Balance Your Physical Body
To balance energy in your physical body, there are three key elements, Nutrition, Exercise and Rest.

By eating nutritiously and drinking sufficient amounts of fluids, you will keep your body adequately fueled for activity.

Our bodies are also made to move. Find “opportunities” to exercise throughout the day to help keep energy flowing through your body. Taking a walk at lunchtime, riding your bike to work and/or taking the stairs are just a few ideas.

And include rest into your daily routine.

During rest, the body is able to “recharge” itself, for optimal functioning.

Balance Your Emotions
Emotions are meant to flow through us, not be held within us. Whenever you notice that you are feeling angry, agitated, or stressed out, stop whatever you are doing and focus on your breath. Try to figure out where your emotions are coming from and bring your attention back to the breath. Breathing is a powerful relaxation tool for helping to reduce the negative effects of stress on the body.

By breathing deeply and slowly, you are stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system that helps to calm your body. In addition to feeling less anxious, you will also conserve valuable energy for more important things like staying healthy.

Balance Your Spirit
Try to focus your mind on one thing, whether is be breathing, walking in nature, listening to music or reciting a phrase that brings a feeling of joy and relaxation like: “Breath in calm, exhale tension.” Some people also find meditating on a word such as “Om,” (the universal sound of the earth spinning in the cosmos) relaxing and energizing. Think of “plugging yourself in,” to bring energy back into the body. Even doing this a few minutes every day will make a difference. Don’t believe me, try it for yourself.

Balance Your Mind
We talk to ourselves every moment, whether we are aware of it or not! And what we say has a huge impact on how we experience life. The great Yoga masters talk about the “monkey mind.”

Start to become aware of the messages you are sending to your body every day. Keep a small notebook and write down everything you say about yourself. After about a week, look for any negative patterns. Once you become aware of your irrational beliefs, you can refocus on more positive aspects of who you really are.

Practice Forgiveness
One of the biggest drains on our energy systems is not being able to forgive either ourselves or others.

Imagine walking through a hot desert with a 50-pound sack on your back. Very quickly you will have little energy to keep going. When we hold negativity in our energy field, eventually it expresses itself as physical disharmony or disease.

Forgiveness allows us to shed the excess weight or energy drain and frees us up for more positive experiences. When you forgive yourself or others, you are not condoning what has been done to you, rather you are acknowledging whatever hurt you and allowing the anger to dissolve. When you forgive, you are really helping yourself.

Try to turn anger or hurt into compassion. After all, nobody is perfect, not even you and that is okay!

Carpe Diem (Seize the Day!)
The past is history and the future is a promissory note, today is the present, a gift to treasure, use it well.

Remember
you come into this world with a breath, and leave with a breath,
but it is how you breathe in-between that makes all the difference.