Yes, the term “psychic energy” sounds a little kooky, but it’s just a term, call it “a green giraffe covered in pink butterflies” if that helps.
One great way to replenish psychic energy is to fall in love. Many people (and I’m not pointing any fingers here because I don’t think I need to) begin to solve their psychological problems precisely after they fall in love.
Of course, even the most amazing romantic partner in the universe cannot solve your psychological problems. But s/he can replenish your psychological energy. Love and joy you get from your partner will serve as a sort of fuel that will get you out of the ditch and move you in the direction of solving your issues. The rest will have to be done by yourself.
So if you are lonely, now is the time to place a profile on a dating site. Or use any other method you like to meet people.
And a small story: I was so drained from carrying the weight of my depression and anxiety that I almost decided not to go to that first date with N. I was about to move to another country, there was a lot of packing to do, etc. So I almost became the biggest fool in the world who wouldn’t have even known the extent of her idiocy.
Think about it.
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What has generated the most energy for me is to have got rid of something my family tried with all sorts of desperation to instil in me: codependency. Actually, this has a whole ideological structure, Christianity. You have to really engage with Christianity as a mathematical framework to see how it is designed to assure mediocrity and a loss of energy. There is no “if-then” condition that would assure a win. Everything in terms of its logic leads downward.
More recently I discovered how much of this virus was still in my system. The notion that one should always express oneself in a needy vein so as to not to seem to outclass others, the idea that one is here on Earth to bestow wisdom on needy others, or have one’s very existence denied, the idea that one is obliged to educate others toward a higher level of social development or have all of reality collapse into a heap — all of these notions that I had been carrying around were depleting my energy.
In fact, the world just doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t need me to perform in that way. It largely takes care of itself.
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If you can identify specific ideas that are dragging you down and eating your energy, you are well on the way to solving the problem.
Many people, however, are so depleted that even seeing these received wisdoms as problematic and questioning anything at all is too difficult. There was this person on this blog who said his parents beat him when he was a small child because he deserved it. And after making that comment he never came back to the blog because the truth was too terrifying to him.
That very first step when a person stops running in a circle and takes a tiny little stride away from the circle, that requires a lot of energy. It’s an enormous revolution of that person’s entire worldview, entire sense of self.
I know you know all this but I also know there are people reading this right now who need to hear this.
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I’m sure that is so. I learn through different methods, but I did some psychological freesparring with the nazi whose diatribes I once posted on this site, and this is what I learned about the holes in my defences.
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You also do martial arts, and that’s a great method of finding energy.
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Yeah, true. Absolutely. But I use the metaphor for other things as well.
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