Living Energy Blog

I can choose today to receive the higher energies of Love to heal and strengthen me.

I can forgive myself for mistakes. As I grow and learn more, I move more gracefully with life.

True forgiveness opens my way to health and healingand emotional freedom.

Negative thoughts and feeling states are common and profound sources of energy depletion and exhaustion. It is an area where we have ultimate control, but we need awareness, willingness to take responsibility, and tools to transform or release these debilitating patterns. It is easy to become focused on external remedies to our conflicts and problems in the hopes that they will cure what ails us! It is not that outer things cannot help us, but they tend not to effect the kind of real and profound change that we are really seeking, albeit through the backdoor of negativity.

At our core is our deepest nature, like a lake with no ripples it rsides silently within holding all that we long for on our journey through life. Tapping into this core and learning how to inhabit our lives from there is a challenge, but one that comes with such reward! Our energy system is provides a natural path to bring us into connection with our core.

Learning how to manage and flow your energy shifts consciousness, reveals new options for release of blocks and facilitates connection with your true nature and the ability to express more of your potential, uniqueness and possibility.

Authentic BEINGNESS, the place from which creation flows, generally does not simply enter your life on the back of whatever external hope we may harbor—it is invited, nurtured, and fully embraced through mindful, focused, heartfelt inner development. The path may take effort but it need not be arduous if we open ourselves to the adventure of living and the “lightness of being!

When you let go of negative thoughts

When you effectively process negative emotions

Energy and consciousness  naturally increase

Understanding and working directly with your energy system takes you out of eternal mind loops and sticky emotional patterns so you can reclaim your energy and open to ever increasing gifts of the spirit.

Today I’d like to share a story that illustrates how energy work can help to relieve physical and emotional symptoms, help access higher wisdom/solutions and create a center of personal power.

Some time ago I was working with a woman who was anticipating a meeting with her boss that she feared would be extremely difficult. She was experiencing a lot of fear and apprehension about the meeting in general, but her first concern was that she was so highly charged about the encounter that she would  become emotional, cry and lose her credibility with him. She was feeling it was crucial to convince him of several points that were counter to what he was going to be presenting and her emotionality would not allow her to clearly present her case.

We began working with Emotional Freedom Technique to deal with her fear and anxiety.

Her feelings cleared but she was still in a physical posture of holding in and holding up – so we moved to centering, creating the global mind-body awareness, did a quick adjustment to her energy flow using the basic flow technique, with the addition of a crossover technique that balanced the left / right flow of energy. This all took less than five minutes. I do have to add, however, that this person was used to working with me in this way although she was out of practice.

After this adjustment she reported that she felt calmer, safer and more grounded. My observation was that the tense posturing was gone, her face relaxed and her color improved. As we just let her settle into the new feelings in a quiet moment, she all of a sudden startled and said, “OH, all of a sudden the thought came in that I don’t need to convince him; all I need to do is listen and decide what I will and won’t participate in.”

Notice that the thinking mind had very little to do with this until the end!

I did not tell her that she needn’t be afraid, she was a competent professional, the company needed her, she was not in danger of being fired, and so on. I did not talk about or interpret her posture – how it was a reflection of a maladaptive pattern that was weakening her energy flow, making her feel worse – nor about how, when our energy becomes ungrounded, we feel anxious, creating a feedback loop that feeds on itself and gets worse.

All those things may be true, but they are cognitive and generally have little impact on shifting out of emotional states or upon our ability to access higher level functions. We’ve all had the experience of being told that we needn’t be feeling what we are, the facts don’t support it—and yet we do! We need methods to remedy the difficulties that address our inner realities in order to be able to come back to outer reality in a  way that is effective.

As it was, not only did this client find her own solution in a moment with incredible clarity, but she went off to the meeting feeling strong and powerful because the awareness she needed came from within.

It is exciting, awesome and beautiful to watch the process of a person settling into their authentic self and be able to live from the inside out …to be able to inhabit their lives in a way that empowers and sustains them. Using energetic techniques that address mind, body and spirit allow us all to reach this center more quickly and easily than mere cognition alone. The Living Energy Works approach can help you as well— to move out of emotional distress, release stress, access greater well being and higher consciousness for more elegant solutions to problems, as well as to live more simply and creatively!

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Personal power is a vast inner energy resource that can guide, strengthen and support you. It can help you expand into your essential nature or true Self. Your personal power, if attended to, can become a deep inner awareness that you can rely to help you choose options that serve you and those around you in the best possible way.

Our essential nature is a wellspring that nourishes us with its life force. When we connect with this life-giving flow of energy, it becomes a source of health, guidance and direction as well as a foundation of peace and joy. Without a relationship with our authentic self, life lacks passion and true vitality. All relationships require nourishment and tending. It is no different with our deepest self. We must cultivate our connection with it, get to know it and develop the means for it to flow and be expressed in our lives if we are to benefit from its gifts. The best part is that the journey to all this knowing and flowing is fun and enjoyable!

