Oceans Of Energy Part 8 - Raising Energy For Magic, Healing & For Life 

Part 8 - Raising Energy For Magic, For Healing & For Life

Give a moments thought and grace that possibly out of all and any species on this planet we can raise our own energies through the application of consciousness and free will at any point and regardless of external circumstances.

That is a pretty neat trick if you learn how to do it and the fact is that once you are in a position (as we now are) to undo our contortions in the energy body on the topic, it is incredibly easy.

We have already touched on the aspect of raising energy in the “I am a healer” movement prior to healing someone; we are literally conjuring up the concept of The Healer and then running it into our own energy bodies, easing out any blockages and letting that particular energy setting the tone and state from which we operate.

What a wonderful advancement on those poor efforts of having someone stand in front of a mirror and helplessly with a quaking voice saying, “Grr, grr, I am a tiger ....”

Contrary to public opinion and the much preached delusion, affirmations do not work at all if the person who says them is reversed or energetically blocked on those topics.

A person with a seriously disturbed energy system on that very topic (if it was working, why?? do affirmations in the first place??!) will cause themselves pain every single time they raise that form of energy.

It may be that they get used to the pain and it may be that by accident or good fortune things start to shake loose and sort themselves out, but it is just as likely that the affirmation will make the already existing chaos and confusion in the energy system even worse and the person gets even less of what it is they are after – be it the tiger energy, being successful, loved, beautiful, in tune with the universe and all the rest.

Here is the basic process to raising all and any kind of energy form you might ever require and, more importantly, make sure that those energies flow smoothly in, through and out to the extent that you will never have to speak another affirmation to raise them because they are simply there and have totally become a part of you in the long run.

1. Choose your energy.

The world’s your oyster – beauty, enlightenment, prosperity, abundance, wealth (yes they are all quite different), love, tiger energy, dolphin energy, cloud energy, creativity, angelicness, brutality (you might need it one day so don’t go into a reversal on me here!), it is all here but for the thinking of it.

2. Make the statement that will raise the energy.

When you are working by yourself, obviously the “I am” phrasing will be of the most use to you. “I am a tiger” – “I am wealthy” – “I am beautiful” is one form of version; I suggest you try something a little more radical such as, “I am beauty” – “I am wealth” – “I am health” which is an interesting way of really stating your intent that you wish to no longer make a distinction between you and these qualities and become them absolutely.

3. Speak the statement and run the basic EMO protocol.

Where do you feel that in your body? Follow the basic EMO protocol until the energy truly rushes and sparkles and you are having a real experience of what it feels to be that, to be in this state. If you cannot quite reach this on your first try, do what you can and then the next day, do some more until all blockages have successfully been resolved, all ereas pertaining to this have been healed, and even the postman notices that something very important has fundamentally changed about you.

I must really put it to you that this form of using EMO with “affirmations” is one of the most powerful personal development techniques I have ever encountered. If you cannot think of what kind of energy you would like to raise and make your own, you can buy books on affirmations in every bookstore. Just look at the standard suggested affirmations there and you will probably find things that you didn’t even know (consciously) you always wanted to have, to be, to do, or to experience.

Performing Powerful Blessings

It seems to me that one raises energies for a purpose and not just because they are there, although that too can have its merits as you will find out for yourself.

Mostly however, we raise energy in order to do something with it. The “I’m a tiger” guy is probably wanting something very specific, for example being successful in a sales conference or asking his boss for a raise.

We raise the “healer” energy prior to healing.

As we have noted, unexpressed energies are a huge problem in our energy systems and when you raise energies, especially very powerful ones, then they have to go somewhere – holding on to these energies is strictly not an option.

One thing we can do with these energies is to perform blessings.

Try the following exercise.

Find any household object, place it before you and raise the energy of “security” in a phrasing that pleases you – “I am secure” or perhaps, “I am security” if you will. I have chosen this particular energy for a purpose and because it is not commonly raised in our society if at all so you will be having a fresh experience.

