Yin Energy: How to Break Our Consumption Addiction

We have an energy addiction that is moving the human collective towards the peril of self-annihalation. It is not a pure or balanced energy — it is tilted towards consumption, extraction and exhaustion. If we speak in dualistic terms, it is the yang (masculine) side of energy to which we are inclined.

In everyday life, it manifests as the general inability to stop. Like good soldiers or big ants, we keep going forward because it is what we have been told, it’s what we know and what is programmed into our pulses.

We have the gas pressed to the floor, to the very core in a most literal sense as our human vehicle goes driving towards the cliff of destruction extinction, taking with us the animals, insects, plants and unborn future generations along with it. This is the macro picture.

The author is screaming here in coherent sentences because the ship is sinking. Not a bright idea to ignore such things.

And why aren’t we stopping this terror train, this terrible brain that causes so much pain?! Because on the micro level, we do the same.

We are each little conductors on the crazy caboose and our moral status is loose. We drink our coffee to wake and again to stay awake. We go to bed late, glued to our digital crack. We keep going to the unfulfilling jobs. And we stay in the same malfunctioning relationships — the biggest one being that which we maintain with ourselves.

We keep consuming each precious day in a panic so that one day we can afford one of peace. And the illusion repeats. Groundhog Day.

Each free moment we fill it with eye-frying digital fantasy worlds. We honk, we push and assault life to the very moment of exhaustion and somehow still want more. We steal, scam and manipulate our way up the wrings of a ladder to next-level, more of the same stuff.

It is comically maniacal. A matriarchal depressant. A patriarchal penis match. Even as life goes limp, we are convinced of our potency. ‘Loving all the ladies but the ladies don’t love him at all,’ is the Jack Johnson lyric that conveys our lunacy to think humanity has never had it better….. until it is dead?

There is a treatment for this type of energy addiction. It is really quite simple, though in a situation such as we are in it may seem complex to most of us.

We only need to open and embrace the yin aspect of energy. The Great Recharge. The Mighty Relax. Regenerate. Root. Return to Nature.

Take a moment and remember. Who you are. What you are here on earth to do this life.

Take a nap. Go for a bath. Leave the map and meander. Melt consciously into the moment. Let purpose find you. Be a vagina — be open to life inserting its exact plan unto your entire being.

Be spontaneous. Go off script. And let go of the wheel; after all, we are on spaceship earth. Let her drive and let her rest, as we do the same. Allow her to recharge through her built-in sustainable energy system.