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When you have held off for as long as you dare and you know you need to take in some sort of energy, perhaps not the source you prefer, what substitutes do you chose?

Food...esp chocolate and caffiene are always a good option For ME, one of my best and quickest ways to gather new energy is to be around those who care about me. Another way is to challenege myself with something either new or that I really like to do...to take a break from whatever is sucking me dry.

Strong emotions work well for me, I perfer happiness because it leaves me in a better mood.

There is an unlimited amount of energy sources throughout this reality, as well as beyond...Since this reality is a Energy based illusion, there should never be a time that anyone would run that low on Energy...I recommend expanding your source of energy...Look beyond human based energy...

There are a lot of alternatives to use for energy taking...usually is something sweet...coffee also works...also, Reiki...a good way to recharge by absorbing some of the nature's energy...

I'll usually stick to something sweet like a pastery or something like that. Sometimes when I'm using my energies, I get wiped out. So I'll always carry with me something sweet

well most of the ppl here are saying food ... I myself like to look to the inner being of myself and seek the other energies that I already have within ..Yet is dormant due to things that have consumed me in other ways. I know it may sound strange or weird ... yet we all have deeper energies then we use on a daily basis, like some meditate to increase their energy I like to do so also and to just find my calm space of happy thoughts or memories that I have buried for awhile then I feel refreshed and ready for whatever may lay ahead... yet if ya want chocolate then by all means have some.. LOL! **smiles** but I prefer to seek my inner self for stronger energy.....

any thing i possbly get my hands on emotio0ns food any thing

if a good wind is blowing or even just a slight breeze that is a good substitute for me

energy moves within everything.
i love to find wandering energy in the wind, mainly b/c i work best w/ air anyways, but i like to find energy in the wind and use that if possible, and also in the trees and grass, rich soil...one time i bought a bag of potting soil and just ran my hands through it and got the energy fromt aht...

Fresh Fruits and Veggies as well as Spring Water....and I'm not talking about what can be bought in the grocery stores. But Fruit taken right from the tree, Vegetables straight from the ground and fresh spring water that flowed from the earth.

Our earth is a living planet so water that came from her still holds her energy. Same is so for home grown, tree ripen fruit and veggies

I know some would disagree with me but this works for me.

This is an excellent topic for me, expecially since I'm feeling a severe lack of energy. I'm literally sleeping more than 12 hours a day, and barring anyone waking me up... will sleep much longer than that. Today was 15 hours+. So please, keep those suggestions coming.

Caffine is always a good choice but it only lasts for a short time, I've found if you eat chocolate or anything that has a lot of sugar the crash isn't worth it (though the buzz is fun) I've also noticed that if I listen to louder music I have more energy

I guess this turned into a discussion about blood sugar, not 'Energy'...?

time and history, i absorb all that has take the life that was and make it my own

well in dirrectness to the question....
I have NEVER held off....as has been said...life energy is all around us....
I take often in "little sips"....from my surroundings....
kind of like having an IV drip constantly attached....
so to me...there is little difference in types of energy...tho fire does make me feel more alive than most others...
but that might just be because I like it..it's pretty

grounding for me helps a lot... the cycle of energy between me and the earth, whichs helps me a lot actually to maintian good levels of energy

caffine, and lots of it usually. Like right now, I cant get the energy I would like, so I injest alot of caffine

When running low on my prestored stock of energy I slow down, take a breath find a quiet spot and take five minutes for meditation, you can delve into yourself into your own energies and expand them. Streching mental alertness or even your physical calorie usage effectivly increasing the time you require between feedings of any sort.

Reading through this thread I have noticed a lot of food ideas; along with a lot of earth idea. I agree that this reality is energy based and it is nearly impossible to not have an energy source around you… but have any of you tried music?

If you are feeling a little weak or exhausted just take a fast beat piece of music, and turn it up fairly loud. I usually will sit down; close my eyes, and just start listing to everything within the music. Don’t hear just the piece as a whole, but listen to every bit that makes it what it is. The vocals, the guitar, the drums; whatever it is… just listening of how it all comes together. Then let the music flow through your veins, into your heart… it is quite exhilarating!

Caffeine and DARK chocolate works for me.

I take from just about everything on a constant basis. I never let myself get low. There is an endless source of energy all around us. Use it...

Exactly.

I use Coffee,food. or i meditate and take in energy from outside but taking energy is hard so i guess thats why I drink so much damn coffeLOL.

a good energy drink works for me

There is a Vamp Energy drink available. Can find it sometimes at Spencers or Hot Topic...also a link found on my pro. It is black cherry flavor and it is sooooo good. They also make some pretty tasty wine...

