Giving of our own personal energy isn't necessarily bad or wrong, or right or good. The person doing it, hopefully, is aware of their emotional and mental state when doing it. And the reason they are doing it. If we send someone love, and it is done with exactly that intent, then it arrives like that to the other person. That's another article for another time.
Prayer is personal energy.
Every thought we think, every emotion we feel, is also energy expression. By understanding what surrounds and flow in and around all of us, this wonderful, useful energy, we can begin to appreciate what it brings to our dinner table. Get in your body, first. Then everything else will fall into place after that.