Have you ever wondered where does your energy go? One energy drain is stress, especially unresolved long-term stress. Prolonged stress is debilitating, whether it’s at work or at home or within relationships.

And at the same time we also have a physical body to maintain. Within the body we continually repair and replace cells damaged or worn out through normal daily wear and tear. This takes significant amount of our energy. So how do we all manage the task?

You are circulating trillions of red blood cells through your circulatory system and all these blood cells are replaced every three months at the rate of 2.4 million per second. The entire lining of your small and large intestine is replaced every 2 to 3 days. Your whole skin surface turns over every 30 or so days. Different tissues have their own cycle for replacement to maintain optimum function. Every night while you sleep there is much work being done throughout your body.

Bruce Lipton, cell biologist, studied cell behaviour. He observed that cells in a petri dish would propel themselves towards life sustaining nutrients that he would add to their dish, and when he added toxic substances the cells moved as far from the toxins as possible. And this activity was happening while isolated from their cellular community within a body, without being connected to a brain or a nervous system. Our cells are very aware of their environment and make intelligent choices in given situations.

Its not just single cells that behaviour this way. We humans, just like our cells, are each individual and part of communities and also engage in these life-sustaining behaviours of moving towards people and environments that will nourish us and away from harm.

But cells cannot move toward and away from a stimuli simultaneously. The two actions cannot operate at the same time. We humans also cannot move towards and away from at the same time. We have to choose a direction and act on it. When we don’t choose and act on our choice, feel helpless, stuck and stagnant, the result is continuous stress. That’s where our energy goes.

You summon all your energy for survival during fight or flight reaction, when in danger or under stress, closing down your digestion and elimination to redirect your energy to defence and protection. Being in survival mode prevents growth activity and also prevents production of more energy. The stress consumes energy without replacing it leaving you depleted.

Depending on the degree of stress or perceived danger, not all your 50 trillion cells will be engaged in the survival mode at once. Reducing your stress will allow you to establish a new base.

How can you reduce your stress? Previous articles have provided self-help strategies and when self-help is not enough, go see a professional to get you started. Kinesiology provides many ways to reduce stress using your muscle response as the guide to what works best for you. I’ve experienced it many times for myself and helped clients too. We all get bogged down sometimes. That’s when the energy goes down. It’s amazing how one session can dissolve that stuck feeling and your optimism returns, your creative brain kicks in again, and new options and solutions appear spontaneously.

Now you can begin to build and actively seek stimuli that lifts and increases your energy and brings joy and fulfillment to create optimal growth conditions for body, mind and spirit.

Any time you are wondering where does the energy go might be the cue to make time for yourself for actively reducing stress. Make an appointment and see how easily you can change gear with the right support and guidance.
Cheers
Anna
anna@annamcrobert.com.au