💭 Overlapping Realities: The Power of Strengthening Your Energy Field (Part 1)

I have a few different experiments going on these days but I think this one is the most interesting at the moment. It's the idea of strengthening my energy field so that my beliefs – about me and my world – are stronger than other people's beliefs about me and my world. I see this as a way to gain more control over how I feel, how things affect me, and most importantly, the manifested reality that unfolds for me on a daily basis.

I view reality as an emanation from within each one of us rather than a static creation we are simply inhabiting and exploring. But when there are so many of us, each walking around in the same space (or so it seems), how do I decipher between the reality I'm creating and the realities of others? How do I become a cause instead of an effect? How do I SEE the change I'm being? I'm thinking that strengthening and expanding my energy field is one way to do this and I have a few ideas about how to go about accomplishing it.

As many of us are experiencing a quickening in our evolution, we are becoming more aware of how the people around us think and feel. Sometimes it's through communication but sometimes it's just through the power of observation and intuition. It's important to know what is "you" and what is "someone else." Hence this idea of strengthening the energy field: becoming psychologically strong while maintaining physical and energetic sensitivity.

Here are the tactics I'm experimenting with to strengthen my energy field:

Relaxing

I practice consciously relaxing my body and mental activity. I use guided relaxation exercises (like the ones in the Silva Method), binaural beats (like Holosync) and meditation. Conscious relaxation allows us to experience and project harmony. Think about it: when you're in harmony within your body and your mind, your energy field is strong, pulsing outward, and less affected by the vibrations of others. When you consciously relax your body gets to conduct electricity more easily and focus on repair and regeneration. Strength is not all about exercise, and pushing the world to get what we want. It's partly that, and it's partly about relaxing – letting the wisdom of the Universe propel you without much effort. Like they say in yoga, "let your body breathe itself."

Stretching and Using Intuitive Movement

I use stretching and intuitive movement* to release tension in my body and encourage blood and lymph flow. Think about it like a river – those spots that are too closed off from the current get mucky and stagnant. The same thing happens in our bodies. We are warding off a million toxic chemicals and unnatural frequencies every day. Our bodies are performing miracles just keeping us alive and level-headed in the modern environment. Stretching and intuitive movement encourage flow – of blood, lymph and electricity, all of which are directly related to repair and regeneration. Our bodies are an emanation of our energy fields so care for one is care for the other.

* By intuitive movement I mean physical movement that is led by YOUR BODY, more than your conscious mind. Sit, stand, or lie down, and move in any way that feels good. When you find a spot of tension, stay there and breathe into it until you feel a release or the pain gets too much. If it's the latter, come back to it later.

Checking In

I feel my way through life and I'm often overwhelmed by other people. In observing and interacting with most people, I sense disharmony much more than harmony so I have to check in with myself to make sure I am prioritizing harmony within versus harmony with others (when it's a choice between the two). I am always aiming to connect with others but not if it means disconnecting from myself. Some people's world view is so far away from mine that even if I love them, I can't connect with them very deeply. I would have to go too far away from myself. When I feel my body alerting me to disharmony and my inclination is to keep pursuing connection, I relax and check in with myself. I ask myself,

• What is the price of connecting right now with this particular person?
• How can I steer this interaction toward authenticity?
• How much of my truth or my perspective do I really need to share?

By asking these types of questions I maintain a stronger sense of self and I learn to decipher between people who are safe to connect and share with versus people who are not really interested in (or sometimes not capable of) relating to others.

Verbalizing How I Feel

This doesn't have to be out loud and for me it usually isn't. Verbalizing how I feel means actively describing the emotions that I'm feeling in as much detail as I can. There is no value judgement involved. I simply observe and describe to myself how I'm feeling. If I'm with someone else and we're actively connecting I'll speak out loud or if I need more clarity I'll write. But in the normal flow of the day, internal acknowledgement is usually enough. This is a huge part of strengthening the energy field.

At the root, emotions are delivering a message. The sooner we get the message, the sooner the emotion dissipates. This process is not taxing to the nervous system. Emotions that are denied, suppressed or devalued will keep being produced because their message has not been received. THIS is taxing to the nervous system. Emotions are chemical in nature. When they must be produced in quantity on a regular basis, the glands that produce them get worn out. Hello, chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, depression related to low thyroid function and all sorts of other nervous and endocrine system weaknesses.

We all feel unique and complex emotions but in order to make use of them at all, we have to first identify them. Verbalizing to yourself how you are feeling is the first and most crucial step toward achieving harmony and closing up weaknesses in the energy field.

Reminding Myself of Who I AM

When it comes to broken hearts, broken trust, bullies – the chasms of the emotional landscape – it's not about what someone else did or how you felt as a result, it's about your sense of Self. I'm all for removing yourself from situations that are harmful – there's no need to expose yourself to people who are hurtful, dishonest or disrespectful. But their actions reveal their level of awareness, not yours. Most of their words and actions don't have all that much to do with you, even when they're pointed toward you. People inflicting pain are feeling pain. People excluding are feeling excluded. People dominating are feeling dominated, etc, etc. When you return to your self, and your definition of you, how others treat you matters less and less. And the double effect is, as you return again and again to love, acceptance of self, the general "okay-ness" of YOU, hurt feelings happen less often, because trust and harmony are your dominant vibration.

People are going to hurt us, intentionally and accidentally – sort of just comes with the territory of consciousness exploring itself. The trick is to know who you are. Knowing who you are makes you impenetrable – makes your energy field impenetrable.

I actually have five more tactics that I'll share in part two. They are:

• Eliminating Criticism
• Consuming High Vibrational Foods
• Hydrating
• Performing The Five Tibetan Rites
• Deep Breathing

I hope this is helpful!
Aubrey