The Energy workshop, The Sword and the Chalice, was inspirational for me. Sitting in the Chalice of collective energies in the group, was just what I needed.
William Bloom facilitated the taking of the energy of magic and blessings out of the realms of the priests and magicians and placing it back into our own hands. The weekend event flagged up our own navigation skills to retrieve the magic of our interaction with Energy. Intention, imagination and intuition are all equally required to do this work. By a gentle calming and grounding of the body and the inner self, we can participate and engage with the Elementals that facilitate the flow of energetic form.
I found that a book I am reading at the moment, Nature Spirits, The Remembrance, A Guide to the Elemental Kingdom, by Susan Raven, gives insights into the elementals and greatly helped me understand their presence and meaning when they were mentioned during the workshop.
Meaningful to me.
I realise now that I find myself both 'out on the fringe' in terms of physical connections with people who enjoy this type of 'energy work', whilst trying to uphold a set of mainstream roles that are constantly challenged by the influx of my own energy transformation.
I realise that the energy I brought with me to this workshop was my ' challenge' to merge my physical roles with my spiritual roles'. I did not plan to, but I brought these concrete, life, death, flesh and blood relationships and roles, that I carry in my current experience, into the workshop with me in order to salve, resolve and access them in a new revitalised, energised way.
I had been overwhelmed, and remain so, with all the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual Stuff that lands on my plate. This 'to do' list that has structured my day for such a long time, had become a "RUTualised" form of living, and I need to be able to transform my day into a more graceful, flowing and "ritualised" form. A word that came out to explain my shadow way of dealing with the RUT, was 'compulsive'. Without going into all the details and stories, I had begun to relate in an entirely compulsive and obsessive way to the factors in my life. Instead of 'resisting' things , I had started to ' compulse' (my word) about doing things and getting things done. Okay, so I am working on this.
I have included some insights from Jennifer Hoffman about recent relationship, give-take scenarios, which I find are parallel to my situation at present, they may be of interest to you. Here is a snippet....
"...It is your issues around worthiness and value that prevent you from being a receiver and to constantly give to others that creates the imbalances. And there are power issues at work here too because the person who insists on always being the giver is the one who controls the amount, timing, flow, and direction of the energy in a relationships"... Oh yes, some lovely shadow dancing going on here (my words).
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The workshop was a space that both confirmed and revalidated my understanding and commitment to my expression of Energy. It also helped me define and expand on what I want to fill my personal energy Chalice with. It also fulfilled a current need for me to touch base with, and connect with the others 'out there' who feel pulled to explore and merge more fully with both the knowledge of Energy and Energy itself.
This connection with the people on the workshop, is also a connection with the tangible relationship energy, people energy, that all humans require from time to time. It is a meeting with and resonance with, matched vibrational energy. (In Aisha North's blog, it is called the Pond, where everyone has a voice, and can use it without fear of being judged).
I also learned that Energy work is what makes my heart sing. So I do tend to get a bit enthusiastic about it.
So, reconfirmed and validated back to me....My personal take on Energy.
Energy: I can know this stuff intellectually, but better still is to Embody this knowledge.
It is wise to clear up your energy, spring clean your words, thoughts, actions, be aware, be awake, be conscious.
Be aware and awake to what is all around, seen and unseen, as all are vibrating energy forms. Our own energy overlaps with, and is influenced by and affected by other energy, and in turn our own energy influences and affects "other-than self" energy fields.
On other levels we can call it the soup. The energy soup which is actively undergoing consciousness awareness, includes this awareness of how we are all interrelated, energetically speaking.
Choose what energy you connect with and be aware of sending more chaos to a person place or event that is experiencing its own energetic chaos. How can this be?
Well, if you find yourself judging or forming opinions about a person, (or anything for that matter) you are unaware of their current experience, or situation, and therefore 'create' and direct harsh or opinionated judgements, i.e thought forms about them.... it will only add chaotic energy to the chaotic energy that is perhaps already present in them or in the situations. This not helpful to them or yourself, as you link yourself in to an energy exchange of like energy. This is true of all situations and events. For example, when you are feeling horror, or outrage, or angry, about any tragedy that comes on your radar, this horror, anger or outrage, (energy forms transmitted by yourself) not only adds to the volatile, energy surrounding the event, but also links you in to it, remember we are all in the soup.
