What to do when we feel apathetic

The majority of the time our general state is not the best for meditation.
Our body may feel heavy, our emotions plagued with unstable feelings, our mind wandering and confused... so what do we do?
When we are with an energy of this nature, it's improbable that we will be able to quickly generate a creative field of energy. But the following ideas can greatly help us so when we get up from meditating we are surrounded by harmonious energy.

Upon sitting, consider that in this very moment there are many other people meditating all over the world, and many of them are radiating abundant harmonious energy, and that this global wave of energy is there precisely for those who need it.

In the same way, if we tend to be one of those who generate this energy, and now find we need it, we can first receive the energy radiated by fellow participants in order to harmonize ourselves, charge ourselves, and then we too will radiate energy. Just by perceiving, by experiencing that we form part of such a group we are connected with its energy, as if we were all together in a room.

Read something transcendental.
There is nothing better than books by Krishnamurti and Buddha, but photos of Nature and good poems can also work. These works are in themselves a type of channel that transmits energy directly to the reader.

Do exercises: respiratory, especially the alternated breathing of Yoga, and relaxation exercises, especially with your hands and eyes. If even this is hard for us, it is better to do a short Yoga session.

If we are really so restless and unstable that we can't even read or do Yoga exercises, the best thing to is to take a lively walk, with an alert mind, taking in the sky, the trees, etc., feeling everything, observing our mind.
Walking with a meditative mind is in itself a very effective way to harmonize and energize ourselves; it is equivalent to sitting in silence.

Be in direct contact with Nature.
Rest beneath a tree without doing anything specific, bathe in an ocean or river, go to where there is open sky to look at the clouds, etc.

Natural beings will never stop radiating abundant harmonious energy, we just have to let them "impregnate us."