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The energy frequencies, flow and coherence of our energy sytems influence our abilities, feelings and behavior as well as reflect/register effects from the environment.

Each of the major chakras is associated with a physical, psychological and spiritual function. They are connected to each other and to the body’s organs through an extensive network of fluid-like energies called nadis or meridians. These channels run parallel to your nervous, circulatory and lymph systems. They are like electro- magnetic rivers carrying energy throughout the body.

The energy in the chakras is like a swirling vortex, much like an eddy that forms in moving water. Energy moves in alternate clockwise and counterclockwise directions. This helps to maintain a dynamic balance between receiving and building energy and releasing excess energy. The receiving and building occurs through clockwise motion and the releasing through counterclockwise motion.

 Being in touch with and able to guide and direct your energy consciously benefits every aspect of life and health.

Benefits learning how to develop and guide your personal energy include:

 Accelerated change: Working energetically goes to the roots of problems and provides positive solutions, creating change from the inside out.

Diminished resistance: Energy work can aid in eliminating the struggle that often impedes the flow of change. Ease and a sense of grace replace force & will power.

 Discipline of the mind: Proper focus of the mind helps to build energy and improves our ability to direct energy more precisely toward our goals.

 Enhanced Clarity: Eliminating emotional turmoil, negative mind sets and exhausting thought patterns via energetic techniques results in a centering effect that provides clearer perception of oneself, others and Truth itself.

Improved Intuition, creativity and spiritual experience: As the overall energy system is strengthened and less burdened with old memories, beliefs and disruptive patterns the entire system can function better and more energy is available to expand higher level function.

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Many people think they do not sense energy because they do not see auras, but the fact is that we all communicate through our fields. Here are some ways that you can probably relate that you may not have associated with energy awareness.

Do you ever get exhausted after spending time with certain people?
People who lack energy look outside themselves to “recharge their batteries.” When you are with them, they can take your energy to replenish theirs. A fundamental key to healthy relationships is to know how to”flow” energy to each other rather than competing for it.

We also entrain our energy with each other’s. This is a natural phenomenon as we try to get into synch with each other so that we can communicate, share an even exchange of energy, or feel close. This process is unconscious and works well when you have two or more reasonably healthy people with good personal boundaries. If a person is deeply troubled, is not taking responsibility for their own internal work or just plain has a lot of past pain or trauma that they have not been aware of or have not known how to deal with, then their energy may be the strongest in an interchange. We tend to entrain with the stronger energy when we do not know consciously how to manage our own energy. This can and does adversely affect how we feel.

Addressing/becoming aware of energy not only supports health, it improves relationships!

Can you recall any situations where you felt your energy was depleted by someone else?
When this happens, stop and ground your energy. Breathe deeply and feel yourself drawing in life enhancing energy. Do not shield yourself as is often recommended –this stops your energy—grounding and centering with a focus on expanding, strengthening and keeping a dynamic flow is your best protection.

Have you ever felt someone staring at you?
We emit large amounts of energy from our eyes. When someone is staring at you, you are literally feeling their energy. And if you pay attention the next time you are upset with someone, you may notice that you are intensely focused around your eyes and maybe even”shooting daggers.” A whole new awareness about nonverbal communication and double messages!

Have you ever felt an instant dislike for someone?
We are always “reading” other people’s energy fields to see how compatible they are with ours. Just as some substances – like oil and water – don’t mix well, when you feel an instant dislike for someone, your energy field isn’t mixing well with theirs.

Do some people excite and energize you more than others?
People who have energy reserves or whose energy just mixes well with ours tend to extend and exchange their energy with us. When you’re with someone who excites you, they boost your energy level and make you feel energized.

Do you ever know how someone is feeling before they tell you?
People emit information about themselves through their energy fields. When you can sense how someone feels, you are picking up and decoding this information.

Do you ever experience different feelings in different rooms in your home, or in other people’s homes?
Environments have an energetic “blueprint,” just as people do. Often this is a result of the emotional exchanges that have gone on in that space. When you get a feeling from a place, you are picking up on this residual energy.

Have you ever had an initial impression that you talked yourself out of, only to find later that you were correct?
We pick up on energy and register impressions and information unconsciously. The conscious mind tends to distrust what it cannot logically deduce, weigh, measure or otherwise sense, so it simply discounts energetic impressions as valid sources of information. As a result, hunches are often not acted upon.