Raise the energy until you are really feeling it and now, turn to the household object, hold out your hands towards it and let this “security” energy flow from you and into the object in question.

Do this until the accumulated energy from the raising has flown out of you and your systems are at a well balanced level which is running smoothly and normally, then stop.

You have just performed one of the very oldest religious acts – that of blessing an object.

This is a simple skill which is virtually never used as it should be used, as it could be used. Sometimes parents of children do this unconsciously when they stroke a coat, for example, and think, “I hope this will keep you warm and protected.” Lovers do this when they kiss the letter prior to sealing the envelope but these things are truly a pale comparison to blessing objects deliberately, with intent and from a state of a free-flowing energy system.

There are, once again, so many practical applications that I could fill book upon book with just this one simple energetic movement of raising energy for blessings.

Here are some very few ideas for you to really start playing with.

1. Healing Water

Water is incredibly responsive to energetic imprinting and raising energies and putting them into water which can then be taken, drunk or bathed in by yourself or any other is of course very useful. Small pretty bottles of water labelled, “Health”, “Happiness”, “Joy” or “Prosperity” also make a very attractive low cost gift for any occasion which is mostly received with much good humour even by the unwitting.

2. Imprinting Crystals & Dedicating Stones

Instead of having music playing on the CD, you can have energies playing on a small stone in the corner of your room. I am very serious about this; try it. It is good fun. It is also enormously therapeutic and something that small children (of all ages) really kick into – making your own small guardians, dream catchers, dream generators, protectors and much much more by raising the energy and then imprinting it into an object that remains is excellent fun as well as being most effective.

3. Blessing & Dedicating Rooms & Environments

The energy of “Harmony” is an example of something that would do well to exist all around a family’s dining table and main living areas.

Depending on the family, it might require regular renewal. “Tranquillity” does a lot for children’s bedrooms as does “Love” and “Productivity” is a good energy for work environments.

These powerful energetic manifestations raised and placed by someone who knows what they are doing also drive out energetic gremlins and stale ereas of all kinds; they can further counteract and completely alleviate unfortunate environmental energies and all kinds of other environmental energy toxins.

The same applies for outside areas, gardens, homes, entrances – you can really do a lot when you get into energetic home improvements and decide where you place what kind of energetic manifestation and for what purpose.

4. Blessing People

It is unfortunate but I would probably advise to do this quietly and to keep it very quiet. Also, chances are that your blessings will run into some powerful shields and then they are rejected and fruitless, no matter how good your intentions might have been, or how desperately in need of these energies the intended recipient might have been.

One of my favourite people blessing occurrences is for small babies at christenings or shortly after birth, to give a real blessing gift just like the fairy godmothers do.

Performing blessings in practise groups or with friends who are also re-learning to accept such extraordinary and valuable gifts is at this point the most widely used application; I look forward to the day when many more people will be able to confidently bestow and receive blessings as a matter of course.
 

Curses

The flip side of blessings are obviously curses which might best be defined as designed to increase chaos rather than to alleviate it in a directional fashion.

A great many holistic people try to close their ears, eyes and minds to the fact that we can injure just as successfully as we can heal and that we may curse just as well as we may bless; it is at the end of a day a simple fact of nature and ignoring this does no-one any good at all.

Ad nocendum potentes sumus – We have the power to harm.

A healer who doesn’t understand that or doesn’t want to know about it is a danger to themselves or others. You don’t get to pick the weather and especially with large systemic reversals in place, the more powerful a healer you become, the more powerful a harmer you become too. That’s just one of those things and one of the reasons that many of us keep ourselves bridled and not moving forward as we could indeed.

Curses have their own interesting set ups and occurrences in the energy system.

Many people cannot accept the fact that they can heal because that would mean power and responsibility which they feel they cannot handle – and perhaps they are absolutely right in that assessment as things stand in the prevalent conditions of their energy bodies.

To raise the energies required for curses is even more difficult because not only do we have the same power issues again, but this time we also have the weight of thousands of years of entrainment that it is bad to do this, that it is incredibly dangerous, that it will condemn you to hell and that it backfires to seriously contort the process.

