I was inspired by this quote in a newsletter I received in my inbox from Brendon Burchard today.

“…Learn to distinguish REAL emergencies in other people, from perceived ones before you divert from working on your priorities. ….Your life and your projects are important. You have an important life.  Practice being in the cycle of your priorities first. Don’t get caught in the cycle of other people’s agendas and false emergencies.”
– Brendon Burchard, www.brendonburchard.com

What does this have to do with juice fasting?  Everything.

Juice fasting is really all about managing energy efficiently.  When you abstain from eating solid food, you’re giving your body a chance to take the energy it would be using for digestion and use it for cleansing.

When you load up on enzyme rich juices, you’re infusing your body with energy that it wouldn’t ordinarily have, to scrub your cells clean from the inside out and create a radiant you.

As it is within, so it is without.  Just as your body can become clogged with toxins that saps the energy it would use for creating and maintaining radiant health, so can your life.  Other peoples demands can be super draining for us, when we are depleted of energy for our own projects and our own sources of joy. 

There’s no better time than during your juice fast, to ask yourself these questions.  What can I eliminate that depletes my energy?  And what can I do to fill up on energy? In a juice fast, you eliminate the need for digestion which depletes energy and you fill up on energy in the form of juice.  How can you mimic this in your life?

For me, I care so much about my friends and family, that I often put their needs before my own.  I mistake their overwhelm for suffering, causing myself overwhelm, and forget that they can actually take care of themselves and that my help often doesn’t help at all, but just makes things worse by adding energy to the problem, similar to the way oxygen stokes a fire creating larger flames.

By asking myself if the emergency I see in another person is a real emergency or a perceptual one and if my taking time and ENERGY away from what I’m focused on is going to really help them and me, has been a huge way I manage my life’s energy.

And let me tell you I’m not very good at this.  I still put my needs last and give far too much of myself away.  But I’m getting better every day.  My friends and family know I love them whether or not I choose to rescue them from every situation.

Think of how much more you’d get done, how much happier you’d be and how much more joy you’d have to spread if you managed the energy of your life and relationships better.

Letting other people know you’re serious about you creates boundaries that will teach others that your energy is important to you.  And after awhile, you might also get the hint too!

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