Friday, April 30, 2010

Energy Cords and Trading Energy

It is a natural phenomena to exchange energy all day long with people whom you interact with.  "Hello!  You're looking good today." "Thank You!  And you?"  Then both parties walk away with a little bit of each other in their hearts.  There are also more contentious interactions between people.  Trying to get your kids or spouse to do more around the house.  Having to deal with "customer service" to get bogus charges removed from your credit card statement.  After these kind of interactions too, each person walks away with a bit (or more) of the other person's anger, frustration or apathy in his or her space. 
If trading energy is such a natural, common occurrences, then when does it become a problem?   It becomes a problem when you want to think clearly, or to know your authentic self.  Remember that energy can be very subtle, it's difficult to know that it is there affecting you.  When you are carrying around other people's opinions, demands and expectations of you, that's what you think about; but you might not be aware that those thoughts are not your own.  Those thoughts are not who you are.  You give yourself a tremendous healing when you release that energy and get to a space of clarity.  I'm sure you have probably experienced this space at times.  It's a big relief physically, emotionally and spiritually to see and feel the truth about a situation or about yourself.
There are many other natural ways that people exchange energy during the course of the day.  It is very common for people to communicate using energy cords.  An energy cord is just that; a line of energy between people that they use to communicate across, very much like a telephone line.  I have a wonderful photograph where you can see the energy cords between my young daughter and me.  You can send an energy cord to someones throat for verbal communication, to their pelvis for sexual communication, to their heart for love, or to their seventh chakra for spiritual communication.  Once again, at the end of the day, it's important to disconnect, or hang up, all the communication energy cords so that you can relax with your own thoughts.
It is also very common for people to deliberately invade each other's space, throw painful energy at each other, and manipulate and program each other.  It's all fun and fascinating stuff!  I will talk about these topics, why people do this, and what you can do about it in future blogs.
Here's an energy for releasing the everyday (stuff) of energy exchanges and cords:  Sit in a straight back chair, put your feet on flat on the ground, and take a deep breath. Send down a beam of energy from your hips deep into the center of the earth. See yourself sitting in a bubble of your own energy. Pull your aura in close around you, about eighteen to twenty-four inches out from your body.  To get a better view, you can put your attention up in the corner of the room and look down at your body.  Give yourself permission to see any energy from other people light up as red circles, or just splotches of energy.  Give yourself permission to see any communication cords that you have with other people. Now climb back into your body and put your attention behind your eyes in the center of your head.  Gently vibrate or shake your energy and aura so that all the foreign energy loosens up.  Let your grounding pull it out of your space and take it down to the center of the earth.  Be amused at how much foreign energy may have accumulated in your space!  Now fill up your new space with your favorite color and own your body.  Stand up and stretch and say Hello to yourself!

Take care,
Madeline

http://www.psychicawakeningsseattle.com/

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

“Are They Friendly Spirits?” (Rocket J. Squirrel)

In my last blog, I brought up the subject of trancemediums – people who allow (either voluntarily or involuntary) other spirits to channel through them. Mostly we hear only the scary stories about trancemediums being crazy people or “possessed” by the devil. But some people have used their trancemediumship abilities to great advantage for themselves or others.


Most of us have images from movies and TV about what possession looks like. The possessed person’s face and body take on grotesque shapes and postures. They vomit unusual substances and speak in strange voices filled with anger. They can levitate themselves and easily throw heavy furniture across the room.


I’m reading a really interesting book: The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio. It’s the story of Father Gary Thomas, who received training in Rome as an exorcist in 2005. Even among Catholic priests, exorcism is a controversial subject. In our modern day and age with all of our scientific understanding of the brain and the body, it’s getting more difficult to believe in evil spirits and possession. “Discernment” of possession from “natural” mental health problems is a crucial skill. Most priests who are trained as exorcists work closely with psychiatrists to distinguish possession from mental health problems. The author says that if you perform an exorcism on a person who is not possessed, but does have mental health problems, then the mental health issues could worsen. I myself believe that all of mental illnesses are the result of some kind of foreign energy that is stuck in the patient’s space. As a being you need to be fully attached to and totally inhabit the body into which you were born. Not being fully in your body leaves room for other beings to enter, resulting in poor decision making and strange behaviors.


Some trancemediums have agreements with friendly and beneficial spirits. They do extraordinary readings for people, providing deep, profound information. They also write books to share their knowledge with a wider audience. These authors include Jane Roberts, Ester Hicks, and Edward Cacye. There are many books that give instructions for channeling spirits or your higher self. The Catholic Church prohibits dabbling in the occult, fearing that so things could make one vulnerable to the devil. My advice is to work directly with a teacher who is very well grounded and attracts only “friendly spirits.” I, myself, participated for one year in a program to channel spirits and allow them to talk through me. It wasn’t my forte though. Like I said in my previous post, “I’d rather do it myself.” But I saw some fascinating phenomena while I was in this program, and receive very useful information.


For more information, here are a few more books that might interest you:
Interview With an Exorcist: An Insider’s Look at the Devil, Possession, and the Path to Deliverance by Jose Antonio Fortea
An Exorcist Tells His Story by Gabriele Amorth
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (made into a horror movie in 1973)


What do you believe about being possessed by evil or benevolent spirits? What have you experiences? Feel free to share here with a comment.

Blessings,
Madeline
www.PsychicAwakeningsSeattle.com