Using Your Energy to Create Success

Copyright (c) 2009 Willie Horton

Your intentions, your expectations and your thoughts create your life. It's the same for everybody - whether you're stuck in a boring routine life or super-successful - the only difference between both ends of that particular spectrum is that highly successful people know how to use their mental energy.

Everything is made up of energy - you, your body, the chair you're sitting on, the air you breathe, the trees, this planet, the universe. Your thoughts are energy and they have a measurable impact on all the energy that synthesizes together to create your life. Scientific experiment has proved that thought and intention affects a computer's generation of random numbers. It's also been proven that expectation affects the speed at which water boils. I've a lot of clients in the power generation business - electrical engineers - and I love teasing them with this particular fact. They always respond that that couldn't be right - it breaks the first law of thermodynamics - that energy applied to water in the form of heat makes it boil at a predictable rate. They're right, of course, it's just that it had never previously occurred to them that mental energy had to be taken into account as part of that equation.

Your energy - your mental energy - creates your life. But to create the life you really, really want, you've got to apply more than a normal, everyday amount of energy. So-called normal people - who might be stuck in a job they don't like, in a relationship that's dragging them down, suffering from ill health or just plain bored - don't invest a sufficient amount of energy to alter their reality. Because the normal mind's energy is turned inwards, into the inner recesses of the subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind has many recesses - dark places that prod at you from time to time. Some of my clients call these the "little voice in your head that says 'no you can't'" or "lingering self-doubt". Doesn't matter what you call yours, we're all plagued by thoughts that hold us back - and that's where we expend our precious mental energy.

You see, normally energy is spent on the retrospective and the introspective. Retrospective because your subconscious mind is obsessed with the misshapen impressions you have of yourself and life in general - the product of your up-bringing and early conditioning. That's where the vast majority of your mental energy spends its time - playing in a past long gone. Psychology tells us that our every move as an adult is dictated by that early conditioning - that our behaviour happens subconsciously, automatically, reactively. The normal adult doesn't have a single behaviour, turn of phrase, reaction or habit that is his or hers - they are all the product of subconscious programming.

By definition, therefore, the greater part of our energy is introspective - turned in on ourselves. But the real world is outside. Sure, your inner true self is the power that you must unleash - but it has to be unleashed on a waiting world. It has to be unleashed externally to enable it react with the energy of the universe that is all around you. That can only be done by you taking control of your mental energy and applying it to the real world. And the only place that you will find the real world is here and now. The real world has nothing to do with the past - even less to do with your own past, long gone. The real world has nothing to do with thought - either the distractive thought that annoys us daily or the deep-seated inner subconscious thought that is holding you back from creating the life that you really, really want.

The real world has to do with being in it - experiencing it, applying your mental energy to what is going on, here and now. If that here and now involves a job or relationship that's getting you nowhere - doesn't matter, for the time being, you're going to have to do what you have to do - not through a haze of introspective reactive thought, but in the reality of this moment. If you turn your attention to this moment, you start mixing it up with all the energy that surrounds you, all the energy that synthesizes to create your life. You begin playing with universal energy - and, as quantum physics, molecular science, psychology and particle physics prove - universal energy responds. That's how you have the normal live that you already have. The response isn't much because you haven't applied any mental energy worth talking about to the here and now.

You need to look outside the prison of your own mind. You need to start experiencing what's really going on - now. You've only five ways of doing that - your five senses, your only interface with reality. You can start changing your life today by learning to apply more of your energy to today, by paying more attention, using your five senses, to today. You need to see, feel, hear, smell and taste what's actually happening, not what your subconscious mind thinks is happening. You need to start paying attention.

There are all kinds of ways you can do this - but here's a simple tip that has changed the lives of many who have just heard me speak for half an hour (they're not even my clients). Start doing the little habitual things that you do every day differently. Start with little things - like brushing your teeth with the hand with which you don't habitually brush your teeth. Little things will lead to great things - because in doing something so simple differently, you begin to hone your ability to pay attention to the here and now. In doing so, you start applying more of your mental energy to the only time and place that actually exists - the here and now. It's here and now that the magic will start happening.