Living Energy Works provides CD and downloadable programs to guide and help you on the journey: to learn more click here: http://bit.ly/zKTgHw

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People often wonder how they can begin to attune more to their own energies as well as of those around them and in the environment. Here are two simple ways to begin to develop your innate capacity to sense energy. (Also refer to the three earlier posts to raise awareness of subtl energy)

Connected, Rita Loyd

1. To start, bring your attention inside, settle down for a moment and let yourself get quiet. Now bring your attention to the center of your palms, just feel them as they are … and then intend to soften and open the center. Imagine a dial that you can turn or a valve you can open … FEEL IT … then hold your hands up, facing each other, about 18 inches apart and slowly bring them toward each other … keep your attention on how they feel, not what you are thinking about what can or should happen … softly move your hands back and forth, first toward each other and then away … at some point you will begin to feel warmth, tingling, maybe coolness or a spongy feeling as the hands approach each other.

You are sensing the energy of one palm chakra with the energy of the other. If you keep moving your hands gently you WILL eventually feel this – if you work hard at it, however, it will take longer.

Through linking your breath with your attention and intention, you can actually begin to feel a building of the energy in your hands.

2. Another simple way to begin to develop your subtle sensing capacity is to sit quietly and just let yourself experience the room or environment you are in – let thought go and just sense how you feel. It takes practice, but you will start to see the difference between how your mind THINKS about things and how you are sensing through the energy field.

Drop thought and just let yourself be aware of sensation. This is an exercise in allowing direct experience which is also a powerful ability to have in all of life.  As we learn to just BE beyond the thought generating mind we can be more present to life. This is a foundation for being able to fully enjoy and express life, but it is also a necessity for truly letting go of all that blocks you from ease, peace, love, prosperity and harmony.

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The Institute of HeartMath has clearly shown through their research that by cultivating “heart intelligence” (using a method that creates coherent heart rhythms), the primitive emotional centers of the brain no longer dominate and a clearer perspective emerges that enables greater intelligence to manage emotion. Through quieting the emotions we are less attached to the ego mind and more open to higher frequencies of energy, information and knowledge that can help direct us on our way through life.
Activating genuine heart-based feelings of care, love, gratitude, appreciation and compassion creates coherent heart rhythms, and stimulates healthy neural, hormonal, biochemical, and energetic flow to all organs. In addition, brain function improves, production of stress hormones decreases, anti-aging factors increase, immunity is enhanced and well being is experienced all the way down to the cellular level! It’s up to you; you can trigger all these effects at will! What’s not to love about that?

Developing the Power of Your Heart
1. Practice flowing gratitude through your heart chakra daily.
2. Saturate your heart with the energy of loving-kindness as often as possible.
3. Look for opportunities to appreciate people, places and things daily.
4. Buy a special journal to record your daily “gratitudes.”
5. Assign a time each day to record in your journal.
6. List five things a day that you are grateful for. No thinking allowed: FEEL!

For more on developing heart based care check out Practice Heart Centered Gratitude here: http://bit.ly/Arl0CX

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Have a seat, sit back, close your eyes and enjoy!

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been writing about the chakras, their properties, characteristics and how they relate to our lives. This brings us to the last chakra, the crown and its role and purpose. Tomorrow there will be a mediation for the crown chakra on this blog.

As we have seen each of the chakras holds a form of consciousness. In the root we experience the densest materialization of energy, in the sacral we come to know the energy of emotion and so on as we move upward through progressively less dense expressions of energy until we reach the crown where we must begin asking questions about consciousness itself. It’s really miraculous to think about consciousness itself inquiring into its own nature and manifestations.

Psychologically crown energy helps us to perceive the underlying order and meaning of things through this chakra. Spiritually we experience (as opposed to believe) the deep knowing of all of creation as being as one through the crown.

Unconsciously the energy flowing through this chakra is the wisdom of the body—consciously it is the intellect, mind and belief systems. Ultimately this chakra is our link with consciousness beyond reason, beyond the senses and beyond material world limitations—it is the universal consciousness that holds awareness of Divinity.

 “To really turn our gaze of attention upon this miracle is to enter the endless unfolding petals of the lotus, and the true source of the Self.” Anodea Judith

 So we begin this inspection with a clear awareness about the two main types of consciousness contained in the crown chakra:

1. That which is focused on the information in our material reality and has to do with the concrete self. This consciousness relies on focused attention…active thought, reasoning, learning compiling information, data, belief systems. This is a lower function of the crown chakra as it stores  and correlates details into patterns and larger fields of meaning.

2. The      Transcendent type of consciousness is not focused. It is beyond the realm of everyday concerns and a focus on the external material world.  Transcendent consciousness is awareness beyond cognition. Rather than attention to detail and objects this consciousness floats and has an all  encompassing quality.