Until and unless you are absolutely clear of all these thoughtforms and reversals entirely it is indeed extremely dangerous to use these energy forms for the purposes of cursing, just as it is extremely dangerous to use pure love energy if your channels aren’t sufficiently developed to handle this.

Purely energetically speaking, the process itself burns you up if you are not ready and of course is bound to go badly wrong when conducted from an incongruent state full of reversals, swirling chaos of doubts, fears, anxiety and thoughts of evil and repercussion.

As tempting as it may seem to start taking revenge right away using the EMO processes, I strongly suggest you leave these forms of energies for a time when you are not only a great deal more ready, but also have a great deal more experience and wisdom in the ways of the energy laws of the universe.

 

Thoughtfields & Reality Creation

Another very useful use for raising energies is the direct and conscious act of creating thoughtfields.

Thoughtfields are dense ereas of energy which become more and more “real”, the more attention and intention goes into their creation and into their maintenance.

A very good example of such a dense thoughtfield would be the imaginary friend of a small child which is, to all intents and purposes, entirely real to the child AND can be picked up and described quite perfectly by psychics who have never met the child before.

Mostly, people don’t even know they are actively creating thoughtfields of one kind or another all the time. Most are wispy and just blow away in the breeze, but others can become so dense and real that they bridge into felt reality and are with the person in question all the time.

Standard personal development goal setting strategies try to achieve exactly that – to make a goal so real that it simply steps across into reality and “becomes”.

Where this tends to go wrong, as it does with the standard affirmations, is that the energy of the whole process is not being considered.

Goal setting does not work simply by visualising something every night before you go to sleep and wanting your heart out as you look at it. I can really assure you that this has been tried to no avail by many hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, who have purchased personal development products where this basic strategy is being told and taught, time and time and time again.

First of all, let us be clear what we are doing with this process of reality creation.

Rightly, we have to start with an idea.

That’s where it goes wrong right away, because people make an idea of a house, or a boat, or a car, or a preferred lover and think they are going to create the object itself and not the energy that object represents in metaphorical form.

There is a well known sales adage which goes, “You don’t sell the product, you sell the feelings.”

What that means is that salesmen know that people don’t buy a house for a house but for the hope that they will feel good when they live there.

If we think back on how “good feelings” come to be – well of course, they are an indicator of the underlying conditions in the energy body. And the energy body doesn’t want a house – it wants energy, of course.

Now, this makes me laugh.

The energy body wants a particular form of energy as represented by a particular house in solid metaphorical form in order to create a state of affairs where the physical body notices the change and starts to feel good.

First question – when does it want this energy? In forty years from now upon retirement? Answer, no of course not. It needs this energy form right now. We can’t have any idea of what the energy body might require in forty years from now, but chances are it will be something very different indeed.

And this sad misunderstanding causes people to “chase their dream” their entire life long, whilst putting their entire life on hold until they “have their dream”. Then they move in and it is such a disappointment, they die not long after. Citizen Kane is a really good example of this process in action.

Second question: if you pull up the metaphor of the dream house and sit there with longing and heartache, does that make it manifest any quicker? Answer: it is highly dubious. What is not dubious however is that to cause these hunger states and to use them to motivate desperate action by the totality to alleviate them is as archaic and out of fashion as is starving the slaves in the mines constantly in the belief it will make them work harder.

It might do for a while but they die faster too and don’t work anywhere near as efficiently as their well fed counterparts (and you can get serious revolts and bloody revolutions if they really had enough!).

It is completely unecological from the energetic standpoint to try and motivate someone towards a goal by having them be hungrily wanting it, especially over long periods of time, years, decades or even longer still.

The good news is however that we need not be hungry for our “goals” any longer.

You can have all that energy and you can have it right now – if you need a fast car (or so you think), try soaking into yourself the energy of the fastest, most expensive car in a luxury dealership and just notice what happens to your hunger and so called goal as a result.

