How To Turn Stale Energy Into Momentum

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Good morning.

I'm Janne. I'm Jason.

And we are living lucky.

You are too.

I've had the weirdest experience this past week.

Yo.

Tell me if I'm crazy.

Are you crazy or are you crazy?

It never helps when your husband literally reaffirms it.

I have felt this heavy energy.

Almost something that has been stuck or stale.

Call it.

It's a poltergeist.

Well, here's the thing.

I'm not going that far.

But call it maybe unmotivated.

I don't even know if that's a word unmotivated.

Like a stagnation, like a heavy fog.

And I feel it physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

The weather's been a little colder this week.

It just feels like I don't really have clarity with the direction or my purpose.

I just kind of feel like waking up and it kind of gives me that it's time to make the difference.

It's time I get on it.

So I just finished up the high performance blog series on our website.

I don't know if I've told you all this.

You have this.

Because I would be your number one fan.

I know.

Well, I did that.

I think you purposely don't tell me because you don't want me that critical janna to come out.

The other part of that is we need to divide and conquer.

So there's there's this part of if I tell you everything.

If you tell me everything you do and I tell you everything I do, then we become the same person.

We become the same person and we get a lot less done because we both want to support everything each of it.

And we want to talk about it.

We're made about it.

So the other part of that is is in that I talked a lot about maintenance, pit crews, machinery,

like racing.

Okay.

And I.

That's an odd analogy.

Well, I feel this heavy energy because and I equate it to almost like sluggy oil in my system.

Yes.

It's stagnation.

It's it's like it's outside of my system and that's.

So I know it's in my system, but it feels out of my system weighing on it.

Does that make sense?

But our outer environment is a reflection of what's happening inside.

So it all has to do with us.

Everything is everything.

Yes.

Okay.

So I have been noticing this.

Now, if you've been listening to us, you know that we had ski camp last week.

We had ski camp two weeks before that.

I mean, things have been busy.

However, there's just been this stagnation this week that I personally, I'm like, this has to stop still the insanity.

Oh my gosh.

I remember that.

That's a blast from the past, right?

So if you're feeling this, you are not crazy.

Here's the thing.

I need to reframe this because it's not energy.

It's not our outer environment, environment that's taking over.

It is something inside.

It's a pattern.

It's a pattern that we fall into.

It's our nervous system, our habits, environment.

Yeah.

If we get into habitual, we've often talked about the law of habituation on this podcast.

It is the reason why we have change of seasons.

It's to keep things fresh.

Yeah.

The one, the word that came up for me this morning was predictability.

Yes.

Like when I was meditating on it and thinking about it, the predictability of things creates this humdrumness for me.

And that's weird because sometimes I want predictable.

That's interesting.

Go ahead.

I'm always thinking of this is going to be the best possible thing and I want to predict that it's the best.

Because you and I have put the word predictability into certainty.

Yes.

And sometimes certainty equals clarity for us.

Right.

However, it's quite the opposite because for our bodies, when things start getting predictable,

it goes into cave mandates and we start...

I mean, you can even see it in my belly.

We start...

Hey, belly.

We start going into hibernation mode.

Yeah.

It's in habituation and just relaxation.

Things are getting predictable.

We're going into...

I don't have to work for it.

The winner.

Yeah.

You better just get fat and dumb and happy.

Oh, I've resembled that.

Sometimes the truth just slaps us across the face.

That's truth, Humor Honey.

So there is a nervous system, a physiological response.

There's also emotional contagion, basically.

Because when I start feeling this, then subconsciously, you live with me.

You see it.

And it's almost like we get in sync with one another.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

It's like the clocks at a... at a clock store.

I don't know if you know this.

I don't know if you know this.

That's all the... all the d-dongs start...

They will...

They will.

They will all start getting on the same...

They're not...

What are they called?

Things.

No.

Oh, don't say d-dongs.

They're pendulums.

Yeah, the little thing that goes back and forth.

Somebody's going to text us and correct us on what that's called.

Okay.

Thank you, Sheila.

Got in advance.

Anyway, so we kind of get in sync with one another.

Are you with me?

Or are you with me?

I'm with you.

All right.

I didn't have too many options there.

Lucky you.

I know.

But then the last thing is that our environment starts to perpetuate this.

And I always use this example, but it is really my biggest downfall.

My couch literally has a hole in it that sucks me in.

The heating blanket is sitting there ready for me to climb in.

You're a little chrysalis.

And when I feel cold or...

I really don't have much motivation or I actually feel low energy.

I climb into my little cave and I start hibernating.

That is exactly what happens.

And then I want to be close to you.

So I'm like, even if I want to go work and do things, I want to...

I'm like, how can I get closer to Jan?

I'll bring my computer over sometimes.

Or sometimes I'll just come snuggle up.

Yes.

So I bring...

I bring you down.

You don't bring...

Oh!

I bring you into the couch.

You reel me in.

Slope.

You reel me in.

Suddenly though, and this is just nature working, spring comes.

Now, how can we consciously create spring?

I think one of the things that we do is in that...

We huddle up.

In that cuddle up.

Because we...

We have a conversation.

We are aware.

A lot of times we will start a meaningful conversation in that cuddle up, huddle up.

And that's the next series.

For you, okay.

Thank you.

Make sure you check out Jason's blog.

No shameless plug here.

That's right.

For you, I do think it's meaningful conversation.

Sometimes I think when we have a meaningful conversation, then all of a sudden, something...

It's like a drain.

That has a clog and all of a sudden it goes, oh.

Yeah.

Well, we said in the goal.

And you get new energy that starts flowing through you.

For me, it's cleaning.

It is cleaning the house.

It is getting organized.

I want things.

Spick and span.

I want to know where everything is.

I want it labeled.

I want it put away.

So for me, it's cleaning.

A lot of that still starts with setting a new goal.

Like, because we're going to set a new goal.

And all that starts with clarity, cleanliness, and getting organized to attack that goal.

Yes.

And all that is rearranging the energy that's currently available.

It's just we're not finding that energy because of that energetic block.

Yes.

And this happened to me yesterday.

So all week, I've been feeling this, oh, it's time to make the donuts.

Then I just got this burst of, you know what?

I have laundry that needs to be folded in sheets that need to be put away.

And beds that still need to be taken down, put away.

And we just started getting into this mode.

And again, that became contagious to both of us.

So the energy was there.

It was all around us.

We just needed to get rid of the block that was in front of us and jump over that small hurdle.

It felt like a toilet that had been like clogged the crap.

And all of a sudden it went, and that's the energy that was running through my body.

And yours too, and our house.

It just felt like it cleared.

Open the doors, let some fresh air in, turn on some music, get some new energy going.

Yes.

And allow some freshness in.

Yes.

So I guess what I'm saying is the awareness of knowing that you're in this,

I don't want to call it a funk, but it is kind of a staleness that happens.

And then to combat it, start taking action.

Even just a little action anywhere in any area of your life,

whether it's mentally, physically, emotionally, or physiologically,

just start taking a little action.

And you'll be surprised how that spring starts to come into your step.

Yes, objects in motion, tend to stay in motion.

And objects at rest tend to stay at rest.

Interrupt the pattern.

That's what we need to do.

Thanks for joining us.

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Bye-bye.

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