How to Recharge Your Battery

I've been having car trouble of late. I have an old Prius and there are issues with the battery.

The AAA technicians have been to my home more than once to charge it up. They've given me the following advice: drive the car a lot more. Don't keep it idle. And avoid using the AC and the radio, which can drain the battery.

Now you may be wondering why I'm writing about my car. This is a therapy blog, not a Toyota one.

The reason is that my car trouble got me thinking: the advice about cars seems applicable to human beings as well. We need to keep our "batteries" running too.

While we don't have a mechanical one, we do have a brain, a body, and a spirit. And we need to keep them energized and healthy.

It's a good to ask ourselves whether we running our human battery enough. Are we charging it up on a daily basis? And what are we doing that depletes it?

There are many ways that we may be draining our human battery without realizing it. Dealing with toxic people, looking at the news too much, endless scrolling may result in fatigue, boredom, anxiety, even depression.

At the end of each day, it may be good to evaluate what we did that either added to our peace and happiness or drained it. Did we do enough to feed our minds with interesting material? Was our body fed with healthy food? Were we around people who gave us energy or who drained us?

Along with taking an inventory of the day, we can come up a plan for tomorrow. Think of some ideas, such as taking a walk without the phone, reducing time on social media, watching a funny movie, rather than a depressing one. Then make a plan to institute at least one of these ideas.

Because car batteries can always be switched out. But not so much for the human kind.

(Note: My blogs are not done with the help of AI)