Do you have Energy Vampires in your life?

when you realize that life is finite you become clear of all of a sudden who and what's important in your life shrink the time you increase the focus you increase the time the focus just goes out the window who are the biggest energy consumers in the world people and things are two of the biggest consumers of energy and people and things also give you energy but since the subject is vast and time is finite let's just look at people and look at the people that consume our energy and how we can actually deal with these people i call these people energy vampires have you ever had the experience of being with someone and spending 10 minutes with them and then walking away and going oh my god that was exhausting all right that's an energy vampire that's what vampires do they bite you and they suck the life out of you right how do you know if someone's an energy vampire well we need to either judge or evaluate what's the difference between judging and evaluating judging is this i'm at a party in new york city at a penthouse at 200 people in there a guy walks in the front door wearing white shoes a purple suit cane wearing a top hat he's got a big chain with a clock hanging off his chest i look at him from across the room and i go he's a pimp drug dealer for sure that's judging right i didn't even get to know him and i just judged evaluation is this evaluation is if i had 50 meetings with john over a period of two years 49 of them i walked away from and i went oh my god that was exhausting it's safe for me to evaluate that john is an energy vampire so for me i prefer to to evaluate then to judge so once you've evaluated that someone's an energy vampire what next how do you deal with energy vampire but before we go to how do we deal with an ng vampire i have a question for you how many of you have an inherent energy vampire in your life that's an amazing amount for every jewel of energy that they take from you that's one joule less of energy you could have invested into the someone or something that you love this is the way you need to look at it it's actually the highest form of selfless service if you allow someone to take energy away from you and use it for negative purposes then you're denying the people and things that truly matter in your life that energy that you could have invested in them how do you treat energy vampires we practice the art of being affectionately detached it's a phrase that my guru coined affectionate detachment but always kind gentle sincere and loving towards them how does that translate to real life to be affectionately detached is not to engage with someone you have considered or evaluated to be an inherent energy vampire energy is a finite resource and we really have to be wise in how we direct it in our life to create what we want take all the tools that i've shared with you apply it one at a time in your life take one thing from this talk that really resonated with you and start applying it if it's concentration if it's giving someone your undivided attention then start with that first the problem with us as humans is that we try to do too much at one time we get discouraged and then we stop doing that there's an old monk saying a temple made of bricks is built one brick at a time [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: DandapaniLLC

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Keywords: Conversations on the Spiritual Path, Dandapani Talks, Dandapani Videos, Energy, Energy Vampires, Mind, Focus, Self-Development

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Length: 4min 1sec (241 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 03 2021