Monday, December 11, 2006
Working with Energy

On Saturday, I played a great performance with Wally Lauder, even though I had never before heard about a quarter of the songs that we played together. Even the songs we had played a few times sounded nothing like what we have done in the past. But the music was on consistently high quality. How can one achieve this, you may ask?

Tune into what is happening RIGHT NOW, and follow the energy flow - the build up and release of emotions and intentionality, which you see unfold before your eyes. It is mainly a question of really seeing, really hearing, and then paying attention to the evolution of energy in your musical partner and respond in being swept up by this energy and dancing around this energy.

My friend Lynne Namka recently sent me a great piece on ENERGY that made total sense to me, so I am sharing part of that with you today.

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Quotations

"....essentially all energy is psychic in nature."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Energy is eternal delight."
William Blake

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The World Belongs to the Energetic

Lynne Namka, Ed. D. copyright 2006

Energy is certainly in the news these days. Energy as a natural resource of our world and the high costs of driving your car or heating your home are the stuff of headlines.

What about your own personal energy? Those that don't have it seem doomed to be underachievers and couch potatoes. Those that have it typically get a lot done and enjoy exercising (which paradoxically burns off excess energy and increases it at the same time). The study of energy is an engaging topic because it is part of the definition of who you are.

I've researched personal energy and ways to increase it because I've had chronic fatigue for 26 years. Here is a summary of what I've learned over the years about increasing and balancing your energy.

Everything is energy. Energy is life.

You are an energetic being.

Energy flows freely when you are healthy. Energy flows freely when your thoughts are positive.

Energy flows freely when you are in a calm, accepting state.

Dis-ease happens when your emotions get too high and become out of control. The body's energetic system becomes unbalanced.

Emotional distance can cause the body's energy system to become stagnant and even blocked.

Highly-charged or stuffed feelings can build up over time, contributing to disease of the physical body.

Trauma (highly stressful events we can't understand and process easily, creating a state of fear, confusion and helplessness) shuts down the flow of energy around that issue.

The more trauma and blocked energy in a life, the poorer are a person's coping mechanisms to deal with stress and threat.

Energy wants to move! Negative thoughts based on fear keep energy from moving.

Energy follows thought! Irrational beliefs based on fear keep energy from moving and hold you back.

Stagnant and blocked energy can be moved through different forms of Chinese Energy medicine (acupuncture, acupressure, Tai Chi, Chi Quang), massage, exercise, and psychological and applied kinesiology techniques (The Emotional Freedom Technique, The Tapas Acupressure Technique, the Spinal Release Technique, Thought Field Therapy, The Nine Gamut Procedure, the Ocular Lock Technique, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Rapid Eye Recovery, Touch for Health, Tap and Breathe, REMAP, Healing from the Body Level Up, Be Sit Free Fast, One Brain, Meridian Therapy, Guided Self Healing, SEEMORG Matrix Work, Collarbone Breathing, and Bio-energetic Synchronization Technique, and many more).

These energetic techniques work on fear beliefs of non-acceptance and non-forgiveness. They shift the energy from fear to love. Love is always stronger than fear.

With big issues based on trauma, a practitioner of Energy Medicine can assist you in moving fear beliefs into love and forgiveness.

You can learn several of these techniques to work your own energy. Anytime you have a negative thought, you can apply an energetic technique to reduce it or release it.

You are as healthy as the quality of your thoughts. You are as healthy as your ability to take responsibility for your thoughts, attitudes and behaviors.

Soul development is about moving out old, unproductive fearful beliefs and replacing them with loving and accepting beliefs.

As you clear out negative ideas and feelings, you have more energy for creativity and a happy, joyful life.

Regardless the question or problem, love is always the answer.

Here is a fun energy-moving exercise adapted from a children?s rhyme that just might help release an unproductive belief. Find someone to draw and tap this exercise on your back while they chant these words.

Name your problem or belief.

Big X marks the spot with a dot, dot, dot (Draw big X on person?s back and accentuate dots with three pokes on the shoulders.)

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Ok, Mark here again. So, these days I'm not so much into the pathology or even the healing of energy-related problems (but Lynne is!). I'm into the use of this energy to play wonderful games and do fun things. But the energy which you hopefully got an idea of and the shape of from Lynne's writing is the same sort of energy which I feel in the flow of music.

As a scientist, I cannot quantify it or define it technically

But I can feel it, and I can work with it.