From
the Bottom of the Bucket
“Re-Energeering”
Just because one is committed to living his or her life
to the goal of being the best possible person they aspire to doesn’t mean that
they won’t experience challenges along the journey. After all, we are human and that existence involves emotions and error. Discipline and Commitment are helpful but even
the most seasoned devotee experiences times of sadness and disappointment. What are some of the techniques that we can
call upon to get back “in the zone”?
Symbiosis is a word that is used to describe the mutual
arrangement between two organisms that work in harmony by complementing each
other’s needs. The one that always
stands out to me is the relationship between trees and humans. Trees produce a great deal of the oxygen we
need by using the waste (carbon dioxide) from our respiration. This is one of the many examples in Nature
where this phenomenon occurs. This basic
principle is taking something that is unwanted and having it absorbed as a Resource
for something positive. What if we could learn this skill? What if we could fashion negative Energy into
the building blocks to strengthen our Journey to our transient truth?
There is a concept called reverse engineering. This
process disassembles an item to see how it was assembled --- while noting
possible improvement options. It
occurred to me that the same process could work in our daily lives. We could learn how to take negative ENERGY
and, by REVERSE ENGINEERING, we could turn it into something positive. I am calling this process: “RE-ENERGEERING”! A good example of this is using the energy
of Anger to form the basis for Perseverance. We have grown accustomed to
limiting the measuring of our resources to those things we consider “positive”. What would be our possibility if we expanded
that list to include “negative” experiences?
Tony Robbins refers to this process of “reframing”. His central theme is that one should consider
an adverse experience with the question: “There must be a reason that this has happened
to me….what is the lesson I am supposed to learn?” The answers to that question provide the raw
material to RE-ENERGEER the bad experience to the foundational movement back to
your desired course.
My personal experience is best illustrated with my
diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. That
diagnosis provided the largest single positive movement in my life. It took some time for me to realize it but,
after pondering it for some time, it was obvious the sense of fulfillment had
increased in my life.
The next time you are tempted to feel down about
something try Tony’s little exercise.
Don’t concentrate on what you don’t
have (and trying to get it), but rather what opportunities does your
perceived shortage offer?
Until next month, I wish you fulfillment.
Bob
