What is the Source of Your Energy?
Q: What is the Source of your Energy?
A: As the summer sun kisses the skin and encourages water-drenched days, the alchemy of water and light infuse the inner garden of mitochondria within my cells. Could it be true that each one of us has a set amount of energy for the span of our life and when we run out, we die? Some believe this and that the extent to which we can live in full vitality is to the extent in which we preserve and collaborate with our personal source of energy.
Let’s not confuse energy with caffeine (don’t touch my matcha). Pumping our vessels with an external substitute in one hand also pulls from our innate reserves on the other. The functional medicine approach encourages a healthy relationship to the pulse of nature, our circadian rhythms, and reclaiming our adrenals as a long game approach to healing our reserves.
I’ve experienced a lack of energy before and was even concerned it could be chronic. I feel for everyone out there who are challenged with a lack of energy as my own experience of this had me dive deeper into the source of my own - seeking support and resolve.
Knowing my personal mission, and instilled with unwavering faith, I keep showing up while learning to care for myself as if I am my own child. Am I eating well? Getting enough rest? Did I take my vitamins and hydrate for the day? Did I take some time to meditate, journal and reflect on who I’ve been and who I am becoming? Did I give thanks?
If I am living in alignment with my purpose, the energy flows like a river. If I am off-center, stagnation can occur to the point I hardly notice the blood flow has thickened because my brain goes fuzzy and I have to do the difficult work to realign where I have drifted off.
The challenges of life are ever more apparent and the call to rise is louder than before. Our rainforests are burning and inside this reality, so is our terrestrial pharmacy, our most exotic beasts, our power plant kingdoms, our indigenous homelands, shipibo dreams and portals of pure magic. I owe my health, my courage and my future to those forests of rain that have held me in their woven blanket of leaves and vines. In this moment I offer my prayers and observe these difficult moments in pain as we collectively witness death sprawl across one of the greatest sources of life and energy on the planet.
We will have to prepare ourselves to meet these heartbreaks and coming challenges, even better than before. May we rejuvenate, take naps when possible, and do our work to know the premium fuel and feeding schedule for our individual bodies and minds. However, even beyond the physical, I have to say that the source of my energy is much deeper.
If I am not in prayer, I may as well not be living…at least this is how I feel. I walk through life asleep to the true connection of my heart and soul if I am not acknowledging my inner spark, my eternal flame. That which is greater, who reminds me that I am never alone, encouraging me with the gentle whisper of intuitive golden love, my rock, my roots, my very own Being…you are the source of my life, my spirit, my joy, and my awakening. You are the source of my energy, you are the sun radiating within me. Thank you for creating me, thank you, my beloved creator. Please bless the wildness of our jungles and forests, may the fire bring new life and the new life transform us all.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
