How to avoid ‘ENERGY VAMPIRES’
Have the political events of the past couple of weeks left you exhausted?
Is your Facebook feed filled with more politics than puppies?
Perhaps it’s time to recharge.
One of the hottest experts on how we use our energy is a New York-based Hindu priest, Dandapani, who often speaks to corporate groups and has many popular videos on YouTube.
“Energy is like money. It is finite,” Dandapani writes in one blog on dandapani.org. “Your life is a manifestation of where you put your energy.
“Wherever you put your energy in your life, that’s what starts to manifest in your life. The people around you, the things around you, the opportunities around you — they are all a manifestation of where you are investing your energy. Learn to direct energy by mastering your mind first.”
One way to save energy is by eliminating “energy vampires” from your life, he says. These are people who drag you down — in person or on social media.
“Some people fill you with energy, and some people drain you of energy — these could be people at your work or your family,” he says in one Youtube video.
There are three types of people, he says: uplifting people, neutral people and energy vampires.
If you spend five minutes with an uplifting person, you walk away feeling uplifted yourself. “That was a great conversation!” you’ll say.
If you spend time with a neutral person, you’ll walk away the same as you walked in.
But if you spend five minutes with an energy vampire, you’ll walk away drained. They’ve sucked the life out of you. You’ll feel exhausted.
He suggests that you identify whether energy drainers in your life are “inherently energy vampires” — they’re just negative and draining and won’t change — or “transient energy vampires,” people who are going through a hard time and temporarily need energy from you.
This is true in your professional and personal life, he says.
“Withdraw your energy from people in your life who are inherently energy vampires,” he says. “Practice being affectionately detached with them — but always kind, gentle, sincere and loving toward them.”