Living Energy Blog

Fear in all its forms, doubt, anxiety, uncertainty, is a feeling–a vibration that you can shift.

We can work with our minds to shift our energy or we can work directly with our energy to shift our minds—both work but I find it simpler, more effective and efficient to go directly to working with the energy—fewer stories, less resistance to change  and it is going to the source!

To beginto work from the level of energy: Choose to center within yourself and ground your energy (see Articles and Tips elsewhere on this site for information regarding these two concepts). Once grounded you can more easily place your attention on thoughts and feelings that open and build energy.

 Open from the inside out and feel the miracle of your life force coursing through you. Once in touch with your inner energy in this way it becomes easier to place your mind (feeling and thought) on things that enliven, nourish and strengthen you. As you become stronger, lighter and brighter in your energy you can more easily connect to soul and flow with more joy, peace and love.

A very dear and wise friend once said to me, “In my culture we are taught to choose well at the start”. Each morning we each have a new start….how will we choose? Your energy matters! Your heart matters! You matter…choose well what energy you live your day(s) in.

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

Your energy system has a direct influence on your mind, body and spirit. It impacts your health, your moods, your outlook on life and much more. By tuning into your personal energy level throughout the day you will feel better and begin to develop a foundation for being able to expand your ability to manage, focus and channel your energy.

1. Upon awakening, before you even get out of bed, notice how you feel. If you dreamt something that has a negative hangover effect, consciously release it. Use whatever means you can to accomplish this: EFT, breath-work, imagery and pivoting can help you shift your feelings.
2. Choose you emotional state for the day. Yes, you can! Let yourself feel ease, peace, well being to whatever level you can and imagine flowing that good feeling out from your deep inner center into your day.
3. As you move through the day notice what expands and opens you and make it a point to settle into these feelings. Appreciate and feel gratitude for all that is present that is adding to your life. (These feelings create very real biochemical and neuro-hormonal changes.)
4. Notice what triggers negative feelings or thought patterns and consciously release them as best you can as they arise. At times there may be a need for more than you can manage in the moment. If the latter is the case, schedule time to do what you need to in order to collapse those patterns more thoroughly from your bodymind.
5. As you notice what diminishes and drags you down can you also begin to think about how you can consciously make choices that eliminate those situations from your life. That may not be possible in all cases, but you may be able to let go of more than you realize. Over the longer term you can do what you can to build and strengthen your energy in order to more easily change de-energizing ways of reacting to the situations or people in your life that cannot be eliminated.

We would love to have you join us on our radio show on Diva Toolbox on Monday 11-23-09 @ 10 A.M. where our topic will be Practical Solutions for Holiday Stress. If you cannot make it at that time the show is aways recorded and you can access it from our link on Diva Toolbox.

http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

Have a happy stress free weekend!

From one of my favorite people, a wonderful statement on shifting from a feeling of powerlessness to one of empowerment.

“Who lives a life of joy? Who in this society knows the day to day thrill and privilege of being alive?”

These two questions can lead us all to a daily choice-

1. To let drop away all that blocks our experience of  life as a gift and privilege

2. To do what it takes for the energy of joy to find its free expression through our being.

Yesterday I was visiting my Dad at his nursing home (talk about fear—there’s a big one for those who may be aging– but that is a topic for another day), and the travel channel was on. The program airing was about a series of places where people go and things that they do to be scared to death!

It struck me that we have a paradox going on in our culture where we purposely put ourselves in danger so we can overcome it—or watch others do so–and we use every measure we can to avoid facing our internal fears. We distract ourselves, keep frantically busy, focus on others’ failings, get caught in compulsive or addictive behaviors, or tune out in some other creative way.

I think one of the reasons we avoid our inner landscape is that we are unaware of what is truly going on inside of us and another is that even if we are open to the notion of shifting our inner schema,  we may not know where to begin. 

Before getting to the suggestions for changing fear from the inside out,  I need to say that I think facing great danger and possible extreme bodily injury can in fact be one way that a person can attempt to overcome deep fears or insecurities. Sometimes I think it can even seem preferable to wrestle a boa or hurtle down a gigantic sand dune complete with dangerous jumps than to face our own inner demons. However, in my opinion, the side effects or repercussions from taking that tactic seem a  little shaky in terms of a well thought out plan.

