I've read a general theory which states that our personal space or room is an environment which donates energy to us (an energetic chamber)
with one other person, the energy is a neutral exchange, and in crowds, we usually donate energy (an absorptive environment)
I've found this generally to be true (when sober).Nature settings also an environment that is restorative. I wonder what other people think about this and if people could decribe energetic environments that are particularly beneficial to them. I love the mountains and the sky, the rivers
and trees, sunsets and sunrises, beaches, usually alone and am energized by intelligent conversations.
with one other person, the energy is a neutral exchange, and in crowds, we usually donate energy (an absorptive environment)
I've found this generally to be true (when sober).Nature settings also an environment that is restorative. I wonder what other people think about this and if people could decribe energetic environments that are particularly beneficial to them. I love the mountains and the sky, the rivers
and trees, sunsets and sunrises, beaches, usually alone and am energized by intelligent conversations.
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 12:19 AMI am single, and my partner died a few years back, so i keep my religious altars and healing medicines in my bedroom - its kinda like containing my whole universe in the place i let go of my waking mind - so it recharges me, and comforts me, akin to the emotions of a living being, which indeed, is how i view it. All other places that recharge me are of nature, the outdoors, the raw world. In particular, places of water, especially waterfalls, give off so much good energy to me i am recharged every time.
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 12:17 PMI would agree.
I try to keep a home that enriches my family energetically. It's our space to recharge from dealing with daily struggles. It's important for me to regularly donate belongings and give gifts to prevent for accumulating too much energy, etc. from varied sources. Keeping our home clean and simple enables us to be happier and less chaotic. We try to keep the electronic jumble to a minimum as electricity certainly affects, and out our window there are 19 power lines :(
Nature also envelopes us with peace and energy. We travelled to the Redwoods last year and it felt amazing! Tomorrow we go back to Puerto Rico and I will get to share my past with my husband and child. It's a really good feeling to step off the plane and back onto the island. Running through the rainforest and playing in the cold crisp flow of the water falls is unlike anything else. I can't wait to show them, and it will be my daughter's first beach experience. I long to hear the night sky filled with the sound of the coquis as it was when I was a child, it's just so soothing! The last few times I went back, there were less and less...I would be lucky to hear just a few. They are so delicate.
I take my daughter to play with her little friends in the park every day. That is wonderful too, to be surrounded by children. It is a blessing to watch them grow and grow. Spending time with them certainly recharges me. To view the world through their eyes restores peace and lightens the harsher parts of the day. Also we spend as much time as we can away to the edges of the city or visiting in the country, away from everything. I have always lived in a city, so it is nice to find a quiet place outdoors to relax.
For us it is about living as stress free as possible. Organizing our lives to keep things simple, to live well and grow to the best of our abilities. That way we are more prepared to give and absorb energy as needed. We like to live quietly and try our best each and every day...some days end up being more difficult, but we are certainly lucky to have the lives we do. It's quite a blessing :D
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 9:32 PMnature is always a good energetic space for me. and there are other sacred spaces, like when im working with clients... i think we can 'make' any space sacred, depending on where our heads, and our hearts, are at at any given time... -
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Thu, May 8, 2008 - 4:46 PMARGH! I have something for this, a response! Alas I am walking out the door... I will write soon!
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Thu, May 8, 2008 - 7:14 PMOK. Home.
I've been doing a "re-training", a serious one and committing myself to getting back to my magickal roots -if you will. It's like a refresher course in certain ways but I have a LONG history with many studies so it was hard to really pick where to begin. ANYWAY, I did.
The meditations lately have been allot of merging. Merging mind with objects. Mind with plants. Mind with animals... I'm going to try a bird since when I'm meditating in the park I seem to attract allot. I bet they think I have food. lol. Anyway, I was just telling a friend about an experience in which I felt an entity of some sort at the park where I was meditating. I at first felt as if it was threatening. It was dog-like and it came up between my legs and my mind kept thinking, "it's gonna bite me!".
