Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor wrote about energy takers in her book, “My Stroke of Insight”.
And if you watch how your body responds to different situations, you can find this out yourself.
I know that when I am in the presence of people who talk about life negatively, I leave totally drained.
Some talk in a victim mode where life is out to get you, and there is nothing you can do to change it. They are not looking for an answer, but rather seem to delight in sharing more and more of how victimized they are and who the next big threat will be and how to guard against it.
Living on the defensive side of life!
They are fighting with life and feeling they are being assaulted by life at every turn.
From this mode there is very little in life that brings them happiness, mostly life brings them bad news.
Their radar is positioned to spot the next attack.
Very interesting to watch the way the conversations flowed and how my energy level disappeared.
It doesn’t matter which topic is brought up, they see it from a victim’s point of view and their victim energy gets refilled.
I didn’t realize that victim energy could be draining on one side and refilling on the other.
What fuels the victim mode is feeling more like a victim.
My energy system needs the opposite; I need to be with life giving energies, where change is seen as an opportunity to change. Where you flow with life, greeting it as it is, and bending in nonresistance, where you look for answers and solutions.
What is greatly interesting to me, it is not the individual bodies I resent, but their modalities of living life.
My view of life is so completely different now. I no longer feel a victim to life, but instead a partner with my life.
As I walk hand in hand with my life, I feel so grateful to be free of the life draining energies that engulfed me in my past and I now know what brings me energy or what steals it away.
Living life from the inside out, I feel the differences between energy coming in and my energies leaving, how I feel with someone or how I feel when I leave.
I love that I know this about me.
I love knowing what is draining me and what fills me up.
As a good body keeper it is my job to watch for energy drains and for what fills me up.
