Clyde Lee Dennis here, and today in our seven good minutes extra segment, we're exploring

this empowering truth.

The energy you carry is not a circumstance you endure, but a creation you participate

in with every breath, every thought, every choice.

This quote invites us to shift from a passive relationship with our energy to an active one. So often we experience

our energy levels, our mood, our overall sense of vitality as things that happen to us. We wake up

tired and assume that's just how the day will be. We encounter stress and let it dictate our entire energetic state.

We allow other people's moods to determine our own emotional atmosphere. But this quote reminds

us that energy is participatory. With every breath we take, we're either contributing to our

vitality or depleting it. When we breathe shallowly and quickly, we signal stress to our nervous system.

When we breathe deeply and slowly, we activate our body's relaxation response.

This is participation, not passivity.

With every thought we think, we're shaping our energetic reality.

Thoughts of gratitude, possibility, and connection tend to lift our energy.

Thoughts of worry, resentment, and scarcity tend to drain it.

We can't control every thought that arises, but we can choose which thoughts we feed with our attention. With

every choice we make, how we start our morning, what we eat, how we respond to challenges,

where we place our focus, we're actively participating in creating our energetic experience.

This is incredibly empowering because it means we're not victims of our energy.

We're co-creators of it. Here's a question for your reflection. In what ways have you been

treating your energy as something that happens to you rather than something you participate in

creating? What would change if you approached your daily energy as something you have influence over?

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