What’s in a Day? Energy Stream and Perception of Time
Energy Stream and Perception of Time
By Hilde Pols
Personal energy. The alarm rings, driving you off to a busy day of work, chores and well busy-ness. The day is full with things that require energy and as the sun makes its journey from east to west it tends to track how much energy is still in our “battery”. Come sundown, you are ready to flop on the couch and drag yourself to bed to replenish your drained energy stash. Sound familiar?
The interesting thing is that our day is perceived from morning to night. It seems to start when the sun goes up and then continues into the night, finishing with sleep. Hence our perceived energy flow goes from getting up to going to bed – a curve that first goes down and only moves upwards at the end of the period. It offers the point of view that we start out with a full bucket of energy to be used over the day, and the next night’s job is to refill that bucket.
However, what would happen if we think the other way around?
And the Evening and the Morning Were the First Day. (Genesis 1:5)
A Hebrew day starts at sundown. Hence the Sabbath starts with the setting of the sun on Friday and carries through Saturday until the setting of the sun marks the start of the next day. Thus the concept of this day starts with allowing rest, balance and the building of energy, instead of using it. This approach reminds us to first cultivate and have energy before using it, rather than spending and then scrambling to replenish it. The flow of energy between having and rebuilding might be the same, but the point of view is very different.
The Islamic day is treated in the same way. And thus in Ramadan the breaking of the fast by sundown serves the purpose to once again build up energy, here in the physical form of eating, for the upcoming day. It would be interesting to know whether other old cultures observe the day in this form.
It is a question of whether your evening and night is there to work on replenishing what you spent during the hours beforehand. Or whether you use this time to prepare for what is to come. Are you looking backward and to the past, or rather forward and to the future, when generating energy? Are you paying a debt or creating a savings account to use?
Western Society’s Energy Stream
Today we intuitively place the start of the day with sunrise. The clocks meet both approaches halfway, by placing midnight, where the new time cycle begins, as it says in the middle of the night. But either we are already working on replenishing our energy, or we are still out partying and working on spending the little energy we have left – or maybe even building up our energy credit, to hopefully be “paid back” during some later night’s sleep, or midday nap.
But we have not only changed our energy flow by starting our day off with the spending portion. The spend-before-creating has permeated into many aspects of our life from open-ended promises to mortgages.
Repercussions on Self and Society
Of course lending and borrowing are old means of helping each other and in essence are a great way to offer individuals a strong community. Yet as we drift away from having energy/money/health to build on, we also drift away from the promise that borrowed energy/money/health will be paid back in due course. If we cannot hold this promise to ourselves, and spiral down into fatigue, being low in cash or even fighting for our health, how can we uphold our strong community of give and take, of support and openness?
And thus credit goes from an interim aid to a way of life. It is normal, maybe even a right of passage, to take out a mortgage. It enables us to have our own house, car, education or aids us with other larger purchases that we otherwise could not achieve. This easy solution of the mortgage can however, lure people into a lifetime of replenishing the never filling energy-bucket. Is it a surprise that in our credit-driven society we also find illnesses, such as cancer, that also demand huge energy “repayments”? This is not to say that cancer is linked to mortgage. But they are both examples of how credited energy can get out of hand.
This does not mean mortgages are to be shunned. Rather we should return back to the true mean of lending and borrowing than unbalancing our life and in so doing our society.
Save your Credits
Try and change your perception of your day. Consecrate your evening and night to building up energy for what is to come and see how this affects your life. It might seem too simple to be true, but many practices and schools of thought reiterate that the smallest changes have the biggest outcomes. What is more, if the evening or night is not lead by a “wow, what a day – I’m finished” attitude, but is rather dedicated to preparing the coming day to be great and rewarding, it will offer you much more joy, maybe even lead to sounder sleep. Embrace and form your future by preparing for it and having the energy you need to make each day a stepping stone towards what you envision.
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About the Author
Hilde Pols combines her music training with her energy work: As a flute and ensemble teacher she developed many techniques to encourage creativity and a sense of the own body, mind and soul. As a Certified Meditation Instructor, Healer and Dorn/Breuss Therapist she supports individuals to take life into their own hands. Located in Germany she has also taught in Denmark and the US.
