Health Fitness

How goals nourish and balance our energy

I was recently asked why goals seemed so important to me. My response was, “working toward a goal helps me control my self-care.”

Taking care of yourself should be easy, innate, and a priority when pursuing an ambition. However, this is not always the case. We can find ourselves burnt out or exhausted in various ways and not always recognize how it happened.

In order to live in congruence with our own vital energy, it is important that we see mental, physical, emotional and spiritual capacities as real sources of energy that we apply to achieve our goals in life. We can then begin to see ways that we can nurture and care for our energy and recognize when we cause depletion. Finding balance is much easier when we understand our own energy and begin to monitor where and how we use it.

I have broken down the power abilities and provided an example of how each ability is used to implement self-care when working toward a goal. I have chosen to use a goal in sport and my personal experience as an athlete.

emotional energy

Having a goal requires that I prioritize my time and energy to put myself first. Often this is not the case when I don’t have goals, as it is in my nature to nurture. It is what I love to do and it feeds my soul to take care of others. While this is a great quality, it may leave me at the bottom of my list as I can bring my energy to others. The danger is that I may end up feeling resentful because my investment is not reciprocated. Caring for others can become a way to sabotage or hide my own needs, desires, and desires. Having goals helps me create healthy boundaries where I can love the people in my life from afar, supporting their journey while investing in my own.

physical energy

Having a training program helps me follow a self-care regimen that includes nutrition, rest, and fitness. By setting specific, tangible fitness goals, I prioritize fitness. Eating healthy foods and getting the sleep my body needs helps me rejuvenate and recover between training sessions so I can stay in shape. Having fitness goals and a plan that implements them in a timely and progressive manner ensures that I am taking care of my physical energy; excel and improve, lovingly recover from injury, or maintain a level of fitness that keeps me healthy and strong.

mind energy

My mental energy is the mindset I use to get closer to my goals. I found that the mindset is also a form of self-care that gives me a sense of personal power or a sense of control. This feeling of having control over our abilities and skills is essential for an athlete. Acknowledging what we cannot control, such as people, places, things, and situations, allows us to let go of things that take our focus away. By choosing what I think and how I perceive situations, I can control my way of thinking and the use of my mental energy. This mentality has been called mental toughness or competitive mentality.

Spiritual energy

Evolution and self-realization is a value system of mine. I want to leave this existence knowing that I fulfilled my purpose and that I lived a life that meant something to me and to those with whom I was in relationship. It matters a lot to me that I have a positive impact on some people’s lives and being an athlete has led me to teach others the valuable lessons in self-care, self-care and self-confidence that I have learned through sport.

I believe that we all have an impact and that sport or being an athlete is not the only way, but it is one of the avenues that I have learned to use my innate abilities and talents in ways that nurture me and serve my community.

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