The Fastest Way to Restore Energy: Meditation

Psychologist Huang Shiming was notorious for being a workaholic in his youth.

While other colleagues maintained 20-30 hours of consultation per week, he insisted on working over 40 hours weekly, consuming enormous amounts of mental energy.

He didn’t notice much when he was young, but after turning 35, he suddenly felt overwhelmed.

After each consultation session, he felt mentally exhausted.

He tried many methods to alleviate this condition, but none proved satisfactory.

It wasn’t until he began meditation and quiet contemplation that his headaches and mental fatigue immediately subsided, and his energy became abundant again.

Through meditation, he gained more energy to invest in his work and gradually became a renowned psychologist.

Huang Shiming says that meditation not only helps maintain inner peace but also restores spiritual energy.

In reality, everyone lives in noisy, chaotic environments, rushing about for their livelihood.

Over time, you become exhausted from this relentless pace, depleting your energy and falling into worry and suffering.

Often, only by quieting down can you feel the energy of life.

For anyone, meditation is the fastest way to restore energy.

01 Meditation Heals Emotions

Workplace expert Xiao Wenjian says that meditation is the terminator of negative emotions.

When you’re in a bad mood, try quiet meditation, and negative emotions can be gradually released with each breath.

Writer Yuval Noah Harari was often filled with resentment in his twenties.

At that time, he faced the pressure of university graduation.

During the day, he had to go out job hunting, and at night, he had to stay up writing his thesis.

However, nothing went as planned. Resume after resume disappeared without a trace, and his thesis required revision after revision.

He lived in endless anxiety and distress every day, losing his temper over the smallest things.

After several months, he became listless and dispirited.

It wasn’t until a friend suggested he participate in a meditation retreat that he discovered:

Every time he lost emotional control, his attention was focused on the object of his anger. He had never seriously considered why he was angry or observed his true inner feelings.

From then on, he spent two hours each day sitting quietly, feeling the flow of his emotions.

In quiet contemplation, he continuously dialogued with himself, and his previously turbulent emotions gradually calmed down as time passed.

Through daily meditation, Harari quickly emerged from negative emotions.

Thereafter, through meditation, he could always approach life with full energy.

Eventually, he not only secured a teaching position but also wrote classic works like “Sapiens” in his spare time.

In life, everyone experiences negative emotions to some degree.

Perhaps work pressure makes your heart feel oppressed, or life’s setbacks continuously dampen your positivity.

Gradually, negative emotions fill your life, draining your spiritual energy and plunging your life into darkness.

Focus master Andy conducted scientific research showing that:

Meditation can increase the activity of the “left prefrontal cortex,” which can release feelings of pleasure.

So when facing life’s various troubles, we need to activate our mind’s meditation mode:

Close your eyes, let your heart slowly calm down, and complaints and anger will settle and dissolve accordingly.

As Kabat-Zinn said:

During meditation, it’s like placing a glass of water on a table. After some time, the sediment settles, and the water becomes clear.

Only through regular meditation and emotional release can you generate energy and embrace happiness again.

02 Meditation Clears Distracting Thoughts

Have you ever had this experience?

When your mind is chaotic, you can’t help but think about this and that.

Even when you haven’t done anything, you still feel exhausted at the end of the day.

This is because one distracting thought after another in your mind silently consumes your energy.

Actually, what makes you tired isn’t the tasks themselves, but the distracting thoughts in your mind.

Regarding this, Japanese mindfulness master Ogino Junya says: Meditation is a process of eliminating distracting thoughts and generating energy.

There was a young Japanese man named Suzuki Toshifumi who worked in the publishing industry for many years.

During a trip to America, he discovered a convenience store with a very unique business model.

After returning to Japan, on a whim, he quit his job and prepared to switch to the retail industry.

However, shortly after entering the industry, he managed to run a small store into bankruptcy.

During that period, he felt life was lifeless and saw no hope.

Although he repeatedly wanted to make a comeback, chaotic thoughts immediately plunged him into confusion.

By chance, he noticed in a newspaper that famous entrepreneur Matsushita Konosuke had a habit of Zen meditation.

So he also began practicing seated meditation.

Suzuki Toshifumi was amazed to discover that during meditation, he could carefully observe the distracting thoughts continuously flowing from his mind and calmly eliminate them one by one.

Through meditation, he quickly organized his thoughts and restarted his entrepreneurial plan with full energy—7-Eleven convenience stores.

While running his new company, Suzuki Toshifumi practiced meditation almost daily.

No matter how troublesome or tiring work became, once he began sitting meditation, distracting thoughts would automatically flow out of his mind, and his thinking would naturally become active.

Thanks to this, he could always make the most correct decisions in the best mental state.

7-Eleven convenience stores expanded rapidly and have now become one of the world’s largest convenience store chain brands.

Suzuki Toshifumi is even known as the “Father of Japanese Retail.”

As he said:

Before farmers plant crops, they use hoes to clear weeds. Before people do things, they should also use meditation to clear distracting thoughts.

Because weeds steal nutrients from crops in the soil.

Similarly, distracting thoughts also steal energy for doing things from the brain.

Only through meditation can you reduce delusions, eliminate distracting thoughts, and keep your mind clear.

When you begin meditating, you can devote 100% of your energy and attention to truly useful matters.

03 Meditation Restores Energy

Writer Liang Longshu says: “Maintaining a meditation habit can regulate the body, breath, and mind.”

So how do you meditate correctly?

The book “Meditation” records such a method:

1. Find a quiet place.

This place doesn’t need to be large, but it should ensure you won’t be disturbed.

If there’s a bit of white noise or aromatherapy, it can better help you relax and enter a meditative state.

2. Find a comfortable posture.

Choose a posture that allows you to shift your center of gravity upward and straighten your back, preferably one that keeps you alert but not fatigued.

Change into loose, comfortable clothes and release all tight constraints on your body.

3. Close your eyes.

Closing your eyes can resist some external interference.

Then, shift your attention to the depths of self-consciousness, follow your breathing, and let your thinking slow down.

4. Try to imagine a scene in your mind.

The scene could be a sunny beach, grassland with gentle breezes, a small house with a fireplace in winter, etc.

You don’t need to imagine it in great detail, just feel its scenery, smell, temperature, and touch, and sense the changes in your heart and body.

5. Observe your consciousness.

Your heart may feel some thoughts arising. Don’t take action, just observe calmly.

If your consciousness begins to drift, don’t be nervous, just pull it back.

When you’ve completed this sufficiently, you can slowly adjust your breathing and open your eyes.

When a person’s body and mind reach this peaceful state, spiritual and mental energy will flow like a gentle stream, slowly entering the mind.

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Frankfurt University psychology professor Karl Schweize once pointed out that the truth of life is energy.

But everyone’s internal energy is limited.

If you allow complex work to consume you, you will eventually be overwhelmed and make your life worse and worse.

Psychologist Christophe André says:

Meditation absorbs quiet particles into the brain and then converts them into energy.

When you’re exhausted, try sitting quietly and meditating.

Between each breath, feel the pulse of life, let your spirit and body completely relax, and gradually restore energy.

Learn to meditate, and you can always face the complex and ever-changing life with high energy.