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34 Issue #101 June 2021 www.sportsenergynews.com

In The 4 Steps to Shift Your
In

Energy – How Bad Wifi
ZONE Almost Ruined My Day

The wifi was out of my control. But a lot like your pause. Throughout the
my energy state was in my control. I day I continued to bring awareness
realized I had already accomplished to my breath which modulated my
step one for how to shift from a energy. I made a point during my
call. We’ve probably all had to deal
By Alyse Gaulin CEO, Own It stressful (catabolic) energy state into next interaction with Justin to ask him
with similarly stressful situations like a peaceful and productive (anabolic) with a smile how his day was. All my
this.
rap. The Wi-Fi is too slow. Wi-Fi state: awareness. actions the rest of the day were filtered
More important than the call, though,
Ctroubles in today’s day and age are I felt the stress evade into me. My jaw We’ve talked about this before, but through the lens of “how can I bring
like a flat tire. Without it, I couldn’t tightened. My shoulders scrunched you can’t make any changes, without my best energy?”
get to work. The problem was I had an up. When my fiancé Justin came in being aware that changes need to be Sure, my call didn’t go as smoothly
important work call in 20 minutes and I made. Awareness is the precursor to all as I would’ve liked, but that was out of
to say hi (unaware of the situation)
wasn’t within an hour of decent Wi-Fi. he received nothing but a glare. The conscious change. my control, and I didn’t let it ruin my
Frantically looking up coffee shops I The next step, Step 2, was to pause. entire day.
could go to (they were closed), I didn’t intense glare of a fiancé who’s mad at Just pause. Take a moment before I know I said there were four steps,
him for no good reason.
know what I was going to do for my making any rash decisions and see the but there are actually five. That fifth
At that moment, I had a choice.
situation from an objective lens once step is reflection. In my regular nightly
again. If you’ve ever had a sensation journal, I thought about how I handled
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moment of stress and emotion we lose could’ve handled it?
Surely, I should have found Step One
Presents “Famous Sports Quotes” objectively, and with it, the ability to sooner instead of snapping at Justin
think clearly.
That pause provides the moment to (sorry J). Without this reflection period
“Athlete’s work hardest for coaches they like and respect, when reset. During that pause, we can all (and it can take many forms), I have no
I’m asked, “How do I get my athletes to like and respect me?” My have different strategies. I chose to way of knowing how to improve next

immediate response is “Like and respect them first.” take 10 deep breaths. You could take a time my energy needs to shift.
Dr. Debbie Silver different approach during your pause: Journaling can help us consolidate
• Go for a walk. and reflect on our thoughts. So can a
• Take a cold shower. conversation with someone, or even
• Have a conversation with someone. some space to talk through how you

• Listen to your favorite song and handled it out loud. Anything that can

ALL BLINDS
ALL BLINDS dance to it. provide the space for you to explain
After that, the third step is to make a (verbally or in writing) how you
choice. I could let the catabolic energy handled it, and how you can handle it
drag me around all day and cause me even better moving forward.
to snap out in my conversations and let In my reflection, I found that deep
the stress mount, or I could make the breaths worked very well for me. But
SAVE 50 % choice to move into a relaxed, anabolic something I can improve on is finding
UP UP
energy. This is easier said than done, Step 1, awareness, sooner. After all, I

TO TO
but it’s as simple as that. I made the was stressed all morning until I found
mental choice that I was going to awareness. So, this lesson is a cue to
SOL-R improve my energy in the way I was me to reaffirm my meditation practice,
showing up. which is a great method to cultivate
The choice, however, won’t be as awareness everywhere in our life.
Since 1988 effective without action. Step Four is to Next time you catch your energy
Celebrating 33 years act. I’d recognized my energy, paused, sabotaging your life, remember these
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The actions in this fourth step look the storm has passed, reflect.