99/07/27
studied again on 2006_04_10, and again on 2006_07_23

Running Energy Discussion

It's Better to Feel Energy than See It

I keep trying to do the running energy exercise, but can't tell if it's making a difference.
I visualize first the Mother energy coming up from Earth's core, then Spirit energy coming down.
When I read the site material suggesting to do this, it feels like the truth,
but when I do it, it feels like there's a gap in my ability
to be sensitive enough to discriminate if it's making a difference,
almost as if there's an injury or block at the chakras
that are supposed to be able to sense this stuff.
Lately I've been trying to release possible judgments I may have
that I can't be sensitive enough,
that I can't accurately sense God
in case judgments like those are keeping such sensitivity away from me.

"It is of course very good work
to release any negative judgments
about your abilities to connect with the Mother and me,
and for that matter about doing any of [the] practices that can lead you to wholeness.

There is another issue here besides judgments, however.
It has to do with the difference between seeing the energy and feeling it.

The 'etheric', or 'subtle' human energy
is meant to be experienced as a felt sense
rather than an exclusively visual experience.
However, visualization can be very helpful in getting started with this practice.

"Most humans are unaware of their own subtle energy,
this is why it's called 'subtle'.
And although it may be subtle, it's not that mysterious.
This is the same kind of energy that you experience
when you feel into your body's sensations.

"You can also sense this energy in others,
when you sense a person's 'vibes' or 'affect'.

"Subtle human energy has a wide range of sensation.
On one end of the rage it can feel something like a very mild physical sensation,
and on the other end, something that's not so subtle, like profound emotional energy.

"The key to experiencing and working with energy
is to focus attention in the body.
Visualization is a mental experience,
and is useful only
if it helps you feel into your subtle energy,
which by the way includes sexual energy.

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"Sexual energy
is probably the most intense
and therefore most obvious form of human energy.
It's not exactly 'emotional', and it's not exactly 'physical' either.
Yet it is energy almost everyone is aware of,
and therefore can be used
as a standard for sensing subtle energy in the other chakras.
Sexual energy is of course primarily experienced or sensed in the lower part of the second chakra.

"Just below this center is the first chakra.
Without it being triggered by an event,
the easiest way to begin sensing first chakra energy
is to flex the sphincter muscle around the anus.
When you release the muscle,
a slight tingling sensation is left.
This mild sensation can be used
as a perceptual doorway
into deeper layers of sensation in the energy of your first chakra.

"The practice here would be to feel into the tingling
and allow your awareness to stay focused,
and then follow the sensations
as they radiate away from the area of the muscle.
This can bring your awareness to the next,
even more 'subtle' layer of first chakra energy,
and as your awareness continues to follow the energy,
notice how it changes.

"The next step is to 'run' the energy
by consciously intending to move it with your awareness and your breath.
As you inhale, use your intention to draw the energy up to the next chakra,
and bring your attention along with it, bathing the area with awareness.
You can continue drawing the magnetic energy up the chakras in this manner.

"The main difference between seeing and feeling the energy is
that in seeing it,
you are getting it to follow your lead through visualization.
In feeling or sensing the energy
you are using your awareness to follow along with it,
and then your intention to move it.

The truth is that it's moving already,
but your loving attention and focused awareness on its movement
increases its quantity and improves its quality.
It also brings your energy under your conscious domain
and allows you to be parental to it.

"To begin sensing the energy in the other chakras
it may be helpful to use a hand or finger
to put pressure on the outside of your body in the area of the chakra.
By first contacting the physical sensations associated with a chakra's energy,
the other layers of sensation can begin to resolve in awareness.

"Although visualization is primarily a mental experience,
running energy is not.
It is primarily a feeling experience,
but of a different kind than most humans have been aware.
Since energy is fundamental to manifested existence,
energy awareness is crucial to the healing work,
and well worth the effort to develop."

pp1b
As a related aside,
I wish there could be a little channeled material on the hara line, etc.
as discussed in Barbara Brennan's book Light Emerging.
That material suggested a process for first connecting with Earth energy at the center of the Earth,
and then Spirit energy from above.
Her material said that when a person's hara line is lined up in this way,
a "bridge" of sorts gets built,
that a person then becomes aligned with their karmic purpose,
and that the person can then access thousands of times more power.

"Yes, this is true.
There has been much emphasis on the importance of the hara in Eastern metaphysics,
and particularly in developing strong body presence.
Since 'life purpose' and 'body purpose' are virtually the same,
strengthening the hara
can be quite helpful in realizing and fulfilling your original, karmic goals in this life.
And hara awareness is an important part of energy awareness.
However, your original life purpose can be realized and your karmic goals met
without necessarily focusing on the hara or its energy.

