Spiritual
Energy
“Creating
thoughts, holding onto thoughts, recalling thoughts, generating
emotions, controlling emotions, and disciplining powerful inner
drives, all require a tremendous expenditure of energy.”
Michael
A. Singer ( The Untethered Soul)
We
humans think a lot about the energy required to fuel our cars and
heat our homes. We argue endlessly about the cost of fuel, the
methods of extracting it from the planet, and whether nuclear power
plants are the way to go. We're well versed on the benefits and the
dangers, the costs and the possible future costs of our petroleum
based economies. What we almost never think about is the energy
inside us.
We
all know about mitochondria, mostly from reading Madeleine L'Engle's
fabulous Wind in the Door series, and maybe from science
classes we took somewhere along the way. We know they're the “power
houses” of our cells. They provide the power that enables our cells
to carry out necessary functions. They didn't originate with us, but
are symbiotic parasites that we now cannot live without. We've
evolved together and now provide necessary functions for one another.
They power our cells, but they are not the energy I'm thinking about.
But
what powers our emotions? Our thoughts? What allows us to suppress
thoughts, or recall them? We have swings in emotions that leave us
drained and exhausted. We lose someone we love and no amount of food
or rest can relieve the fatigue we feel. Until we meet someone
new—then we are suddenly energized, so much so that we feel
constantly elated. What a strange turn of events.
This
psychic energy is with us all the time. When we don't feel it, it is
because we are blocking it. We block it by closing our minds, by
constricting our hearts. We “close down” literally. Our thoughts
and our emotions are clamped tight and in a darkened state. This
clamping down requires energy. The energy is still there, but it
cannot flow, and so we feel tired, flat, deflated.
Psychic
energy is called by many names: chi, shakti, qi. In the west, we
think of it as spiritual energy. We can open the channels by opening
our hearts, by opening our minds. The way to keep it flowing, the way
to stay energized, is to stay open. Open to the possibility of
newness, of change, of ideas not our own. Staying open to our
emotions, whatever they are, allows them to flow through rather than
be trapped. We have to make a conscious decision about staying open
or closing down. It's our choice to make each and every day. How
about you? Are you open today?
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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