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Personal energy is what fuels the runes in a ritual, and one of the main things that decides whether magick works. The real question is not how to make more, but how to stop losing it.
What is personal energy?
Personal energy is what fuels the runes in a ritual, and one of the main things that decides whether magick succeeds. The same ritual performed by a low-energy person and by a high-energy person gives entirely different results.
You already generate plenty of energy each day; the real question is how you stop losing it. Since energy follows attention, the principle is to be conscious of where you put your attention and to cut the useless drains out of your life.
A strong body
A strong body. One of the most important parts of strong energy is a strong physical body — it is the basis of your physical existence. Healthy food and enough physical exercise are not optional extras here; they are what the rest stands on.
What drains your energy
Negative emotions and thoughts. These drain the most. Tend your mind like a garden: pull a weed while it is small, because a strong one costs far more to remove.
What you consume becomes your mind. Negative news, dramas that provoke strong reactions, mindless scrolling and low-quality content all settle there.
What you eat becomes your body. Junk food, processed food, alcohol, tobacco and drugs all lower your energy. Your body is 60–70% water, so drink clean water, and make fresh fruit and vegetables at least 30% of your diet — better still, half of it.
Your attention
Your energy is defined by how well you control your attention. Understand that the whole world is a contest for your attention. Everything around you is hunting your energy, and what you give away mindlessly is lost for good. Social media and movies are traps, modern movies especially: they are built to enrage and to trigger, and that is exactly how they take your energy.
So are the paradoxical, triggering arguments that set one side against another and demand that you take an emotional position. Take one, and you commit emotionally, and your energy drains away into a meaningless fight of opposites. A true magician holds the middle ground. You do not take a side. You are beyond the concept altogether, above the vibrational frequency on which the dualities exist.
True power always lies in a balanced worldview, and in the balanced management of your energy and your emotions — which leads back, in the end, to your basic ability to control your attention.
Read how rune magick works and what magick is.
Questions
What drains personal energy most?
Negative emotions and thoughts.
How do I keep my energy?
By controlling where your attention goes, and cutting out what drains it.