Stress has energy.
Certain times in our lives, certain triggers, certain atmospheres ... will create a feeling of increased stress.
Increased stress feels uncomfortable because energy get bottled up inside of our bodies.
You've shaken a warm soda bottle, right?
The energy inside of that shaken bottle - and inside of us - we might call demand energy.
Trauma coach David David Trealean says "Stress is the nonspecific response of the body to any demand for change. Stress is everywhere. It’s inherent. We’re experiencing it all the time. Simply getting out of bed – stress is neither good nor bad; it’s just happening."
This morning as talk of election ramps up, I thought - "Wow, this moment has the energetic quality of a demand."
It wants me to do something.
There is no denying that there is a demand for change all around us.
And we can probably agree that the demand is creating a collective stress that many of us are experiencing.
As a coach, I am curious about our internal experience of demand energy.
What is demand energy asking of you?
What does it want you to know?
Is it driving you to take action?
Is it keeping you stuck - like that soda bottle - creating pressure that wants to move -- to fight, to run, or stay bottled up?
What direction would the energy go if given the chance to change shape and to move?
I'd love to know how you would describe the quality of energy you are feeling today, and what it wants to say!
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