Living Energy Blog

On our radio show on Monday we began a two part discussion on the energy of relationship and how to shift out of old patterns through that awareness.

This brief video by Anodea Judith speaks to a similar theme: that our energy systems play a major role in navigating change and creating a better experience for ourselves and the world.

Here’s a brief recap of our Monday discussion and some notes about next week’s continued discussion about how to improve your relationships through energetic awareness.

(1) Energy as it pertains to and is reflected in the changing roles of men and women in current society

(2) The specific types of energy flows that occur out of conscious awareness between people.

 Our primary point in this discussion is: Understanding the energetic interchanges between you and another can make it much less difficult to shift from negative ways of relating to positive ones that help form more profound loving bonds that can help create a better life and relationship for all concerned.

 Three Types of Energy Field Interactions that we highlighted in this show were:

 (Note each of these types can be either a positive or negative force depending on one’s basic energy signature, intention, unresolved issues or stress)

 1. Harmonic Induction: Adjustment of vibratory rates

2. Streamers: Fluid like energy between fields

3. Cords: Energy connecting between chakras

 To hear the details of this discussion you can hear the recording here: http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

AND, just in time for those holiday gatherings with friends and family Next Monday Dec. 13 @ 10 A.M. we will be continuing our discussion with Holiday Relationship Rescues.

In this show we will talk more about how to take charge of your energy and make those three types of energetic interactions positive for you and others. In addition, we will be introducing four patterns that are used to maintain control, fill up energy reserves and attempt to get needs met. As with the three types of energy flows between people, these patterns can have a positive or negative influence. It is your awareness, knowledge and ability to manage your energy that makes the difference. So don’t go to that holiday gathering unprotected and unprepared —learn what is going on beneath the surface of those social dynamics and you can sail through the holidays energized, rested and able to truly enjoy the season!

On Monday you can click this link http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html or join us from the button on our homepage. 

We would love to hear your questions and comments either through e-mailing us or calling in to the show!

Peg, Tony and I would love to have you join us for our radio show on Monday Dec.7, 2009 at 10 A.M. – our topic will be The Energy of Relationships. We will be discussing the energy of attraction as well as the common energetic flows between people that can help or harm relationships. Through understanding these invisible dynamics and how to shift them, we can improve all our relationships, personal and professional. If you cannot join us live the show is recorded and available for listening later.
http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

We have been recreating the role of relationship in our lives for sometime now. Energy has a great deal to teach us about how we can enhance participation in our relationships to make our own lives happier and more fulfilling, and it seems according to Barbara Max Hubbard that we may also be able to bring more creativity to the world through high energy relationships! Take a look at the video—what do you think?

1. Each strong thought or emotion creates a response in your energy field
2. Fear & stress reactions tend to vibrate more intensely and easily
3. Disturbances in your field cut you off from higher level functions
4. Habitual thought and feeling patterns affect body’s energy, health & well being     
5. Inconsistencies in energy field show where disturbances may manifest in future
6. Changing thought patterns takes persistence
7. Changing emotional patterns takes will and strength
8. Working directly with energy & consciousness provides you with an easier and more powerful method for change, health, development of higher level functions and achievement of goals  

When you understand and manage your energy you can offset field disturbances and introduce a healthy pattern e.g. shift frequency, enhance coherence,  dissolve blocks to assist with healing or avoid illness. You can physically bring in new energy at the pre cellular level and create new patterns. 

Your energy field is your primary immune system and you can learn to support and strengthen it so it will serve you in every facet of your life!

 As youwork with your field, enhancing its strength and coherency, you’re not locked in to energy patterns unconsciously. This means you can adapt to circumstances and flow with life more easily. This ability provides you with a profound sense of empowerment anda deep inner peace in addition to the health and relationship benefits!

 The ability to manage your energy is a major bonus in attracting healthy relationships, as well as in maintaining them and being able to create deep and lasting bonds.

 Join us for our radio show on Diva Toolbox on Monday Dec. 7, 2009 as we discuss how energy operates in relationships  and how you can use the magic of energy to not only attract, but to sustain and build healthy, happy and rewarding relationships.

If you cannot join us live, the show is recorded and available for listening later.
http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

1. Be kind to yourself. All of the lights sparkling amidst the cold and dark nights remind us that this is a joyous time of year.  Put yourself first and do something that makes you feel good everyday.  When you take good care of yourself, you nurture your energy to take care of others.  When you do everything for others first and leave yourself for last, you can easily wear down yourself out.  Recharge and revitalize yourself everyday.  This might include enjoying a hot cup of tea, listening to some favorite music, going for a walk, taking a hot bath.  Make it fun and do something different daily.

