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Waste Not Want Not, Conserve Energy in Your Spiritual Home

May 3, 2016 By Julian Kaufmann

Did you remember to turn off the lights?
Did you remember to turn off the lights?

 

The British are known for drinking tea. In her TED presentation⁠1, Leyla Acaroglu stated that in the United Kingdom, 97 percent of households have an electric tea kettle, and 65 percent of tea drinkers admit to overfilling their kettles, boiling way more water than they need for a cup of tea. These tea drinkers were wasting relatively small amount of energy for every cup of tea they drank. Based on government calculations of energy use, Acaroglu reported that one day’s worth of wasted energy use from all these kettles is enough to light the streetlights in London for a night.

Small amounts of wasted energy can really add up.

When you leave your home to go to work or run an errand – do you leave all the lights on in your house even when no one is there? Or do you leave your home’s windows open while either heating or cooling your home? What about when driving your car, do you drive with one foot pressing on the accelerator and the other one pressing on the brakes? I would guess that you don’t do these things because you don’t want to waste energy because it costs you money and because you want to conserve energy.

The most affordable way to generate energy is to not waste it in the first place.

What about your spiritual home? Could you be a better steward with the precious life energy that you have received?

What do you do to conserve, to honor and more effectively utilize your spiritual energy in your soul’s abode -the place where God ultimately expresses as our selves.

Whatever your spiritual belief, the truth is that we are energetic beings and our spiritual energy (our life) is the most precious resource available to us. We can’t afford to keep squandering this resource.

Just like we have had energy crisis related to the earth and our use of natural resources, we too are having a spiritual energy crisis involving our supernatural resources. It is critically important for our own lives and those around us that we practice and S.E.E. That is we practice – spiritual(S) energy(E) efficiency (E).

Each of us has a calling, a unique purpose and it is up to each of us to live the best life we can in order for us to flourish. The divine energy that comprises us was manifest to activate our God given potential.

In many ways we are like an acorn. Given the right environment and care, we can grow and prosper – evolving from a tiny seedling into a mighty oak that it turn provides for others in the forest.

But if we are needlessly wasting divine energy through resistance, we are squandering great gifts and ultimately we will not live up to our full capabilities.

Too often we do not activate the potential that is available to us and our gifts and our calling remain locked away inside us.

The stress and busyness of life builds up and can interfere with us living our life – of experiencing our Flow.

We choke off portions of the infinite supply from our Source and do not perform the great work of our soul’s purpose.

It is time to take the power back!

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1 “Paper or Plastic or What? Leyla Acaroglu at TED2013.” TED Blog Paper or Plastic or What Leyla Acaroglu AtTED2013 Comments. TED Conferences, LLC, 27 Feb. 2013. Web. 29 Nov. 2014. <http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/27/paper-or-plastic-or-what-leyla-acaroglu-at-ted2013/>.

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Filed Under: Efficiency, Energy, Optimal Living, Resistance Tagged With: energy, waste

Namaste

March 4, 2016 By Julian Kaufmann

NAMASTE

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

– Matthew 5:16, KJV

The following is an excerpt from my free ebook “Why Less is More – The Science of Getting More Energy Out of Your Life”

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            Namaste: From my light to yours, the divine essence in me honors and acknowledges the same in you.

The first time I encountered the word “Namaste” was when I started doing yoga nearly 15 years ago. Even after completing several yoga classes, I still did not know what the word “Namaste” meant, but I presumed it was some sort of salutation. The teacher never took the time to tell the class what it meant. and I never asked her either. My favorite class back then consisted of about an hour’s worth of Ashtanga yoga, and the class was called power yoga. I took the class because I had read that yoga was good for strengthening the body while at the same time increasing flexibility. Prior to taking yoga, I had torn my rotator cuff from trying to bench press too much, so I was ready for some type of flexibility training as I had become quite rigid, both in my thinking and in my body. When the yoga class would end, the teacher would bow and say, “Namaste,” to the class, and then we all then would reply in kind, including the bow and hands clasped in prayer. It really did not matter to me what we were saying then since I had no understanding or concept of the word itself. Rather, I just knew the feeling of peace and gratitude that followed me after taking the class, and I wanted to reciprocate back to my teacher for the gift she gave me in that class, so I replied. For you see, just prior to hearing “Namaste” from the yoga teacher as class ended, I had usually been lying on my back on the floor, totally relaxed, breathing deeply after being told to “let it all go.” Lying quietly on the floor in a darkened room with faint incense burning, accompanied by relaxing music, further deepened my feeling of bliss.

