An energetic spirituality operates from the understanding that energy radiates outward from each of us humans at all times. This energy is the lifeforce (spirit) that we are. We are spiritual beings which is the same thing as saying we are energetic beings.
Every field of energy has a center. The quality of spirit that we radiate, with which we flood the world around us, depends upon where we are coming from -- what we have chosen as our center -- or allowed to be our center by default or habit.
Every field of energy has an area of influence. This is true for each of us. The area we influence, by our very being, by our mere existence, includes everything with which we are in contact -- from the subatomic to the personal to the societal to the metagalactic. An energetic spirituality recognizes that everything is in contact with everything at all "times" -- a continuous interweaving of energetic forces. Each of us adds to the soup with our particular flavor.
Every field of energy has a vibrational quality. This vibrational quality, to use the soup metaphor, is our flavor. Our vibrational quality is determined by the center we embody, by the central aspect of our being we continue to choose.
An energetic spirituality is a transformational spirituality. To transform the world, transform your being. To transform your being, transform where you are coming from. You are a field of energy in a sea of fields. You are in command of your energyship -- no one else. Choose your center carefully. Practice coming from that center and no other. Practice rule: 7 times down, 8 times up!
Otherwise do not practice; move haphazardly through life. If you are going to be a victim though, you might consider practicing doing so with full intent and vigor. Be the best victim you can be. Take charge of your victimhood. The same is true if you decide to live your life as an innocent (or guilty) bystander.
The most powerfully transformative way is for us to allow our center and our Source's center to be the same center. In this way we fully individualize while moving with the energies of the One who breathes us. We embody the blessing -- "go with God."
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"Placebo" (Latin for I will please ) is, as we know, a substance or procedure a patient accepts as medicine or therapy, but which has no verifiable therapeutic activity. When presented by a profession in a positive manner, over 30% of patients respond with positive change. Our presentation and mannerisms elicit like behaviors.
ReplyDeleteWhen we are well-meaning, we can use the power of positive expectations to help bring about decisive and constructive changes in others. To be a purveyor of positive imagery and possibility in others is to add to the fuel that powers that type of welcome change.
The reverse, unfortunately, is also true. The nocebo effect is one that offers the expectations of no benefit or even negative changes. Negative expectations and imagery usually have, of course, the opposite results. Regrettably, this is probably more common than we would like to think.
This duel concept caught me in that it takes less energy (initially) for me to react negatively to another person. That negativity, however, builds and begins to consume both my energy and the energy of the other person. To act/react in a positive manner to another (in a potentially negative situation) requires me to spend energy. Fortunately, being positive begins to create its own energy between me and the other person.
So, what do you think? Are we placebos or nocebos?
(Thoughts triggered by Dennis Salebey's article Commentary on the Strengths Perspective and Potential Applications in School Counseling, ASCA PSC 12:2)
Phil, I greatly appreciate your thoughts here. Your bringing out the nocebo aspect of the energy that we are is of good service. Reminds me that a way it has been presented in Christian and other theologies is as a war between angels (placebos) and devils or demons (nocebos)who not only war in heaven but who sit on our shoulders and whisper in our ears.
ReplyDeleteWhat you are describing is in essence the angel-demon imagery and language brought into, translated into, a language more acceptable to science and to those of a non-theological persuasion.
Your point that it can or does take less energy to react negatively to another person initially buttresses the interpretation that we live in a "fallen" world.
The more scientific language (which you are using and with which I am comfortable) and the religious language are pointing to and attempting to describe the same phenomena -- an inter-relational realm which is ongoing and of which we are a part (both cause and effect) no matter what we do -- a realm I use the construct "energy" to describe, a term that seems to serve as a potential Rosetta stone allowing the spiritual realm and the physical realm to cross-translate and perhaps be seen to contain a common set of principles.
To use the cebo terminology, I think we are both placebos (placaters) and nocebos (naysayers). We are creating the hell and heaven around us with these capabilities.