Energetic Awareness: Why It Is Important for Our Growth and Healing Journey
Let’s talk about Energy Readings, Energy Healings and Energetic Awareness! Energy is everything! Energy is all around us, energy IS us! In the expansive and fast moving times we are living in, it is more important than ever to be able to “find” ourselves energetically. When we have not cultivated energetic awareness, we can feel lost, disoriented, overwhelmed, and confused. We are constantly interacting with different energies coming at us from society, the media and other powerful players in our lives. We do have the ability to discern what is our energy and what is not. Learning about and relating with our energetic system helps to create more ease in times of intentional and unintentional change.
We are not taught to consciously pay attention to, focus on, or interact with our energetic space, and yet, our bodies, our daily life, and daily grind are all manifestations of energy! Our energetic body is also referred to as the subtle body. Our subtle body carries unique information that we are born into and information that we “collect” as we move through the circumstances of our lifetimes! You may have heard the words, aura, chakras, or the sephiroth on the Tree of Life: all terms used to organize and describe parts or all of our energetic system. You can think of the subtle body as an overlay to your physical body. This energy field and these energy centers are the information that informs us! Our subtle body forms our energy field and holds energetic vibrations and information that can be “read” by a trained Energy Healer/Reader/Intuitive. In an energy reading, the reader is creating space for our energetic system to be seen. The individual being read and the reader together are bringing awareness to this system. This is what I refer to as Energetic Awareness.
Energetic awareness: why it is important for our growth and healing journey. Energetic Awareness is becoming familiar with who we are, where our energy is going, and which energies we may be holding that do not belong to us. Where our focus is, that is where our energy is! Our energy (attention or focus) may not all be directed in one place, but we have such a fabulous and intricate system that we are able to spread our energy out to many places at once! This can be fascinating and useful on the one hand but on the other hand, if left unchecked, this can create exhaustion, overwhelm, confusion and depletion in our whole system. This can manifest as feelings of frustration around the inability to change or move past repetitive experiences, or the inability to let go of addictive, negative and repetitive thought patterns. Just as we can direct our energy all over the place, so too can everyone else: society and family systems included! Energetic “signatures” of past relationships, family, societal, ancestral patterning, leave energy in our aura or chakra system. This is all quite “normal” and unavoidable, so to speak. When energetic signatures become a “problem” is when they keep us from moving into the full potential as a Spirit, as our truest self.
In an Energetic Intuitive Reading, we work with the subtle body. We are relating with our spirit. A reading will give insight into our current energetic state (where our energy is) as well as what we can do to come into greater alignment with our purpose or purposes.
The work done by an Energetic Intuitive, in a reading and healing, is to identify specific times and places in the aura (energetic system) where thought and emotional patterns and habits are held. These patterns and habits may be keeping us from moving in new directions and make it difficult to find new and creative solutions to recurrent and frustrating issues. Shining awareness on energetic patterns creates the opportunity for a shift and release in what is not serving the best and highest good of a Spirit's purposes. The awareness IS the healing! A perfect example of this comes straight from a client who, after working with me a few times, shared this:
“Before learning how to work with my energetic system, I was closed off to connecting with my own energy, which was affecting my well-being. I have developed a deeper spiritual practice that has allowed me to work with my energy in a healthy and grounded way. This alignment has empowered me to make intentional choices in my work and personal life, creating a sense of clarity and balance that I hadn't experienced before. I now have tools to ground myself, bringing stability and strength to my daily life.”
When we choose to have our energy read, we are choosing to interact with our energetic system. We become conscious of our choice to gather back our energy or to give it away, we are consciously working WITH this beautiful gift of a system. When we choose where our energy goes and does not go we become empowered and we relate to life with more purpose, clarity and integrity. Our energetic system is our Divine right and our direct connection to what is greater than us as an individual, it's our connection to our spirituality!