22/12/2025
Energy, what comes up for you when you hear this word?
If you asked someone else, would their answer be the same?
For some people they may think of caffeine, sports, electricity, waves. A biologist may think of mitochondria, a yoga practitioner may think of the breath.
Pranayama, (prana meaning breath as well as energy) are ancient breath practices that can help us shift our energy, just as our posture and our mindset can. All of these are deeply connected, depending on your personal story, it may be easier to access one pathway before another.
Energy is like the wind, we cannot stop it or create it, but we can choose where to direct it or convert it.
If you consistently work your biceps, directing your energy there, your arms will grow stronger. The same is true for the mind. What you read, learn, and return to again and again becomes part of who you are.
Perhaps this is how heartfelt intentions are truly realised, through direction. By guiding energy toward the life you wish to live and the world you wish to live in through making small decisions and gentle habits that are supportive, which may start for yourself but the positive results may ripple out into the world.
