Total Soul Care

Your Complete Guide to the Soul

Energy Defined

Where to begin defining energy is like defining wind. It's tangible as well as visible within it's effects. yet we can only hope to be able to describe it fully. There are many forms of energy yet all are the same. The only difference is the intention.

If you have never experienced energy work before this can be really bewildering. Where does this energy come from? How is it moved, manipulated, directed, changed, or altered? These are questions that have come up for me as well as come to me in my practice. The truth is the answer is much easier than you think. We have a tendency in life to make things harder than they truly are and I will ask you now to try and be simple and small. You do not have to know anymore than you know at this moment to understand energy. Energy is all we are and all that surrounds us. Energy can not be created nor destroyed. It is above our heads and below our feet.

If you remember back to science class you may recall that everything is made up of atoms. Well atoms are a unit of energy. Atom are the "building blocks" of life. These building blocks are everywhere and they make up this entire universe. This is how universal energy is available everywhere. Every living being is made up of energy as well as the air that surrounds us, all made up of these tiny energetic structures. Therefore, you are already an energetic being. You can already move, manipulate, direct, change, and alter energy. You do this everyday, all the time just by you being you.

Now I'm sure your saying yeah, but Rev. Rebecca, I'm just moving around my energy. Well this is where you need to pay close attention to your body. What do you do an average of 8-10 times per minute every minute of everyday? That's right, you breathe! Do you remember when I said that energy is everywhere? Well you are effecting energy JUST BY BREATHING IN! Each breath you take you pull billions of atoms into your lungs moving them into an entirely different space. You are actually making a chemical exchange with each breath you take. Pulling in oxygen and as it passes through your respiratory and circulatory systems nourishing your body. Then is returned to your lungs to be expelled back into the atmosphere totally changed.

An act as simple as breathing has completely moved, manipulated, directed, changed, altered energy. ENERGY IS EASY! Let me say that again, ENERGY IS EASY! It always has been and it always will be. It's always been right there constantly attainable like the air we breathe. We do a process so complicated every 8-10 times per minute every minute of everyday. We do this naturally, easily, and without thinking about it. How can we then question being able to work with energy?

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