“I appreciate the person who is energetic by nature,” Easwaran writes in this week’s selection, “but I have special admiration when I see someone who suffers from lethargy learn to turn it into a torrent of activity. Vigor, vitality, energy, and will can all be developed. I have seen really lackadaisical men and women turn into dynamos.”
Let’s read from the bottom of page 88 through 94 in Take Your Time and continue learning from Easwaran how to access our energy. May we become real dynamos!
Read this article as if you and Easwaran are having a conversation. What advice does he give you, and how can you apply it this week?
As a challenge this week, try this experiment from the “Ideas and Suggestions” on pages 101–102:
Most of us find we have energy for jobs and activities we enjoy. Try doing with enthusiasm a necessary job that you don’t particularly enjoy. Put the task you dislike first on your list. With training, you can actually begin to juggle these likes and dislikes to release more energy into your life.
For our spiritual bonus this week, here is Christine Easwaran reading the passage “When You Call” from Isaiah.