Using your energy, intuition and right brain more wisely!

Extract from lecture 48 of The Calmness in Mind Process – by John Glanvill

Most anxiety is not a mysterious medical condition. It is the friction between an overdeveloped analytical left brain that has been trained to dominate, and a right brain that is still trying to engage with meaning, creativity, nature and connection. When the logical side runs the show unchecked, the result is exhaustion, restriction and a quiet sense that something important is missing.

There is no single “right way” to live. Truth is subjective. What works for one person may be irrelevant to another. Once that is accepted, the old stories about what might go wrong can be replaced with deliberate new stories about what could go right. The unconscious brain will keep producing narratives either way; the practical choice is to feed it useful ones and then act on them, regardless of how the body feels in the moment.

Fear produces doubt. Doubt freezes decisions. Procrastination follows, then frustration, then resentment. That stuck energy either gets stored in the body or explodes as drama. Anger itself is simply energy. Used poorly it creates more conflict. Used deliberately it can push a person through an outdated barrier instead of letting the barrier remain. Excitement and fear are nearly the same physiological state; the difference is the story attached to them and the quality of the energetic field that story creates.

Everything is energy. The space between atoms is not empty; it is a fluctuating field that connects everything. Animals, insects and plants already operate inside that field. They do not need language or linear logic. Humans have the same capacity, but most of it has been sidelined by cultural conditioning that treats non-verbal, intuitive knowing as unreliable or nonexistent. The result is a population that feels disconnected and then tries to think its way back to connection.

Activity generates motivation, not the other way around. A body at rest stays low-energy. Movement, sound, focused work or deliberate play agitates the local field and draws energy into it. That is why exercise only feels good after it has begun, and why sitting still waiting for motivation is usually fruitless. Low-energy environments and low-energy people drain the same field. High-energy environments and people feed it. The practical response is to move toward the latter and limit time in the former.

Intuition is not mystical in the sense of being untestable. It is the body’s continuous sampling of the energetic signals in its immediate environment. When the left brain is quiet enough to notice those signals, decisions become simpler. At a junction, instead of analysing which path is safest or most logical, one can scan for the subtle pull that feels more alive. Over time the left brain learns to serve the intuition rather than override it.

The same principle applies to relationships and daily interactions. Every person broadcasts an energetic state. Meeting that state with analysis and offence simply lowers one’s own frequency. Meeting it with acceptance and detachment keeps personal energy intact. Energy below a certain threshold is life-depleting; energy above it is life-confirming. Thoughts themselves carry charge. Negative loops lower the field; deliberate optimism raises it, which is why placebo works even when the person knows it is a story.

Death, viewed this way, is simply the final letting-go. Whether or not there is an afterlife, treating the present life as if it is the only chance to experience fully removes much of the ambient fear that otherwise contaminates ordinary days. People who have already lived richly can speak of transition without horror; that attitude itself is a higher-energy story.

The practical invitation is straightforward. Stop identifying solely with the analytical mind. Use it for problem-solving when required, but let feeling and energetic sensing guide direction. Raise personal frequency through movement, optimism, play and deliberate engagement with life. Drop the need to control outcomes. Nature appears to favour those who act from love, curiosity and constructive energy. The alternative is to remain a collection of under-used parts, tired and compliant, waiting for motivation that never arrives because the field has never been activated.