Welcoming The New Energy
Usually I view February 2nd as the rebirth of the year. It’s the time of the Chinese New Year, and spring is close enough so that I count the weeks or watch the buds on the trees and guess the number of days until the renewal of the life force. This year, I felt spring, the wild rush life on the winter solstice when everything oddly changed for me with the arrival of the “light of the New World.”
The new energy feels soft and lovely to me. Amazed by its apparent thrust into the cells of my body, it felt completely different from any personal perceptions of spiritual energy, which were created in the past. It felt like dawn, the softness of the morning when a gentle blue of light strikes the mountain and comes in waves. It caresses the mountains and delineates the trees, making their green color apparent, then vivid in hue. With its magical quality, it turns the world blue for five or ten minutes and then the world appears “as normal.”
After dealing with the harsh energy of solar flares and geomagnetic shifts throughout last year, I wasn’t prepared for its feminine gentle quality, and I was surprised to find the energy revitalizing, like an alchemical tincture that gives life. I didn’t expect soft waves of energy or a high frequency that whispered, “Stay with me. When you can stay here, everything will work out perfectly.” But I couldn’t hold it – I found myself traveling in and out of it, up and down and all around. If I tried to identify or hold the vibration, it slipped away subtly.
So I found that if I reflected on the feeling of the vibration, it stayed with me more often. How did it feel? It feels like gentle waves with a feminine soft love, caressing and loving every particle of my existence into a higher frequency of love. The love has a particular flavor, and it’s one with which I am not yet familiar. I know it only briefly before it departs.
In my experience, it was very yin, female light that flooded my DNA and physical tissues. Soothing and enlightening, it came with my breath. The energy grew for three or four days. I felt myself becoming lighter and happier. Then it dissipated, bringing grief, sorrow, anger and lower emotions to the surface.
Interestingly, the lower emotions came and departed, returning my soul to the higher vibration. With each exit of lower emotion, I felt that I soared higher. After another week of vacillating emotion, I felt the energy pointed to several areas of my life that needed changing. The pointing finger returns whenever I consider turning around or leaving issues for future change.
Frankly I don’t always know what the change will be. I simply ask for direction from my soul and try to follow the feeling toward the future, observing often when my “given” perspective wavers. I’ve thought many times, “if only I could hold the wave of energy and not bounce about with the waves of life that cause me to descend and ascend.” On the other hand, I suspect everyone is learning how to hold the wave. In time, we’ll bring magic, harmony and beauty to the earth by raising our light level.
In the meanwhile, I thought to share a few tips and observations. Some of these thoughts are my own insights, and others are in response to students and their questions.
It’s Okay IF:
You didn’t feel anything during the solstice, and you don’t know what I’m talking about. If you didn’t feel anything, you will feel it later. The people, who felt it strongly, established a devoted meditation or spiritual practice long ago. As life changes, anyone – with an open heart and true desire to experience the energy – will receive it.
Your heart, throat or solar plexus feel weird. These chakras are opening more fully and receiving more light in the front and back of the spine. They can cause colds or sore throats. The solar plexus and throat chakra are paired chakras. If you hide your power and light, your solar plexus is probably partially closed. You can imagine radiating light from the solar plexus and seeing power radiate from your abdomen. Many of us have refused to create out of fear of miscreation, but it’s okay. Give it a try. If you create something you don’t want, change the visual and see it working out.
As the throat chakra opens, it becomes more important to speak our personal truth, and part of truth is boundaries. It’s hard to speak clearly when you’ve spent eons hiding your magic and light, or as a healer who helps everyone and gives away their energy. Go ahead and speak up. Practice makes perfect. We’re all learning.
The heart chakra brings up grief, sadness and love. Strange combination, isn’t it? Memories may flash at a vivid rate or sadness comes up over seemingly nothing. The chest and heart space are throwing off old energy. You can observe it, experience and let go. It’s part of clearing karma.
You don’t feel like seeing people or walking around in the world. As the heart chakra and upper chakras open to receive more light, we become increasingly sensitive to the vibrations around us. You’ve probably become more psychic with the wave of new energy and the thinning of the veil between the spiritual and physical worlds. It’s difficult to handle what you’re picking up from people. You’re probably reading their field and taking on their lower energies. It’s helpful to pull back if you begin imagining or perceiving details about other people’s lives.
Light workers do this without awareness. There’s a heart-felt desire to help everyone and radiate light into the world. Your desire can get the better of you so it’s best to imagine protection of some sort, pull your aura into the body or arrive home intact. The same phenomena takes place with friends (or family) so learn when you feel tired. Limit phone calls and interactions to a time period that works for you. This change is also helpful in weeding away people who don’t have your best interests at heart.
You experience anger, anxiety, sadness or irritation. It’s normal to feel unstable emotions when traveling through spiritual life. Oscillating emotions are actually an indication of increasing light. Think about it: when life stays the same, emotions reflect it.