So we can see that the crown chakra is a place of convergence of the finite and the infinite. Here we expand beyond our personal self, beyond time into a state that holds bliss and joy. And here the divine consciousness enters and moves downward through our systems to enliven all the chakras and give us the capacity to maneuver in the external world.

The seventh chakra connects individual awareness with infinite consciousness. It is here that we can develop the ability to go beyond sequential time and move into higher consciousness where we can achieve Psycho-spiritual integration. Bliss, unconditional joy and the ability to experience the Universal field of energy and consciousness are all experiences of a highly developed Crown Chakra.

The Crown Chakra is located at the top of the head. It extends above the crown of the head upward toward an eighth chakra that sits about two feet above the 7th. The eighth chakra is the energy center of divine love, of spiritual compassion and selflessness.

Typically the Crown Chakra does not open more than 50% until we are 30-40 years old.

Physically the major function of this chakra is as an entry point for life force; it governs: the Pituitary gland and the Cerebral Cortex of the brain.

As with the other chakras we can have excessive or deficient energy in the crown.

 Excessive Energy
Over-intellectual; Spiritual addiction
Overwhelm (chronic confusion, frustration, Psychosis dissociation)

Deficient Energy
Need to be right; Failure to learn
Belief in limitations; spiritual skepticism

 When the Crown Chakra is undeveloped it is no larger or more filled with energy than the lower six chakras. When this chakra is fully awakened it has been said by those who can see it that it blazes with a brilliant light and has a complexity, power and beauty that are truly overwhelming.

Tomorrow look for a meditation specifically for the crown chakra.

This ten minute guided meditation helps to balance and open the third eye helping to improve insight, intuition and clarity.

Perspicacious (Photo credit: cosmorochester)

Are you intuitive? Can you visualize easily? Do you have a highly developed imagination? Or are you more inclined to be rational, have difficulty with inner vision and imagination?

These are all indications of how your third eye or brow chakra is functioning. It is the energy center responsible for the kind of intuition that comes through a kind of “inner vision”. So if your brow chakra is well developed, you may have found yourself envisioning the winner of the Super Bowl, or perhaps seeing in your mind’s eye the team who was celebrating, or perhaps even a scoreboard with the winning score on it!

Brow Chakra Properties

The brow chakra is the domain of physical sight, mystical awareness, intelligence, insight, and of wisdom.

Psychologically the brow houses judgment, intelligence, and sense of reality, rationality and wisdom.

The brow harmonizes these forces, and so has a lot to do with personality and the self one brings to the world.

Physical Location and Sphere of Influence
The brow chakra is located in the space between and a bit above the eyes.
This center is the last place where the three major energy channels—the right, left and middle (Ida, Pingala and Sushumna) come together. The right and left channels terminate here while the central channel continues on to the Crown Chakra, the energy center of higher awareness.

 The Brow center does not open more than 50% until the age of 30-40.

Physically the Brow Chakra governs the Pineal Gland; Brain; Neurological System; Pituitary; Eyes, Ears, Nose and the base of the skull.

The brow center can be thought of as command central for the five senses and the conscious and subconscious mind.  It also is the regulator of the other chakras and their energy channels.

Balance and the Brow Chakra
Physical signs of malfunction in the sixth chakra Are: headaches; poor visual perception; nightmares; hallucinations; dizziness; confusion; poor memory; insomnia; acute sinusitis

 Deficient Energy in this chakra leads to a lack of discipline and inner vision, poor memory, fear of success and an inability to understand subtle signals. The result of being unable to sense subtle signs is demonstrated through an unrealistic appraisal of situations and setting standards or expectations too high or too low.

Other signs of a malfunctioning brow center are poor intuition, excessive focus on rational thought, difficulty visualizing or imagining and poor dream recall.

Excessive Energy in the sixth chakra manifests as difficulty tuning into or trusting intuition. In addition there may be rigidity, self righteousness, and authoritarianism, arrogance, being overly intellectual or excessively rational.  An easy way to remember these types of imbalances is to think in terms of a heavy reliance on the head and no heart.

Reliance on the intellect without the balance of heart energy is generally a consequence of drawing too much energy upward from the lower chakras which damages the third eye. This chakra needs the balance, support and stability of the lower chakra energies. Without such support there can be obsessive fantasies, delusions, hallucinations, with dreams, images or memory split off from one’s conscious experience.

Health and Balance in the Brow Chakra

A healthy brow chakra encourages health of the lower chakras.

 When this chakra is in balance your worldview is one that is open and accepting without critical judgment—present moment awareness of the world within the framework of the five senses is then free to move beyond this level of consciousness into the realm of intuition and psychic experience

As mentioned previously, the left and right channels merge here—they are bound to present time, but the central channel extends beyond into the timeless where past, present and future are all available for learning, identifying patterns and planning.

A healthy flow of energy through the brow chakra allows you to focus your mind as needed while also allowing for disciplined imagination, the ability to accurately access intuition with healthy detachment from the material.

Tomorrow: a video meditiaton for balancing brow chakra energies 

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