What is energy?
So many people talk about their energy and the energy of a place or a house. So I thought it would be good to share a brief understanding of what this energy actually is that people talk about and how it impacts us.
We all have energy centres called ‘chakras’ inside our bodies and we’re surrounded by an energy field called the ‘aura.’
Our life force flows in and out of our chakras into our aura. This life force has many names such as chi, ki, prana and energy. It is the universal life force that all living things have. People have it, animals have it, plants have it, the earth is also made of it, as are the stars and the universe.
This energy can be seen and felt. Some people see and feel the energy quite easily while others can’t see and feel the energy force very easily at all. Even if you find it hard to sense this energy force, there are simple exercises which can help you increase your sensitivity.
The easiest way to understand the feeling of energy is to remember a time when you were with your friends and you felt happy. When you’re with people you love and care for, and you’re in a good mood, your energy is higher. You feel pretty good, you feel on top of things and able to deal with life pretty easily.
When you’re in a lower energy space, things don’t feel as good. You don’t feel as light, indeed you may even feel heavy and low. Our emotions and feelings are all part of our energy.
Our energy can also be affected by other people. Have you ever felt the tension when someone around you is angry? It can feel very uncomfortable! That’s because their angry energy is flowing out from them and impacting you. You can feel it. When someone around you is very happy you can also feel that. Of course it doesn’t feel uncomfortable, it feels good. You can feel their happy energy flowing into you and it makes you feel happy too.
At birth we’re all born with a beautiful loving energy. Next time you’re around a new born baby notice how beautiful and loving the energy feels. That’s why so many people love holding a new born baby. They can feel the beautiful energy that is coming naturally from the baby and they enjoy feeling that energy.
Sometimes when you walk into a room or a house where people have been arguing, you can feel the tension left in the room.
Even some shops can have a good energy feel or an uncomfortable energy feel. If a shop has a good energy feel, it will do better in business because people will enjoy how the energy affects them when they go in.
The way energy moves in and out of your body is through the chakras. There are seven main chakras in a line running from the top of your head to the base of your torso where your legs and pelvis meet. Your chakras are energy centres that filter energy in and out of you. Sometimes you can feel when your energy is blocked with emotion. You can feel blocked in the throat chakra when you want to say something but you can’t – maybe because you feel nervous about it, or perhaps you’re not able to say what you want to out of fear of being judged. You may experience the energy blockage as tightness in the throat. Another example is when you feel nervous, your solar plexus chakra (around your stomach area) feels funny and unsettled. We often call this butterflies in our stomach.
Some people even experience pain in their chest when they feel grief at the loss of someone they love. This is the heart charka. The impact of that experience, and the emotion, creates a blockage in that particular chakra which you can experience as physical pain.
Each of the seven chakras relate to different parts of the body and different emotional states that we experience. It’s important that you learn about your emotions and understand that, as they are energy in motion, you can actually change them. Do not believe that just because you feel something right now it will always stay like that. You do have the ability to change your energy and your emotions, otherwise you may feel like you are a slave to the past and that does not have to be the case.
You can learn more on the chakras and how to balance them in my next article called ‘Chakra Balancing’.
Stephen Bishop
Principal
International College of Healing and Metaphysics
Sydney, Australia
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