Rules to LiveToBe120andHealthy-Rule #3
Get Excited and Stay Excited!
Being alive is not the same as being a D battery with a finite amount of energy stored in it.
Years ago when I lived on West End Avenue in Manhattan, New York I would awaken early to run in Riverside Park along the Hudson River. Walter, the night porter, would still be operating the elevator. He would go, “Tsk, tsk, tsk” with his tongue at me to indicate a warning. Upon my questioning, Walter said, “You will use it all up. You will use up all your energy and then …” He looked sad at the end of sentence so I interpreted that to mean the he was concerned that I would die when I used up all my energy due to foolishly running in the Park.
Life is not the contents of a container, even the body-container. We don’t die when the ‘contents’ are used up. Life is a flow of energy. People can allow or disallow the flow so it is a trickle, a stream, a river, or an ocean of energy.
When we put our attention on an idea a desire is generated that increases the energy flow. As we offer/direct more energy (attention, intention, desire, etc.) to that mental object we become more excited.
- We are streaming energy to that object.
We have started and are increasing the flow of energy in proportion to our level of excitement.
Now, instead of being like a regular D battery a better description is a recharging dynamo even as it is working.We transmit. We broadcast. And we receive energy. We receive the equivalent of what we have sent.
If you feel lethargic, search for something that excites you. Search for some action. Put your attention on someone else’s need and take action to fill it. Moving energy with purpose tends to excites one’s imagination as to what else is possible.
When a client says to me, “Nothing excites me” I take that as a very serious statement that they have stopped or limited the flow of energy
- from themselves
and consequently, to themselves. They have turned off the faucet of life and the ultimate result of that condition is death.
