How to harness and direct your energy.

If there's one skill that is of paramount importance in the

modern world, it is the ability to manage our energetic resources. The intelligent use of our energy is
going to determine a lot of what we accomplish and a lot of what we are able to create and build in our
lives. It's important to understand that energy is inherently limited, that regardless of how much you can
increase it, at some point there's going to be a cap of how much you can expend on a daily, weekly, and
monthly basis. It is because of this cap, which is of course moveable and will change from day to day,
week to week and month to month, that the effective and efficient use of energy is so critical. In fact,
energy is one of the central components of evolution. The ability to utilize energy to preserve it and to
effectively direct and use it is one of the central core tenants of biological life.

It is on the skills of harnessing and or cultivating our energy and then learning how to properly direct it
in ways that make an impact that this video will focus. We will focus on two different elements that
combined create this skillset which I am referring to. The first of which is harnessing and it is with
harnessing that we collect, combine, amplify and animate and the other is in directing. It isn't directing
that we focus, transmit and project our energetic capacity or in other words, the two States that we will
be working with here are the magnetic and the electrical and thus it is by attuning ourselves to this
polarity of the magnetic and the electrical or the electrical magnetic that we are able to then create the
type of change that we wish to see in our lives. Focusing now on the harnessing aspect of this polarity,
the most important thing that we can do around this quality is having a routine that allows you to raise
your energy, to increase it, to amplify it, and to collect your resources through a directed practice.

Thus, if energy is like a pool and every action and every decision we take draws from that pool and we
start every day with a certain amount of energy in that pool, the raising of energy basically allows us to
invest some of that energy in order to get back more and to focus on the skills and disciplines that are
involved at a physiological level. In increasing energetic capacity, the four areas and disciplines to focus
on are movement, nutrition, breathing and emotion. It is these four qualities coming together, which
allow us to maximally harness our energy. So let's first understand that as an organism we experience
energy as an epi phenomenon. That is, we either have it or we don't, but energy is the result of a
complex interaction that includes our cells capacity to create cellular energy, ATP, and our emotional
vitality. Emotion literally means energy in motion. So by addressing the components which allow us to
create ATP and then also addressing our emotional vitality, we're able to bring together these two
critical aspects.

We need a physical routine, something that stimulates the body awakens, the nervous system, increases
body temperature, allows for the circulation of nutrients and the removal of waste and that leaves us
feeling a better and more refreshed after the practice. Thus, when I say physical routine, I do not mean
something that is inherently draining or that requires you to put in tons and tons of time. I mean a
physical practice that facilitates health and vitality. Movement is also an excellent vehicle for emotional
expression. Thus bringing in some work with emotional content can be extremely valuable. This can be
done with dance, bioenergetic therapy, martial arts, cheek gong or some other form of emotional
cultivation that you bring into your movement practice or that you adjacent to your movement practice
so that then we can address both the physical component as well as the emotional vitality piece
together.

Then we also have to take into consideration that energy requires raw material at its most basic level.
What we are looking at here is then nutrition and oxygen. It is caloric value as well as nutrients that
allow ourselves combined with oxygen to create cellular energy. And so in order to assist you in going
deeper into these disciplines, I have created a few free resources that you can find on my website, the
primal element.com the first is a free ebook on nutrition called the way of ancestral nutrition, a look at
the human condition through the lens of food and the other is a free video class called knowing the
breadth which helps you to restore the archetipal human breathing pattern, neither of which require an
email for you to acquire and begin working with. Moving on from the raising your energy portion of this
video, let's take a look at the idea of creating systems and not goals.

It is through creating a systemic approach to our processes that we are able to most effectively project
and transmit the energy that we do have available to us by feeding it into the system itself. Although
goals are a hallmark of conventional self development work and plenty of people talk about the value of
pursuing them, and this is not to say that they are without value. Systems are a more effective way of
attuning ourselves to the longterm process of pursuing the outcomes that we desire without getting
excessively focused on the end. It allows us, when we engage with systems to find a joy in the process
itself of pursuit systems are inherently more intelligent and more adaptable than the singular pursuit of
a specific goal. Systems combine a variety of components and variables together that are working in
unison that are all moving in the same direction, ideally.

Thus if we a system and then we are able to put energy into the system, the eventful outcome of what
we have put together systematically aligns with the outcomes we want in our lives and then in this way
we let go of the end result for which we cannot control and put energy into the process, which is what
we can control. What we do is create systems that have a specific intention interwoven into them in this
way. What is required is that we focus on the efficacy of the system itself and that we tinker with it or
change out major elements of it in order to make it better at manifesting the particular outcomes that
we want over time. This requires us to redefine the notion of success because if success is contingent on
a specific outcome, that means that we are only successful sometimes and for very short periods
because goals will constantly shift. What we want to do is create a habit of success and then this allows
us to engage with the process. Earl Nightingale has a great definition of success, which is success is the
progressive realization of a worthy ideal, the progressive continuing realization of a worthy ideal. So if
we set out and define a worthy ideal and then progressively little by little realize it, then we are already
by virtue of engaging with the process successful.

The way that we can Progressive's really realize a worthy ideal is through engagement with a set of
habits and skills that we either create or adopt and that we feed energy into on a day to day basis. And
as the system is fed, it will eventually grow into an outcome and it is by setting an intention and not
specifically a goal that we can slowly over time, create the types of outcomes we want through engaging
with the process itself. By engaging with process itself, we are able to harness one of the most critical
elements of accomplishing anything, and that is simply persistence, the ability to keep coming back and
to expect results to happen the long term and not necessarily the short term. It allows us to deal with
the proverbial getting knocked down so that we can then get back up again consistently over time.