If you have had for a long time an image in your mind of a house or a landscape you think you need to be happy, call up the image (“raise that energy”) and allow yourself to let this energy flow into you, soften and gentle any blockages, repair what needs to be repaired and notice, once again, what happened to that idea that you needed to physically live there for you to be happy.

This is a truly extraordinary process and side effect of the basic pre-suppositions behind the EMO system of energy nutrition.

You can create exactly the right thoughtfields that provide exactly the right energy your energy needs and is calling for, right now – and it won’t cost you a single dime.

How cool is that?

Do you feel any fear that you might not know what to do with yourself once you have “eaten all your dreams”? If you do, locate the corresponding body sensation and of course, you know what to do by now.

What happens when you actually do that?

Well the very first thing that happens is that houses become houses once more, and not the answer to your prayers, the solution to all your problems, or some kind of guarantee of bliss everlasting.

That can only be a very, very good thing because it really must be such a horrible shock to have discovered after 65 years or more of constant slavery and self mutilation that the big house doesn’t make you happy at all – and you sacrificed everything for this, your health, your relationships, your life and all the experiences you could have had but didn’t because you were too busy running after your “dream”.

This is very much the same process as with anything else anyone might think they need to be happy – a special person, that special relationship, that once-in-a-lifetime event that validates everything.

Now, I am not here to destroy anyone’s dreams. That is not the purpose of what I do. What I do hope sincerely though is that when you and I are on our respective deathbeds, we will have lived and we will have no regrets about wasting our lives on a false dream.
 

A Different Dream – Goal Setting To State

So now we have established that houses and people don’t make you happy.

But then, what does?

The answer to that is of course, experiences.

That is the core of the sales slogan, “You are not selling products, you are selling feelings.”

You could also re-phrase that and say instead, “You are selling certain energy states that produce the sensation of extraordinary feelings.”

Now, in our society we have a general consensus as to where extraordinary feelings can be had and where they come from.

• The first group entails loving relationships and family relationships which are said to make you blissfully happy (but generally don’t, or not very often or for any length of time from what I have observed so far);

• the second group revolves around unusual experiences such as high drama in war, natural catastrophe, seeing a spaceship land, sky diving, or something you do on holiday but don’t get to experience when you stay at home.

You may or may not be familiar with “Guiding Stars”, my work on high moments of magical, mystical experiences of love and connection and the effects these anti-traumas have on providing guidance structure for a person’s life.

Either way, I have found in my research that “magic moments” of amazing power and heartrending beauty have the disconcerting habit of happening just anywhere, just any time, with just about anybody – and the truth is that you don’t get to have them because there are certain people there, because you are in a certain landscape or because there are certain special circumstance such as it being Christmas, but simply because for an instant, an opening occurred in the individual who was actively having these experiences to allow them to see and feel a state of being that is actually there all the time, wherever they go.

If you have ever felt truly alive, truly connected, truly in awe of another person or of the universe itself in any manifestation at all – then you have your goal.

THAT is what you want more of, namely to feel like that and better than that again, more often, more predictably and more reliably.

So in EMO, the goal is not one of the many components (props, actors and locations) that were present during an amazing experience but simply to learn to shift into that magical state of being where you all of a sudden awaken to the beauty of the universe, to the possibilities of connection between you and everything around you and not least of all, awaken to yourself at last.

When we can even come close that goal, you can put us literally anywhere, including in a concentration camp, and we will still be glad to be alive.

Now, isn’t that something worth having?

Isn’t that a goal worth attaining – reaching a state of being where we are always in love with the universe, no matter what, no matter where?

That is something that once you have achieved it, can never be taken from you and is absolutely independent of any and all occurrences that can befall us here in our lives. It is independent of bereavement or pain, of riches or lack thereof, of aging or losing limbs – because it is a state of being.

How do we reach this?

I think you might have figured it out already – we reach these states of enlightenment for this is what they truly are by repairing our energy bodies and have them fully functioning, fully connected and fully in the flow of all-there-is once again.