Stay out of the drama, and stay neutral. If thoughts arise, be aware and be awake to them. It is better to consciously transform your feelings to those of Love, only love heals. More anger sends more anger, and it muddies up your own field. William Bloom talks about 'managing your own energy field'.
Know Thyself, and thy energy field. Make thyself a chalice of the energy you desire by being whole. How?
All shadow stuff is part of you. So that these creepy crawlies, hidden in your psyche don't keep scaring you to death when triggered off by seemingly, random, outside situations, you should get know all your shadow stuff.
Ask yourself, when feeling put out about events, situations, or other peoples behaviours and actions, "Is this my own stuff?" Usually, if you are honest you will find that it is.
Be confident in your ability to hold integrity, honesty and congruency when doing self work. These are not easy skills for us, but in the intimacy and confidentiality of your own cupboard of skeletons, there are your torches to discover and know thyself.
The exploration must be from within a Grounded self, and take place in a safe blessed space. Its best to clear the space with a blessing, by reciting a prayer that holds resonance for you or by a self created blessing or invocation to your chosen or cultural deity.
The best way is to open to, surrender to, and remain in ready connection with the BENEVOLENCE (William Bloom's, word for the Divine All that is) so that you remain grounded and safe for when the shadow stuff comes up. When you are grounded, all energy work, such as looking at the shadow stuff, is done in safety and in love, and with love. Outside of love, the shadow stuff remains scary and nightmarish, and attracts more of the same to itself.
When we are aware and conscious, we can notice incoming energy that we may not feel we want to connect with. No fear implied, but it is good to learn to close our energy boundaries around us, and to rebound anything which, for any reason is uncomfortable. When rebounded, if those energies are actually for our higher good, they will return when we have increased knowledge of ourselves, have stronger grounding in ourselves and are ready to meet with the knowledge contained within the energy trying to make connection. If those rebounded energies are not of BENEVOLENCE, then you have confidently rebounded their approach into your energy field. There is a myriad of energy out there so use discernment at all times.
Often with each insight we achieve about ourselves, there will be a validating circumstance, or synchronistic happening that confirms or conveys your insight to be on track.
I have found, that healing, releasing and integrating have been a continuing upward cycle (that sometimes feel like a downward spiral) in my own energy work, and are often punctuated with the 'scaries' as they are released. There are also phases of rejuvenation. Frustratingly there are plateaus of being stuck, down or simply of nothing much happening, be assured these are usually times of being cocooned and integrating the healing. It is going on in so many levels. I have to reassure myself that as I have set the intention I am always in a state of unfolding, and unfurling my own energy field, regardless of what it feels like or looks like from the outside.
Waking up to yourself, its much more interesting than being asleep. Sure, it can be, and often is, difficult- but, if it is the only thing a person manages to do in this life time, than its probably more than was achieved in all the other 'sleeping lifetimes' put together ( I presume we must have had some lifetimes where we were enlightened and awake, because we are drawing motive from those lifetimes to propel us toward enlightenment in this life)....
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When we are confident and happy with the energy of our own field, we can begin to dance with and 'PLAY' (William Bloom's word) with the energies of all other forms.
We can draw from and connect with any energy source we feel resonant with.
Remember -discernment at all times.
We can also propel our learning and actions to increase our vibration so that we can, move up the evolution spiral, to draw on and connect with energy that is of higher frequency as and when we begin to resonate with it.
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The Energy of Give and Take
Good news for this week, as both Mercury and Neptune move from retrograde to direct motion, and we end the week with some powerful aspects that include a Venus/Pluto conjunction and a full moon. Many things that have felt confused and uncertain since June (Neptune retro) or stuck, with pesky mishaps and things that would somehow not work (Mercry retro) since early October can be cleared up now. Mercury is covering ground that it went over since October 1 so you may feel like you are in a time warp, repeating episodes from early last month. It's just a replay opportunity to do things differently this time around, or to reconsider what happened then and see if we're still aligned with it.
