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Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

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Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed
An Inner-World Exploration

Energy cannot be destroyed, but it can be dismembered, then rearranged, refigured, and reassembled.

That is very powerful knowledge.  It means that negative energy can be turned into positive energy. You don’t have to stay stuck, you can simply dismember the negative energy and reassemble into positive energy. 

That’s a powerful concept to embrace. 

Do not focus on the negative energy

Transformational thinkers all over the world see their contribution to the well-being of the world as personally raising their own vibration so that it affects the collective consciousness. Changing the vibration of our own energy is the cornerstone of all change. 

While I work daily to raise my own vibration, I looked for ways to assist in the dissemination of the negative energy that’s so dense, so destructive.  

We do dismemberment – reassemble work through intention

There are several ways to create change. Somethings have to be leveled in order to build anew. We have to destroy, remove, clear, clean them out.  Then something new can be planted and nurtured in the clear energy that remains.  

For our own growth, we need fertile ground that we’ve prepared through our spiritual practice and sometimes we have to clear a space of unwanted thoughts and energy before we can plant and grow something new.  

The intentional inner work we are to do is to disassemble the unwanted energy and then use our intention to build up a new form,  bringing the energy together in a new harmonious design. 

It’s a process and we each have to find our own ways to dismember and reassemble, but I’ve figured out a few ways to begin. 

Identify the energy you want to change

You may want to change a negative attitude within yourself, a negative situation you experience in your life, or yes, a negative experience in your world that feels beyond your control. 

Choose the focus for your dismemberment. 

What is the current purpose of the energy you desire to change?

Even negative energy has a purpose.  It may be there to force you to examine your personal values, make a different choice, deepen your conviction, or rearrange your beliefs.  Once you have used thoughtful self-awareness to identify what you want to change and why, mindfully begin to change your responses and your actions.  

There’s a purpose for whatever situation we find ourselves in.  It may be blatantly obvious or patently subtle. We need to be willing to change.  We need to be willing to release what’s no longer useful. 

What are the messages you are receiving in your life and how will you dismember the negative energy you see around you, then rearrange, refigured, and reassembled it in a positive form?

 All healing/change begins within you.

Negative energy is sneaky

Negative energy is insidious.  It creeps up on you and gradually takes up more and more space until suddenly you’re pretty much immersed in the negativity.  A very important first step is to notice your own energy and the energy that you’ve allowed to surround you in your life. 

This negative energy might be as simple as a judgmental thought you have about someone you meet during your day.  It might be a feeling of anger at something on the news. The next thing you know you’re sitting there upset and angry and rather full of negative energy.  It creeps in and builds up. 

Be aware of the negative energy you come across in your day.  Be aware of any negative energy that you create in the course of a day.  And begin to make changes by 1) being conscious of negative energy and 2) creating a spiritual practice that helps you not just notice the negativity but clear it from your life. 

Why that negative energy is there?  

What’s the lesson of negative energy? It highlights where your attention is focused and what you expect to be present in our life.

That’s easy to change.  Shift your gaze. 

Dismember the negative energy in your life 

Once you have identified the negative energy you wish to eliminate, thank it for its service, for its lesson.  You will see it immediately begins to lessen in strength.  Then invite that energy to transform into a happier, lighter form.  Keep looking for scraps of negativity in the corners of your life and allow all the negative energy to dissolve and disappear. 

Dissolve your personal attachment to the negative energy

Why has this negative energy been important to you? Why did you need it in your life?  What did it make you do – or not do? How did it make you feel? Perhaps identifying with the negative energy made you feel right, or part of a group consensus.  What are you personally getting out of being attached to or focusing on this negative energy? 

Once you identify it, let it go. Then simply walk away.

Create a level playing field

The practice of dismembering in shamanism is to take the energy you are changing completely apart so it no longer exists in the form it was in. Reduce it to “unformed” energy.   

Create a level playing field.  Simply visualize the dense energy changing.  You can feel a wind come through to disperse it. You can see a rainfall come to put wash it away, or a flame to burn it up. You can feel the earth move to cover it up.  I like to see negative energy simply becoming lighter, joyfully happy to be lighter. It becomes white light and simply dances off.  Dancing formerly-negative energy – ha!  Use your imagination to see the negative energy disappear or grow lighter, or…you are dismembering it so that it no longer exists in the negative form.

