman preparing a meal is reflected in her taste. And the taste is on the psychic energy of those who eat food.
How it works?
All organic matter that we eat, as well as you and I, is 90% water. Water is not only a chemical substance, the basis, the foundation of the structure of organic substances. Due to its cluster structure of molecular bonds, water has the property of recording, storing and transmitting a huge amount of information in a small unit of volume.
Information is recorded on water through sound and electromagnetic waves. Thus, water “hears” and “reads thoughts”. But the most important thing is that she remembers everything.
What should be done in this case:
First, you need to learn to cook with love. This is the most important thing in cooking. To love those for whom this food is intended. Love the foods you cook from. Love the cooking process itself. You need to cook in a blissful state, in a good mood and frame of mind.
Secondly, while cooking, you need to concentrate on food. Since food records our emotional state, it will remember the attitude towards it at the time of cooking. If you treat food indifferently, then it will respond with the same - indifferent taste.
Thus, in order to prepare delicious and blissful food, it is necessary to distract from TV, telephone and household chores. And concentrate all attention on the cooking process.
And thirdly, during preparation, it is advisable to turn on quiet, calm, pacifying music. In this way, you will improve your mood (and this affects the taste) and cleanse products of unnecessary information.