When you go through this exercise retain your focus for at least three minutes because the longer you stay focused the longer you’ll get used to being in the ‘now.’

The second energy management technique is to become mindful.

‘Mindfulness’ can mean:

* Paying attention to our bodies, mind, and spirit, from within and outside our selves, in an objective, non-judgmental way.

* Acceptance.

* Aware of emotional patterns.

Learn to observe yourself in a non-judgmental way through a ‘mindfulness’ exercise.

To begin, get into a comfortable position, become relaxed and start noticing what is happening to your body, inside and outside without passing judgment on what you find.

* Notice and become aware of feelings, emotional and physical, inside and out.

* Become aware of what you see, colors, images, moving pictures, or even words or numbers.

* What do you hear, inside and out, volume, tone, positive or negative, etc?

* Also become aware of any tastes or smells and notice physiological changes as you notice these senses.

Expand this exercise as much as you want to. All it requires is for you to be objective and notice what you notice about yourself. When you have completed this exercise you can then choose to deal with any issue you become aware of.

Next we have the third energy management technique, ‘letting go.’

Have you ever wanted something so badly it hurt? I know I have, and it was only by letting go of me ‘wanting’ something that I managed to attract it. Quite a paradox really–let go to receive.

Wanting creates an energy pull which acts much like two magnets of the same polarity–the two never meet. Maybe you’ve already experienced such a play of energy. If not, next time you’re sitting quietly think of something that you really want badly, fully experience this wanting then notice the energy it takes to produce this wanting.