What is Energy?

You’ve heard me talk about energy a lot recently. Having just completed a month studying with the shamans of the Q’ero tradition of Machu Picchu and being initiated into their ancient lineage, I’m not providing energy healing sessions for my clients. 

But what is energy? 

I’m not talking about the peppy “get up and go” feeling that speaks to our vitality or the type that runs your car. I am talking about life force. Maybe you’ve heard the term prana, chi, ki, qi or just plain spirit. It is the power that is the basis and animating for our world and everything in it. 

So energy gives us both meaning and life. It’s the part of us that scientists, when they describe  our bodies and how they work, can’t explain. It’s where our consciousness, aliveness and very being come from.

From the smallest thing in the universe to the largest, energy generates us, constitutes us, animates us, surrounds us, permeates us, sustains us and connects us to all other living things. 

Science asserts that everything is energy - 99.99% of everything around us is made of atoms - energy. And even though it’s invisible just like the air we breathe, it’s just as real. 

You may be thinking that something this intangible is something only a few gifted people can perceive and understand but that’s not the case. 

Experiencing Each Other's Energy

We all constantly experience energy and interact with it. Here are a few examples of how we all collide with one another on a regular basis:

• When you walk into someone’s home and instantly like or don’t like how it feels
• When you put your arm around a friend in need and they feel better
• When you are in the forest or at the beach and you have a feeling of deep peace and renewal
• When you have a hunch or an intuition about something
• When you speak up and bring calm and reason to a group that has become angry or irrational
• When you liven up a dull party
• When you clean your house or car
• When you talk and interact with anyone
• When you breathe!

Energy is everywhere and everything. And yes, we can all influence it in a purposeful way to make life healthier, happier and more joyful. Influencing energy in this purposeful, positive way is called energy healing. 

We all have our own personal energy body. In energy healing this is known as the luminous energy body. It sits invisibly about six inches off of our physical body. When life comes at us, either in a positive or negative way, it first hits our energetic body. 

Shamans don’t believe there is disease; they believe there are only sick people. 

For the shamans, sickness begins in the luminous energetic body. I liken the luminous energetic body to a plate glass window. When situations, traumas, events happen to us, it’s as if someone threw a clod of mud at our glass window (our luminous energy field). These “hits” are the toxic residue of past events and traumas. If left unresolved and stuck to our energetic body over time, these residues will fester to become physical disease in the body. 

It’s imperative that we keep our luminous energetic body clean just as we do our physical body. Consider joining me for a 90-minute energy healing session at Satsang House (San Diego OR Sedona) or feel free to reach out with any questions.