The person who has a shopping addiction and worries about money is creating tension. This tension is energy, and this energy animates their life.
The person who is having a secret affair is creating tension. This tension is energy, and this energy animates their life.
The couple who argue about their child are creating tension. This tension is energy, and this energy animates their lives.
Secrets, compulsions, dilemmas, conflicts, and worries all create tension. Tension is energy, and this energy animates life.
Animating your life (or relationship) with tension is surprisingly common. So common, that many people assume that it is normal. But tension is just one way to bring energy and color and shape to your life.
Tension and stress and anxiety become habituated into default patterns and normalized because they are fuel. When your nervous system becomes accustomed to that type of fuel, it seeks it out and creates it.
If you’d like to convert your nervous system to use another type of fuel, something more sustainable and cleaner burning, you’ll need to re-tool it. You’ll need to learn how to use peace or joy or relaxation or eagerness or contentment as an energy source for your life. These energies feel very different from tension, and the transition can take a bit of getting used to.
Fueling your life with contentment rather than irritation might even feel boring at first. Looking for things to feel good about rather than looking for things to feel bad about is a habit just like any habit, and it’s all changeable when there is a desire and willingness.
When you upgrade fuels, your whole system runs differently. It runs more smoothly, with an easier shifting of gears, with far less pollution, and without any sacrifice in speed or power. It’s a better ride overall. You’ll like it.
Making an inner energy transition to cleaner fuel benefits you and the people around. It will improve your life, the lives of your children, and the generations yet to come.
The Schanarber Method is designed to help you make this transition. If you like the idea of animating your life with a better feeling energy, I can help you implement the steps that make the idea a reality. Learn more about the method here.