There are a variety of issues involved in building and maintaining the integrity of one’s energies.

First I wish to clarify what I mean by your energy. We are energy beings existing on numerous planes or levels of existence. The densest plane is the physical and the energy levels above it become subtler and higher in vibration through the astral, mental, soul and spirit. Our aura and bodies at these subtler levels and the energy or “stuff” of those levels that we have gathered to us and made our own comprise what I refer to as our energies.

Energy maintenance is divided into two issues. The first is keeping your energies, not scattering or dissipating them or allowing them to be drawn off or stolen by others. The second is maintaining the character and purity of your energies, not allowing them to be contaminated by the energies of other people, groups, issues or entities.

Keeping your energies. Have you ever felt on top of the world: focused, energetic, active, productive and only a short while later felt tired, scattered, drained and seriously in need of a nap? Have you ever wondered how your energy state could change so rapidly?

Quite likely your energy was given or taken away. It can be given to another person out of sympathy. You can wish well for them and if you are not careful your generosity comes not as a blessing from the universe but as a gift from your own energies. You can desire something from another, such as that they see your point of view or cooperate with you, and this desire can serve as a conduit for giving them your energy. One of the primary lessons of being a caring and compassionate person is not inadvertantly giving your own energies away in your care for others.

Dissipating or giving away your energies is very different from directing them with intent and mastery. Learn to attend to your energy level. How much energy do you have? Is the level growing or depleting? From or to where?

Pat