"The practice of driving backward
that I recommend in the four steps material
is a much quicker, more efficient way
to realize and complete your original life purpose.
In fact, it can be done in the present moment,
in the 'twinkling of an eye'.

"With your original life work or reason for being here Accomplished,
you are then free to take on a purpose you had not originally intended,
at least not for this lifetime.
You are free to take on the extraordinary life purpose
of healing into wholeness."

When I read (about the Hara and life purpose) about 4 years ago,
I felt the inner knowing sense that the assertions were true,
and I've tried the Hara alignment process a number of times.
Again, I usually feel afterwards a groping sense of inability to know
how effective my visualizations of alignment have been.
I'm thinking
that the GodChannel suggested method maybe has the same effect on Hara line
as the suggested Barbara Brennan material,
and am wondering if this is so.
Does doing the running energy exercises line up this bridge?

"Yes, it does.
This is because running energy helps align the whole being,
all of the various subtle bodies and the physical body.
There will be more material on this in both the healing class and the channeling class."

Do some people have to do the running energy exercises more than 30 times
before they begin to become sensitive enough to discriminate the resultant shifts in energy?
As the 8 year old in me would say, "Am I doing this right?"

"A very good question, and thank you for asking it.
No, focusing only on the visual aspects of the energy
is not enough to get it running as intended.
The energy must be felt,
visualizing it is meant only to help get you started.

"However, the problem hasn't been with your practice
as much it's been with the original description of the exercise in the channeling class.
I've asked the channelers to revise some of that language,
and the revised versions of the running energy exercise
and the running energy script are now posted.
I recommend that you experiment with these new understandings
about feeling
rather than seeing the energy,
and I apologize for this not being made more clear in the beginning."

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2006_06_27
Dear Channelers,

Since I shared with you the beginning of my experiment
with devising a running-energy ritual, that works for me,
I want to tell you, that a new element added itself: SOUND.

Sound has been sadly missing all the time in "your" exercise,
though Sound - as one way to vibrate emotions - is strongly recommended by "God".
Somewhere Deity's info even specifies: "use guttural sounds"!

Exactly these came out, when I did the ritual for the first time today.
As I told you, the practicality of my ritual is , among other advantages,
that I can do it in one deep breath, whenever I become conscious of myself,
conscious of my body sensations right now
conscious of what I am feeling right now
conscious of where I am in mastering my life and healing towards wholeness.
This happens very often during my waking hours and also during the night,
for instance when I wake up because I have to go to the toilet.
(You may know, that drinking a lot during the day is part of the healing...)

Here is the ritual as it has evolved so far:
Sitting or standing or - not as good: - lying in bed,
I flex the anus sphincter as strongly as possible, without (!) relaxing it,
and while imagining this movement "sinking" into the center of the earth,
and following the movement with my strongly clasped hands [also sphincter muscles!] -
my throat produces deep, not exactly beautiful... sounds.
From down there - relaxing the sphincters -
I breathe in and imagine "baraka" moving up,
my open hands moving along body to sense the baraka,
spiraling clockwise around heart,
up to the crown,
spilling over,
and with my open hands - still open like a funnel ,
I draw and breathe out "charisma" down along my body,
again -moving my hands as close to my body as possible without touching it
(which would confuse the sensation),
trying to sense the charisma,
again spiraling around heart, but earthwise, and then down into the earth.

I keep finding it helpful to have adopted the terms
"baraka" for Will or Mother Energy and "charisma" for Spirit Energy.
[in both cases: emphasis on first sylable]
You may be familiar with the Greek "charisma", but not with "baraka":
this is the Arabic Sufi term for divine energy,
- it actually means "blessing", like the Hebrew: berakha.

Maryam

July 23, 2006
It is a time of war again.
Two days ago - while coping with my fury about
the mindless "warmongers" on the one hand
and the Mother-denying "lightworkers" on the other hand,
another modification of my ritual added itself:

After charisma has merged with baraka in my heart,
I do not lead the united "energy" down into the earth again.
Instead I move it - together with my hands - around my lower trunk
and than spread it out graciously into and unto "the World",
especially onto the "warmongers" and "lightworkers".

I still cannot "sense the energy",
but when spreading out united Baraka-Charisma,
I clearly feel and think --------- "COMPASSION"!
The fury and frustration which follow from having dedicated my life
to "Creating the Conditions of Partnership between Arabs and Jews"
"in vain"

reside and give way to the integration of those aspect of myself,
the "warmongers" and the "lightworkers"
which play out the roles I must have given to them in MY drama.