With any phenomenon in the Universe, you’re dealing with a combination of two factors—Energy & Instruments. Everything we do is about Energy moving through Instruments to produce some kind of work or some kind of result.
Sources of Energy
Where do you find them? How do you access them?
Three main external sources for energy: food, air, impressions.
That is the food we eat, the air we breathe, and external impressions.
These are external sources to tap, there are also internal sources to tap. When you can absorb these external sources you are in a better position to tap hidden energy sources within yourself. With impressions it is not just what you can pull in from outside, but also what that enables you to feel within your own body.
People tend to turn to food when they need energy. It’s not that you should not do that, but air and impressions are more subtle, powerful, and constantly available, and don’t require physical digestion and so it is helpful to learn to not rely on food for what can readily be acquired elsewhere. This also saves on unnecessary wear and tear of your body’s digestive organs.
Purity and Concentration
Energy has to be of the right purity and concentration to get the job done.
The first thing is sources, and how to acquire from those sources the energy that’s available through them in the right purity and concentration to be usable. This is the case with anything.
With a perfectly good car, the only way it is going to run is if gasoline is getting in the tank, because there’s gasoline to draw on. Water won’t do it. Put water in the tank that car doesn’t go. At least the kind we have now, doesn’t go off of water. No matter how well engineered the car is, or all that it might be capable of, if there is not access to the appropriate fuel sources necessary to get the job done, then the job does not get done. It cannot get done at all. You have to have energy available of the right purity and concentration to get anything done.
Circulation of Energy
The energy has to get to the point of usage.
To get it to a point of usage usually involves some kind of circulation system. In our case it’s delivered through the blood. Fuel is delivered through our blood to the parts of our body, to the points of usage, and may also be stored at those points of usages for future use. It’s got to be able to get to where you need it. It’s not enough to just have it somewhere else. For example, you can have lots of energy available in your body but if you can’t get it to the cut on your hand, you won’t heal your hand. If the energy to that arm is cut off by your posture or how you move, no matter how good your blood is, the hand won’t heal. If the arteries are clogged, the heart has to work harder to deliver the energy and may not even be able to reach where it needs to go. And these situations use up available energy much sooner, depleting energy.
You need to be upright and have good posture so energy can flow and get to the parts of your body that need it.
Doing any activity in a dense manner freezes the energy in your body.
Equal availability of energy to organs and muscles in the body.
Maintenance and Care of Energy and Instruments through Lifestyle
Your muscles, your joints, your limbs, your brain—those are instruments through which the energy is going to work. If those instruments are going to work properly you have to do the right maintenance and care of them. You need a balanced lifestyle that builds and contains energy (rather than one that leaks and over-expends energy) so that you are able to stay connected to the energy you have.
Factors in this include posture, body usage, general lifestyle and self care.
You need to do certain basic things that if you don’t do, the instruments themselves will suffer, either eventually being unable to work at all or wearing out much sooner.
In the realm of maintenance of instruments we’re talking about things like sleep, rest, diet, time alone or in nature, and all those things that keep those instruments replenished and refreshed.
If you mistreat that body—with poor diet and not giving it space to recharge—and you don’t move around the right way, you wear it out faster.
Proper Usage of the Body (Instruments)
Posture and moving in a way so as to care for joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments.
Right tension and tonus, neither too loose nor too tight.
Grounded: Because we tend to be so up in our heads that the first step to using the body well is to get our energy down into the body and contact our bodily power and the way that the ground makes us feel physical, strong, powerful, and substantive.
Proper Usage Patterns:
·Applies to countless tasks in daily life as well as activities like sports.
·Push and Relax—expend the barest minimum of energy necessary to get the job done. Everything necessary and nothing unnecessary.
·Range of Motion and Circularity—full so not cramped and constricted, but not going beyond range so that you lose the force and power of what you are doing which locks and binds the joints, increasing wear and tear.
·Using Momentum—the motion itself feeds the motion so there is an efficient flow without jerky stops and starts and needless energy burn.
·Efficiency and Minimizing Wear and Tear. This is so that you don’t need as much fuel—there is less processing and expenditures of energy and you save your organs. It is both physical and psychological.
The Energy is There!
Because we don’t know how to get into the right relationship to our own energy, we’re not aware of what energy is there. A deeper substratum of energy is there, and there always is a kick. Maybe more kick than you know. The energy is there but if you don’t know how to plug into the energy then you cannot know that it is there.
