What are all those feelings and sensations that you feel?
They must be energy, right?
Let’s dive in.
A Human-powered Summary of Sensing Energy
This is a human-powered, non-AI summary to give you an overview of this spiritual blog post. Firstly, spiritual energy is a placeholder term for emotions and sensations happening inside you that you don’t understand. To learn about what is arising in you, you can take these five steps.
- Notice the sensations and emotions
- Take ownership of these feelings as your own
- Investigate the specific sources in the body
- Explore what emotional memories or physical needs arise from those places
- Take action to live a more full and happy life!
While it isn’t a step, I encourage you to appreciate the fact that you can correctly interpret these mind, heart, and body signals instead of believing they’re just this ambiguous thing called, “energy.” Now you can live a more grounded life.
Want more?
Please read on to learn about how to use these steps to sense the truth in yourself.
What Is Spiritual Energy?
Now, I know a lot of you want to cling to your idea of spiritual energy.
The good news is that you don’t have to believe me, but you do have to sincerely do the work. Otherwise, it’s easy to backslide into whatever your ego wants to believe.
The truth will set you free.
Illusions will make you suffer.
Furthermore, a lot of people want to believe that spiritual energy and the energy in physics (energy equals mass times a coefficient squared) are the same.
They’re not.
The physics energy is in everything. That’s the reality as the scientific community currently understands it and presents it to all of us Luddites and Neanderthals.
Spiritual energy is a placeholder word.
It’s a placeholder word for the unnamed emotions and sensations that you experience.
Many people project these unnamed emotions and sensations onto other people, and that creates suffering as they try to make others feel accountable for their own inner states.
On the path to spiritual freedom, we take ownership of our inner spaces, and that begins by accepting these feelings and sensations.
Identify, Accept, Embrace, and Let Go
Many Kinds of “Energies”
Modern society leaves most people in utter ignorance to their emotions and body needs. By practicing spiritual inquiry, you’ll continue to learn more about yourself.
You’ll also be delving deeper and deeper into your subconscious ego.
Your subconscious ego primarily speaks in emotions and sensations. It’s not impossible to figure it out.
It just takes time and dedication.
Discovering Unconscious Associations and Feelings
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
With that said, outside perspectives and help matter a lot. Taking ownership of all the subtle feelings and experiences of the body can take you to the physical therapist or nutritionist as much if not more than the spiritual teacher.
Remember that realizing freedom from ego means surrendering to all of life.
That means all of life is part of this amazing spiritual experience. Nothing and no one is left out.
That’s part of realizing that we are all one.
We Are All One: The Law of Interconnection
Now that you understand that, you can use these five steps to turn your sense of “energy” into personal empower in every day living.
Step 1. Notice the Emotions and Sensations
Firstly, when you have an experience with “spiritual energy,” slow down.
Breathe.
Come back to awareness.
Locate the strongest sense of energy you’re having.
If you think it is in someone else, slow down more.
Breathe.
Focus more on your body and let go of the mental stories your ego is repeating about the external person or place (The ego is really repetitious).
What you’ll find is that there is an emotion or sensation that is particularly dominant inside of you.
Bring your attention to that strong emotion or sensation.
Step 2: Take Ownership of these Energetic Feelings
Now that you see where the feelings and sensations are arising, bring even more attention to them.
That means you’re being the watcher, not the judge of what is arising.
It is likely that you’ll shift to different parts of your ego (judger, avoider, defender, or other ego types). Come back to awareness to observe again and again.
Breathe.
Relax your body.
If your ego tries to project them back out to a person or place, you can say, “These are my feelings.”
This may take a little bit of time depending on your current experience and your ego’s resistance to taking ownership and responsibility.
3. Investigate the Specific Sources in the Body
Now that you’ve owned that these are your feelings and sensations, pay even more attention to the parts of the body that are speaking.
You may notice fuzziness in the mind.
Or heaviness in the chest.
Tightness in the neck.
Those are physical sensations with stories about how the body, heart, and/or mind have been treated or changes you need to make in your lifestyle.
You may also notice anxiety in the stomach or dread in your shoulders. There are a lot of emotions, and they can be in any part of the body.
If you are new to naming your emotions, you may need to ask for help from others.
More things tend to arise once you’re in awareness.
Maybe you need to move.
Maybe you need to cry.
Allow your body and heart the space to have an experience.
But keep coming back to awareness so that you don’t get lost in the experience or create a sense of overwhelm by reacting to what is coming up.
After a Spiritual Awakening Unleashes All Your Emotions
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4. Explore What Emotional Memories or Physical Needs Arise
The more you take ownership of these unnamed feelings, specifics may arise. If a memory comes up, say it, write it, or express it.
The human body holds onto so many memories in the body and heart. The depths of the ego are all subconscious.
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
However, sometimes, your “energy” is only a sign of physical imbalance.
Poor sleep.
Lack of activity.
Bad nutrition or nutritional trauma (that means consistently not meeting your nutritional needs, which hurts your body).
These create strange body sensations and imbalances.
This may mean you need to learn how to fix your nutrition or turn off screens to get better rest.
Try this New Spiritual Tool: A Regular Media Free Day
5. Take Action to Live a More Full and Happy Life!
Now that you are clearer about what your heart and body have been saying, you can make the changes you need to feel at peace and strong in your body. You don’t have to be scared of your energy or anyone else’s.
While people have mirror neurons and can physically empathize with others and call that energy, that’s another topic for another time.
There’s tons to learn about your own space first, and if you are at step five: congratulations!
You’ve reclaimed yourself and your life!
Boundaries in Place, Meeting Yourself
Finally, I wanted to add a last word about boundaries.
A lot of people want to set “energetic” boundaries, but really that’s a fantasy.
That’s an escape for doing the hard work of having difficult conversations with people in your life.
Those difficult conversations need to happen. This is how you can grow and feel stronger in yourself as a person.
If people are dangerous, then you need to go to the authorities to set boundaries.
I know there are a lot of people being traumatized in relationships and are hoping to win some energetic war with their abuser.
That’s fantasy, and it continues the nightmare of your life.
Get out.
Now.
Hopefully, most of you don’t need to set those kinds of boundaries.
In short, you’ve learned how to interpret this ambiguous “spiritual energy.” Now you are able to know what you need for mental expansion, emotional support, physical vitality, and more. That will help you to feel more alive and grounded in this amazing experience called life!
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