The Free Flow of Energy

Here is an excerpt from a reply I sent to someone's message that I think is a good overview of what I have found in recent experiments with EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique):

"The EFT work wound up affecting me similarly, only regarding emotion. I see now that the EFT isn't really so effective because it moves energy along the meridians. It's more that the distraction of the tapping and the idea that energy is being safely moved to foster emotional health allows the person to be willing to "sit with" their emotions for the full ride. It is allowing the emotions to be and to naturally express themselves that is healing and the tapping is just a distraction, which I no longer require. I simply recognize that all emotion is merely energy and that energy is just energy. There isn't good energy and bad energy.

I feed on energy, as an energy being, so I can feed on anger, sadness, shame, etc. just as well as I can feed on joy -- and now I do. I suck up the energy of my emotions now and have discovered they are all bliss in their true nature once I get past my thoughts about them. Even disgust turns into bliss if you sit with it with gratitude and allow yourself to savor the disgusting quality of it as just pure energy."

I have been doing this "devouring" of not only my emotions, but also my thoughts lately. On separate occasions, I have even converted the energy of a cold virus and a headache back into energy and "devoured" that.

Here I use the metaphor of eating the energy, where at other times you will hear me phrase it in terms of liberating the energy. It just depends on one's point of view. When I am identifying myself as a separate energy being I speak of devouring, taking the energy back into my localized physical self. When I am identifying myself as the infinite unity of all things, my true nature, I speak of liberating the energy so that it once more becomes a free flowing part of that greater ocean. Either way, after being converted back into raw energy it has no separate form and therefore effectively no longer exists as the problematic form it once was.

I am working on ways of teaching this to others to do within themselves and of learning myself to do it within the bodies of other people. I am also using it as a part of my spiritual practice (enlightenment being about the dissolution of the separate self identity and the freedom from a dualistic self-object that comes with that). I will write more about that subsequently.

If you'd like to do some of the work with me, check out my healing work website at www.clearlightnature.com and follow the links to the True Self Attunement. I have begun teaching an adapted form of this method to clients as part of that session, though it isn't the primary focus of the session.

Here is a poem I wrote yesterday that I think does a good job in conveying what I am doing:

Breathing in,
I devour it.
Savoring each breath,
Form returns to emptiness,
Emptiness reveals itself as ecstasy.

I saught you,
Forgetting that I am you.
We are emptiness embracing,
Laughing,
Like water running over rocks,
Children spinning in the sun.

Each thought -
I consume its raw energy.
It is no longer an object
For my love or hate.
There is only one decision left.
Yummm!

Each feeling -
I digest it fully.
No longer running from sorrow,
Disgust, shame, or aggression.
I savor their raw energy
And proclaim the final judgment.
Yummm!

Then suddenly all my feasting ends.
There is nothing left to consume.
I reach for something, but then abondon the pursuit,
Realizing at last
That I have been devouring
Myself.
Aha!

-- Indigo Ocean