Begin to reassemble

Reassembling is like having a fresh ball of clay before you that you can make into anything you desire.

What do you want to build with it? How do you want to reassemble it?  

Remember, we cannot destroy energy but we can change its form.  

Give careful thought to how you want to reassemble the energy before you.  It’s not about creating the opposite of what was just there.  It’s about moving forward in your thinking to shape that energy into something better than before. Perhaps something not thought of until now. 

We cannot see into the future so your request to your helping spirits may be to reassemble that changed energy into the form that’s most useful for you and your evolution.  Then simply see what shows up. 

Keep flexible.  As the energy shifts, you may want to repeat this visualization to clarify your intention in order to continue to lighten and reshape the vibration in a positive form.

Create a ceremony of continued reshaping

Each day, in your spiritual practice, release your connection with any negative energy you see around you. You may simply see the energy gradually grow lighter, or begin to dissipate or drain into the forgiving earth.  You may release it in a breath. You may be at the point where you easily see the level field and begin to reassemble, to construct what you need next in a positive form.  

Although this will probably be a gradual process, it will be hastened by your focused attention and your intention.  Work with this process of disassembling and reassembling energy.  

Be aware of what changes

Sometimes change happens simply because we shift our focus.  We start focusing on the good that’s happening.  Make the act of looking for the positive a part of your daily spiritual practice.  Cultivate gratitude and awareness.  And encourage a willingness to let go and change. 

Change the negative energy as it shows up

Create your own physical act that reminds you to send positive energy toward – whatever you wish.  Maybe you blow a breath over the top of your index finger at the negative that you hear or see.  Perhaps you hold your palm up to halt it or mentally send a stream of energy from your third eye. Just make up some gesture that reminds you to intuitively send positive energy to a person or situation emanating negative energy.  

The power is in the awareness. The power is in noticing the negative energy and sending it positive energy through thought and intention.  And it’s about becoming aware of the negative energy and taking steps to shift it in the moment. 

Create your own technique to alter the negative energy that comes to your attention. 

Keep your own energy positive

Each day in my spiritual practice, I simply sit and vibrate light.  I see my light energy moving out into the world to make others aware of the power of their own light. I send my vibration out to heal and comfort and support the planet and all who live here.  You, too, can simply sit and radiate your glorious inner light out into the world. Become more aware of your own goodness, your own power to simply gaze upon and thus change the negativity you come across.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I nurture and support the positive energy in my life.

Deeper Song Process

  • Identify a form of negative energy you want to transform.
  • Identify the thoughts, beliefs, reactions that are behind it. See if you can understand its reason for its existence.
  • Through your intention and any ceremony you wish to create, begin to disassemble your attachment to the negative, your belief in the negativity, and your fear of the negativity.  Cultivate a willingness to have that negative energy disassemble into neutral energy. 
  • Watch the negative energy begin to shift.  Does it change color? Does it grow smaller?  Does it melt into the ground?  Notice how the energy changes. 
  • Sit quietly in contemplation at the level playing field you’ve created. The blank slate. The energy is still there, it’s now neutral energy waiting for its new shape.  What will you invite it to become?
  • Use your imagination and intention to begin to reassemble the energy into a positive form.  It doesn’t have to be specific, it can be greater awareness, deeper conscious behavior, a willingness to act for the highest good for all.  
  • Notice how the world changes with the reassembling of the energy into a positive form. 
  • Repeat as desired.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Another Part of You-The Unseen World

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

When I See Myself As Light

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

 The Power of your Imagination

What Core Beliefs are Guiding You Today

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful?

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.  

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Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

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Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning
An Immer-World Exploration

“If we learn to sense everything from a higher vantage point or vibrational frequency, we may actually see the world as it really is, a construct of our minds and our collective dance. Nothing is what it seems.”  – Raja Choudhury 

When we raise our vibration it affects our world.  How do we do that?  What do we need to do to raise our vibration? The ideas are pouring into my consciousnesses and showing up from many directions.

