The mind uses up a lot of energy. Every thought you have taxes your mind a little bit. Emotions are very powerful, repetitive thoughts. An emotion keeps telling you to pay attention to it. Emotional days are exhausting days.
It’s not just accurate emotions that take up mental energy. Inaccurate emotions, reactions to the past or to wrong assumptions, take up just as much energy as more valid emotions.
You will gain mental energy when you can release an inaccurate emotion.
Think about it: we all love having a “clear mind,” a mind free of excess thoughts and emotions. If an emotion is not useful to you, you can benefit by examining and releasing the emotion. Each time you do, you will feel better and have more energy.
Every emotion takes up energy you could use to do what you want. This is why it’s a big deal that you actually have emotions all the time.
