You Are an Energy Experience

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions. —Seth

Everything is made up of energy. That includes you. Hindusreferto ourlife energy as prana, and Buddhists call it chi. The best English translation is vital energy, the mysterious life force that makes our brainwaves wave and our hearts tick. It’s what keeps us functioning healthfully, slows down our system when it is blocked, and apparently leaves our bodies when we die. When we diminish our vital energy by using it to suppress emotional energy, our body becomes deprived of the energy it needs and this leads to depression, anxiety and physical illness.

We know from the science of physics that energy vibrates at different rates and that these vibrations result in differences of appearance and experience—the denser the energy, the more solid the object appears. Similarly, each color has its own vibration, and the difference in the rate of vibration creates the distinction between red, green, yellow, blue and so on. Musical notes also vibrate at different rates, resulting in different sounds like B-flat, D-sharp, high C.

Each emotion also has a different rate of vibration, and that’s how we can differentiate our emotions, such as anger fromsadness and sadnessfromhappiness. Emotional energy reverberates inside of us like a drum, making us conscious ofour emotionalfeelings. The emotional energies of love, gratitude, appreciation, joy and happiness vibrate more quickly and strengthen our vital energy. Fear, worry and anger vibrate more slowly and, thus, can weaken our vital energy. Yet as long as these slower vibrating emotions are flowing, i.e. not being suppressed, but expressed, they do not cause us harm.

The vibrational rates of colors, sounds and emotions will sometimes match. That’s why we have universal expressionssuch as ―I’m feeling blue‖ or ―I’m in the pink.‖ It’s why we are reminded ofsadness when we hear a piece of music in B-flat minor while music in the key of C major can uplift us. The same is true of food items orsubstances that we ingest, each of which has a different energy and is a major influence on our moods and health. For example, certain substances, such as sugar, coffee and cocaine, can cause anxiety because the vibrational rate or energy of these substances matchesthe vibrationalenergy of anxiety.

Understanding energy is important for your mental, emotional and physical health. Learning which emotional energies can strengthen you will help you move more easily into your heart while also helping you create the quality of life you want and deserve. Thaddaus Golas, author of The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, wrote: ―The way you see the world depends entirely on your own vibration. When your vibration changes, the whole world will look different. It is like those days when everyone seems to be smiling at you because you feel happy.‖ 3 Your emotional vibration is connected to and caused by your belief, and each belief and its accompanying emotion carry a different vibration: the belief that causes your happy feeling is also the belief that allows you to notice and accept good in the world. When this happens, you actually reduce yourstress and strengthen your immune system.

Dr. Norman Cousins was a wonderful humanitarian who wrote Anatomy of an Illness, a book about how he used the energy of laughter to heal his body. I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture he gave in which he told us about an experiment he conducted while he was a professor at UCLA. After a full day of teaching, he went to a medical lab and had blood drawn for a Complete Blood Count (CBC). Directly afterward, he went into a meditative state, focusing on thoughts and pictures of situations that made him feel very happy, and he stayed in that happy state until he could feel it throughout his body. At that point, he had the lab technicians draw blood for another CBC and the two were compared. His immune system, which produces various cells, such as killer T cells, hemoglobin and so on, had increased its production of these cells by 100 to 200 percent in the time it took him to meditate. The energy of happiness running through his body strengthened both his vital energy and his immune system.