I am using my  birthday month  to review my priorities and decide where I want to focus my energy. Energy is the secret key to enjoying life, I have discovered. If I use my energy filling up my day with HAVE TOs (disguised as TO DOs) there’s not much joy or fulfillment at the end of the day.  Check it out…

Tracking the broadcasts of my inner thoughts and feelings also reveal energy leaks. What does fear about a national headline or bottom line in my check book do to my energy level? It shuts it down. Or sends me unconsciously running to numb the fear with my favorite self medication.

What does frustration or disappointment do to my sense of self motivation, inspiration or esteem? (all qualities of my level of energy) My body feels drained and my ‘thinking’ becomes muddled and cloudy.

Choosing  TO BE rather than TO DO shifts my focus and renews me. There is a popular slogan that goes, Energy follow thought.  So to think, I’m going to be peaceful, for example begins a flow of energy toward the experience peace. But if I really want to have a full body experience of peace and move into a state of peace I must  put into action those activities that produce peace.

In other words, there is a level of ‘doing’ in the ‘being’. Being is not passive – it’s active. The results of focusing my thoughts and then my energy on a state of being: peace, joy, loving, calm, openness, fulfillment, abundance produce what I am after.

Taking a 10 minute TO BE break in the middle of my day is like soaking in a nice hot bath or walking in a fresh, sunlit  forest. My energy is renewed with a vibrating life enhancing flow.

If every thing in this world of form is energy, as described by the quantum scientists, then continually sourcing upward spiraling energy enhances health, self esteem and abundance. That new car is not abundance. The car itself, however luxurious or expensive, does not source a vibration  of abundance. I carry that vibration of abundance. We often confuse the symbol for the experience.

The same is true with my obsession with my TO DOs. Crossing off one TO DO is OK; finishing my list of TO DOs is better; sourcing the joy, abundance and loving of who I am, breathing deeply and experiencing my fullness as I am going from task to task is the BEST!

Wish me luck! My new birthday gift to myself begins now.