The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue

by Mira Kirshenbaum

Do you wish you had more energy?
Do you often feel drained, even after a good night’s sleep?
Are there days when you can’t get going...when you just feel blah?

If so, you’re not alone. You’re suffering from emotional fatigue--an all too common outgrowth of our frenetic modern-day lives. But you can regain your emotional energy forever with this groundbreaking book from psychotherapist and bestselling author Mira Kirshenbaum that includes many helpful hints and informative real-life stories.

This book shows you how to tap into the sources of emotional energy that already lie within you. In these remarkable pages, you’ll discover 25 practical, no-nonsense secrets to living the vital, happy, hope-filled life you deserve by building the kind of energy no pills, push-ups, or power bars can provide...the kind of energy that comes to the rescue when your body has reached its limits. It’s called emotional energy. Successful, high-energy people have learned to harness it--and now you can too with their secrets in this powerful, life-enhancing book.

Drawing on nearly three decades of professional experience as a psychotherapist and researcher, Mira Kirshenbaum has developed a bold new program to help you raise your inner energy quotient and keep it high for life. The results are an aliveness of mind, happiness of heart, and a spirit filled with hope--the fuel that makes all things possible. Now you can reclaim the energy within, the energy that drives and sustains you, as you

• How to diagnose your own emotional fatigue
• The power of active prayer
• Two simple things you can do to turn a pressure situation into one that gives you emotional energy
• Positive how to say no to the things you don’t want to do
• How to live your life your way--a giant step to emotional well-being
• The Appointment Book Cure to free up time and get things done
• How to stop buying into someone else’s expectations of you
• The Emotional Energy how to lose those extra pounds and keep them off
• PLUS many more tips, tools, and techniques for you to get more emotional energy today!

“The single biggest difference between people who get what they want and people who don’t is energy,” states author Mira Kirshenbaum. With energy, everything is possible. This book shows you how to harness it in order to accomplish more, struggle less, feel more energetic, and find the zest--and courage--you need to live the life of your dreams.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Health

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book at a time when I really needed a boost emotionally and it delivered in a big way. Although it's not a religious book it does mention prayer, but states -- quite correctly -- that "God" is whatever you want it to be, a higher power, a religious deity, your soul, the universe or anything else that you want it to be. The important thing is not what you are praying to, but that you are practicing the act of prayer. I'm not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination, but there is significant scientific proof that entering a state of prayer has many emotional and physical benefits. Meditation is a big part of this too and some people use prayer and meditation to mean the same thing.
Visualization is also an important aspect to high-energy and is a very welcome part of this book as well. there is a helpful section that discusses nine things you can do to help restore your emotional energy when it suddenly crashes and good advice on Maintaining Emotional Energy when Dealing with Difficult Medical Conditions.
There is much more covered in this book and it's done so in an easy to read manner which was most welcome at a time when I needed easy.

[Cara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was so excited about the subtitle of this book--I want to know the secrets high-energy people use to beat emotional fatigue! Yes!!!

But reading through (well, ok, some heavy skimming went on), I found almost nothing new here. I guess I was assuming
Know secrets => high energy person. Therefore,
not high energy person => don't know secrets

But no. I know the secrets, I do most of them, I'm still tired most of the time. Meh. Nothin' I can do, I guess.

Each short chapter has a tiny diagnostic, where if you answer "yes" to one or more of the questions, this tip will really help you have a lot more energy! But even the diagnostics, I answered "no" to most of them. Maybe I just have an unrealistic idea of what "high energy" or "tired" is.

Favorite part: the chapter on confidence. To have confidence, focus on what you can do/control, not what you can't. ex. writer--first three books were bestsellers, but fourth was a dud. He got scared and paralyzed--couldn't write at all. Trying to write the next bestseller was overwhelming and impossible--how could he try to write something all those people would like when he didn't know them? Then he realized, he should just write the book he wanted to read. It worked.

[Douglas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essentially, if you get in touch with what you really want to do, you'll bounce out of bed every morning full of energy.

Lots of good points and anecdotes to get you back in sync with greater sources of good energy.

(Hope that doesn't sound too spaced out, but I am a big believer in not wasting your life.)

[Mickalene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really good, basic book about emotional health and recognizing personal needs, limits and how to increase our personal energy. I found the idea that our physical energy only accounts for 30% of our overall energy a new idea. Highly recommended.

[Noelle Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book. I skimmed through a lot of it and read those chapters that stuck out to me. There were many points that made a whole lot of sense to me because I've been emotionally drained most of my life and it got worse 4 years ago. All I've known is how to do more in order to function.

Now that I'm practicing to say no and doing less, I'm seeing the need to reenergize and recognize the things that serve a specific purpose. It's not about pleasing others but what emotionally drains me. Recognizing whether it's doing too many things, or spending time with others that drain that energy, or even just recognizing that envy can be an energy draining emotion.

I highlighted several sections that resonated with me especially the chapter that talks about weight loss and emotional energy. I've thought that most of my eating habits were more about the emotional state that I was in versus physical hunger. The author really explains how the two should be viewed. I learned many things from childhood into my current age that I have to retrain and I'm thankful for another perspective to ponder on.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was written in an easy to read real language and had some good points - most of which I had heard before but it still held my attention
A good book to get your life back on track.
Had originally bought for my sister but reading a few paragraphs and I was hooked and had to finish it.

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as part of a book club. While some parts of this book I was not 100% sold on, other I found extremely interesting. I did enjoy reading this enough to recommend it to others.

[Ellen · Rating 1 out of 5]

A secrets? tell me about it.
Everything could be put in 20 pages.

[شيماء فؤاد]

من الكتب المفيدة .. زي معظم كتب ميرا.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned a lot from this book and plan to buy a paper copy of this book so I can refer to it periodically. Unfortunately, the things I learned are easy to forget in the chaos of everyday life. It would help to have a physical reminder.

It's nice to know that there are actions to take to help keep that deflated feeling away.

[Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you butt has been dragging and you want to figure out why read this book.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve actually owned this book for more than 15 years and I came back in to GR to edit the rating from 3 to 4 stars because I’ve pulled it off the shelf multiple times during that time, including this week. Practical tips and reminders, nothing earth shattering, but at the same time, it’s way more than just eat right and take care of yourself. This week, I thought that I would do an internet search on the topic to see if some articles would pop up that advance this concept further, and I really didn’t find anything more substantial in my quick search. Keeping the book around for another 15 :)

[Michelle J · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned and am aware of how she states "people pollution" can bring down one's emotional energy. Another tool I took out of the book is to do away with "TO DO LISTS" and switch over to keep appointments on calendar to get things done.

[Sandy]

Didn't finish

[Vicky Hart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful. . . lots of useful stress reduction techniquies! Mind over matter, baby!

[Nita]

I have no memory of this book at all.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good tips about self care, good checklists