What is energy?

We talk about it all the time.
“I feel drained today.”
“I have no energy to do anything.”
“I’m feeling low.”

We know the body needs food, rest, and movement to sustain energy. But what about the mind? The heart? There’s a different kind of energy that fuels our inner world—the kind that lives inside our thoughts, quietly shaping our feelings and coloring the lens through which we experience life.

Lately, I’ve been paying attention to this. Noticing.

There’s a certain heaviness I feel when a self-critical thought creeps in. It can be something as small as “I’m not doing enough,” and suddenly my mood dips. My shoulders tense. A quiet fog enters the room. That one thought carries energy. It’s not just mental—it’s emotional, almost physical.

And the opposite is true as well. A softer thought, like “It’s okay to rest today,” brings with it a sense of ease. My breath deepens. My mind slows down. The feeling shifts.

Thoughts are not just words in the head. They’re tiny sparks—each carrying a charge. And that charge becomes the emotion we feel in our bodies.

We often try to escape our thoughts—distract ourselves, argue with them, numb them. But what if we did the opposite? What if we looked directly at them? Observed the energy behind them, without judgment or resistance?

I’m learning to do this. Slowly. Some days, I sit quietly and simply watch my mind. I watch the way a thought enters—how it tightens my chest or speeds up my heart. I don’t try to change it. I just observe.

It feels like the beginning of something new. Not dramatic or life-changing, but subtle. Like turning a dimmer switch slowly toward the light.

That harmony, I believe, begins with awareness. With noticing the disorder. Not pushing it away, but understanding it. Watching the dance between thought, energy, and feeling.

Maybe this is the beginning of passion—not the fiery kind that sweeps you off your feet, but the quiet kind that awakens from simply paying attention.

So today, I watch. I observe. I soften.
And I wait to see what the next thought brings.