Sobe and vodka ;)

I notice that usually when I am low on energy lights flicker and sometimes in my apartment fuses blow. You can even take energy subconsiously and you don't even know it. That is why meditation works best, as previosuly stated. Food, the purpose of food is to give you energy; calories are the amount of energy you intake and caffiene is an energy booster, so of course you will feel energized after eating or drinking coffee; and chocolate contains large amounts of caffiene as well. Tea contains even more than coffee.
I find sleeping is the best energy booster but also doing something physical because it boosts your adrenaline and gets your mind working. Also, for a mental energy boost, reading, writing, making music and singing works best for me.

Ways to recharge one's batteries, as it were?

A brief cat-nap. Food, as stated before. Though it may seem contradictory, a good run seems to always give me more energy than it takes.

As I am primarily a energy feeder rather than a sang..I prefer to feed of of sexual energy , elemental or art, if I cannot get those. .I feed of emotions this is a way that is called psi feeding I use this is a alternitive method.. thouhg i dont care fro it these days as it gas side effects i pick up on thoghts easier if i do tha,t feed off emotions. Any vampire can feed off any form of energy they just have to free the mind and let their body adapt. .yea I even have feed sang..i only feed sang during ritual or with one spefic donor..elemental is easy so one should not have to worry about a donor anyway.. as there is tons of energy in nature if one harneses it ..

~Shadowdancer~
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ten thousand doritos and a large can of shark energy drink

............may be kit kat and red bull

Since I don't do sweets I tend to use caffine, like soda or tea. Herbal teas are great, they tend to help alot. Also, I center myself and meditate alot to bring my inner energy level up to aid where I need it. I am also a nature based person, so being out in the wind or rain does me wonders. The only downfall to that is the sun tends to drain energy away from me so I just step outside to smoke a cig and then back into the house. That way I am only out for short spirts to recharge and not get drained out.

there do seem to be a lot of people simply using food....
but what about energies no derived from physical eating..
the one about MUSIC...was in my mind...brilliant....music invokes emotions..both good and bad...when people are emotional the level of energy they give off rises...thus more to feed from

Thats another good one! I use that alot too. I listen to all kinds of music and find that the new age stuff tends to help me more unless I wish to elivate my mood to something else. It just depends on what my mood is and where I want it to be.

I refrain from things that sap my energy. I lounge around my house. I replinish my energy by drinking teas. I take long baths.

There is one source anyone can use, maybe not the one you prefer but in actuallity is the one that everyone comes from. The Universal All. True it isn't human based but it is the energy that human energy is derived from. As mentioned above you just might have to expand and grow a bit to use it, but there is no excuse to ever be that low on energy. My son is an pys vamp and years before he realized what he was I had him feeding from The Universal All. I have tought children and adults alike and most of them not vamps of any kind. It is the purest form of energy you can get. Why not use it!!!!

I would have to say meditation would be the one I use the most... but I rarely ever let myself get low.. consistantly taking energy from that around you makes sure you will always have enough to survive

Ok I've about had it with the food postings. This topic has been allowed to remain in the main forum because it relevant to Vampires.

The question asks how do you replace energy when depleted? Donors, do you find things in nature, meditation, chanting, casting spells, what do you do? The question was not are you hypoglycemic.

Any more FOOD references and it will be closed for being in the wrong section.

it would kinda suck to not have enough energy to function. i have so much energy i have to take pills to calm me down or to just sleep. i would have to think the reason you are so low on energy could be hypoglycemic or some other metabolisim complications, thats the only explanation.

Thank you Daermon, for pointing out my music post... also, thank you VERY much sahahria for putting an end to the food posts.

We have covered a lot of different ways... does anyone else use a unique way to get energy?

umm pizza....sorry saharia..had to say it..
I find I feel strong energy around cool flowing water also..like a creek....or river....

I find that i can draw and cultivate all kinds of energy from many places such as the sky and the earth, the trees and rocks around my you must learn emptiness before you are able to harness some of the most powerful of energy.

hope this helps or gives you some insight

shadow hide you friend

I will use what nature has to offer... take from the elements. If unable to be outside, then chocolate and caffeine for a quick fix...but need more natural energy to balance and sustain.

I usually seek physical exhaustion to remedy my cravings. *however* it may come about.

I like to drain the energy of others...In my profession you work with alot of different people....they come and go....quit and get hired....I like to establish a certain connection with them based on there personality....if they are angry, and seem to dislike me, I use that....If they are attracted to me I use that....If they Fear me I use that....with each connection that I make I allow it to enter my state of conscieness and expel that energy as I see nessesary....

Diego

I also agree with Velvet.....without music I would no longer exist.......Music heals all and drives the spirt....it can put you in a bad mood or repair your worst day.....Music is my GOD....the only thing I truly believe in.....


Diego

i was opened to a whole world of energies at a young age: meditation, yoga, the martial arts, feeding off of others, and of course food. If those don't work, "the hunger" usually works for me!!!

sugar,chocholate,caffeine???bah!get ridd your self of this stupidity.Pure thinking is what you need....

chocolate coffee and sleep

I get reallly hungry and really tired. So usually a good day of napping and eating suffice.

