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Pushing the Boulders Aside
Our emotions, reactions, and the labels we give them often feel like boulders: big, heavy, and too hard to move. When our underlying perception and interpretation of events stays fixed or rigid, nothing can change. These boulders are what stand in the way of making our lives, and the social fabric, more sustainable, resonant, and joyous.
Working energetically (and leaving labels aside) lets us release dense, heavy stuff so we feel lighter, energized, more in balance. This takes intent (I want to let go) and action (doing a practice of energetic release).
Learning to notice where our energy goes helps to figure out what the boulder is, exactly. To what emotions, thoughts, beliefs, habits, stories do we give our attention? Is our mind becoming velcro to heavy boulders, small rocks, hidden gems, or flowing water?
Learning to notice where our energy goes helps us replace habits of mind and fixed ideas about ourselves that perpetuate what we think (what our bodies remember). What if we could replace "no one loves me" with an inner, felt sense of being wonderful? What if we could replace "I am not good enough" with confidence in our body's ability to do what it can do? What if we could replace "I'll never get what I want" with step-by-step experiences of accomplishment?
Releasing what doesn't belong to us helps us be whole: to follow our hearts, to act with power, to access our wisdom. Releasing helps us flow with synchronicity. Releasing what doesn't belong to us helps us discover what does belong to us: the path to our destiny.
As visionary healer Eda Zavala says, "If you have any pain or anger in yourself, you cannot help your community. You need lighter energy!" Putting this a different way, Q'ero elder Don Humberto Soncco says "Fear is something we build. Then it becomes collective. So we have to release the fear."
Practices are accumulative: the more we do, the more things change. All of it contributes to both our personal healing and the universal field of energy.
Energy Blockages
Imagine the energies you carry getting tangled with the emotions, reactions, difficulties, and challenges of your day. They become like small snarls in your hair, or a net caught on the rocks. Without attention, the tangles grow and get worse, blocking the smooth flow of energy that keeps us healthy on all levels. Over the years, the blockages can turn to disease. In the worst cases, our DNA coils and becomes unable to repair our cells.
With attention and intent, we can open the blockages, smooth the tangles, and bring in the healing light of the universe, allowing our natural energy to resume, protecting and invigorating us.
We get help with this because we live in an interconnected, multi-dimensional universe of living energy where we (trees, water, stones, humans, butterflies, mountains) are all part of each other. Movement of energy blockages and boulders affects physical healing by taking us into our essential selves, where our cells listen and respond. As the energy body is healed, the physical cells in our bodies are able to shift and change as well.
In the morphic field of healing, intent plays an essential role. Your intent, trust, and openness to the process are crucial components. Ask yourself: What is my intent? What do I want to change in my life? Am I willing to move some boulders and take in something new?
Quick Boulder Releasing and Shifting Practices
Releasing does not have to be time consuming. It does help to do it frequently: by shifting your attention you shift your energy. Some simple, quick techniques you might use include:
* Start every day with "I intend to release what is not mine, and only allow in what is appropriate to me at this time."
* Breathe in fresh air, filling your belly. Breathe out all the stale air and toxins, emptying your belly. Repeat, focusing on feeling the air move in and out. Notice how you feel, and what happened to your thoughts, even if briefly.
* Scan your physical body, then your energetic body, with your mind's eye. Add the intent to release any dense or heavy-feeling stuff you notice (no need to identify it!).
* Visualize a person or place you love. Let your heart fill with whatever is invoked. This is great for shifting your attention away from a problem. As an 80-year old friend of mine says, "Whenever I get too upset about the state of the environment, I look at the mountain or a tree to make myself feel better."
Grounding, balance, and energetic protection are really important to pay attention to, every day, as we try to move through all the changes in the world with grace and open-heartedness rather than fear and constriction.
Final Advice
Exercises and practices--for body, mind, heart, spirit--are only useful if we try them and do them, not if we read about them. Start by choosing one practice that appeals to you. Try it for a week or more. If you experience no effects, let it go.
As Lora Jansson writes, "...when disharmony or pain has become your habit, you need to cultivate self-compassion. You did nothing wrong. You, like every other being on the planet, has had to deal with the hugely painful aspects of ordinary reality. We either live in compassion with ourselves or we chastise. And we berate. And we compare... You are really doing the very best you can."
Meg Beeler/Earth Caretakers
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