3 energy strategies to deal with daily challenges and change
Posted on January 05, 2015 by Jovian Koh ACC CPCC, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
Despite huge energy demands of modern business, few executives ever consider this critical resource and how to manage it appropriately.
To be able to thrive in the changing world filled with new challenges, having the ability to recover quickly from difficult situations (resilience) is simply not enough. Having high energy in reserve is vital for preventing stress accumulation when we’re in the pressure cooker.
Improving our resilience also heightens our awareness of negative states that may be building within us. This awareness helps us be more conscious of shifts that can lead to intense states of anger or frustration, or feelings of helplessness, so that we can do something early before it escalates further.
Making sure we have enough resilience requires that we maintain our reserves in four energy domains—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—and keep them in the right balance. Having this balance allows us to keep our cool in the face of stress and prevent a buildup that can lead to burnout or worse, including a host of physical problems. It helps keep our immune, hormonal, and nervous systems functioning in a state of energetic coordination.
The important elements of the four energy domains involve:
Physical: flexibility, endurance, strength
Emotional: emotional range and flexibility, positive feelings, self-regulation, relationships
Mental: attention span, mental flexibility, optimistic worldview, incorporating multiple points of view
Spiritual: commitment to core values, flexibility, tolerance of others’ values and beliefs, intuition
To enable you to function optimally in life, below are 3 strategies to help raise your energetic resilience:
Energy Strategy 1:
Say NO! to drama. Daily irritations can have the “iceberg effect”: the greatest emotional damage happens “out of sight” of the actual event, as we fixate on it. By consciously telling ourselves to let this go, this type of stress loses its drama and becomes less of a drain on our emotional reserves
Energy Strategy 2:
Replace negative emotions with positive ones. Pretend you’re breathing through the area of your heart with the intention of replacing the attitude or feeling that’s causing stress. Breathe in courage to replace fear, for example, or breathe in gratitude to replace regret. The breathing part is important, because it helps you calm down to a more neutral state. Try practicing this for a week or two and see what happens.
Energy Strategy 3:
Get regular physical exercise. We often forget that the value of physical exercise extends well beyond fitness of the body. It also helps us achieve a more stable emotional state and maintain our resilience reserves.
Hope you have a good time re-energizing yourself during this festive season.
I wish you Happy New Year.
Jovian Koh, ACC, CPCC
