A great video—well worth 10 minutes of your time! 

Everything is Energy

For thousands of years people have known that everything is energy. In Feng Shui we study the I Ching (pronounced “ee- jing”), one of the oldest books from China. This book is also called the Book of Changes. It is about the continual changes in the Universe. It is about living in harmony and balance with nature. It is about action and reaction. It is about going with the flow and what happens when you don’t. Three laws of nature that humans share with all species and the earth in general are (1) we are alive, (2) we are connected and (3) we are always changing. We are deeply connected to the earth and all animal and plant life around us. We have gotten out of balance with nature and now realize how integral this relationship is to our well-being. One way we are connected to other people and living beings is through the power of thought. Have you ever had a thought, only to find someone close to you had the same or similar thought? Thought is energy. To understand our collective thought or mass consciousness, look at what appears in the news and what grabs our focus or attention every day. These thoughts have energy. The energy increases as the thoughts are fed. As the thoughts are fed, they are given more power. As they are given power, they become real or the “truth” as we know it. And the story goes on.

 Energy takes many forms

The energy of the universe takes many forms and has many layers, and so do WE. If we are to become all we can be, with the ability to channel and shape our life force for the greatest benefit, then it is necessary to have a working knowledge of the hardware and the software of our Selves.

 We have all heard “knowledge is power,” and nowhere is that more true than when we are speaking about ourselves and the lives we create. Self-knowledge includes understanding how we work as human beings as well as how we have personally operated up until now to construct our lives.

 That brings us to Self-awareness. Self-awareness includes the ability to observe oneself, but the way we are using the term implies even more than that. We share the view that each of us is in the world to bring more of our spiritual nature into human form – to become more of our authentic Selves and grow past the small identity that may have served us well until now but no longer does.

 We live in a time that necessitates living in new ways … a time that requires us to rise to challenges from a different perspective than in the past so we can live lives that are more nurturing, satisfying, fulfilling, abundant and prosperous in every way.

 To us, the term Self-awareness includes a knowing beyond observation of our patterns of thought, feeling and action. It describes a presence of “I AMNESS” that is beyond the average thought, feeling or sensation of human experience. It is the direct awareness of our spiritual nature.

 In this work we are addressing moving from the lower mind controlled by the ego and its self-protective – but often mistaken – ideas and beliefs to a level of BEING that embodies more of your spiritual essence … your soul nature. This is the place where we embrace our full potential and engage the power of our authentic Selves.

 There is an art and science involved in this opening to the authentic Self. The way has been laid out for us through the millennia, but now we have the additional benefit of research in Mind-Body Medicine and Energy Psychology, as well as Quantum Physics, documenting age-old wisdom and providing important information to help speed us along on this exciting adventure of discovery.

 The beginning of the journey to your authentic self necessarily includes a working knowledge of the mind, as it is the vehicle that transports us for a portion of our journey. Our mind is not only an operating system; it is also where many of our obstacles lie. To understand the mind’s structure and have a working knowledge of its functions can help smooth our way as we seek to create change in our lives.

 In session two we will be discussing the three levels of mind and how to use each of them appropriately. If we are to bring our best selves to light, then it is necessary to have the knowledge, skills and ability to manage our basic operating systems so they work for us rather than be left to default patterns that can upset our best efforts at creating a life we love to live.

 Excerpt from Chapter 2, 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery

From 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery: Chapter 1

Physics, Life and Conscious Creation

The following quote is one that provides some understanding

 of the territory we need to navigate in order to live

as more fully empowered citizens of the universe, using

and managing energy to its maximum benefit in our world.

Dr. Stuart Hammeroff, Director of Consciousness

Studies, at the University of Arizona says:

“The universe seems to be very strange. There seem to be

 two sets of laws that govern the universe. In our everyday,

classical world, meaning at roughly our size and time scales,

things are described by Newton’s laws of motion set down

 hundreds and hundreds of years ago. However, when we

get down to a small scale, to the level of atoms, a different

set of laws takes over. These are the Quantum Laws.”

Classical Physics explains how things work from a

logical, linear perspective. This is useful in our everyday lives

in a variety of ways. However when it comes to energy,

consciousness and creating our personal reality, Quantum

Physics and its principles are more useful.

It is important to realize, though, that we have all been

acculturated within the framework of Classical Physics;

so when we try to move into new territory and our minds

are given new information, we may run smack into subtle

aspects of the mind that BELIEVE AND FEEL in a

deterministic, linear and predictable way.

You may want to accept an exciting new belief and way

 of approaching life, but the mind may hold on to a

 felt sense of the old way of seeing the world. This is one reason

 why it is important to incorporate techniques that allow you to

inspect the contents of your mind in order to be able to

have a clear playing field as you learn to adopt new ways of being.

Our thanks to Maureen Campaiola for inviting us to join her on her radio show The Dare Hour on Monday night (1-18-10). Maureen is a Business Coach and so she was curious about how Living Energy could be helpful to her clients.

The topic areas we discussed were:

1. Harnessing the energy of the hidden desires behind your goals
2. Inner visioning target your goals and support your progress
3. Shifting your energy to increase cash flow
4. Energetic blocks to your success

Specifics aside, the main point to keep in mind whether looking at business or any other target area for your goals is that you are an energetic being and your personal energy is going to affect every aspect of your lifes.

That being the case, it serves us well to understand how energy operates, to know what’s up with our own energy field and to learn how to maximize its strength.  Through this process we become more successful in creating what we DO want in and for our lives, businesses and relationships instead of allowing this powerful resource (personal energy) to operate in a default pattern that does not support, enhance and nourish us and our dreams.   

