The Every Day Energetic Exchange
Every single experience we have in this life, the so-called “good”, “bad”, and everything in between, all carry a common currency of energy. Energy, in Newtonian physics, is force times mass. As we move with the very mass that we occupy, we utilize force. We convert energy from one form to another, oscillating between states of potential and kinetic energy.
So while we are constantly converting and creating our own potential and kinetic energy, we also encounter these forces from the outside as well. A simple metaphor is to look at what happens when we slip off a curb, or trip and catch ourselves before we fall completely. These are moments where smaller amounts of kinetic energy are introduced into our body, and to our nervous system, the regulator of all things us. These external energetic bounties are minute enough that this energy can be taken in and integrated into our systems, leaving the state of our nervous systems virtually unchanged.
But what happens when we, the mass that we occupy in this physical body, is struck with a bout of kinetic energy that is larger than we can take in and integrate?
Think car accident, think childhood trauma, think toxin overload without having the proper immune support to detoxify appropriately.
These moments in time (or perhaps extended moments ranging from days, to months, to years) are all energetic experiences. Energy in the form of action, in the form of words, in the form of chemicals.
The nervous system, our primary modality for determining whether or not we are physically, physiologically, and neurologically safe, is often succumbed by a greater amount of energy than can be integrated at any one moment.
So what happens when the energy of a physical, mental, emotional, chemical, or spiritual experience cannot be integrated at once?
It rests, and it rests within.
Our nervous system puts our own energy into guiding us to a feeling of safety, of comfort, of security. Our nervous system learns as much as it can from that experience, integrates as much energy as possible, but sometimes the blow is simply too big to be integrated all at once. So the experience stays with us, it stays in our bodies, stays in our nervous systems. And these things fundamentally affect how we move through the world. Do we feel safe moving through or do we feel in a state of high alarm?
My aim, my purpose, my mission is to help guide people back to a state of safety, primarily within their bodies, help them recover from these blows we took as children, as teenagers, as adults, so we can move through them gently, finding increased adaptability and resiliency on the other side.
We move away from dis-ease and survival, and towards a state of balance, peace, and ease within the nervous system.
When we feel safe in our bodies, we develop a capacity to integrate bigger blows as smaller blows. Energy that was previously bound up in protecting, like a watch dog that never sleeps, can then be liberated into heart-centered, connected living, which soon turns into thriving. The body has energy to spare for basic regulatory tasks, like sleeping, learning, going to the bathroom, and most importantly, in healing.
Away from mere existing.
When we connect with this resiliency, this adaptability, we find ourselves having more space both within and without, amplifying our human experience this time around.