When we take charge of our time and energy, we are rewarded with having our energy build and stay strong and resilient instead of plunging into a deficit. When your energy is more plentiful you are more apt to experience ease, joy, and happiness. You are more pleasant to be around and therefore help others to relax and let go. Invite peace!

2.  Give gifts from your heart and out of love … vs. obligation.  Everything you do contains some of your energy.  When you give a gift to someone, truly give it out of love.  Make or select something that you think would bring joy to the recipient.  Hand made presents and delicious foods are often welcome.  The more joy and energy you put into your gift, the more it will be felt by the person receiving it.

3.  Begin new traditions. If the holidays tend to get you down because of all the things you have to do, think about what you would really like to do and how you would really like to spend your time.  If you would prefer to spend your time at home and not running around from relative to relative, perhaps invite your extended family and friends ahead of time. Put your fears about what others will think aside and go with your heart.

 4. Take some time to center and ground yourself everyday.  Begin each day with a short mediation, for 5, 10 or 20 minutes.  Think about ease and flow.  Focus on whatever you have to do that day moving along effortlessly and in perfect order. Shop locally. Purchase conscious and sustainable gifts at lower than expected prices.  If you think ease and flow and expect ease and flow (vs. stress) that is what you will attract to yourself.  By putting this into practice everyday, you actually create time for yourself.  Things will flow more easily.

5.  Give thanks that whatever you desire it is already on its way to you. It is.  You just have to move aside and be ready to receive it when it arrives.  Giving thanks in advance of receiving whatever you’d like, it a wonderful technique to deliberately create whatever you desire.  Try it.  When you give thanks in advance, make sure you really believe it and really feel that it will happen. 

 6. Clear clutter to reduce stress. Clutter is anything you don’t use or love.  It brings confusion and stress with it.  When you clear things out, you are actually creating physical space to accept more into your life!  You invite more ease and flow.  Clearing clutter opens the door for new opportunities to come your way.  Make it a practice to clear out the “old” before the “new” arrives.  It’s a wonderful motivator to get family members to pitch in and help.

7.  Put some household items away when you decorate. Rather than just add holiday decorations to everything you have around your house, and squeezing them in, put some things away for a few weeks.  As you take decorations out, tuck some of your knick-knacks and perhaps even some furniture away.  It helps to quiet and calm your space.  It’s fun to have holiday decorations all around. It’s more peaceful and relaxing for you when they have some space and are not crowded in.

Remember, the same goes for your mind—you will feel more peaceful and able to enjoy the holidays if your inner space is more open and clear and not filled with stressful thoughts and emotional turmoil. Relax, breath and allow yourself to BE in each moment.

Coherence of our energy field helps us to feel better, be healthier and develop stronger abilities to create the circumstances of our lives. Coherence combined with intention is a powerful combination for attracting and creating more of what we DO want to show up for us.

Developing our power to let go of what doesn’t feel good is a large part of bringing our energy into coherence. Learning to let go is a challenging task. As with any learning in life, there is a learning curve. Please be patient with yourself. Generally speaking, the learning involved with all the concepts and tools presented in this program is part of a lifelong journey that can bring you continuously to deeper and broader levels of experience in many areas of your life.

Stop for a moment now and consider these questions….

Can you remember a time when you felt fearful or anxious and it helped you to be prepared?

 Can you think about a time when you experienced fear or anxiety and it was not useful but became a feedback loop within your mind and emotions that kept you all churned up to no avail?

We know that it is healthier to let go of negative feelings and be more positive, and we can learn how to respond to situations from a higher perspective as we go through our lives. Often, though, we do not; because of mental and emotional conditioning that occurs during our lives, particularly during our youth. Conditions and experiences are registered in our energy fields and then become self-referencing feedback loops.

Learning skills that allow you to imprint in your physiology the FEELING of letting go moves the ideal from the realm of thought into the realm of reality and experience.

Reprinted from Chapter 1, 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery

Peg, Tony and I would love to have you join us for our radio show on Monday Nov. 30 at 10 A.M. – our topic will be Cultivating Joy. The holiday season is supposed to be one of joy; however it often is not for many. On this show we will be discussing ways that you can tap into more joy regardless of the stresses in the world or in one’s personal life. If you cannot join us live the show is recorded and available for listening later.
http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

Are you looking forward to spending time with family and friends?