Just a heads up too, we have had very powerful solar flares for the past two weeks, including some of the strongest ever measure (literally, off the charts). So if you have been feeling anxious, confused, out of sorts and off balance, that could be why. These strong solar flares send lots of radiation to the earth, which is helping us as we transition to higher frequencies but they are a little hard on us physically, so get plenty of rest, drink lots of water, and pay attention to what your body may be telling you it needs.
Is all of the recent activity changing your connections and relationships? I would be surprised if you told me that it wasn't. The energy around our relationships is changing because our energy is changing, and we're becoming aware of where our energy flows out, as well as what comes back to us. As we become more attuned to our needs and aware of what we are doing with our energy, we are seeing where we give and receive and how those in- and out-flows work. The ones that are not balanced will become more frustrating and we'll start looking at where we can make changes. That's the topic of this week's message.
But that isn’t always what happens. Someone often gives more and sometimes, one person takes and gives nothing back. How do we differentiate between receiving and taking, when do we know it’s time to stop giving and how do we receive from others are all part of the new relationship dynamics now.
The flow of energy in any relationship must be balanced. That doesn’t mean that everyone gives the same amount all of the time, it means that there is a balance in the energy flow so that everyone feels that their inflows and outflows are equivalent (notice I didn’t use the word ‘equal’). No one feels taken advantage of, or that they are giving more than they should or want to, everyone participates and they feel that there is energy sharing going on.
I use the term ‘equivalent’ and not equal because in any relationship, we will give more in those areas where we are more talented or feel stronger. For example, the person who is a good cook will probably do more cooking if the other partner doesn’t cook at all. Or the one who enjoys yard work may do most of the gardening. The one who is the bigger ‘neat freak’ may do more housecleaning if the other person is not as tidy. But when we give to someone who is a ‘taker’ and not a receiver is where we run into problems.
A receiver is someone who is able to return equivalent amounts of energy to the giver so the energy flow is balanced. A taker is someone who does not return any energy to the giver for several reasons — they cannot, don’t want to, don’t believe they can, or don’t know how (it’s usually a combination of these reasons). When confronted with a taker, our first reaction is to give more and more to them until they finally give energy back to us. But that will not happen, and they will continue to take energy until we, in frustration, stop giving. Then they will find another giver. You can’t turn a taker into a receiver, that’s a choice they must make for themselves and it involves a profound transformation that can only be done by a higher power than you.
The problem is not only with the taker, who is limited by beliefs that there is not enough, they are not enough, they don’t have any power, and their issues around self worth, value, and worthiness. The giver often chooses a taker to give to because the giver has issues with receiving, they do not believe in the full value of what they give, and they also have worthiness issues. While they may describe the taker as a vacuum cleaner that sucks up everything, think of what a vacuum cleaner spits out, dust and dirt. Takers do not give back because they do not think they have anything to give, they’re sad, unfulfilled, and they feel inferior although they probably love all of the energy you give and they gladly take from you.
There are two steps to having relationships that are energetically balanced, with equivalent (not necessarily equal) inflows and outflows. The first is to cultivate your own ability to receive. Whether you are a giver or a taker, it is the ability to receive (instead of over giving or taking) that creates the energy imbalances in your relationships. The second step is to cultivate your self worth and deserving.
It is your issues around worthiness and value that prevent you from being a receiver and to constantly give to others that creates the imbalances. And there are power issues at work here too because the person who insists on always being the giver is the one who controls the amount, timing, flow, and direction of the energy in a relationships. Now there’s something to ponder as you consider allowing yourself to receive as well as give, choose partners who can give to you, and learn to enjoy the balance of sharing, partnership, and balanced energy in all of your relationships.
Finally, give with an open heart and without expectations, but balance your giving with a willingness to receive and you will ensure that you are fulfilled and filled full too.
