The Infusion Principle

“The quality of your experience in anything is determined by the quality of the energy you infuse into it.”
That’s my quote hahaha.

It is a concept that came to me over time through observation and experience. Funny enough, I first noticed this principle with my car. Always a car buff, I chose my current vehicle because of its great energy, and the fact it drove brilliantly, was a sleek and sexy black coupe (dubbed the black panther by my mom haha), and relatively affordable; it also had a six speed manual, a rare feature these days.

The coupe has a four cylinder engine with close to 200 horsepower, far from the maximum horsepower available on sport cars today. Yet, I always think of this car as incredibly powerful and fast- this is the energy I have infused into it.

While riding with three other passengers on a turnpike, the comments I got from them confirmed this: they were not car buffs, they had no idea of the engine size, yet they spoke of this car as fast and powerful. This was a real epiphany for me. I tried to see if I could infuse other experiences with a particular energy to achieve a specific experience, and the same thing happened! The experience matched the energy I infused into it.

Try this yourself: think about the energy you project onto a night out with your friends going to a favorite bar, restaurant, or club- contrast this with the energy you project onto a visit to the dentist where you know you will have root canal.

Now here’s the fun part: switch those energies and see if the experience that follows reflect the different energy infused.
You can use any contrasting experiences of your choice to do this. If you’re really ambitious, try infusing your ideas about optimal health onto your body, and see if your body responds over time.

You may find that “the infusion principle” is limited only by your belief in its efficacy.