Thought
Energy
“We are
all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our
actions and states of mind matter because we are so deeply
interconnected with one another.”
Ram Dass
I've found myself drawn
of late to writing about our connections to one another and to the
energetic web of life that is the universe. Our words and thoughts,
too, carry energy. We can actually harm someone by wishing them ill,
or by sending out hate-thoughts and words about them. Think, for
instance, about bullying and snubbing and how much harm they do. On a
micro-level, one can feel thought energy when walking into a room and
instantly recognizing tension, or walking into a room and feeling
welcomed. If we feel tension in the room, we pull in our energy body
to protect ourselves, and we think guarded thoughts. When we sense
that the room is open and friendly, we might say, “This place has
good energy.” We recognize what we are feeling without actually
thinking about it in literal terms. But it is literal.
When we encounter another
human being, if our heart energy is foremost, we see them as
beautiful and precious no matter what their physical configuration
may be. Their beauty is not tied to their physical perfection, but
because of where our energy is centered. Ram Dass teaches: “What
you meet in another human being is the projection of your own level
of evolution.” When we meet another by judging them, that is
where our soul work lies.
We are all works in
progress—most definitely, I am. The important thing is not to be
harsh with yourself, but to use those shortcomings as launch pads for
your personal evolution. Just as you can send out thoughts that harm,
you can retract them as well. Caroline Myss would say, “call
back your spirit” from that mean thought or those mean words.
Convert them into something positive, or if you can't make them
positive, simply say silently, “May he/she be blessed.” We all
have negative tapes that run automatically, but we don't have to
listen to them. We can be our own censor, and simply tell our
hate-thoughts to go away, we're not listening. We can call back our
spirit and our energy, and send them back out through our hearts. We do
this for the sake of our own souls, and for the world's soul.
Practice makes perfect...lots and lots and lots of practice.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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