If you have had any of these experiences, you have experienced subtle energy!

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The majority of us do not see subtle energy, but we do sense and respond to it on a daily basis. Our everyday language even speaks to our unconscious experience of the energetic states and events around us.

Have you ever said, thought or felt: “I feel blue,” “My heart is heavy,” “I feel so empty,” “It’s like I’ve been knifed in the back,” “I feel so full of joy,” “My heart is glad.” These are statements that actually described your energy at that moment.

With the Biofeedback instrument I use in my practice a person‘s aura can be seen in real time. When a person reports feeling blue in fact they are emitting the frequency of energy our eye sees as blue. A person who reports feeling heavy, sad or depressed shows a lower frequency of energy in their heart chakra with lowered frequencies of vitality in the root and sacral chakras.  That person also typically will show a constriction of energy flow through the heart chakra. People who report feeling joy or happiness reflect the warmer, brighter colors in their auras with a greater amount and flow of energy in the heart.

Feelings of emptiness, discouragement, apathy or despondency correlate with a depletion or lack of energy; joy correlates with a feeling of fullness and brighter, lighter, faster moving energy. The sense of a knife in the back shows us through feeling that words and thoughts have an energetic reality and really do hurt as we experience them through our subtle sense and energy field.

When we understand more about our personal energy and how it interacts with our environment, we have a deeper perspective and more options available to work with our whole being—thoughts, feelings, sensations and beliefs—and have more effective tools to shift out of negative states more quickly. In addition, being able to sense and manage subtle energy provides the means to maximize efforts with creating change and attracting new possibilities into your life.

Many wait for time or external circumstances to change for relief or resolution of their pain, discomfort or unhappiness. Unfortunately this leads to a disempowered position AND it does nothing to erase the effect the incomplete negative emotion has on health and well being. We may feel that the problem or unresolved emotional state has disappeared, but what has really happened is that it has been driven deeper into our mind-body and is out of awareness, but not out of range of unconsciously driving behaviors and feelings that we would rather be free of.

To “work” on an energetic level is to connect with the totality of you –  mind, body and spirit. This is a major step toward true empowerment and one that goes beyond learning new ways to simply THINK about things. Working directly with your energy helps remove obstacles to true emotional freedom while simultaneously providing you with greater access to higher level functions such as creativity, intuition and spirituality.

For a sample of a deep relaxation technique to start you on your way to greater awareness of your energy through relaxation click here:http://www.livingenergyworks.com/audio.html

Each of the recorded programs in our store addresses personal energy and gives you tools and techniques to release stress and build more positive, life enhancing and nurturing energy. Please click here to learn more: http://tinyurl.com/7ugqzro

Rupert Sheldrake has done some fascinating work regarding how energy operates in our everyday world. In this video he briefly explains  his premise to Morgan Freeman and demonstrates how the field operates. He also  has several experiments that you can actually participate in here: http://www.sheldrake.org/Onlineexp/portal/

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Recognizing and Engaging Spiritual Energy
Making time and space to move into the silence of the inner world (yes, it’s there behind the noise in our heads!) and learning to “hang out” there helps to develop a relationship with Universal/Higher Self/Source energy. Practice makes this stronger and you will be gifted with inspiration and the motivation to begin or to follow through with your goals, dreams and desires.

Being in truly in touch (as opposed to ego fabrication of experience) with our spiritual nature provides uncommon support, guidance and direction for movement on our life path; we are co-creators with our soul. If we wander too far from our spiritual connection, we will try to create solely from the will and ego, and that is laced with struggle and does not serve us very well.

Our spirit Self feels like inspiration or intuition. It is often the initial felt sense of rightness (or wrongness) about a person, place or decision.
We can start to invite our spiritual Self to flex its muscles and grow by noticing how things feel to us.

For now simply get a feeling for how a certain thing feels to that intangible part of you. There are thousands of possibilities in our lives. What truly feels right to you? Notice how your body responds to imagined outcomes. What feels right? What feels good? Try feeling various possibilities. Note the ones that open you and bring you joy. There is valuable information there.

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The other day I was talking with a friend about her experience with grief and loss and she expressed that she felt she should be further along on her path of recovery. She is six weeks past a major loss after a grueling year  of care-taking, medical emergencies and life adjustments. Can you relate to that belief? I can !!