The way i get energy is not by caffine... it does nothing for me. And if it does the energy wares off really fast. I stop and think about something that i need to do and think well i should do it now before it gets later because i most likely wont do it then and also it is better to get what i have to do off my mind. So i think that mind power can give you energy.

Can I just bloom and absorb the sun's engergy like a plant?

There are ancient religions that are based on energy. They believe that everything is energy based and that one can draw from it. Some myth in these older religions even believed you could move objects and travel along the earth's energy lines. You may want to consider reading about ancient religions.

I pull from those emotions around me....

i think we shouldnt take anything artificial.it comes naturally.

the sun is a great source of energy

gotta be good old cafine and def chocky

Gatorade mixed with sprite, anyone who's around me, or animals, and sometimes I energy feed off of batteries, and other electrical appliances, as well if there is a lightning storm, I feed off of that energy as well.
But nothing beats moondust, which is an assortment of any sugar you can find all mixed into one bag. yum!

i use a good ole mountain dew!

anything with high fructose
or bananas..
sucking up pranic energy works too
worms if youre stranded in nature..they dont taste that bad
feed your inner green beret rawr

mine is definately food, or sleep. which i dont get alot of since i have insomnia alot. if i dont i get lethargic n lazy for a few days where i dont feel like doing much of anything because im so worn out

in the past i didnt used to subsitute energy when i was low i would just accept that my energy levals where low, but now i eat a concentrated sugar sweet i.e. pez which sort of works,
and if i have a lighter with me then i will often light it into my mouth and MOST of the time BUT NOT ALWAYS, i will absorb alot of the heat energy
this works best if you have a moist mouth first and should not be done after drinking spirits ever as this will burn your throat hole shut and you can suffocate and die from it..

Shure there are many different means to fell energized or replenished.

But the greatest is the Universe.
Its potent stuff, expecially for someone who isn't use to feeding from it.
its best to start with the energies of
The Sun (for the ones that can go out) or
The Moon (for the ones that can't).

Heat, Lighting, The Elements & Gaia (Earth) energy is nice and all but she is soo tired of what we have done to her the type of energy is distructive and it can really harm you if your not careful.

Even etheral (meditation) energy is good to as well as astral (sleeping) as long as you remember to recall that energy back to your body then you should be ok.


So there are many types of energy substitutes out there you just have to tune into the ones that are not normally used. >:D

When I am feeling an unnaturally low reserve of chi, I find that the best external mehtod of replenishment is dance clubs. So much energy is tossed around so freely, it's rather like watching children in a candy store. A few dances in, and I share the excitement, and always leave feeling rejuvenated.

you can absorb energy from anything useually i choose somthing living like a tree they havev more than enough energy to spare and they dont seem to mind giving it up

Normally I feed off elemental energy, water being my preferred choice. But if a source of water isn't available, I can go for energy from a good thunderstorm.

I agree with the music idea, it usually works ofr me as I feel music really well If its an angry song I feel my self getting the anger and happy or some what sexy songs do the same but happy. one I have not seenposted as of yet that works wonders for me is sexual energy, when I'm getting affection from my other durring forplay I almost always feel so energized, also a good massage works too

I know this sounds wierd, but I swear to the gods its true, when I am out of options, I either stand under the phone lines or I use a battery. It works for me.

Though for some who aren't as good as filtering their emotions this isn't a great idea. Sometimes when I've held off because of the only people i've been around are friends I sometimes go to the mall or a nice place with plenty of people. Just kind of let the emotions come to me, slowly filter out the perverse ones while allowing the better ones in.

People who make U smile.

Definetely Family and friends )

Some good music u like that will get u up and dancing.

=)

I hope this helps. This is not just my belief but it does not have to be yours. Free will. All of us are associated with one of the four elements as the stars put forth...something like this. The element Earth - Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. Strongest season - Winter it is when you can recharge the easiest. Strongest time - Night. Point in Life - advanced age.. if this is not your first time on the wheel than physically you may be young. Types of magic ruled - (to help you recharge) gardening,magnet,image,stone,tree,knot,binding. If this is something that you or anyone is interested in..I am willing to share my knowledge...for I believe in sharing I will come to understand more.

There is no real substitute for the energy source of a vampyre

Although i do find that love conquers all and can be a great energy boost......until feeding time.

I have personally found that going into the woods have helped, big time. I have mentioned this before for those who have mentioned being depressed. For some reason, being in nature with the trees and sounds and animals does a cleaning of the aura - and at the same time, energizes and refreshes the mind/ body and spirit. The woods are also a totally diferent world once it starts raining. There is nothing like it.

If indoors, I go for the white light meditations. Sometimes chanting.