Light brings everything to surface. We don’t notice patterns of emotion until they are in our face, and the internal dialog becomes louder before the pattern leaves. It’s helpful to observe one or two emotions each day. Make note of the time of day and the person or events surrounding it.
I like to use the following dialog. Have I felt this way for most of my life? (Yes.) Does this feeling occur at regular intervals or periods during my life? (Yes.) Is it possible that my feeling cause or create the situations in my life? (Yes.) Do I lack boundaries here? (Yes.) Okay, so some part of me is involved in creating this? (Yes.)
From here, I use the techniques learned taught by my Tibetan dream teacher, Lama Tantrapa. Can I dream up a different version of life? Could this part of my life exist as a personal nightmare, a mistake in my emotions or thoughts that pulls a specific scenario? If so, how I can dream differently? What would I prefer to experience?
Additionally I attempt to observe the emotion because an observer state in quantum physics alters the outcome of any situation. I send light and love to the fragmented part of me, which is increasing its presence through odd emotions. I also try not to react. I relive the situation later and see myself with a new response, words or feelings. (It’s more interesting if you work with creativity, and it’s hard to hold a victim state when you’re curious.)
You have a strong desire to express your gifts or take a particular action but don’t know how. Ask for an intuition and act on it. (It’s okay if it’s not the right one. Only practice brings skill with intuition.) At some point, you’ll have to take a leap. Nothing magical happens with the big jump from this reality into the next one. That takes courage. Practice the “jump” in your mind if you can’t do it yet.
You experience odd feelings about time and space. Personally I’ve noticed time goes faster with repetitive days and extends into a very slow rhythm when I’m extremely happy. Perhaps, time is reflecting and aligning with our personal rhythm. (In general, time seems to slow down when outdoors, and a slower perception of time is associated with lower brain rhythms, such as alpha or theta.)
Sometimes, there is a feeling of time warp – strong memories of another time, place or lifetime – at particular geographical locations. I’ve noticed the strengthening of this pattern. Sometimes we may feel as if we’re not sure if we dreamed of doing something or actually performed the action. This is likely related to the shift into the higher dimension, with more flexibility and plasticity in “reality.”
A Few Tips for the Shift
1) The energy is very conscious and expansive. It expands whatever mood state you’re currently experiencing, as well as internal dialog.
2) There is no internal dialog when you’re connected to the Divine. You can feel or hear the right action and move toward it. Sometimes, there is confusion when you’re drawn in a new direction. If so, observe both sides of the inner dialog. Take a few seconds and visualize the best possible future, take a 5 minute action or simply let go.
3) When enmeshed in emotion or thought, stop everything if you can. Meditate, practice meditative movement or do something creative that makes you happy. (If you ponder the lack of harmony or alignment with the higher self, it grows. It’s better to return to Source.)
4) Spend time with you. Ask what you would do in this moment if you really loved you? If you can’t do it, then visualize it. Try to take a few times each day to practice this exercise. The answers are usually the same so you can add a few self-loving practices every week. Your inner self knows what you need. It’s important to listen.
5) Put you and your soul growth first. This energy will never come in this form again. By looking to see if you’re moving toward the soul, you align with the energetic flow.
6) Accept wherever you are and appreciate it for a few seconds. It’s a great gift to be alive right now.
Take the time, money and energy to work through problems with readings, body work and exercise. Practiced energy workers can
7) take you through blocks quickly. Investing in yourself and your personal growth changes your life.
8) Meditate every day. Meditating two or three times every day is even better. Feel the connection with the universe and expand it outward. Imagine receiving your heart’s desires. You truly deserve it. Take the time to create them. (For anyone who would like to try it, I’m sharing my morning meditation below. It helps me.)
Morning Meditation
It’s best to begin by sitting in an appealing landscape. I like to begin by focusing on the line of the horizon or the curve of the sky. I close my eyes and feel the earth and its various forms, the plants, trees and rocks. Then I focus on my heart and allow energy to flow through my heart chakra. I breathe through my heart chakra for a minute or two.
Here’s the meditation:
1) Close your eyes. Ask light to flow into your light being, the ethereal being within yourself. Ask for more light until you can feel it flowing into you. (At this point, I can “see” the light in the objects around me. Sometimes, the sun grows brighter.)
2) Ask for the light to flow through the outer tissues, into the cells and the spaces between them. Ask the light to enter in the yin, the hidden part of the body containing organs and bones. When the light process is complete, ask the light to balance the inner and outer body.
3) Let the light flood the face, the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair and skin.
4) Let the light come into the heart chakra. Let it pour into the other chakras.
5) Let the light come into the back and pour into the back of the chakras.
6) Feel your aura around you. Feel the inner light as one form and the outer light in the world as another. Let them come together. Sit in the light for four or five minutes.
7) The entire practice takes at least ten to fifteen minutes. Don’t rush it.