New Age Healing With Energy Awareness

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Energy awareness is a leap into the unknown where the unseen world of energy is as real as anything you sense or know. The world of energy underlies every experience, state or circumstance.

When you decide to go to Mexico for your holiday, your knowing it'll be warm there probably influences your choice.

When you decide to go it's because you believe you'll have a good time.

What you enjoy eating is because your senses tell you the food tastes good. Or you believe it's good for you.

But when you "sense" that you shouldn't walk down a dark alley, it is your intuition or gut feeling.

So, between your knowledge, beliefs, senses and intuition you should be pretty much prepared for anything . . .

But, of course, we aren't. Our lives present us with all sorts of unexpected challenges - difficult people, accidents, illnesses, where to live, what career to pick and relationship problems.

The reason we are so unprepared is we can't see the energy of what we do or are about to do. The energy of what you do is a flow of energy commonly - called chi or qi - through your body every time you do anything. For example, you might decide to eat a certain food, take a certain medicine, buy a certain car, wear a certain ring or go to Bali...

Every time you do anything - anything at all - your qi changes. And that change affects you and your life now and in the future.

On the one hand, your energy is changing all the time. On the other, you don't notice most of these changes and the few that are noticed, like the gut feeling about not walking down the dark alley, may be because of nervousness or some other form of stress rather than a real awareness of what you need to do.

Intuition is sometimes called the "edge of awareness" because it can touch upon the energy of whatever is going on. However, it isn't the same as real energy awareness that is as concrete an experience as when you feel the rain on your face or see the sun in the sky.

Your qi is in the forefront or maintains every experience and every circumstance in your life: the car that almost hit you last week (security qi), your problems with a lover (partnership qi), your difficulties at work (work qi) or your lack of energy (health qi). Anything you care to name in your life reflects the state of your energy in that area of your life.

Our problems are consequences of our energy deficiencies. But, unfortunately, most of us aren't aware of our energies. You may not be aware, for example, that the helpful medicine from the doctor is leading to a problem in twenty years time, that a tree in your garden is damaging your relationships, or that a ring on your finger is weakening the energy in you that keeps you safe.

It's all a mystery. Life just seems to happen - however it happens - for better or for worse. And we try, to the best of our ability, to explain it to ourselves or we ask someone else to explain it to us. But the mystery - or is it irony? - of life is that without developing your own awareness of your energies you simply cannot know why something is happening.

The awakening of your energy awareness depends upon the strength of an energy called your intent - not to be confused with the currently popular concept of "intending" something to happen. This energy, contained in your upper abdomen, causes your awareness to ascend. The more your awareness ascends, the more you experience body energy awareness, environmental energy and, finally, spirit energy awareness.

By living with intent your awareness can achieve new heights. Why would you want to raise your awareness? Because it's the only way to become free of the repetitive challenges that appear in all our lives - whether they are in the area of our wealth, health, work, relationships, etc. Living a "normal" life generates or maintains the problems that inevitably result from a lack of awareness of the energetic consequences of our daily choices.

Cultivating your energy awareness steadily brings new solutions into your life and consciousness that otherwise, inevitably, remain unknown. Sometimes, these solutions can be quite unusual - like curing a case of arthritis by creating a wire model that made the stress causing the arthritis to drain out of the affected joints! For people without energy awareness, such novel solutions to common problems sound absurd. But the more you choose to cultivate your own energy awareness, the more you see how all kinds of difficulties can be resolved through simple, yet extraordinary, methods.

Anyone can develop their own energy awareness. It doesn't require some peculiar, preexisting talent. We all have basically the same energy body which can be strengthened in ways that lead to almost "magical" results in your life - ways that generate more wisdom, inner strength, happiness and success. But it isn't about spending time and energy chasing the results you want; living with intent automatically generates the changes that you need in your life, in a natural sequence.

Although energy awareness is possible for everyone, it's only practiced by a few: those who already have enough awareness to recognize its potentially extraordinary benefits. So it is one of life's ironies that the faculty - to perceive the consequences of your choices and actions even before committing them - most needed by everyone, is the faculty that is most ignored . . .

"I would have done something entirely different if I had not followed my awareness, but I sat there and gritted my teeth and it turned out to be the best decision I could have made!"