In my shamanic journeys, I ask for and continue to receive ideas for specific ways to raise my vibration.  I am adding a small ceremony/practice to my daily work that involves raising my vibration.

Raise your vibration through visualization

In a quiet place begin by being aware of your core. The core of you. The strength of you.  The inner world of you. In my practice, I begin there, in my essence.  I experience myself as a container filled with golden light that comes in my crown and slowly fills my body.  That is followed by rainbow light that moves through my body righting what is wrong, working to heal and restore and rebalance all of my body –  the corners, the crevices.  I give it time to do a thorough job of wholing.   

Gradually I allow that pillar of light that is me, to expand until I become and have a feeling of being only pure vibration. Individual/ego“Me” disappears.  I experience myself as light.  I relax into the vibration, the feeling, the experience.  There may be an accompanying sound, there may not be.  In this journey of visualization, as I begin to expand my own vibration I become aware of other expanded vibrations, other light beings who are also expanding their vibrations. We nod in recognition and then join our vibrations together to become a larger vibrational energy.  This continues – coming up next to a vibration of wholeness, merging with it to increase our collective power.  Not absorbing, simply merging to become bigger and broader and more far-reaching.  Our strength grows, our reach expands.  I am still aware of my mind, but no longer sense my body.  We, the collective vibration of those who are aware and who have chosen to be a part of this vibratory expansion, fill the void.  We put our collective, expanded, positive vibration right into the earth, into nature, into all the inhabitants, into the core of the earth itself.  We, as this collective energy, wrap ourselves around the moon and the sun to absorb and share their gifts.  We, as light vibration, move within the core of the earth to heal and balance.  We touch all living things, insects, birds animals, people.  

We begin to merge our thoughts. We spread our light like a calming ray into the harried thoughts of concerned and aware seekers.  They take a deep breath and see life a bit differently.  They recognize their own light and are enhanced.  They begin to explore their own vibration. 

Breathe.  Breathe light, breath the vibration of wholeness. Fold your hands in the mudra prayer position or just put your index fingers together and blow light vibrational energy over the top out into others in the world, to those beings who are raising their vibration. Use your breath like a tuning fork. Others hear, are drawn to it, and begin to resonate.  

Begin your daily ceremony with visualizations of our collective vibration and see where it takes you. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

Each day I become more aware of the energy of my essence
and how I can use it to connect with others. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Experiment with using visualization to raid and expand your core energy.
  • Adjust your visualization until you can experience yourself as pure vibration. 
  • When you are comfortable, expand your vibration to meet up with other expanded vibrations and notice what you experience. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Do You Practice Self-Transcendence? 

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Dying and the Invisible World

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Dying and the Invisible World
An Inner World Exploration

I’m old, but I’m a long way from dying.  The most comforting, inviting concept I’ve found surrounding this process of death is the journeying I do in my imagination when I practice shamanism.

95% of our experience is in the unseen realms

I’ve been in touch with my inner world for years through meditation, intuition, hunches, simply knowing, but shamanism has taught me specific ways to explore the unseen world.  I find it very comforting now and I know I will find it extremely comforting when I die.  

For you see, I have many friends in the unseen world, the invisible realms, the parallel universes.  Helping spirits that I work with in my life today, that teach me and guide me and guard me. Today.  Every day.  In my spiritual practice. When I begin an inner shamanic journey I go to my Sacred Garden, and there they are, waiting to guide me and answer whatever question I have chosen.  

Those helping spirits and more will be in my Sacred Garden when I die, ready to show me my “next.”

Aging makes it real

When I first moved into the senior center I call home, I thought I had a really good philosophy of death.  Until I watched a steady stream of this population constantly going off to die.  It was then I realized that my philosophy of death needed to be more individualized, more personal, because I was closer to the actual process of dying. 

So I began to search.  It was when I began to perform Shamanic Journeys that I found my most reassuring path.  

It would be great if there were no pain when I die, but my helping spirits can help with that.  

There is no fear for me in dying because I have long been intrigued by the concept that Rumi calls “the nowhere that you came from.”  

As I explore the unseen world, I see how vast it is but also how easily I travel within it.  It’s a whole new adventure. 

