22.
Your energy body
NOTE:
This is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
Einstein’s discovery that everything is energy has implications
for every aspect of life. If everything is energy, your mind must also
be made from energy. This is not hard to envision, because thoughts
and feelings are obviously forms of energy. Yet thoughts and feelings
are the contents of your mind, so what is the mind itself? 
Energy can behave in two ways. It can be a wave that is moving through
a medium, such as sound through the air or a wave in the ocean. Yet
it can also take on the form of an energy field that stays in one place.
It follows that the mind itself is an energy field and that thoughts
and feelings are waves that originate in the energy field and either
stay in the field or are sent into the outside world.
How can you envision the energy field of the mind? You know that a bar
magnet has an invisible field around it and you have probably seen pictures
of the field. Even the entire planet has an invisible field around it.
It is therefore not difficult to envision that your mind is an energy
field that surrounds your physical body. The existence of such an energy
field, or aura, has been postulated for thousands of years. Some clairvoyants
can see the energy field and use it to diagnose physical or mental illnesses.
In recent decades, a few scientists have used scientific instruments
to measure the human energy field. Although this has not yet become
mainstream science, and certainly not general knowledge, the existence
of an energy field around the body rests on sound scientific ground.
Already, certain digital cameras hooked up to computers can make the
energy field visible on a computer screen, and it is likely that this
technology will be developed into a tool for diagnosing illness. This
will then make the existence of a human energy field mainstream, but
why wait?
The advantage of recognizing the existence of your mind as an energy
field is that you can begin to understand how the conditions in this
field affect your conscious thoughts and feelings. You can then begin
to take control over the energy field instead of being controlled by
it. This leads to several very important considerations.
Your energy field is not an isolated unit. When you interact with another
person, your energy field is interacting with – exchanging energy
with – the field of that person. The person can send energy into
your field or take energy from your field. You have probably experienced
that a person yells at you in a fit of anger, and you end up feeling
depressed or angry. The reason is that the person’s angry feelings
formed energy waves that were sent into your energy field and affected
your own feelings. You have probably also experienced being around a
person who was sad or depressed only to feel tired or “drained”
afterwards. The reason was that the person literally drained energy
from your energy field, leaving you running on empty.
You can now divide energy into positive or high-vibration energy that
makes you feel better and negative or low-vibration energy that makes
you feel worse. Since everything is energy, it follows that all feelings
have a specific vibration. It is not hard to see that anger has a distinctively
lower vibration than love. It now becomes obvious that you need to set
up a screening process to prevent negative energy from entering your
energy field while letting positive energy in. This is comparable to
the immune system of your physical body. You can improve your well-being
by protecting your energy field from negative energy.
What happens to the negative energy that has already entered your field?
Science tells us that once an energy wave has been given a certain vibration,
it can stay in that state indefinitely. In other words, once low-vibration
energy has entered your field, it can stay there for a long time. Such
energy can even continue to accumulate, making you feel progressively
worse. You might have seen people who become so affected by anger that
they lose control over themselves and are in a constant state of agitation.
One component of this is that the energy of anger keeps accumulating
in their energy fields. Likewise, depression is partially caused by
an accumulation of negative energy.
Your conscious mind – thoughts and feelings – are made from
energy. Just as a magnet can attract iron filings, energy also has a
certain electromagnetic force. Thus, an accumulation of anger waves
in your energy field can exert a magnetic pull on your conscious mind
and make you more prone to respond to situations with anger. It now
becomes clear that stress is an accumulation of low-vibration energy
in your energy field. Thus, the key to successful stress-management
is to learn how to protect your energy field from negative energy and
purify it from energy that has already entered. The positive aspect
of this is that it is quite easy to transform negative energy into a
positive state. As your mind has the ability to generate negative energy
such as anger, it also has the ability to transform such energy. This
will be explained in more detail later.
This now leads to another level of consideration. Your energy field
exists within the larger energy field of the entire planet. Part of
this field may be what psychologists have long called the collective
unconscious. This may now be explained as an energy field that surrounds
the planet and acts as a storage space for some of the mental and emotional
energy produced by humankind since the beginning of time. Since energy
can stay at a certain vibration and accumulate, it is easy to envision
that this collective energy field contains a large amount of energy
such as fear, anger and hatred. If your personal energy field is open
to the mass consciousness, you will find it very difficult to take control
over your life.
One example of how the mass consciousness can influence individuals
is a crowd. There are numerous examples of how people’s minds
have been overpowered by a crowd and they have done things – such
as killing – that they normally would never have done. This can
also explain why some people always follow along with trends, be they
public opinion or fashion trends. An essential part of taking control
of your life is to set yourself apart from the mass consciousness.
Obviously, negative energy does not have to enter your energy field
from the outside. You are quite capable of producing such energy on
your own by engaging in negative feelings, such as fear or anger. This
can also cause negative energy to accumulate, which can take you further
into a downward spiral that eventually leads you to lose control. You
now see that part of taking control of your life is to learn how to
avoid responding to life with negative feelings. This can be done by
resolving subconscious computer programs as described earlier.
As a final consideration, consider that in order to feel well, you also
need to generate positive energy in your personal energy field. This
involves learning how to respond positively to life’s circumstances,
but it also involves learning how to receive more energy from the source
of such energy. To understand how this can be done, you need to know
about your higher Being and the natural flow of energy between your
higher Being and your lower being. This will also make it clearer how
you can protect and purify your energy field. This is a summary of the
important ideas about your energy body:
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You must learn how to
prevent negative energy from entering your energy field. See Spiritual
Protection.
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You must learn how to
purify your energy field of energy that is already in the field.
See Transformation.
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You must learn how to
stop generating negative energy from within your own mind. See Peace
and Healing
the Psyche.
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You must learn how to
expand the flow of positive energy from the higher part of your
being. See how to attain Inner
Attunement.
23.
Your spiritual self
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