Just a heads up too, we have had very powerful solar flares for the past two weeks, including some of the strongest ever measure (literally, off the charts). So if you have been feeling anxious, confused, out of sorts and off balance, that could be why. These strong solar flares send lots of radiation to the earth, which is helping us as we transition to higher frequencies but they are a little hard on us physically, so get plenty of rest, drink lots of water, and pay attention to what your body may be telling you it needs.
Is all of the recent activity changing your connections and relationships? I would be surprised if you told me that it wasn't. The energy around our relationships is changing because our energy is changing, and we're becoming aware of where our energy flows out, as well as what comes back to us. As we become more attuned to our needs and aware of what we are doing with our energy, we are seeing where we give and receive and how those in- and out-flows work. The ones that are not balanced will become more frustrating and we'll start looking at where we can make changes. That's the topic of this week's message.
The Energy of Give and Take
I notice trends in the kinds of issues that I help everyone with, my clients, facebook friends, radio show callers and others in my life. Lately one big issue has stood out is the imbalances in energy flows in relationships, which we know as giving and receiving. That is what everyone does in a relationship, they give to others and receive from them.But that isn’t always what happens. Someone often gives more and sometimes, one person takes and gives nothing back. How do we differentiate between receiving and taking, when do we know it’s time to stop giving and how do we receive from others are all part of the new relationship dynamics now.
The flow of energy in any relationship must be balanced. That doesn’t mean that everyone gives the same amount all of the time, it means that there is a balance in the energy flow so that everyone feels that their inflows and outflows are equivalent (notice I didn’t use the word ‘equal’). No one feels taken advantage of, or that they are giving more than they should or want to, everyone participates and they feel that there is energy sharing going on.
I use the term ‘equivalent’ and not equal because in any relationship, we will give more in those areas where we are more talented or feel stronger. For example, the person who is a good cook will probably do more cooking if the other partner doesn’t cook at all. Or the one who enjoys yard work may do most of the gardening. The one who is the bigger ‘neat freak’ may do more housecleaning if the other person is not as tidy. But when we give to someone who is a ‘taker’ and not a receiver is where we run into problems.
A receiver is someone who is able to return equivalent amounts of energy to the giver so the energy flow is balanced. A taker is someone who does not return any energy to the giver for several reasons — they cannot, don’t want to, don’t believe they can, or don’t know how (it’s usually a combination of these reasons). When confronted with a taker, our first reaction is to give more and more to them until they finally give energy back to us. But that will not happen, and they will continue to take energy until we, in frustration, stop giving. Then they will find another giver. You can’t turn a taker into a receiver, that’s a choice they must make for themselves and it involves a profound transformation that can only be done by a higher power than you.
The problem is not only with the taker, who is limited by beliefs that there is not enough, they are not enough, they don’t have any power, and their issues around self worth, value, and worthiness. The giver often chooses a taker to give to because the giver has issues with receiving, they do not believe in the full value of what they give, and they also have worthiness issues. While they may describe the taker as a vacuum cleaner that sucks up everything, think of what a vacuum cleaner spits out, dust and dirt. Takers do not give back because they do not think they have anything to give, they’re sad, unfulfilled, and they feel inferior although they probably love all of the energy you give and they gladly take from you.
There are two steps to having relationships that are energetically balanced, with equivalent (not necessarily equal) inflows and outflows. The first is to cultivate your own ability to receive. Whether you are a giver or a taker, it is the ability to receive (instead of over giving or taking) that creates the energy imbalances in your relationships. The second step is to cultivate your self worth and deserving.
It is your issues around worthiness and value that prevent you from being a receiver and to constantly give to others that creates the imbalances. And there are power issues at work here too because the person who insists on always being the giver is the one who controls the amount, timing, flow, and direction of the energy in a relationships. Now there’s something to ponder as you consider allowing yourself to receive as well as give, choose partners who can give to you, and learn to enjoy the balance of sharing, partnership, and balanced energy in all of your relationships.
Finally, give with an open heart and without expectations, but balance your giving with a willingness to receive and you will ensure that you are fulfilled and filled full too.
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