Imagine you leave your house in the morning. The fresh air touches your face, and you reach into your bag. Inside, there are no coins or bills. There is glittering gold dust. That gold represents your life energy.
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called this force psychic energy: the energy that allows you to dream, work, love, create, be patient, and maintain inner peace. It is the fuel of the soul.
Now think: if a stranger asked you what you were carrying in your bag, would you open it and throw your gold on the ground just out of politeness?
Probably not.
However, many people do exactly that every day when they tell too much about their life, their problems, their plans, or their successes to anyone who asks “how are you?”.
Below you will find several ideas inspired by depth psychology to protect your emotional and mental energy.
1. The “Personal Fog”: Don’t reveal exact figures.
We live in an age obsessed with numbers:
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