When I discovered the world of subtle energies many years ago, I was driven by constant fatigue and physical pain. For a long time I had been searching for solutions, going from doctor to doctor, from course to course. I met a lot of wonderful people and received useful information along the way, but the real breakthrough came when I realized that the most important thing and the first step was to change my own perspective! How do I see and perceive myself? As a psyche locked up inside physical matter, or as an open and fluid energy system?
This question led me directly to the realization that, indeed, everything is energy: my body, my thoughts, my relationships, the whole Universe itself! My previous view, in which matter and psyche were the dominant elements, had permeated my life with a sense of permanence and immutability. Understanding my being as a flexible and open energy system made freedom and constant transformation the basic rhythms of my life.
From this new perspective, I began to think that if everything is energy, pain must be energy too.
Pain – I got to understand -, whether it is physical, psychological or spiritual, is the result of a blockage in the flow of energy. This may sound as New Age gibberish to some but from an ‘all is energy’ perspective the truth of this is clear!
I got to feel that a sore spot in my body indicates that the energy is not flowing in the optimal way in that area. That when energy is blocked it feels like a spasm, a contraction. This spasm acts like a wall: energy cannot pass through it.
I realized that it works the same way on the psychic level. If I have a problem that I don’t want to deal with or cannot deal with, it causes a blockage in my life on the level of psychic energies. True, it may not hurt as much or will hurt differently as physical pain or it may be easier to sweep under the carpet, but that doesn’t mean that the problem is solved. And until it gets solved, the problem itself and its energy remain there as a barrier.
Energies can get stuck at the spiritual level too. The spiritual level connects us to the larger, universal whole. The energy blockage that develops on that level relentlessly pushes us back into the material world, limiting our intuition and inspiration.
What I also realized was that all these energy blockages can express themselves – at least in my case -, as physical pain.
From an ‘all is energy’ perspective, it is not always of primary importance to know what is causing the pain in order to reduce the discomfort. From this perspective, the important thing is to restore a state of energy that allows free flow. Because any system that is closed can only move within itself, and anything that moves within itself flows only within that closed system, it forms a vortex. And vortices pull inwards and downwards.
In my work I have found the most effective energetic method to be the one that approaches the blockage experienced on all three energy levels – physical, psychic and spiritual.
First, we must recognize that a system is closed off, blocked. Second, we need to form a firm intention to open the closed system whatever consequences this might have. Third, we need to give direction to the energies that get released. Because whatever we do not give direction to consciously, will either flow uncontrollably or will get stuck at the first obstacle. The truth is that we often fear this state of undirected energy so much that we prefer to keep the painful area closed altogether.
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