PDF Hi! Been a while!
…since I posted on this blog. I love writing here, but have been focusing my energy on my Mom On A Spiritual Journey blog recently. However, something got me focused back here today!
Elaine Seiler, who writes and practices at Transformation Energetics, posted this on a LinkedIn group a while back and I only saw it today…and it got me to thinking today and got some energy flowing…
This was my answer to her great question “I use energy to facilitate transformation. What do you do as a pioneer of change?”
Great question Elaine (it’s been here a while but only just came up in my feed…quantumly?)
Love the phrase “I use energy to facilitate transformation“. Beginning to think of all I’ve learnt…so far… as ‘tools for working with energy’. Masterful use of words (as in NLP) can shift a person’s brain state and thinking, therefore shifting and hopefully uplifting…their energy. Reflexology shifts energy by enervating nerves and offering a relaxation response. The EMF Balancing Technique overtly works with energy by giving a client an experience of their own energy by identifying a system for how it works…initially for some a mental construct…for others an immediate awakening…and over time a greater embodied understanding of their own energy. Or as Dr Quantum might say…”as soon as we focus or observe energy…it changes…”
Unpacking this answer a little more…how do we know what we need on our energetic journeys?
The thing is, when considering this question a little more deeply, as I keep studying and working on my own personal energetic journey, I realize that working with our Personal Energy can shift and uplift us in so many ways…if we’ve been fortunate enough to learn some of these ways. There are many energetic tools out there, but to assist in the transformation of ourselves (and then, by default, trusting the Law of Resonance, others) timing and the right type of tool really do have a big role to play. I can set great intentions and get the ball rolling, but becoming self aware enough to know I even need a new tool is often the next best step for me.
This is a tough one, since sometimes we know we feel ‘lost’ or ‘unskilled’, but how/what/when to start doing something about it? Sometimes it’s as simple as the Nike quote ‘Just Do It’.
Here’s an example from my experience with Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ (NLP™) which showed me a way
I learnt NLP™ with my then business partner from a company in the UK called McKenna Breen (run and presented by Paul McKenna and Michael Breen). They would invite Richard Bandler, one of the originators of NLP™
to present part of the course and this course was run for fairly large groups of people, about 400 or so. My colleague and I initially wondered if we were on the right course (since a lot of the course attendees were from more medical realms than our business and training development hats were used to), but after a day or so we began to get it. As Richard Bandler says ‘Language makes our brains go in a certain direction’, so what we needed to learn in order to craft our courses was a greater mastery of language…and scripting our courses very carefully to focus peoples’ minds and energies in the appropriate direction. And it worked! Kudos to my business partner then, Nicola Smith, from Oddball Training, who had a really excellent gut feel that this course was the right one for us…
We were able to craft a course that enabled clients to learn to touch type (type at a keyboard with all their fingers and not look down) within one day. The NLP™ was one aspect of this course, Accelerated Learning the other. And all the NLP™ was really there to do, was to help clients relax and clear out their own disbelief that perhaps…they couldn’t do this in a day and envision themselves actually doing the given task! The Accelerated Learning did the rest.
Presenting this course regularly also changed me and my worldview…because I was using these energetic tools on a weekly and sometimes daily basis
The first time I ran the course by myself (we co-presented initially to get our skills up), and the first time people relaxed and went inside themselves in a cold, stark, computer training room and stayed there imagining themselves typing beautifully, I realized that we had crafted something really, really interesting, and that I should pay more attention to the process. This early experience taught me that transformation tools come in many forms, but if the intent is transformation of energy…then it will happen. And with this course, we were truly ‘pioneering change’, as Elaine says.
As energy workers/alternative practitioners, when we pioneer change, sometimes we can only begin to sense the outcome…hence we are truly pioneers!
For many people, energy work is an unknown or something they may be thinking about reading in a book, to start with. (Been there, done that, worn several of the T-shirts!, read many, many books and continue to study, read attend workshops!).
When an energy practitioner is offering energy sessions, energy work or coaching or spiritual upliftment using any energy tools, having the result be measurable for the client or the group needs to be a set intention, also. And – here comes a great paradox IMHO for any energy worker - in the realm of energy work, this is where faith, focus, sometimes hope and often just plain bullheadedness that you ‘know’ this new technique/approach energy tool is going to work from your own experience or that the right people have been ‘attracted’ to the course…since energy unpacks and unfolds sometimes instantly for a client, sometimes over a period of hours, days, weeks or years – for other clients. And it’s our job to hold the space so that the client starts to transform their own energy.
To quote Peggy Phoenix-Dubro (EMF Balancing Technique originator) ‘We are all energy workers’
Whether you are reading this as an energy worker/practitioner, or somebody on their own personal journey of energetic transformation, I believe as Peggy Phoenix-Dubro states – “We are all energy workers”. Our bodies all generate energy, electromagnetic fields, and we can focus and bring thoughts into full manifestation by our actions…in itself a transformation of energy.
If you are looking for energy work and sessions to be change agents for your life, think deeply about setting your own personal intentions before you start looking for a practitioner…and when you do find somebody, make sure their personal experiences resonate for you in a way that you find beneficial…it will help your shifting and uplifting process go faster. Then whichever tool you decide use, you will be pioneering change faster.
1 comment
Elaine Seiler says:
May 21, 2011 at 1:41 pm (UTC 0 )
Love your post, Sarah, and so glad that my question triggered your writing it. I agree with All you said. We are ALL energy workers, even if we are not conscious of it. I wonder – are you aware of the ‘energy work’ you do in your everyday, walk-around, non-client-based life? Thanks for acknowledging my question so enthusiastically. best, Elaine