Kirshenbaum, Mira. The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue. New York: Delacorte.
“The sprit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?” wrote Solomon (Proverbs 18:14). The book Mira Kirshenbaum wrote is not about a person’s spirit in a religious sense, it’s about spirit in the psychological and emotional sense and how our emotional state can leave us feeling energized or drained.
Our complete energy, she explains in The Emotional Energy Factor, is the sum of our physical and emotional energy. We can do things to improve our physical energy, and she devotes a few pages to advice on hot to do it, but for most of us, it is our lack of emotional energy that is really getting in the way.
Low emotional energy is too common and it makes it harder for us to feel good and do what we want. There are many ways you can be losing emotional energy. High-energy people have ways of avoiding energy loss and building up their emotional energy.
Most of the book is devoted to strategies to increase emotional energy using method she has picked up from her person experience and from her practice as a psychotherapist. Each chapter is devoted to a strategy and has a diagnostic question to help you diagnose if the strategy might be helpful to you. Most chapters have stories of people who struggled in that area and found a way to cope with their problems and even increase their emotional energy.
The book contains too many ideas to describe them in any detail here. To oversimplify, Kirshenbaum’s advice for getting more emotional energy falls into three categories: reduce the time you spend doing or around things that drain you, increase your exposure to things that are valuable or enjoyable and improve your perspective. Reading the book helped me see specific things I can do in my life that would probably help me feel better.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in Toxic Success by Paul Pearsall.
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