 To listen to a recording of our conversation with Maureen or other great show that Maureen has done please go to:

http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/1905-maureen-campaiola-the-dare-hour.html

 Check out Maureen’s blog for lot’s of helpful information : http://daretobephenomenal.com

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~Carl Jung

Great video on interaction of mind, experience and brain and the benefits of developing  mindfulness. Cultivating this state helps to improve  health, relationships, and the ability to learn and enjoy life. This video is focused on children but it has great wisdom for all of us!

When we co-create using energy and consciousness, we are not “attracting” our desires to us as much as we are aligning with new resonant energy patterns that are available to us in a larger field of consciousness. Working with our minds, imaginations and personal energy systems, we can connect with these patterns, integrate and make them our own and then outwardly express them. In essence we are cultivating the resonance of whatever new pattern is desired –that is becoming the energetic embodiment of it.

On our radio show Monday Jan. 4^th at 10 A.M. (to join call or listen to recording, click on the link at the bottom of this article) our topic will be all about  aligning your personal energy for success.

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 Helpful hints to help you align your energy for success in 2010!

When we speak about aligning individual and universal patterns of energy, it is helpful to know how to translate that into experience. Knowing the differences in how the higher and lower energies/selves manifest, as well as what it feels like to be in flow, helps to join your individual nature with the larger flow of the universe.

 Signs of Being in Flow*

•  Anything that feels good
•  Acceptance – no internal conflict
•  Move toward goals fluidly
•  Able to shift, back off, change
•  Energy is high
•  Ease in relating to others
•  Let go of any conflict with ease
•  Work toward resolution
•  Let go of rigid attitudes, sense of
• competition, need for retaliation
•  Time passes quickly
•  Realistic timing rather than force
•  Experience being in the present
•  Feel sense of being centered within a spiritual state
• Experiencing synchronicity and/or coincidences

 Signs of Resistance**

• Anything that doesn’t feel good
• Feeling scattered, nerves frazzled
• Increase of any physical symptoms related to health
• Frustration
• Emotions blocked, numbed,
• inhibited or histrionic
• Consumed by problem, cannot stop thinking or feeling about it
• Others upset with you, conflicted communication, poor outcomes
• Fighting stance, tightening of mind and body
• Suffering
• Energy drained
• Experience fear
• Pushing against your will
• Feel disempowered

(Excerpt from: 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery)

*These are ideals to be moved toward, not end points that are achieved by most mere mortals. At best, expect to experience a growing ability to “be there,” know when you have slipped out, and rejoin the flow ASAP.

**Omit self judgments if you notice these states. We are always learning and we need to continually adopt a persistent attitude of kindness towards the self!

We’d love to have you join us for our discussion: Align Your Energy For Success,  Monday Jan. 4^th, 2010

To join us  click on 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. 

If you cannot join us then remember that all shows are recorded and available for download at your leisure.

A great video on beliefs and energy. Useful information to remember anytime but maybe in particular as we head straight ahead into the holidays!

Center in your heart, flow the energy of appreciation, let the mind go to neutral and watch the world around you change—maybe one quanta at a time but it will change—practice, practice, practice and more and more quantas (quantae?) will line up!

Ok, so there’s a little more more to it than that but that’s a good enough start especially during the busy season!

Please join us on Monday Dec.13, 2009 at 10 A.M. – when we will be airing Session One of our foundation program: 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery.  This show will be recorded and available for download so you can listen at your leisure if you cannot join us at show time.

Click here to access the show or the archived program: http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

This session recording includes such topics as:

1. Individual and universal energy connection and conscious creation
2. A historical perspective on thought and creativity 
3. Physics of belief and the necessary link for releasing blocks

In addition there are many suggestions and tools to help you to:

• harness your energy for conscious creation
• develop your ability to manage your energy
• expand consciousness for enhanced intuition and spiritual connection

Here is a brief excerpt from the section of the program where we discuss contributions from various teachers of conscious creation throughout this century:

 In the 1990s we began to hear from William Tiller, a scientist and Stanford Professor who has been very involved in his own spiritual development since the sixties as well as conducting experiments, writing and reporting on matter, energy and the nature of consciousness. Dr. Tiller has contributed much to our understanding of the unseen forces in our universe and our relationship to it all.

 Two essential to solve the puzzle of reality formation:

1. Intentionality combined with coherence is key for creative results.

2. We need to develop our infrastructure, that is our nervous and energy systems, through inner self management methods in order to grow in consciousness and be able to adequately guide universal forces on our behalf.

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”!

Our minds are powerfully creative. You may have heard that and even believe it and yet still find that you are not able to generate what you would like in your life. Discouragement, disbelief and abandonment of effort are all possibilities when our attempts at conscious creation do not produce the results that we desire.

It is essential to realize that the common level of mind that we generally operate from is not where our true power to create resides…the true power is found in a deeper aspect of mind and being.

To fully and effectively engage this power, we need to develop  a not so common capacity for clarity of awareness, concentration and an ability to really focus our energies. We need a commitment that includes developing these capacities and integrating them into a state of BEING. We called our business  Living Energy to highlight not just the fact that we are all energetic beings, but that we need to LIVE or embody the energy of that which we seek to have in our lives. To do this we need to learn new methods that will allow us to embrace and effectively use ALL of our higher potential.  In fact our foundation course, 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery is all about the tools and techniques that help you do just that!

Here is a video that speaks to some of these ideas and can  encourage you to stay on your path of conscious creation and new ways of BEING in your world!