With global warming looming, the impact of our energy usage being pondered and alternative forms of energy being the most economically viable ventures, energy is definitely on the collective mind. Yet daily we waste valuable emotional, mental and psychological energy.
Worrying about something that has already happened, replaying that old memory tape in the mind over and over again, thats wasting vital human energy. Thinking about how you could have altered your past actions to change the outcome is also a waste of energy, unless you actually change your future actions. Or is this type of thinking opening up wormholes to a multitude of alternate universes? What would the energy impact of this be? Wishing that somebody else will change to make our lives happier, that’s wishing wastefulness.
Can we harness this wasted energy? Ilya Prigogine, the Nobel laureate and chemist described dissipative structures. These are physical systems that harness energy that would otherwise be lost. While humans seem to be dissipative structures, we use energy from the sun that would be lost to maintain our core temperatures, we don’t seem to understand how to harness our own wasted mental energy.
Theres so much I don’t understand, yet the need to conserve energy intuitively feels right. My solution to the energy problem is to conserve both natural resources and psychic energy. That means 2 things.
1. Recycle, repurpose, reuse.
2. When ruminating on anything, I force myself to stop and ask “is this thought useful or wasteful?”
Maybe its just me, but the wasteful thoughts seem to far outnumber the useful ones. Hence I now have free time to write blogs, try new yoga poses and practice mindfulness…
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