And it will continue to be.  

Explore your inner life

Notice your dreams and take time to interpret them.  They are metaphors.  Look beyond their recognizable representation to uncover the meaning they convey.  

I now have many helping sprits.  They show up to offer different types of service, to take me on journeys for different purposes.  But they are always there, ready to assist, to be of service, to guide my steps. 

Go beyond your body suit

Whether you dream or journey or meditate, do your inner work with the intention of understanding “next”.  I’m drawn to concepts like the Great Nothingness, the All That Is.  The metaphor of the Web of Life is too individualistic for me; it still seems like we are individual threads in the web of life.  I’m more drawn to the idea of being part of the cosmic soup, there’s no separate flavor, it’s only the blended result of the combined seasonings.  I like the idea that my individual seasoning will join in the cosmic soup and blend with the total, the all that is.

Rumi says, ‘You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in one drop.”  We contain that cosmic soup even as we are the drop of our individual body suits.

Can you speak of dying to others?

I can speak about and explore my own ideas of death for myself, but approaching that conversation with someone who’s facing their own death is not something I’ve done yet. I have a friend who is on oxygen, whose doctors say they have now given her all the “big guns” they have in the form of treatment.  There’s no timetable for death, but the signs seem to suggest that she’s closer than she was.  And yet, I do not have the conversation with her about how she views death. It is probably not my place. I can only seem to do that for myself.  Perhaps it’s because she is not a close-up and personal friend with whom I regularly have philosophical conversations.  

There are people I could have the conversation about dying with but not many.  Not everyone is willing to even think about it.  They may be afraid because no one knows what it’s like, or they may not be doing the exploratory inner work that some people do.  

We each walk our own path of life – and of death.  I’m exploring my “next” by exploring my inner world, the unseen part of my existence, to make the experience of dying a positive passage. 

And I really like the support I’m finding there.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I do the inner work necessary to develop
a comforting concept of dying. 

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Another Part of Me – The Unseen World

Unleash the Power of your Sacred Garden

 How to Be Nothing

How Effective Is Your Spiritual Practice? 

Come Out of the Protective Darkness of the Unconscious 

What is the Difference betweenSpirituality and Religion?

I Row My Boat Alone

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The Destructive Power of Negative Thought – on Others

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The Destructive Power of Negative Thought – on Others
An Inner World Exploration

Like many metaphysicians, Shamans believe that thoughts are things. Sometimes part of their work is to transform the negative thoughts that are causing illness in their body.

Where do negative thoughts come from?

If negative thoughts make you sick, where do they come from?  The first place to look is within yourself, the negative affirmations you’re giving yourself.

But what blew my mind, what sent me rushing to write this article, is that my negative thoughts can cause illness in someone else.  

Wow.  Bummer.  I need to monitor that. 

How you see others affects them

I’ve just gone through a rather judgmental period of watching my sister move and finding her ineffectiveness annoying. She is very harmful to herself with phrases like “I’m scared, I can’t do that, I can’t learn that, I don’t know how to do that.”  All of these are extremely damaging.  

But what struck me the most is that my thoughts of seeing her as ineffective were helping hold her in that place of ineffectiveness as well.  

Now, I don’t run around thinking negative thoughts as a rule but… Well, I’ve had to work hard at looking for my own feelings of inclusiveness (we’re all one light) and eliminating my own negativity (we’re all one light).

If you look at someone with pity, you hold them in a place where they feel themselves as deserving pity.  When you look at someone as being wrong, you increase the separation you both feel. When you see someone as sick, your thoughts help hold them in the place of sickness. How you see others is very, very powerful. 

We need to examine our own thoughts in order to encourage positive change. 

I have to transform my thoughts

How do I do that? How do I change my thinking? I’ve begun to look for and see love and light and illumination everywhere.  In the troubled places. In the scared places, in the desperate places, in the angry places.  I need to choose to see light everywhere.  Radiant light, the light of wholeness, the light of oneness, the light that is all we each are. 

It may take some practice.

I can transform negativity with my mind

I have to make some decisions. I get to monitor what I allow myself to focus on. 

