Do you try to manage time?  Conscious creation of value requires managing energy, rather than time,  throughout the day. It  makes you more effective.  Time is a constant, but energy waxes and wanes through the day.   Performing a task with high energy leads to high focus and productivity because you are fully engaged in the task.   If the same task is  performed with low energy, focus is lacking, engagement is low and performance suffers.

Over time, filling each unforgiving minute with activity can lead to exhaustion and feelings of stress, which can ultimately lead to ill-health.  Feeling uncomfortable emotions that come  from stress, zap energy. This sets up a vicious circle – exhaustion leads to further negativity which leads to further low energy.

On the other hand, consciously creating by managing energy leads to positive emotion, resulting in  better performance, and an enhanced feeling of efficacy which then triggers more positive emotions.  Whatever you are creating – health, a report or a business, you will perform better if you are fully and consciously engaged in what you are doing.

What are the tricks to managing energy?  The first thing is to become aware of feelings and of energy levels.  Low energy or feelings of frustration, anxiety and the like indicate a bad time to engage in activities that require focus and full attention.  These might be good times to take a short rest or to do something less demanding.

The second trick to managing energy is to consciously build it through attention to filling your energy sources.   Your  physical. mental, spiritual and emotional parts can be seen as tanks that must be filled regularly.  If the tanks are running low or are on empty, there will be insufficient energy to perform adequately. It is similar to gas in a car.  You have put gas in the tank before you can drive the car.  If you keep driving without replenishing the gas in the tank, you will eventually stop and be unable to go any further.

Physical energy is created through a nutritious diet, regular exercise, periodic rest and renewal, and adequate sleep.  Physical energy is the platform in which all the others rest.  You need physical energy to use all other types.

Mental energy is built through focusing on one thing at a time.  Multi-tasking diffuses the energy needed to produce something of value.  To create value,  it is important that energy is directed to the most important task for a sustained period of time.  Doing more than one thing at a time is distracting and interferes with the concentration required to create something worthwhile.

Emotional energy is created through feelings of self-worth and self-efficacy.  Feeling bad about yourself or your ability to perform the task, or that the task is not worthwhile or even possible,  will seriously get in the way of creating something of value.  Other emotions like anger, grief, resentment and the like will drain you and seriously interfere with creation.  You can learn how to cultivate positive emotions, which will help to promote feelings of worth and ability to perform.

Spiritual energy is created when you are fully engaged in doing something you love and that is important to you.  This can be anything that makes you feel good and

Conscious Creation of Music Manages Spiritual Energy

brings you joy.  It may be a hobby, spending fun time with children friends or animals, getting out into nature, playing a game, or engaging in an artistic pursuit.  When you are consciously engaged in doing something you love, your spiritual energy is high, you feel good about yourself and raise all the other sources of energy.

If you are trying to create  something – say a career, a business, a happy family life, health or healing -  filling all your energy tanks is important. But spiritual energy becomes  especially important because this is the area that people often ignore.  Also, because when you do something you love you  re-create yourself. In that moment you become the best you can be – free from worry, strife or all the other emotions that drain you.  Repeat those moments on a regular basis, and miracles can happen.

So stop managing time to order your day.  Become conscious of  the ease of creation when managing energy.  Fill up your tanks, set your intention and drive down the highway of conscious creation, stopping to rest and smell the roses when energy wanes.

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To identify what conscious creation is, it’s helpful to look first at unconscious creation.

Unconsciously Creating

Have you ever wondered why you keep losing weight only to gain it back within a year, why you have a string of failed relationships, a number of jobs with  bosses from hell, or why you are never quite able to make ends meet?   Perhaps the above circumstances  don’t quite fit , but you have other areas of your life where things never seem to go quite right and you get what you don’t want.

The reason these things keep happening to you is because you are unconsciously creating them.  You may think that most of your troubles stem from other people or the circumstances in your life, but it’s your response to these events that brings about your results.  You may not be able to choose the  events in your life, but you can always choose your response.  And miraculously, when you change your response the events may change too.

Consciously Decide What You Want

Changing your response first requires that you become consciously aware of what you want.  If you want a better relationship with your boss, what would a better relationship look like exactly?  One way of deciding might be to make a list of all the things that you don’t like about the relationship, and then writing the opposite.  For example if you wrote ‘my boss expects me to deliver reports in an unreasonable length of time’ the opposite could be ‘my boss gives me adequate time to do the work he assigns.’

Consciously Change Your Current Response

Once your list of wants is complete, then look at what you may be doing to prevent you getting what you want.  In the situation where you have to complete work in less time than it takes to do an adequate job, are you letting your boss know how long it would take, and the other work that you already have to complete?  You could ask her ‘what has priority? ‘ If your boss says the new assignment has priority, then let her know just what you can do in the time allotted.  Strange though it may seem, bosses often do not know what is involved in producing the work they ask for.  I once had a boss drop 10 years of data for 30 causes of death in 20 local health areas on my desk, saying: “Analyse this, I need it in two days.”

If you really cannot come up with how you could respond differently, find someone in your workplace that seems to have a good relationship with him, and ask how they manage the situations that you find problematic.

Create Health Through Conscious Creation

Conscious creation by becoming aware of what you want, your part in getting what you don’t want, and then  changing your current response, will take work and, perhaps, courage.   But the outcome will be less stress and greater happiness, and these are both part of creative health.

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