Your Energy Field
When I was working on my master's thesis, I had to take a course in anatomy. Because physical anthropology was associated with the medical school in Cape Town, the anatomy course was the same one as the medical students took therefore, we worked on cadavers. Outside of school, I had just started learning about energy through the Reiki treatments I was receiving regularly. When we got to the dissection of the abdominal cavity on the cadavers, I remember looking for the Chakras and meridians. I even brought a picture to class one day of where these energy centers were suppose to be on the body and was quite confused as to why I couldn't find them! They are there, of course. We just can't see them with the naked eye. All colors vibrate to a different frequency and that frequency determines the color. The Chakras and their connectors (meridians) also vibrate at different frequencies but they out of range of what we can see with our human eye.
The concept of the Energy Field (EF) or aura can be quite daunting. It is actually quite a complicated structure that contains Chakras, meridians and so so many different layers, depths and dimensions. Yikes! To get completely verse in everything there is to know about the EF you would need to be enlightened! It would be extremely arrogant of me to even think i know everything there is to know about it. But I do have some knowledge that i’d like to share. For the purposes of this blog, we are NOT going to break down the EF into parts. At all. We will however lump it all together as one unit so that you can get familiar with feeling it, controlling it and picking stuff up from it.
Briefly, your EF is all around you and actually extends quite far out away from your body. Additionally, it may not be symmetrical. It could be more to the left or the right - more behind you than in front of you. How far it extends and where it's located depends somewhat on your primary feeling at any given moment. If you feel withdrawn or depressed, it is close to your body however when you want to be seen or feeling confident, it expands automatically. If you are sick with a disease, it will be depleted and will also sit very close to your physical body. Alternatively, if you are happy and full of love it will be strong, full, enormous and feel smooth to others. You may notice that you are drawn to these people but those who are feeling bitter or hateful you tend to stay away from as their field will feel spikey and uncomfortable. Barbara Ann Brennan has an excellent book called “Hands of light” (1988). In it, there is a picture (attached above) of our different states of being and what the EF would look like in that state. This may be helpful if you are a more visual person. Your EF adjusts to your current offering and will do whatever you tell it to do. You have always had full control over it but not necessarily conscious of that control.
The EF is incredibly sensitive, pliable and capable of tearing. In cases of physical or emotional trauma (the severity of which is determined by you), the EF will tear and actually leak out vital life force.
EVERYTHING about you is in the EF because what you are thinking and feeling determines what goes in there. This is why in previous blogs I wanted you to focus on what you are thinking about yourself and what you are thinking about others. The mind, body and EF are NOT separate. We have been taught to believe they are. It is such an indoctrination that we often do not take any responsibility for our level of health; mentally, physically, emotionally or spiritually. Additionally, the EF is a pin up board for anyone to read. Those who are sensitive to others’ energy can read it or see it. Thankfully, there aren’t many of those people out there!
The previous exercises have been for you to connect with your body and listen to it what it is trying to tell you. Now it's time to focus and connect with your EF. There is much to discuss in terms of your own EF as well as other peoples' EF and the interaction between the two, but first must understand what our own EF is doing. More importantly, you may need proof that it even exists in the first place! So before we go any further lets do a couple exercises to feel it.
Technique 6 (Part one)
Find a quiet spot and time where you won't be disturbed for about 20 minutes.
Close your eyes and take in some slow, deep breaths. Do this for a while until you feel a bit more relaxed, centered and calm.
Do a quick body scan to see where your discomfort is and breathe into those areas as described in previous blog entries.
Now that you are fully in your body, bring your attention to the space around your body. For simplicity, see this space like an egg; equal on all sides and only extending about 2 feet from your body. This may be hard to do at first so perhaps you can start with the space right in front of you and move to all the sides one at a time. What does it feel like? Is it smooth or spikey? Is it heavy or light? Do you see or feel colors? Does it feel happy, sad or indifferent? Are there tears or holes? Pay attention to whatever you are feeling and/or seeing with your inner eye. Sit with this for a while. I would recommend doing this exercise a few times to get really comfortable with it before moving on to part two.
This exercise brings you out of your body for a bit so before you get up and walk away, do a quick grounding exercise: Wiggle your feet for a bit; almost like stretches. Then picture your feet as the branches and leaves of a tree and see/feel the roots going deep into the earth and locking into the iron core. You can combine your feet and have one big root that grows down or have 2 trees, one for each foot. I find it easier to do two trees but play with both and see what works for you.
Part two
Start off the same as the 4 steps in Part one.
Check in on your EF. What is it doing and how does it feel? Take note.
Now take in a deep breath and as you exhale intend that you are blowing your EF out to about 20 feet. This may take several out breaths to achieve.
Once you feel you've reached that distance, hang out there for a bit. How does it feel to be that big? Are you picking up colors or feelings? Do you feel powerful and confident or is it uncomfortable?
Once you've had enough of being 'out there,' on the in breath start pulling your EF back....really close to your body now. Pay attention to the different distances. As you pull it back, you may find a distance that feels good. Take note of that for now.
Now that you've pulled it really close to your body, how does that feel? Is it too small for you? Do you feel isolated and/or alone? Or does it make you feel strong and/or content? Be there for a while.
Now, with the breath move your EF to a distance that felt the most comfortable for you.
Do the grounding exercises above.
How was that for you? Do you now understand that the EF not only exists but you can do something with it? How fun is that!