I cannot guarantee you enlightenment if you take up EMO and really apply it with volition; but I can guarantee you that it will give you experiences of feelings and sensations you have never had before, even at the very first beginners levels.

When you have had your first experience of this, you will know that I am absolutely right in my idea that the ultimate goal is enlightenment. We can make steps towards this, and even our baby steps are worth a hundred expensive villas, fur coats and sailing yachts rolled into one. What do you think we can learn to feel, learn to be and learn to do given just a little more time and a little more adjustments towards Even Flow?

I will leave you with this thought on the topic of goals and life achievements.

 

A Developmental Model Of The Energy Body

I would like to now introduce the concept of the energy body as a developing, growing entity that has not yet reached its adult form.

If we go back to the archaic maps of the energy system once more, what we find is a particular state snapshot that is considered the ideal, in spite of much talk about Kundalini rising.

You could think of the Kundalini rising idea as a transition of the energy body into a different state of being which would resonate closely with our previous concepts of thus having entirely different experiences then we have become accustomed to having, even though our external circumstances have not changed (see the old “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water.” slogan, probably designed to put as many people as possible off the idea of seeking enlightenment.)

However, what we do not have at all are maps of what the energy system is supposed to look like “after enlightenment” and of course, we have already discussed at length how unhelpful the idealised representations of the human energy body actually are and how likely to be flawed, considering where they came from and what purposes they served.

Krishnamurti, who was a very respected thinker on such matters, said, “The truth is a pathless land and you cannot reach it by any organisation which in itself becomes a cage which stops an individual from being totally and unconditionally free.”

I would translate this across to our concerns and say, “The energy body is a pathless land. You cannot develop it by trying to put it into a pre-shaped corset and hope for enlightenment that way; the corset itself becomes the cage which stops an individual to finding their own path which is what they need to do.”

Energy bodies develop (or at least try to, as they groan and chafe against the constant strain and pressure of societal corsets of one kind or the other) all the time.

They never stop and just as our bodies keep on developing from birth to death in a natural progression, energy bodies too grow, shift and change. It is their purpose and their design to be doing so as they become changed by the experiences and encounters with new forms of energy.

There is never a perfect adult, never a perfect child, never a perfect old person – we are looking at a sliding scale with infinite subdivisions here as is always the case in naturally unfolding systems.

Enlightenment does not suddenly burst upon you from out of the blue – there are precursors, warning signs if you will. There is one experience on time, then a long time later another. I suspect that enlightenment would be a perfectly natural progression if left to its own devices, with some teething pains here and there but other than that, quite smooth and predictable.

The only reason that this isn’t so is because our energy bodies have not developed as they should and have sustained grave injuries which were not repaired properly at the time. They have been seriously mismanaged in every way imaginable and have been misdirected so much by our conscious activities that a serious breach in trust and communication has occurred which now leads us to be talking about “conscious” vs. “unconscious” minds which are in conflict with each other and then with the “body mind” on top of it.

This would all be seriously depressing if it wasn’t for the one true saving grace – namely the instant response of energetic systems in the quantum realms to conscious thought and well managed intention.

So I would propose that we should firstly, heal the sores of the metaphorically terribly mistreated children our energy bodies are; allow their worst injuries to be healed; give them good food in a reasonable quantity and most importantly, give them lots of attention and find out what it is that need from us so they may shake off the past and now, begin to grow and develop into these amazing adults that have gifts for us of an order and a value we cannot even conceive of just yet.

Managing Major Life Shifts

I have written many books on a variety of personal healing modalities but this is the first time that I felt the need to include a section entitled, “Managing Major Life Shifts”.

It is true that in the development of this system I was indeed looking for something that was not just a quick fix for our niggling little problems so we could go on just the same as we were before, just a bit more comfortably so.

I was looking for a tool for transformation and I got it.

What do you think happens when someone who has lived for twenty or thirty years in a certain way really releases one of their most core problems or disturbances?

They change.

They change not just a little bit but to the extend that they will say things like, “I am a changed woman.” – “I feel like a totally different person.” – “I look back and I don’t recognise who I used to be.”