Robin T, UK

(c) The School of Energy Awareness 2008. Reprints welcomed so long as article and byline are reprinted intact and all links made live.

Since 1982, Stephen & Lynda Kane have helped thousands of people around the world awaken new talents, their essential creativity and their awareness of human, environmental and spirit energies. They are the authors of Hidden Secrets of Real Health and the free Living With Energy Awareness newsletter. Visit Energy Awareness Training to register for their next live seminar in Walnut Creek, CA, 27th-28th September 2008.

"Since the Energy Awareness Training, I've never felt so serene, calm and optimistic as I do now."

I was a therapy junkie. Like many people, I spent much of my time seeking something that would 'fix' me. In particular, I wanted something that would cure the Irritable Bowel Syndrome that had plagued my life for over a decade, leaving me exhausted and demotivated.

As luck would have it, prior to the birth of my son, I worked as a health journalist, which meant I was able to try out, and review, a diverse range of complementary and alternative therapies over the years. Some treatments I found helpful, others less so, but none was completely effective. Some - like yoga and reiki - I stuck with, others came and went.

Earlier this year a friend told me about the Energy Awareness Training offered by Stephen and Lynda Kane. The theory behind the practice is that it's possible to develop your awareness so you become able to distinguish between energy-promoting and energy-depleting choices - whether about food, supplements, people, places or activities. These choices, of course, having a knock-on effect on every area of your life, from work and relationships to finances, home, health and happiness.

Inspired by my friend's enthusiasm - not to mention her glowing skin and bright demeanour - I decided to give it a go. After all, what did I have to lose? I signed up for the very next training session, which happened to be taking place in my home town. It seemed like a good sign.

Despite the details I had downloaded from the website, I realised that I had little idea of what to expect. As a health journalist, yoga teacher and reiki healer, I consider myself to have at least some awareness of my body's energy, but I couldn't imagine how we could learn to work with something so intangible. Would it all be hopelessly theoretical and vague?

I needn't have worried. The course was decidedly practical in nature, and the techniques taught were straight-forward, accessible, and, above all, extraordinarily empowering.

Over the weekend, we practised a series of exercises designed to increase our awareness of the energies within and around us, working initially with external aids, before graduating to more subtle 'body awareness' techniques. We learnt how to accurately discover what foods and supplements were 'right' and 'wrong' for us. And how the environment and everything in it, from material objects to directions we face and colours, affects us. We even learnt how to check out our emotional responses, bypassing our surface knee-jerk reactions to people and situations, to access the body's innate wisdom.

In particular, I was fascinated by the results of the food testing. Items I had religiously avoided for years came out as okay for me, including wheat and red wine, while many I perceived as 'good', such as bananas, tomatoes, peppers and potatoes, turned out to be affecting me detrimentally, as my experience has subsequently shown.

We were also led through several unique energy-cultivating exercises, known as 'weaves'. Reminiscent of tai chi, these sequenced movements strengthen and clear the body's chakras (energy-centres) and energy-field, retrieving lost energy and generating new awareness.

Perhaps most eye-opening, though, was the work we did with a special energy protection device called an Energy Egg. I couldn't understand how this white egg-shaped aventurine crystal could possibly work, but Stephen convincingly demonstrated how it protected against energetic stresses in the room.

All in all, the course was both enlightening and comprehensive, and, by the end of the second day, we felt we had been equipped with a complete holistic toolbox of energy techniques.

Two months on, my toolbox is in daily use and I can't imagine being without it. Best of all, though, my IBS has totally disappeared - and, as an added bonus, after years of feeling blocked, I've finally written the novel I'd always been meaning to write.

When I first looked at the Energy Awareness website, I remember one of the testimonials catching my eye. It described the training as 'life-changing' - I assumed the person was exaggerating. I don't any more. The Energy Awareness Training can change your life. I know, because it's changed mine.

© 2008, Anita Hall. Reprints welcomed so long as the by-line below is included and all links made live.

Yoga teacher Anita Hall is a health journalist and energy awareness practitioner. She has taken and recommends the Energy Awareness Training and the Rainbow of Happiness with the School of Energy Awareness at http://www.eat.energyawareness.org