How tempting…and human…to think that we can hit the ground running after a time of grief, trauma or major life adjustments. We want to get on with it. We want to move past the intensity, the deep aching sadness, hurt, confusion and doubt. It is hard to be with all the feelings, the voices in our heads and the hurt in our heart. However this is the time to lie fallow, to process and be able to digest our experience.

Every aspect of our energy –part of our body, mind and spirit is affected by trauma, loss and grief no matter how well we have managed through it. This is the time to rest in the quiet, to let the silence behind the difficult emotions emerge from that deep place within. It is time to let that silence envelope you in its healing arms. This is what allows your energy to return. It is what allows wisdom to bubble up from a profoundly authentic place inside. This is how you help yourself heal, find meaning and integrate your experience.

Patience is needed to move with the natural rhythms of life especially with the troublesome times. Self compassion is necessary to let yourself be where you are. Patience and self compassion are your allies through transition times. A new life needs to be birthed gently, in its own time and with a consciousness that is full of understanding not hurried movement. Time, space and healing attention are necessary luxuries when we are  at such a stage on our life journey. There are many gifts to be had if we become present and mindful to our experience…a profound inner connection with our authentic self and the rejuvenating flow of spiritual energy are two such gifts that can stabilize our minds and hearts…for the now and for the future.

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As many of you know, Living Energy’s Tony Pace is an singer and performer who has been in the entertainment industry for three decades. He brings his perspective to the recent tragic loss of Whitney Houston below.

As technology brings the world closer and closer together, the stresses and tragedies of nations once a world away are often felt like the pain of loss of a loved one. There are so many stresses and tragedies in our modern world that call out to deeper understanding. Unfortunately it often takes significant pain for we humans to dive deeper and look at what is going on beneath the surface and emerge from those depths with approaches that really work to heal ourselves and our lives.

Our perceptions (unknowingly skewed), leading with a false ego (as opposed to a healthy ego) and a fundamental separation from our deeper authentic spiritual selves are all a recipe for disaster that claims way too many souls. I (Tony)can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when John F Kennedy was assassinated. Will that be the case regarding Whitney Houston? For some maybe. Others couldn’t care less and feel that our fallen soldiers deserve as much recognition, if not more, for what they have done. Regardless of how you feel, the fact is we all leave an imprint in the hearts and minds of those around us. Importance is based on the lens we look through. As part of the music industry for well over 30 years, so I may look at Whitney’s death through a different lens than some or most.

The music industry is unforgiving, filled with sorrow, reinvention, and rejection and then there’s the bad side! Whitney Houston reached superstardom and lived within that realm for most of her life. It started as a dream and then one day, nothing was beyond her reach. The problem, in my opinion, came the moment she fell from grace within the industry. She was no longer the hot commodity of the day and the paparazzi moved on. “What have you done lately” is the question of the day in the entertainment world. When your 15 minutes of fame are up, it can be one of the most devastating experiences in your life as an artist. How you cope with that loss can determine life, death, or at best your growth as a human/soul.

Whitney brought joy to a generation of people, a gift which she happily shared with the world. She was one who endured the anguish and whispers in the shadow of domestic abuse. She fell victim to substance abuse in her final act when her inner foundation fell. Life can erode a beautiful soul if it is not cherished and nurtured. Pain fragments and disconnects us from the universe when we are not centered and grounded. The ethereal high we seek from substances or any external means serves to sever connection to the beauty of the soul and destroy the human body. Would that it should be so easy to reach for the stars and stay among them. It is a truth that we must keep balance in this life, stay in touch with the energy and splendor all around us, and know our authentic selves.

Whitney endured the anguish of having her shadow self exposed to the public eye as she struggled to deal with the effects of domestic abuse, the rigors of show business and the agony of not having a firm inner foundation (authentic self) to cushion her and help to recreate her life. Substance abuse is more often than not a combination of dealing with unmanageable pain, a sign of a fragmented self disconnected from source energy that nurtures and strengthens. Regardless of what the coroner’s report says, The cause of her death for me, through my lens, was the inability to cope with being normal: The loss of the Superstar Persona in her own mind became the loss of her self. The climb to her true self became too much.

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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1. When you find yourself irritated by others, look inside to learn more about what was triggered in you.

2. Once you are aware of the core issue, reflect on what if anything needs to be done, then consciously focus on releasing the feelings from your mind, body and spirit. Releasing the feelings before you explore the cause can also bring clarity to the cause.

3. Affirm at a deep feeling level: I lovingly allow feelings of internal support to flow through me today.