Energy is a vibration, a frequency, a feeling, an emotion.
Someone moves into your space and demands to be heard and you find that listening with genuine interest is difficult because the verbal machine keeps his eyes totally focussed on yours looking for a smile of agreement or a nod of encouragement. You feel uneasy as you sense your space is not merely invaded, but totally usurped. It’s not long before you are exhausted, drained, and feel that a response is pointless. You are at sea, lost in a different energy at the mercy of the waves coming at you. Your heart shrieks to itself: Get out of here, you need to recover.
How do you do that? How do you get back to where you were before the verbal hurricane hit you? How do you protect your energies?
You have to be conscious of where you were. You were in a state of peace and calmness without expectations, at home with your thoughts, comfortable. And then you allowed someone else's energies to kick in and take over, drowning you before you knew it.
Awareness is everything. You need to be aware at all times of your vibration, mood and state of thinking. Before you embrace any new encounter, circumstance or situation, close down your energy field to a neutrality so that it doesn’t matter if a compromised or discordant situation comes your way. It’s like locking the door when you go out. You must be fully conscious of what you are doing in every moment.
And now you have been hit by a force that appears malevolent, somehow violent.
Then your self-awareness kicks in, in a mode of self-preservation and a thought flashes into your mind – the verbal hurricane is not seeking a conversation but dominance in a one-way exchange. His force is not cooperative, not even competitive. His thinking is his. It doesn’t mean it has to be yours. Batten down the shutters and send it back to he who sent it.
Consciousness is everything. You fake a deep clearing of your throat. You fake a quiet ‘Excuse me.’ It’s enough for him to raise his eyes. He falters and drops down from top gear. You smile and breathe deep and slow and say quietly: I hear what you say but I don’t necessarily agree with you. It’s an interesting point of view but not one that I share.
You cast your thinking back to the moments before he arrived. You are the only one who can control your thinking, your emotions, your vibration. Breathe and smile. Smiling is disarming. It disarms the hurricane. You know that you are restoring your energy, your vibration.
Remember that consciousness is all. Awareness of what you are thinking is all. Otherwise you are letting someone or something take you over, control yourself, become the way you want to be, instead of being your usual accepting self.
It’s a question of focussing your attention, and being aware of it, and not allowing yourself to remain in environments where the vibration is diminished or negative or where the individuals are of a discordant nature.
Some situations or experiences may appear accidental. Is that another way of saying that you are not fully engaging your consciousness, your awareness? It is one choice to experience a negative situation and quite another to avoid or escape it.
Let it be a conscious choice before it happens. Close down your energy field and protect it from intrusion. Say it quietly to yourself, imagine it and mean it. I close down my energy field and protect it.
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