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ОглавлениеMy clients have been all over the map with how they perceive energies. I’ve worked with confirmed skeptics who could feel into their subtle energies with beautiful precision, and I’ve worked with fervent believers who were pretty much tone-deaf to their own inner communications. But with practice, and perhaps some guidance on how to proceed, almost everyone can develop a working ability to perceive energies.
The jumping-off place to learn to perceive subtle energies is to understand that you are already doing it! Your body reacts to danger before your conscious mind has parsed the situation and decided it is dangerous. Your ears pick up vibration and tone of voice and interpret it as attitude when someone is speaking. You know, when someone says, “That’s sick,” whether they mean something is unhealthy or extremely positive (using slang). You can usually tell when someone’s touch is friendly or controlling, reassuring or threatening.
Sensing subtle energies has often been linked to being psychic. But it is more akin to our everyday perceptions. If I can perceive that a washcloth is wet, and easily distinguish between that and a dry one, why wouldn’t I be able to transfer that skill and recognize water element in someone’s being (which I explain in chapter 9) and distinguish dampness or dryness as qualities of someone’s energies?
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Think of five people you know well. Using your instincts and overall impressions, rank them on a range from dry to wet. Who is the driest of the five? Then list the next driest, the one in the middle range, and the two who are most wet.
Try this ranking with other qualities. Among those five people, who is the most contracted and who is more relaxed? Who is the most expansive? Is the most expansive person also the biggest in physical size? Ranking energies and qualities is not based on physical traits alone, but on our sense of someone’s spirit, personality, or energy style.
Who is the most energetic, and how do you rank the five people on a scale from most energetic to the least energetic? You may or may not know why you rank each person the way you do. Are you using active, explicit criteria or pure instinct? Both are valid.
Whenever you notice a trait in someone, explore it in others. Someone may say to you, “Annette lives a very small life.” What does that feel like? Who do you know who lives a bigger life? What do you base that sense on?
We often mix our subjective and objective observations. We mix our perceptions of energies with assessments of behaviors (which are energetic expressions), and we base our perceptions on language as well. It is not cheating to mix and match these.
For example, when I think of a certain friend, the word that comes to mind is steadfast. How would I rank my other friends and acquaintances on that scale of steadfast to unreliable (which describes a certain quality of energy)? When I think about those other friends who are not quite as steadfast, what words characterize their energies most accurately?
EXPLORING SUBTLE ENERGIES: YOUR SENSES
To begin exploring subtle energies more consciously, tune in to your body to sense what is going on energetically. You can use the perceptions of your everyday senses as an entry point: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. You may perceive a literal, physical sensation, such as, say, a sudden sensation of cold that makes you shiver, or your perception may be more internal: seeing in your mind’s eye, hearing a sound or voice in your head, feeling a sensation you can recognize but that is not quite physical, tasting something in your mouth or smelling something that you know is not literally there.
You may already have a pretty nuanced ability to perceive using your senses and inner senses. For example, can you see something yellow and recognize whether it is sunshine yellow or sickly yellow? Can you hear a tune in your head and recognize the mood of it? No matter what your starting point, the more you tune in to your perceptions and investigate them, the more nuance you will come to recognize.
Seeing
I am not particularly visual in my seeing. I know what the color is in my mind, but I don’t usually visualize it strongly. My artist friends often see color on an inner canvas, and for them it rarely limits itself to just color: It takes on form, patterns, and dimension.
However, whether a sense is strong or weak for you, consider the quality of it. When you see a color, what do you see about it? Is it bright or dark? Is it still or moving? And if it is moving, how is it moving? Is it a healthy form of that color or one that your mind finds unsettling in some way? Ask similar questions as you experiment with each sense.
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Find a place in your body that wants to talk to you. Just let your hand hover over your body until it lands on a location. It is useful to turn off your logical mind for this activity. Let instinct guide you. For some people who process things primarily through their intellect, that can be nearly impossible. If so, include your logical brain in the game. Shut your eyes and ask your brain: Where does my hand want to land?
With your hand on that place (which helps your perceptions focus into the energies there), look to see what color you perceive. For most people, it works best to shut your eyes and use your inner vision. If you experiment doing this with your eyes open, you may find a color entering your field of vision that is not the color of your clothing. Play with it. Do you see or sense a color?
Note that some people can’t activate their other senses while touching an area because their kinesthetic sense is so strong. If that is true for you, just touch the area briefly, then explore using your inner vision to tune in. Once you sense a color, evaluate and explore all of its qualities.
Example: When I do this, my hand wants to go to my right ear and cover it. I do not have pain there. In fact, it feels much clearer than my left ear. But I shut my eyes and tune in where my hand lands and see a dark gray color, almost the absence of color. The color is still, like before the dawn. I ask what it wants. At first, it is just very still and gray. Nothing moves. I wait to see if what it wants is to just be in a gray suspended state. For a minute or two, it hovers in that gray. Then, I see a yellow light entering. It is full sunlight yellow filtering into the field of gray and dappling it. Then the picture shifts to green foliage with yellow sunlight filtering through. I find it soothing and peaceful. And I realize, as I sit cupping my right ear, that a sadness in my heart due to the recent death of my cat is shifting to a quiet, peaceful feeling. Like hanging out in a green bower, protected from direct sun, but watching it play all around me.
