The Sacred Currency of Energy

Author: Naga Das

OUR ENERGY IS SACRED. STOP WASTING IT!

Energy is not something we “optimize.” It is something we honor.

In the spiritual laws that govern life (whether you believe in them or not) energy is the currency of creation. It is the fuel of our soul’s purpose. And when it is misused, life will reflect that misuse back to us with exquisite accuracy.

Let’s start with something explosive... literally. The creation of the atomic bomb taught us a powerful truth: unstable energy doesn’t just fizzle out quietly. It detonates.

When the nucleus of a heavy atom splits at the point of criticality, it unleashes massive power. That’s fission. Like a heavy atom, our brain is the nucleus and our emotions are the unstable reactor.

If we’re running on caffeine, four hours of sleep, and a to-do list longer than our childhood traumas, congratulations. You’re not productive, you’re a ticking time bomb.

Just as the atom releases its immense power only at the moment of splitting, so too do we release our true potential when life forces us into rupture. Burnout, illness, addiction are not signs of failure. They are sacred signals that the soul can no longer tolerate the life we are pretending to live.

We may call it stress. We may call it fatigue. But make no mistake: what we are really experiencing is energetic bankruptcy.

THE ILLUSION OF PRODUCTIVITY, THE TRUTH OF CHAOS

Our culture worships instability.

We call it “hustle.” We decorate it with calendars and caffeine. But this is not power. This is fragmentation.

True power does not rush. It does not scatter. It does not need to prove.

It contains itself.

Multitasking, sleep deprivation, overstimulation are not traits of the highly effective. They are the symptoms of a soul severed from its center. When we are disconnected from our life force, we will inevitably reach for false power: stimulants, substances, distractions, applause. We are not managing energy, we are hemorrhaging it.

And that hemorrhage always leads to crisis. Not as punishment, but as initiation.

SLEEP: A HOLY RITUAL OF RESTORATION

There is nothing more underestimated in modern life than the sacred act of sleep.

Sleep is where our soul returns to source. It is where our mind is cleansed, our body repaired, and our spirit whispered to. But most people do not sleep. They sedate. They collapse. They escape.

Katy, a client of mine, thought she was sleeping. In truth, she was rendering herself unconscious with Trazodone, a sedative. When she stopped, she was terrified. Sleep did not come easily. But over time, it returned—naturally, rhythmically, faithfully. She began to meet herself again. And for the first time, her anxiety lessened, not through medication, but through rest.

My own journey was not different. During my time working at the hedge fund, I prided myself on functioning with just 2-4 hours of sleep each night, claiming I was practicing “polyphasic sleeping.” In reality, it was nothing more than severe sleep deprivation. Over time, the lack of rest took its toll on my cognitive abilities. I began to forget whom I had met with, what we discussed, and even how much I had been drinking. To keep up, I fell into a cycle of heavy alcohol use and misusing prescription medications like Adderall, an amphetamine prescribed for ADHD. Ironically, the ADHD diagnosis was inaccurate, handed out by multiple doctors who failed to ask about my lifestyle and instead readily prescribed me a highly addictive substance.

The combination of sleep deprivation, alcohol, and Adderall eventually led to renal failure, with my left kidney completely shutting down. When I was admitted to the hospital, doctors informed me that my body had gone into sepsis. I was placed under sedation while they flushed my system, but once again, no one inquired about my habits or the root cause of my health crisis. Instead, I was prescribed even more medications. This downward spiral left me completely drained, both physically and emotionally. I sank into a deep depression and, after visiting a therapist, was prescribed Zoloft, an antidepressant. It didn’t help.

In 2020, I reached my breaking point and decided to give up all of these so-called “medications.” For the first time in years, I allowed myself to truly sleep. And I slept. I slept like a soul that had returned from war.

When I awoke, something had shifted. I was no longer at war with myself.

The temper tantrums and emotional outbursts that had once dominated my life faded, replaced by a sense of calm and clarity. For the first time, I could see my patterns and habits for what they were. That moment of clarity, brought about by something as simple and natural as sleep, was the first step toward meaningful change and healing.

Now that I could see things clearly, I was finally able to decide who I really wanted to be.

STOP SEEKING STIMULATION. SEEK SOVEREIGNTY.

Lisa, another client, gave up her pharmaceuticals only to replace them with psychedelics like ayahyasca and dissociatives like ketamine. She called it healing. But underneath, she was still seeking escape. She believed she was broken. She was not. She was untrained. Her nervous system had never learned how to be still. Her soul had never known silence. She had trapped herself in the cycle of being a victim to life and her circumstances. But cycles do not break by accident. They break when we decide we will no longer be swept by the waves of life and instead choose to learn from these waves to become a skilled sailor.

This is the first step to building motivation to build the life we actually want. Motivation does not fall from the sky. It is built through the sacred architecture of daily rhythm. We rise. We rest. We remember. That is the path.

Sleep is our sanctuary. Treat it as such.

Tips for creating a container for your energy:

• Wake and sleep at the same time daily.

• Eliminate blue light, overstimulation, and alcohol.

• Follow the 3-2-1 rule: no food 3 hours before bed, no work 2 hours before bed, no screens 1 hour before bed.

• Replace nighttime stimulation with ritual: journaling, reflection, prayer, or tea.

WHAT YOU CALL POWER MAY BE POSSESSION

Many believe our energy comes from supplements, stimulants, or chemical hacks. But what you are calling “power” is often possession—by fear, by addiction, by false identities.

These substances do not raise our energy. They scatter it. They do not expand our spirit. They fragment it. And when we live long enough in fragmentation, we lose the ability to recognize our own soul.

Stop chasing alchemy through artificial means. Stop offering your life force on the altar of performance. Return to your body. Reclaim your rhythm. Sleep like it matters... because it does.

And when you do, your soul will remember what you forgot:

We were never here to survive.

We were born to remember who you we are and decide who we want to be.

Once we learn to stabilize our energy we can then learn how to manipulate it’s vibrational frequency.

All energy vibrates and changing our energy will change our vibration. Our vibration is the frequency of your presence. It is our prayer made manifest. And when we come into alignment—truly—we don’t need to “biohack” our way to health. We become the medicine.