Last week, I said yes to everything. Late night work calls to the US, dinner with friends visiting from the States, apéros with friends locally. Don’t get me wrong, I did it all intentionally and had a great time, but boy did I pay for it energetically. And I knew I would.
I ended up crashing for a full day. It was a beautiful, sunny Saturday in Paris – the kind of day where I should have been traipsing through the Tuileries Gardens, and instead I was laid out on my couch for 24 hours. It wasn’t the worst thing, but that’s because I’m an Energy Whisperer, remember? After decades of working with environmental and personal energy, I’ve learned how to take my inherent NYC hustle from full burnout and sickness down to what I’ll call a mild couch crash. It may not sound like much, but it is. Noticing your energy is one thing. Intentionally managing your energy is a whole other ballgame.
How about you? Do you ever get a message in your body before you understand it?
You may recognize the signal your body is giving you, but then you don’t actually listen. You can’t quite explain the hesitation, but you say yes anyway. You push through. You tell yourself that it’s not a big deal or that you’re overthinking it. Come on, don’t be such a wuss.
And this is one of those times of year where your energy gets challenged. The holidays and summer are the obvious ones, but this transition into Spring? It’s sneakier, and remember that we are in a fiery Horse year. Everything is blooming, there is more light, more plans, more invitations, more movement, and it’s very easy to go faster than your energy actually wants to, or can, go.
So if you’re reading this right now and feeling off or exhausted, telling yourself “it’s probably just allergies” or “I didn’t sleep well,” you know, all the usual things we say so we don’t have to actually look at what’s going on, well…just stop.
I’m going to lay some tough love on you here – there’s NOTHING wrong with you. You’re not behind or lazy. You’re just not listening.
It’s in those moments that you have a choice. You can go to the gym or keep your calendar full because “I should be doing more.” You can override that hesitation, or you can wisely use the information your body is giving you to become…a more powerful woman.
We think Feng Shui is just about your physical space, what you see, what you can move, what you can fix.
But your body is part of your environment too, and it’s constantly responding to how you’re living – what you’re saying yes to, what you’re overriding, where your energy is actually going.
And if you ignore these important signals for long enough, your most important piece of your environment, your body, starts to break down. Your eyes, the windows, don’t see things as clearly. Your mouth, the door, starts to express things that either under or overcompensate. Other areas begin to hurt and ache, asking for attention because they are being ignored.
So instead of asking yourself what you should be doing right now, or what makes the most sense, ask yourself this:
What am I feeling that I’m choosing to ignore?
Because that’s the exact information you need, and if you listen to it, really listen, everything in your life has the potential to shift.
