Spiritual Energy

How can you speak about something that is invisible?  We cannot see electricity yet we can experience it in the form of light and heat and that can also be said for spiritual energy.

Be a Light unto yourself, the teachings tell us but how can this be achieved?  It can be done through meditation.  There are so many misconceptions about what meditation actually is.  It is simply quietening the mind and body to allow the spiritual energy to flow more freely into your body.  We are channelling this spiritually energy naturally throughout our daily lives but we just are not aware of it, our spine acts as an aerial to receive this.  This is why you need to sit up straight to allow the energy to flow into the top of your head and down your spine.

When I went out to Spain for my first energy enhancement course,  I was first taught me before anything else, how to sit up straight and  I also teach this to my students.  In our Western living style we are not used to sitting crossed legged on the floor so I do not insist upon it, although I do encourage students to try it.  When my teacher insisted I sit crossed legged I thought to myself ‘you must be joking’ but surprisingly over the years of practice it has become easier.  It is a steadier position whereby the legs from a triangle to keep you balanced and straight.  Initially lots of cushions can be used to help with this and then they can be reduced when the legs become suppler. This again helps with the flow of energies.

By sitting crossed legged on the floor for the first time with my spine straight, it stopped the spiralling effect the energies were producing in my body and I became steady in meditation. Unbeknown to be at the time this energy was the awaking of my kundalini energy when I did a two-week intensive yoga holiday.

With practice you come to understand what spiritual energy is by experiencing it for yourself.  It does not come about by reading books or by hearing it from other people.  If you put in the meditation practice you get the results.

When I first started meditation I felt my  progress was slow  and I wanted quick results, so I signed up for the energy enhancement course, not knowing quite what to expect.  Over the weeks I learnt the techniques and put in hours of practice.  I became to feel lighter and became more aware of the ever-present silence that surrounds us.

The techniques involve removing energy blockages that stop the energy flowing through you. You learn to strengthen your intention and willpower to overcome the minds obstacles.  You start to clear unwanted /necessary emotions and thoughts that cloud the mind so that the mind becomes clearer and more able to contact spiritual energy.

Level One of the energy enhancement course involves circulating the energies around the body followed by channelling the energies from the higher sources and using them more proactively to eliminate obstacles to meditation. It all lies in the practice and determination, without which things will never change.

Whist on the course of was given my reiki training by Swami Devi Dyani a Reiki Master.  As I received the reiki initiations I was aware of the spiritual energies flowing into me.  In my book I have talked more fully about these.

As you practice the simple meditation techniques and breath awareness, your mind clearer and you are able to feel these subtle energies.  The mind acts as a barrier to our perception of spiritual energies.  It cannot reason them out intellectually but when you experience them for yourself, you know, which leaves no doubt.  Once that connection is formed you naturally wish to develop that experience further.

Meditation is easy to do but difficult to maintain, that is why you need a teacher who has experienced these things and is able to guide you through its pitfalls.

Spiritual energy is a healing energy, more clearly seen with reiki but it has the same source as that received in meditation.  From the Divine source of all, which is beyond explanation (i.e. beyond the minds conceptualisation).

Prana in yoga or chi in tai chi, is the life force carried on the breath.  When we are inhaling we are not just inhaling oxygen but pranic life force or chi, which has it origins from spiritual energy, the Divine Source.

I use therapeutic relaxation techniques, which allow a deeper reception of the spiritual energies in a relaxed state.  It encourages healing and cleansing on levels, physical, mental and emotional.  I also encourage proactive use of the breathing techniques for the same reasons.  It all becomes part of the same package.

In yoga practice these same energies are utilised for balancing, clearing and healing.  I work with people who have serious health concerns and are prepared to do something for themselves.  They are tired of being fed endless drugs by the medical profession and suffering their debilitating side effects.  They want to be able to do something positive to help themselves, no longer being a victim of circumstance.

Any one of the following practices of breathing, relaxing, meditating or yoga can be easily adapted to suit individual abilities and health issues.  It is self healing, of which I am very much in favour.  The body has a natural ability to heal itself and it is up to ourselves to help it in every way possible.

These are life coping skills, practiced regularly the results will be seen.