There is good news about facing our fears! Once we do they evaporate and open up a whole lot of space for our authentic selves to shine through–and no broken bones or viper venom to deal with—usually!

So what do you do in order to conquer fear? 

1. Identify False Beliefs

Questioning how you perceive the world and challenging your beliefs can help begin the process of letting go of fear. It can feel tricky to sort out limiting beliefs because we have lived with them as truth for much of our lives.

Listening to your inner dialogue and challenging it, observing your habitual patterns and thinking more deeply about what they may be saying about you, and questioning what may be behind your reactive behaviors can all help to illuminate false beliefs. In 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery we have a whole chapter on discovering limiting beliefs and what to do to remedy them. (shameless plug)

2. Ask yourself some new questions

What are you really afraid of?

What is the likelihood that it will happen?

How can you look at the issue differently?

What if you were free of your fear, what would you do? 

3. Does staying stuck in your fear help you in some way? 

Sometimes we are not willing to do what it takes or are afraid of the new responsibilities or roles that come with a deep change—it’s good to know that!

Some helpful questions:

How does this fear serve me, protect me, or help me maintain an identity?

What am I avoiding by not facing or moving through this fear?

Do I want to accept this way of being or move through the fear of change? 

4. Identify the needs behind your fear

Our needs are not usually a problem. How we go about getting them met due to our unconsciousness is what trips us up. If you can be clear about what you need and seek positive means to fill those needs the negative can fall away.

5. Adopt a Perspective of Strength

Access inner states when you felt strong, able, confident and bring those feelings to the forefront of your awareness when seeking to face fear. When we are in fear our energy contracts and we feel weak and unable to cope. When we access strong internal states we can link those feelings to new situations and benefit throughout own inner resources—a deep feeling of trusting ourselves can be a side benefit here in addition to collapsing the fear.

You can also ask yourself  if there are new strengths that are trying to be born through the challenge of the fear you are facing. What new ability or quality is trying to be born in you? If this were the perfect situation to point you in a new direction, what would that be?

6. Use grounding and centering techniques on a regular basis

Quieting body and mind, centering and grounding your energy goes a long way to calming yourself and being able to employ some of the other methods mentioned here. It can also open you up to higher ways of knowing that can guide you on your journey to freedom from fear.

Fear like stress is a part of life. We do have the ability to conquer it, if we reach deep, open to new information and perhaps try some new approaches. Fear creates–easily and readily given the intensity of its grip. We need to become aware and more conscious within ourselves to gain our freedom and thus be better able to create what we do want in our lives.

We invite you to join us on our radio program today where our topic will be:

Is Fear Blocking Your Progress toward Creating a Life You’d Love to Live?

Fear has many faces. We all know it in some form. 

How does fear show up in your life?

We can eliminate some fears and for others we need effective management tools.

How do you let go of unnecessary fears?

What do you do with the ones that won’t go away??

On today’s show we will be discussing these topics as well as sharing some techniques to help you release and cope with fear. We hope to “hear’ you there!
http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/2007-peg-donahue-and-karen-kallie-living-energy.html

Stress constricts our energy and drains us of our vitality. All effective stress management techniques help alleviate the constrictions and blocks to our flow of energy and thus enhance our overall feelings of well being, peace and happiness. Laughter is a wonderful way to open up our channels of energy and let the good times flow!

Lots of folks very fearful and confused about the Swine Flu/vaccine—this video may help!

“Spontaneous Evolution” by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman  is a wonderful book that presents a worldview that helps us understand where we are today, how we got here and more importantly what we can do in order to move forward with strength, power and optimism.

It is chock full of science and history and yet written in such a light and entertaining way that it is a joy to read.

Here is a quote that I came across today that seems worth taking in….”In the linear worldview, Heaven is a destination, far removed from life on this planet. In the quantum worldview, where time doesn’t really exist and the only time we have is now, a heaven far removed in the future makes no sense. Likewise, all we can do in the now is be, which, in itself is Heaven. In other words, Heaven is a practice, not a place. Perhaps the new spiritual bumper sticker should read, ” Not Perfect, Just Practicing Being.” ”

This excerpt is in a section where the authors are talking about going sane and instead of behaving as children of God we should become adults of God and own our power as co-creators. What a concept!