Energetic Invasion

 

Feeling Moody?

“We are spiritual beings here to experience physical reality…but the path to living in a sacred and joyful manner must be chosen with wisdom. And wisdom is often hard earned.”
Cyndi Dale (Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life)

          Now and then, I wake up in a “mood.” Most of the time, I’m stoked when I awake. I always have things to do that interest me and I’m eager to get to them. But occasionally, I wake in a negative mood. I wonder if you do this too. Fortunately, I’m in a good mood this morning so I’m going to talk about moods rather than rant—lucky you.

          Moods are often energetic invasions—that is someone else has generated negative energy that has entered your field and affected you. This happens with good vibes too—being around someone who’s happy and content can lift our spirits even on a bad day. But we live at a time and place when a lot of negative energy is flying around, and the more we are exposed to it, the more it affects us. If you are watching the twenty-four-hour news cycle, or listening to it while you work, it’s hard to stay positive. The energy field that extends from within your body to about 18” beyond your physical self is being bombarded with negativity. It will affect your mood and may even affect your health.

          Sometimes moods are triggered when something happens that jerks us back to an old wound. So many of our emotions are tied to our early years when we had no language to express them, and now have no memory of them. Emotions of vulnerability and sometimes abuse, may be stored in deep memory, and when something happens in our current life that tweaks them, we feel just as emotional and vulnerable as when we were a baby. Also, cultural memory is inherited through our genes. So, our mood response may not even come from our own experience, but from that of our ancestors and our culture.

          Responses to mood include fight, flight, flee and feel. Only one of those will help get through the moment with understanding—feel. We must be the container for our emotions and moods. Feel what you feel, try to identify what it is and what triggered it, and work with it until it dissipates. What we typically do is pass it on. Whatever negative emotion—fear, sadness, anger, jealousy, resentment—we project it out to the next person rather than processing it within ourselves. If we can recognize what we are feeling, what may have triggered it, and allow our inner guidance to show us how best to deal with it, there is a possibility of transforming it. Our physical bodies are amazing in that they provide all the necessary equipment for healing our bodies, our minds, and our spirits. But we must ask for the wisdom.

                                                  In the Spirit,

                                                  Jane