Love. Relationality. Connection.

What things give you energy?

I find that every moment is ripe with energy. I am energy, concentrated here and now. To be in the moment, fully and completely, is to receive the energy that flows there.

These are some of the times when I receive energy:

• When I am really with a friend in conversation or Silence,
• When I see children at play,
• When I discover an idea that opens me and to me,
• When all I have been thinking becomes an aha-moment,
• When I am speaking a truth that is flowing through me,
• When gratitude washes over me in the first waking moments of the day, and
• When I experience that I have nothing to prove and can simply be alive.

Energy is always present, always surrounding, filling, and flowing in and around us, as us. It seems to me that as I list the things that give me energy, they are all about recognizing something already there, as if seeing for the first time. We point to energy with words like connection, gravity, attraction, relationality, and love. Always and everywhere there is the potential for recognizing what is Real. In those moments of recognition, I receive energy.