Energy (Stay Far Away)

Protect your energy.

Is it just me or is this heatwave making me rethink even more the people and energies I surround myself with? It is too hot for clothes, too hot for non-cold beverages, too hot outside, too hot inside, too hot for everything, especially negativity.

We’ve all been there: being around someone or something and feeling the life getting sucked out of you a different kind of leech behavior. Sometimes slowly in a way that you don’t realize it happening until it is too late and others times  it comes at you fast and makes you tumble backwards. 

It is something that we frequently hear especially in the past couple of years that “I’m trying to protect my energy” it is somehow presumed that the other person, our friend, our partner, our parents, the stranger on the bus, is the one robbing our energy like a smooth criminal. 

But isn’t the smoothest criminal the person we see when we look in the mirror ? You know how some of us have tendencies to rob our own joy and then blame someone else for “pushing us too far?” In all transparency: I am some of us, some of us is me. Self care is looking around us and eliminating anything that is disruptive to our well being but most importantly it is looking within and eliminating anything that might lead us to self destruct - we all have buttons that can lead to total destruction when we push them one too many times .. anybody working on their short fuse here or the need to be in control and then go crazy when things get out of the control we never fully had ? (Pointing a very long finger at myself).

Learn to know yourself and be in tune with yourself to the point of knowing what triggers the twitchy eye, the headaches, the weariness and the anger that is threatening to disrupt like a volcano and cause more damage than good. Waiting for things to blow over will eventually lead us to be blown away and not in a good kind of way.

Let’s protect our energy and be assertive enough to know what bad energy is, where it’s coming from and how to get rid of it. I used to wait till someone or something poisoned my energy to the point of me poisoning others with my bad energy but why wait till the flower wilts until you  water it? 

How do you protect your energy?

Love,

Maame