Now it would be nice to think that such a change which is always and absolutely clearly for the better for the individual in question (cessation of fear, shame, guilt, anger, sadness, depression, desperation, loneliness, low self esteem etc) would be applauded and celebrated with joy by their “loved ones” and their communities.

Sadly, this is not always the case.

Someone might be in a partnership which was begun under the contract of “You are submissive and I am dominant.” If one of these partners change, the dynamic of the relationship falls apart and if there is not enough will or love left, this relationship will die and there is no going back.

Someone may have applied for and be given a job because they were always quiet and never spoke up for themselves – that was the contract of that employment. Now, they do express an opinion or suggest changes and this contract will have been broken; they may get fired or decide to leave.

These are just two examples of serious life changes which can come about as a result of using EMO and especially at the beginning, they can be frightening.

A long time ago I conducted an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) treatment with a lady who had been seriously phobic of a particular representation her entire life. When we tested the treatment by having her walk towards what had been the object and focus of the most intense panic attacks imaginable, her steps faltered and she hesitated, looking very scared.

I mistakenly thought that the phobia had not been entirely removed and asked her what was wrong; but she was not at all afraid of the object any longer.

She said, and I quote, “I have never not been afraid of this and I just don’t know what I should think, how I should feel – I don’t know anything at all and I am afraid.”

You can imagine that this particular moment was a watershed for this lady.

It was like she could make a decision here – go back and simply have the phobia again and her life would procede as before, predictable, safe, with all possible occurrences planned for and practised many times, possibly an entire life path right into retirement and death planned out already.

Or, she could go forward into the unknown – into a life that was completely new in all ways, with whole new sets of challenges, unpredictable outcomes where not even goals were known yet. That is the Tarot Card numbered 0 and called The Fool but without whose step into the abyss none of the others – The Magician, The High Priestess, The Emperor, The Star – could ever come into being.

I sometimes wonder when I think about that particular lady what would have happened if I had not been there to encourage her to go forward in that moment; and further I have wondered if these watershed moments do not actually arrive far more often and regularly in our lives than I had previously suspected, and we make the decision of “No, I’ll turn around, keep it as it is.” many times, indeed, time and time again?

If this becomes an issue for you or any of your clients, the answer is to firstly be clear in yourself if you are really willing to grow or if you want to give up and turn back. Most people find that they do not want to turn back once the question is out in the open and some, including myself, find they cannot even if they wanted – they had already come too far.

Once we have made the decision to go forward, it is best not think about the details of what might or might not happen too much (as we simply cannot know!) and to treat this very fear of the unknown with EMO, take it right to the energised end state and have the fear of the unknown turn into a true excitement and sense of freedom about the future instead.

As with many things EMO related, I cannot tell you here what that actually feels like, to make that decision and step out into the void of the newly unfolding you, but just to give you a flavour, here is a message I received from someone who found the courage to say “Yes!” to a completely new life.

I went to the Cirque de Soleil show yesterday at the Albert Hall.

There was an incredibly powerful image when a woman was swinging on a single trapeze hundreds of feet up in the huge dome of the hall. She was on her own, performing incredibly beautiful feats with a very thin safety wire attached which didn't detract at all from her grace or power or daring.

It made me understand I may have/had a safety wire attached but it doesn't take away or negate anything I have done, soaring high, seeing everything and everyone from a different angle, feeling the rush of flying high on my own.

It was incredible, reclaiming my achievements, the overwhelming feeling and the realisation made me weep.

EMO does not take your emotions away – in the contrary, it shows you whole new realms of experiences you would never have believed could have been possible.

I know this and I have experienced this too; I also know that change can be frightening and people get very upset when you change before their eyes.

However, and this is a great comfort and allows for a great deal more courage all around, EMO can help with the fallout and repercussions of change just as much as it can and does engender them in the first place and I would say from my own experiences that it wasn’t easy, but it was nowhere near as hard or terrifying to change than I had always thought and feared it would be.

This does not mean that you will not have your own moments.