I stopped myself... and here is where I dinged on what you were saying in relation to what I was experiencing. I turned my energy around, from fear to embracing. In one moment putting energy against and in the next i was allowing for the energy to be, to hug it, to accept it. I should should say that I am distinguishing between my energy and my energetic field, on the level that is mine interacting with the environment. The level (energetically speaking) in which I act or react to forces in the universe. ( I see it as like a third or fourth layer outside of self, or better said a level of lighter vibration that is between 6 and 12 feet around me. NOT that it is actually a certain size or dimension, that's just the field). Anyway, that's the level I've been working at... it really isn't here or there, near or far, but it's a bit of all things and an interaction with all levels at once.
At this level I simply made the presence harmonious with my energy, or better said, I made my reflection of the universe harmonious and the threat that I felt simply dissolved.
What was more amazing is that there was a renewed sense of energy and vitality. As if I had integrated and thus become larger or more expansive. Rather than retracting with fear and attempting to defend, I embraced and grew. I felt more in my body, closer to my environment and had a greater interaction with things and the universe around me.
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SO what I am saying? LOL, My space became sacred by making all things sacred within it. There was no rejection of anything. Not the pipe that ran through the roots of the trees I felt beneath me. Not the remains I felt deep in the hill. The traffic, pigeons, passer's by, horns, planes, grass and me were all in a sacred space. Not because I MADE them enter the sacred space but because I made all things within me, reflection, mirrored, duplicate of the world around me, sacred within myself.
That, to me, is the key.
Now... hopefully you were getting what I was saying. I feel like I'm about to make a quantum leap and I keep applying this experience to all things where fear pokes up or adversity is made, I make it all sacred within myself because it is. And if it is, and it's happening, and I'm there, then I am participating in it. So what do I do? I make it sacred. I embrace it. I make light.
Make sense?
Scott
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Fri, May 9, 2008 - 11:43 AMI had something like this happen to me in a beautiful park! I had been sitting on a table reading a (good) book. Somehow I felt like I flipped inside out. Like I was outside myself and everything outside myself was easily accesible by sight or sound. I could focus in on things and bring them right up to myself. The sounds of cars on the distant highway could be brought into focus and be louder than sounds right in front of me. The ducks on the pond could be brought right up in front of me like with a fish eye lens. The scum and trash in the pond was fascinating and just as beautiful as anything else I could see. I walked around the park and someone(who I didn't know) from far away yelled out to me what time is it? They must have thot I was really stupid because I said "what?" And it seemed to take me forever to figure out what time was, what I needed to do to find out what time it was, and why it mattered. Then I finally answered I don't know.
So now I try to spend my time outside of myself. If there's something or someone there I'm defensive about, I have to embrace it or them, or pop back into my body. Embracing the things that I would normally want to recoil from or at least ignore (like pond trash, and highway noise) lets me expand and feel whole.
Seems like the ultimate evolvement would be to be in an environment that I would normally find to be the most horrible place on earth, and be able to embrace it. -
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Fri, May 9, 2008 - 5:38 PMThat sounds POWERFULLY healing.
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Sun, May 11, 2008 - 2:19 PMSo Scott, in a word, you're speaking of acceptance? -
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 8:40 AMIn a word, possibly, but the actual process of embracing and owning your own energy and all things/interactions that you become aware of. Maybe... Oneness? The reduction to a word is possible, and I would use acceptance. : ) -
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 12:17 PM
you can run your environment,
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Tue, May 13, 2008 - 8:44 PMwe recently sold our house for a 36 foot fifth wheel camper and moved into it full time, and travel about once a week to a different location. We are parked in campsites like state parks and other places with natural surroundings. We sold about 80% of our belongings, put 10% in storage, and have the other 10% that we live off of. I feel so much calmer, grounded, and open than I did with so much "stuff" and things to take care of. Even though I still work, I am free of so many obligations and things that suck my energy. I awake near lakes streams and trees, and I feel that they do rejuvenate my energy levels...less power lines, cars, exhaust, noise, and just clutter.
I suggest anyone try it out, its SO worth it!
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Tue, May 13, 2008 - 8:53 PMIndeed! Indeed.
Has anyone read City Magick, with some emphasis on shifting ones consciousness to embrace the natural energy in all things? -
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Thu, May 22, 2008 - 2:26 AMNatural enviroment does empower me. Tho feeding my wood stove all winter was again after 18 years of wood heat exhausting... like getting up to feed a baby every night. Yeah whatever your enviroment is, believe me, it will still be work to keep your inner peace alive and well. if ya want it nurture it.
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