For instance, one newscaster seems to put more drama and angst in his reporting.  I now listen to the one who calmly relates the happenings of the day.  I love PBS news because they clearly report both sides so fairly.  However, I also love to watch the late night shows.  Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers are my favorites.  Their jokes are relevant and intelligent and right on – for me.  I have to look at what that focus does with my version of spreading light into the world.  It’s not that it’s dark humor, it’s that they focus on what is not working in the world.

What we focus on, we get more of…

If I just sit here radiating light, I will not know what’s going on and what to focus light on.  On one hand, that’s just fine, because light to the planet is light to the planet, it goes everywhere and heals what is open to be healed.  

Are they open to be healed?

What if someone doesn’t want to be healed?  What if someone is just fine with being angry and judgmental?  

Well, that’s their choice.  

What I can do is shine my light so that anyone who’s looking can see it and bring it into their life.  No judgment. No anger.  Just healing, wholing, radiant light.  

Change your thinking, change your life

If you begin at this very moment to monitor and destroy all your negative thoughts, your life will change.  Clear out the sabotaging beliefs you send yourself. Look closely at what thoughts you send out into the world.  

There’s a television news host in my area who invites “rants.”  It’s really the worst idea I’ve ever seen because it helps people focus on being judgmental and critical. It’s very negative energy to put out into our world. (Maybe I should write a rant about the… No, see, my negative input would simply add negative input.  Light.  I have to radiate light and let it go where it’s needed.)

See the goodness

If you can find some inherent goodness in a situation or a person, focus on that.  It’ll change you, and it’ll change their reaction that comes to you.  Instead of spending time in your day talking about what does not work, spend more time focusing on a discussion of what does work.  

Change your focus, change your life.  

Feel the energy of negative thought

I can literally feel anger.  When I’m around people expressing anger, I have to leave their company because it physically hurts my body.  

I wonder what negativity I unconsciously allow into my life that’s harmful and non-supportive.  I’ve got to look out for that. 

Think of your thoughts as light

If you begin to think of all your thoughts as beams of light, then you’ll also notice that some are brighter and more luminous than others.  That’s what you want to send.  Not dull, negative thoughts.  They do not help our world raise its consciousness.  They do not help us heal ourselves.  

Notice your thoughts.  Monitor them.  Change them.  

Positive thoughts will change you.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Expand Your Spiritual Heart

Are You Sacred Space

Light and Darkness Cannot Exist Together

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner

Our Defense of Non-Existent Boundaries 

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden 

Journeys of a Spiritual Heart

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Journeys of a Spiritual Heart
An Inner World Exploration

The words were given to me in a shamanic journey – “journeys of a spiritual heart”.  That’s what my work is, an inner search into the realms within and a return with guidance and insights that will enrich and deepen the spiritual lives of those who see my light.

The spiritual heart is expansive

The spiritual heart covers everything – all of nature, all of the planet, the universe, all beings, including the smallest microbe.  The spiritual heart includes it all and permeates it all.

The spiritual heart is inclusive

As a human in a body suit, I have to practice using my spiritual heart because it is inclusive – inclusive of everyone and everything. As a human, I can’t always do that. That doesn’t mean I have to move to a lower level; it simply means I must shine my inner light brighter and stronger and longer so that someone who is searching can see a ray of light and bring it into their own heart. What they do with it then is their choice.  But my light, and that of others like me, will always be there for guidance.  And hope.

Practice using your spiritual heart

In a quiet place, every day, sit with your spiritual heart.  Feel it.  Let it radiate into your body until you’re filled with light.  Let it move into the room where you are, to the land you are on, the community where you live and … you get the picture – sit there and shine and shine and shine, allowing your light to increase, to become stronger and more far-reaching.  Every day.  Practice radiating.  Practice shining the light of your spiritual heart out into your world. 

It will join with others to deepen and broaden the spiritual light that comes from other spiritual hearts who are radiating through the world.  

Be light.  You are light.  Radiate it out to share with the world.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Our Defense of Non-Existent Boundaries 

 Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner?

Are You Sacred Space? 

Where Do You Find Your Inner Circle of Light Beings? 

Expand Your Spiritual Heart