Energy Economics and Manifesting: Why Your Energy Levels Determine Your Manifestation Success

Written By Alison Diefenbach

In this blog article, I’m discussing a topic that's rarely addressed in mainstream manifestation circles: Energy Economics, or in other words, understanding how your energy is spent and received, and how that affects your ability to manifest the life you want.

What Is Manifesting, Really?

Let’s begin with a quick refresher. Manifesting is more than just wishing for something and waiting for it to appear. It's the process of aligning your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and actions with your desires so that they can become your reality. That alignment includes your energy levels, which play a crucial, and often overlooked, role.

Energy 101: What Do We Mean by Energy?

Energy is the invisible life force that flows through all things, including you. Just like your phone needs a charge to operate, you need energy to think, feel, move, and create. This energy is not only physical (like food and rest), but also emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Every thought, belief, or emotion you hold carries a vibration. Think of walking into a room where people just argued… you can feel the tension. That’s energy. Your personal energy field reflects how much life force you have available to create and receive.

What Is Energy Economics?

Energy Economics is the concept of treating your energy like currency. You need to have enough "funds" (energy) to make a purchase (manifestation). Every day, you receive a certain amount of energy from Source — the Universe, God, Spirit, or Life Force. How you use that energy depends on your lifestyle, choices, and unconscious patterns. If your energy is constantly depleted, you won’t have the reserves needed to fuel your conscious creation practice.

The Hidden Energy Drains You Might Be Ignoring

1. Energetic & Soul-Level Depletion

  • Soul Loss: A piece of your essence disconnects due to trauma or emotional overwhelm.

  • Living Out of Alignment: When your job, relationship, or path doesn’t resonate with your soul’s true desires.

  • Timing with Healing Modalities: While beneficial, modalities like past-life regression or trauma healing use a lot of energy. Timing and strategy is key.

2. Emotional and Mental Stressors

  • Fight, Flight, Freeze Responses: Chronic stress keeps your nervous system in survival mode.

  • Replaying Traumas: Constantly thinking about painful experiences depletes your energy field.

  • Heavy Life Responsibilities: Overwhelm from responsibilities can block manifestation energy.

3. Relational Energy Drains

  • Toxic relationships or one-sided dynamics

  • Long-term caretaking without replenishment

  • Early motherhood, pregnancy, and breastfeeding (joyful but energetically intense!)

4. Lifestyle and Environmental Factors

  • Overworking or long hours without breaks

  • Online forums and social media exposure

  • Cluttered living spaces and noise pollution

5. Physical and Biological Stressors

  • Lack of sleep

  • Poor diet or excessive sugar/alcohol

  • Chronic illness, medication side effects (specifically, medications that impact your mitochondria)

  • EMF exposure and lack of grounding

Signs Your Energy Field May Be Too Small

  • Constant fatigue or stress

  • Feeling stuck or unmotivated

  • Frequent illness or low resilience

  • Shallow breathing or muscle tension

  • Emotional numbness or burnout

Manifesting large intentions like a soulmate, a new career, or relocating all at once takes more energy than smaller manifestations. A fair amount of clients I’ve read for didn’t have enough available energy at the time I read for them, so the guidance in their readings included energy-building practices before doing the recommended healing work and jumping back into recommended techniques.

How to Build Your Energy Field

The key to energy economics is making sure that you have more energy-building activities than depleting ones.

Energy-Building Practices:

  • Mindfulness and meditation

  • Affirmations and guided visualizations

  • Chakra clearing and energy healing

  • Healthy relationships and strong boundaries

  • Movement (yoga, walking, embodiment practices)

  • Quality sleep and whole-food nutrition

  • Laughing, creating, and experiencing joy

It’s also helpful to avoid hyper-focusing on specific desires when your energy is low. Doing so can create attachment, which repels the very thing you want. Instead, focus on the feeling behind the desire. For example, if you’re manifesting love, focus on feeling safe and connected in your daily life first.

Try doing a daily energy check-in:

  • What gave me energy today?

  • What drained me?

Final Thoughts

If you're doing all the right things but still not manifesting what you want, your energy economics could be the missing piece. Your energy is sacred. It needs to be protected, nourished, and directed with intention.

If you'd like to get a detailed reading on how much vital life force energy you currently have available for manifesting, how much energy your specific manifestations will require, and what specifically is depleting you energetically, I invite you to book an Evolutionary Manifesting Reading with me. In this reading, we’ll uncover the hidden drains and create a custom roadmap for bringing your manifestations into fruition.

If you’d like to know your current energy levels only, you can book a Manifestation Alignment Reading.

Alison Diefenbach
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