You yogis out there know this final yoga pose I am describing as savasana, corpse pose, or total relaxation pose. Corpse pose is an apt name for this pose, for when I would peer around the room during class when we were all in savasana, that is what it looked like—a bunch of dead bodies lying on the ground. While in the total relaxation pose, I often had the sensation of leaving my lifeless body, and it was very liberating. As a former jogger, I had experienced a runner’s high and understood the body’s response to prolonged exercise and releasing dopamine. But this post yoga class feeling was something else altogether. As I would lie like a corpse, still and quiet, my consciousness and my awareness seemed to resonate with a higher power, and my earthly troubles that may have been weighing me down before class seemed to dissipate after the class as I lie “dying,” or totally relaxing. While the runner’s high came on in the midst of strenuous exercise, the altered state brought on by savasana came about by doing nothing. Without physical effort, peace and contentment replaced a previous mental state of worry, striving, and planning. I began to love yoga, not as a practice per se but rather for the means to the end, and that ended with the word “Namaste.”

Yoga is derived from Sanskrit, and its root means to “yoke” or join and has been described as ancient art “based on a harmonizing system[i] of development for the body, mind, and spirit.” It has been suggested that practicing yoga can align the physical and mental, producing a state of spiritual enlightenment.[ii] Prior to starting yoga, I was a stressed-out, type-A guy. I was then and still am somewhat driven, ambitious, and an often competitive person. Like many, though, I have experienced hardships and evolved in a way that has ultimately helped me to let go. Today I am much more at peace than before, thanks to yoga and many other tools that I want to share with you. Contorting around on a yoga mat for 45 minutes and holding uncomfortable poses while trying to focus on my breath can be very challenging at times, just like life itself. But the relief from lying still and breathing was immense, physically and mentally as well. After doing yoga, a curious thing would then happen to me: after being still and resting in corpse pose, I would find that I had much more energy following the class. I would sleep better at night and wake up the following day after my class with even more energy.

How is it possible to have more energy by doing less?

As we will see, science has an answer for us. In particular, there are a couple of laws that we can apply to our own lives in order to get more energy out of our lives; in particular, the Law of Conservation of Energy and perhaps the most basic law in electricity, Ohm’s Law. After all, everything, including us, is made up of energy. So the fundamental laws that govern how we approach energy efficiency and conservation along with the basics of how a light bulb works can help illuminate (pun intended) a better way for us. As we will see, by lowering our resistance, we can increase our personal power by not wasting energy and ultimately do more of the work we were called to do.

[i]. “Definition of Yoga.” Http://yoga.org.nz/. N.p., 2014. Web. 18 Mar. 2015. <http://yoga.org.nz/what-is-yoga/yoga_definition.htm>.

[ii]. “yoga.” The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 19 Mar. 2015. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yoga>.

Filed Under: God, Letting Go, Namaste, Resistance

May the Force Be with You (and you not against the Force)

January 31, 2016 By Julian Kaufmann

Growing up the movie Star Wars (now called episode IV) was and is still one of my favorite movies. The movie presents many classic themes – good (Light Side) versus evil (Dark Side), a love story (a love-triangle in the beginning), finding oneself and owning your personal power etc.

Another aspect of the movie that resonated with me was the concept of the Force.

According to the character Obi Wan Kenobi “The force is an energy field that binds all living things. It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it gives a Jedi his powers.” Star Wars creator and producer George Lucas when asked whether the Force was God in the movie stated,” I put the Force into the movies in order to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people. More a belief in God than a belief in any particular religious system[i].”

Nearly 40-years later I still relate to a monotheistic view of one power and presence in the universe. I call this God and believe that God is the ultimate source of all energy and we are different manifestations of it.

Another aspect of the movie that dovetails with my work is the notion of light vs. dark. Today I teach about how lowering resistance can increase the amount of Flow in your life. If you would like to learn more please sign up for my FREE course. Flow 101 – What Is It and How To Get More of It.

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Here is a video overview inspired by Star Wars.

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In summary the more resistance we offer to life– the less brightly your life shines.

The spiritual notion of resistance is a blockage to the divine flow of energy – i.e. God, while from an electrical standpoint resistance consumes power that otherwise could be utilized for more purposeful work.

While I believe the Force is always with us, sometimes we often go against the Force. Unfortunately this is a waste of energy which is why I say Let Go (and not resist) and Let It Flow.

Namaste

[i] “The Force (Star Wars).” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.

 

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