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What Is Energy?
Energy is the life force that underlies all else. It is the
infinitely flexible matrix upon which our cells, our bones,
organs, blood and biochemistry are built. Energy forms our
beliefs and emotions, our ways of thinking and being. When
you address physical and psychological concerns at the level of
energy, you are healing at your foundation.
Energy Patterns
We are creative and resourceful. When we encounter
difficulties in our lives, we call upon our energy to attend to
them. Our energy forms mental/emotional structures, energy
patterns, to address the specific situation. So, a soldier in a
war will form the structures of a warrior, an energy pattern that
allows him to be tough, alert, aggressive, stoic. Things he
feels he needs to fight and survive the war.
Then the war is over. That energy pattern not only is no
longer needed, it may be limiting in the post-war setting. But the pattern
remains.
When we form energy patterns, we literally change our free flowing
energy from something fluid to something solid. The pattern
has literal shape and size in the body, it is only one thing, it isn't
flexible and has no potential. In this case it is only the warrior.
Whatever else the veteran wants to be now, he must struggle against the warrior.
Each of us has many obsolete energy patterns within that are still
active. We have formed them in response to difficulties
great and small. And soon we start to identify with them and forget
that they are superimposed structures and not our real energy.
All the patterns inside create a collage of ways of being, each
with its own rules that govern our thoughts and behaviors, each
loyally doing the job it was created for. And the level of our free
flowing energy is diminished. With it our lives diminish. We
may feel unmotivated, stuck, depressed, frustrated, numb. We may just
feel a mild sense of dissatisfaction or purposelessness, an inability to
quite
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