EMO is a superb tool and it really works but the truth is, we have been doing certain things in certain ways for a very long time for the most part and there certainly is entrainment in the energy body, as well as state anchors everywhere in our environments.

We also have a whole lot of work to do if we want to bring out energy bodies back on line and fully functioning and one thing that does happen is that as you clear the top layers of shields and contortions, the deeper stuff will come to your attention at last.

EMO does powerfully re-connect us to our bodies and many of us have lived for a very long time with that feedback device turned down or turned off altogether.

I am not going to promise you that by reading this book and learning the base technique your life will be one of instant bliss from this moment forth.

We have good days and we have bad days. When you are having a bad moment – you know, one of those when there really isn’t any Ocean of Energy and you have forgotten just about everything that could be used to help you out at that time! – it isn’t going to be any more pleasant than it ever was; so once it has passed (as they always do), please note the following:

You will find that these “moments” do not last as long;

• They are not as overwhelming as they once were;

• That you move back into a state of balance more smoothly and faster;

• You will notice that they are further apart;

• That it takes a great deal more to trigger them than it used to.

That is one scale by which to measure progress, rather than the childish thought of, “Are we there yet??” when we have only just put on the seatbelts.

Another scale of measuring progress and to keep some form of clarity as to what is happening over time is to make a mental note of indicators of positive changes, no matter how small these may be.

Here are some examples of such “small indicators” of change; what they have in common is that they were unexpected, surprising, and usually experienced for the first time.

Angela: “I was walking through the town center, feeling displaced and nervous as I usually do and something really strange happened – it was as though a part of me slowed down and, I don’t really know how to describe this properly, it came back and it was like sitting right down inside myself. Like coming into sync with myself. It was really strange but what a difference that made. Walking was lighter, easier. I was breathing easier. The lights were brighter and the colours and the people didn’t frighten me anymore, it was just so – comfortable, that is the best way I can explain it. The feeling lasted all the way back to the car park and I can get it back when I think about slowing down and sitting down inside myself. This is totally new to me, I have never felt like that before and it feels right – and people even used to say that I am always getting ahead of myself.”

Victoria: “I was at a railway station, it was cold, I had masses of time to wait (totally misjudged the time needed to walk there and get a ticket) so I headed for the warmth of the ballroom-like toilets downstairs. I was feeling pretty nervous, taking a trip I really wasn't looking forward to but thought no more of it, when you're in a weird situation it's ok to feel weird, so left it at that. However, on the way back up the stairs, and I must admit by that time I was feeling quite hot and bothered, I all of a sudden heard quite distinctly - Let me through, I'm only an energy - and felt this enormous whooshing up through my entire body and out, it literally felt like a crowd had parted to let it through. I smiled briefly as I opened the door shaking my head slightly at the wonder of it all and just got on with a particularly difficult day as it turned out.”

Dan: “I find that I can just go into this strange space of – do you know that thing in American Beauty where the girl asks, why are you filming a dead pigeon, and the guy with the camera says, because it is beautiful? I don’t want to sound naff but I do this. Sometimes it just happens and I can bring it on – it is like I shift inside myself, tune to a different wave band, and there it is. Beauty. The world. And the best thing, it is getting easier to do it all the time. The other day, for the first time, something new happened that really blew me away. I didn’t shift out of it to normal awareness but there was this strand of the other space that came with me, it was there. I could still do the work and even have dinner with the in-laws – with an underlying silver strand of beauty. Now I never expected that.”

Look out for such energy occurrences and remember these when you are having a moment of doubt. These are new things, new experiences and they are amazing; what is getting you down still isn’t like that, it is just the same old stuff you have struggled with for so long and no more.

It is the new experiences which hold both promise and proof that you are indeed going in the right direction and it is the learnings from these new experiences that make the old storms seem less important than once they were.

So be patient with yourself and do the best you can with what you have got; don’t try to push yourself too hard, be kind to yourself and allow yourself to be human as you are shifting in and out, from the old to the new and back again, a swing movement that will take you a little further into the new each time.