By Bart Sharp

Our essence is an energetic being. When our body is dead and dust the energy of us lives on as an etheric or soul self.  I once grappled with this concept of what a soul is and how it benefits me in this reality.  A soul is an energetic being of us and it creates an effect in this reality, positive or negative.

Our essence is energy and we take that energy wherever we place our intention.  For example it is a proven fact that those who think good thoughts to their plants have a more pronounced growth in the plant.  A friend of mine sends loving thoughts to her clients and they call her for appointment more regularly.  If we judge others negatively creates that energy to the other person.

A friend, who is a sensitive, feels when ever I am distressed or judging as a discomfort in her heart of stomach.  At first she thought that I was angry at her but I was reliving past resentments that I had yet to resolve.  It really opened my eyes how my unresolved past angers and abuses effect the world around me on an energetic level.  In addition I used to work as a teacher for handicapped students whom many had histories of abuse, the unresolved trauma was absorbed in my body and no wonder why everybody termed it as a stressful job.  Of course my friend wondered why my body was in such stress while I was at work until she met my students.

The point is energies of other people are abound in our lives, they can be a conscious or unconscious influence in our life.  I had recently taught a communion with nature class and for most of the class I felt a discomfort in my heart, like the feeling that I experienced in my our heart as a kid when I was in trouble.  I knew this energy was not mine but one of my students as she had a history of trauma or abuse.  When I was aware of it and allowed it to be it felt more comfortable.  The traumas that we have not resolved are still in us and vibrate an energy, we may not feel it because we have suppressed it and have acclimated to it.

Almost everyone on the planet has personal issues that are suppressed that they carry in their everyday lives.  It unconsciously influences their lives and others around them.  Carl Jung said that people resolving their conflicts was the only hope that we having in saving this world.  I agree wholeheartedly.

The spiritual path is being aware and resolving what is within us.  That is the core of empowerment.  You being free of your anger, rage, grief and fears to live in the present in a whole self.  In that level of consciousness we are an expanded energy that creates change of everything around us.

Of course changing you completely is quite a tall order.  It is an ongoing process.  But just for today I invite you to be open to change.  To stop everyday and reflect about what distresses you.  Ask yourself is the stress that I am experiencing today have an origin from my past?  While doing this feel the tension, distress, heaviness in your body.  If you feel it while you are reliving these experiences it is how your body is telling you where the energetic memory of this stress lives in you.  Explore the heavy spot, be present with it and allow it to be in you with no judgment of it.  Give it the attention that it needs as that is part of the healing process.  You may find the origins of your pains beginning in infancy, treat that heaviness like a infant would need to be treated, with nurturance.

For this week I invite you to sit everyday and process you for a short period.  Process what occurred in your life.  Do not judge it as bad or wrong but as an energy.  Give it your full nurturing attention.

These energies will begin to release its hold on you when you mentally and energetically process them.

When you release your fears a new freedom shows up for you.  A new energy and more of it as your body is not having to fuel the old fear anymore.  Wholeness is a gift for you that everyone benefits from.