Nessa Emrys 

We are energetic beings having a human experience. Sometimes I think alot of our problems stem from this statement. We try so hard to avoid being energetic beings or we fight acknowledging the importance of the underlying energetic interactions and communications that are happening constantly. The internet, social media, and a more screen-oriented way of life helps support this idea that everything is primarily physical here on Earth. I am writing to let you know…I think not.

 

We are not walking brains. We are walking bodies. Those bodies are ridiculously complex. If every interaction is based solely on what we see and what we hear, we are missing the majority of the interaction. Our energy as well as our unconscious forces are absolutely saying something at the same time as words are coming out of our mouth or our body is communicating with a gesture. We can say, “yes” with our mouth and, “No way” with our bodies. This gets really confusing in relationships and even in ourselves when we think that we are bring clear and simultaneously we are not.

 

A lot of problems stem from disowning the energetic and unconscious. So often the problems I encounter in my own life and in the people I work with relate to this. When we try really hard to be positive to the extent that we completely avoid the negative, we are doing this. When we communicate in positive terminology while ignoring our negative emotions, we are doing this. When we try to be who we think we should be instead of who we are, we are doing this. Even if you can acknowledge that you are an energetic being and communicating that way, you are probably still doing this, much like me.  Why?

 

We have to slow down and check in to know what our energy is saying. We have to be able to relate to another person or group of people with interest. We have to be curious and open, willing to surrender to the unknown inside of ourselves. We need to know ourselves in a way that goes beyond an ingrained and idealized understanding of self. We have to transcend our mental thoughts and become an embodied being of sense and flow. This. Is. Hard.

 

Transcendmentalism is the idea that we need to become more than our thoughts as well as our thoughts about our reactions and emotions. We need to learn to listen to parts of our bodies we like to ignore. We need to be able to endure silence and listen deeply. Really, we need to slow down. This is a simple idea but try doing it in the age of speed and fast information. It’s challenging to not follow the lure of the fast things we can do in favor of something that requires us to be slower to hear it. All paths to our happiness involve learning to slow down!

 

When we interest ourselves in understanding of subtle energies, we take this process one step further. We raise consciousness around our body’s multiple complex communications that are all happening at the same time. We have currents of feelings that are both accessible and repressed. By starting to listen, our body can get louder. We teach our body that we want to hear it. Our body, in turn, learns it doesn't have to talk so loud to be heard.

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This is hard for me to write about because it is the core of what I do. I believe that mental, spiritual, and physical health are found in connecting all the parts of the body to the stream of life. I believe the brain is one small component of who we are, and not even a very important one. We need the brain to get along in this world right now. But have we always needed it? At some point were we able to connect to the world through the felt sense of self expanding into the energies around us? I know I have always been able to sense a poisonous snake in the woods and a cougar on a trail. I have always listened to those loud beings. But what if I could listen for the quiet ones as well? Perhaps this is a lost art, needing to be reclaimed from thousands of millennia of ancestral memory. Taking the small step towards acknowledging that we talk to people energetically seems like I am not really saying anything when I think about it. Hmmm.