You may have the power to simply change who you spend time with over the holidays. It may be just a case of awareness and choice. That situation is pretty easy to manage. The situations that are more complex and difficult are those that we feel we cannot change.  These situations usually involve our families. We all have them and all families present challenges.

 Here’s an alternate way of being able to look at family stress that can help shift your experience and reduce your stress.

 For a moment think about everything being energy. We are all individual packages of energy, the environment around us is energy and we interface with others through this energy field co-creating flow, or blocks and interference patterns. And most often we have a combination of those things.

 In our families we have webs of energetic patterns that have been in place for a long time. Even if we have changed as a result of growing up and moving away, when we return to the fold we typically reenter the familial field and take on our old energetic roles.

 This being the case, it is imperative for us to have some consciousness about ourselves and our roles in order to change our part of the family dance — in this way we free ourselves and can craft a different experience even if no one else changes. At the very least we can perhaps neutrally observe the familiar dance and that alone can reduce our stress.

 You can shift the flow of energy within yourself and between you and others by noticing what is happening in your body during interactions. Notice where there is constriction and focus on opening it and creating more spaciousness.

 Another way to create a more harmonious flow of energy is to experience gratitude and focus on feeling it instead of reacting negatively to people, places or things.

 You can also think of one thing that you appreciate or enjoy so much that it is easy to feel good feelings as a result. Commit to using that as a trigger to shift your energy during gatherings where there may be stress.

 When you are with a person who normally creates discomfort in you notice one thing about them that is admirable, healthy, or attractive—hold appreciation for that in your awareness and watch the interaction shift!

 Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!

Our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving filled with all the love and peace you can hold in your heart!

Karen, Peg and Tony

We would love to have you join us on the radio show today–Monday Nov. 23 at 10 A.M. – our topic will be Practical Solutions for Holiday Stress. If you cannot join us live, the show is recorded and available for listening later.

Click here to listen or download the recording after the show.
http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

At this time of the year we begin to turn our attention to the upcoming holidays and all that they mean. Of course there is the busyness, shopping and increased social commitments. But there is also a deeper current that flows through this time of year. It seems that many of us feel that current and yearn to connect with it as it seems to promise a more fulfilling state of being than the one we generally get caught up in during this time.

At the first of these holidays, Thanksgiving, our thoughts turn to menu planning, travel and seating arrangements, invitations and how to get it all done in the midst of an already busy life! The deeper feelings of gratitude and appreciation symbolized by this day get a passing nod in media hype, a brief grace said at the dinner table or in a lament about not having the time to pay attention to those aspects of life!  There are many reasons for this but perhaps the key issue is a lack of understanding regarding the real influence of these feelings and so they are relegated to the airy-fairy file.

 Gratitude and appreciation are emotions, feeling states that have been studied at length and have been shown to profoundly impact our physical, spiritual and emotional health. When you experience them your heart rhythms change, your nervous system becomes more coherent and your whole physiology behaves differently—all in the direction of health and more efficient functioning. Why would you not want to engage in an activity that is so simple, pleasant and easy and promises to provide such benefit? There are no gym fees, heavy sweating or big chunks of time taken out of your schedule. It merely requires a desire to take charge of your own mind, learn how it functions and point it in the direction you wish instead of allowing it to run amok in its conditioned default patterns. The feelings of gratitude and appreciation set up a vibration within you that are worth the price of admission to make them the standard instead of a sometime event!

 So, how can you begin?

Simply by asking the right questions!

What do I have to be grateful for?

What in my life do I really appreciate?

 Remember to think broadly. We live life moment by moment. The huge awards, recognitions, and ‘deals’ are not daily fare. To some they never come —and they may be the lucky ones as they may be more in touch with the deeper rhythms of life where there is more juice, feeling and connection to the real stuff of being human. That it not to say that material success  is wrong or to be turned away from, only that often too much attention in that direction can result in a disconnect within a person that leaves them empty, longing and entrenched in pretense rather than in the authenticity that leads to a sense of inner fulfillment.

So think about the moment….the warmth of the sun, the crispness of the air, the beauty of the sky. Where can you find beauty today? Where can you find the touch of peace? What do you see that warms your heart?

 Before you go to sleep tonight identify five things that made you happy, feel complete or that you appreciated. Remember to count yourself things you value about YOU!

 Use your memory to call up images of times when you felt grateful…play those over and over instead of the wouldas, couldas, shouldas that tend to rumble around in our minds!

 Make placing your attention on gratitude a habit and you may begin to notice that a subtle inner peace is growing and has brought you “home for the holidays”!