So much talk these days about energy - clearing it, moving it, being in the flow of it - but the focus is always on other's energy - what about your own unique energy?
There are so many ways to work with energy. So many different modalities, perspectives, tools, practices, and ways of looking at it. I celebrate these differences; I’m glad that there are many different ways of doing something as it adds variety and diversity to the world. One thing I often find in spiritual practices is a demand that everyone do things the same way, or be the same way about things - which sounds rather fundamentalist to me.
At Art of the Seer Academy we teach tools and techniques for consciousness training and spiritual awareness that focus on your uniqueness in spirit; everything we do centers itself around you connecting in a very deep, very profound way to yourself. You see, what I often find missing from most spiritual practices is the truth that in a world full of energies you also have a unique energy that is created by the presence of your spirit in your life. Like a fingerprint, each person has a unique energy signature that can be a profound healing when you have the ability to access it.
In our modern problem-solving culture, it’s popular to talk about “bad” energy, or focus on clearing energy that is distasteful or you don’t like. That’s only half of the game. You see, if all you spend your focus on is clearing what you don’t want, what do you fill back in with? Chances are, just other external energies - themselves providing a temporary fix that will eventually grow tiresome or outdated. What if you could fill back in with you and you own innate creativity of spirit? The question of course is, how do I know what’s me and my energy?
Five ways you know it’s your energy:
- Your energy is neutral, but attuned specifically for you. Your energy is neither “good” or “bad” - it simply is, and it is right for you. It can also be right for certain circumstances, experiences, and spaces as an experience for others. Once you stop judging your energy against some external idea, it becomes easier to find it - like tuning a radio dial and getting out of the static.
- Your energy would never invalidate you. Your energy would never think lowly of you, your abilities, your experience. Energy in the form of self-talk, mental loops, behavioral patterns that hurt or harm you are never your own energy, it’s always foreign energy you are running through you as a medium, or energy patterns you’ve picked up from others.
- Your energy is a healing for you. Like filling up an empty cup, it feels like a quenching of a thirst. It feels like coming home, a wholeness, a coming back into the present of your life and your experience.
- Others are attracted to you when you run it. Its easy for people to get confused here - you might think people are attracted to your energy and want to take it. But in actuality, it’s natural for us to be drawn to others who are running their own energy, as it creates space for us to be reminded that we can run our own, too.
- Your own energy is the most creative thing you have. Running other energy through you can amp you up, give you temporary bouts of creativity (runnin’ on Dunkin!) but where you create from yourself, there you are. Having access to this means you can bring your creativity of spirit into the present moment in evocative, transformative, and exciting ways.
Tuning into your own energy and being able to have access to it is free, unencumbered ways is something that takes practice and commitment to not only understand, but also to embody on a deep level. It’s like music - you might be able to hear and hum a song by heart, but to be able to play it on an instrument, it takes time and commitment to learn how to do that. This is what we teach and our students experience each week in our trainings through the meditative and psychic tools we practice.