You know your physical body…you can feel it.

You’ve experienced your mind…by thinking.

Have you experienced your energetic body?  You bet you have!

Ever get a hunch about someone? Ever hear the phone ring and know it’s your mom?  Ever feel like someone is watching you and look up and see your friend smile across a crowded room?

That’s your intuition at work. It’s also known as your energetic body.

The Geography of the Energetic Body

Your energetic body is HUGE.  Your energetic body surrounds and extends beyond your physical body. It’s also inside your physical body. Your energetic body is so big that it frequently encounters and interacts with energies of people around you, people you don’t know, those neighbors you haven’t met.

This is why going to the mall at Christmas may make you very anxious and angry. Your energetic system is bombarded with the physical, mental and emotional states of your fellow shoppers.

Is my Energetic Body my Spirit? Is it my Soul?

Your energetic body can also be known as your spirit (but don’t confuse it with your soul, please).  It is your spirit, in that your energetic body is the part of you that interacts with the divine.

It’s not your soul, though, and this is why: your soul is your divinity. It is the part of you that cannot be damaged.  It is the holy bit that is carried from lifetime to lifetime.

The energetic body can be damaged. In fact, it often is damaged. When the energetic body is working well, then you feel good. You are enthusiastically engaged in this thing called life.

What is the Energetic Body Good For?

Your energetic body is just like the physical body.  It is here to support your growth and understanding.

Imagine your lungs for a minute. Imagine that they are filling up with air. Lungs are big filters, yes?  They are taking in air, filtering out the components that aren’t useful, and sending on the oxygen our bodies require.  Then they are sending out carbon dioxide, which trees and plants use to grow.

Our energetic body has lungs. They are known, traditionally as chakras. Each Chakra looks like a little wagon wheel. It takes in energy, tries to filter out the unnecessary, and sends on the energetic information that our physical bodies and our minds can use.

Like our lungs, our chakras can become overwhelmed with bad energy. This is the same as smoke inhalation. They become dirty. They get stuck.

Our energetic body is also like a brain. It stores beliefs and ideas. Some of these beliefs and ideas are helpful. Some are not. Some of these beliefs are from this lifetime. Some are from other lifetimes, carried forward into this one.  Some beliefs are conscious. Some are unconscious.

Our energetic body is like a mouth. It speaks to the energetic bodies of those around us all of the time.

Our energetic body is like an ear. It hears the thoughts and feelings of those around us.

It can hear God.  Literally! It can hear God! You’re hearing God all of the time and you may not even know it.  If angels weren’t so resolute, you’d hear thousands of angels collectively smacking their hands against their foreheads right now.

The Chakras

We have hundreds of chakras in our energetic body, but we tend to focus on the 7 or 8 primary chakras.

Each chakra works with a specific domain of mental understanding as well as a specific domain of the physical body.

For example, your heart chakra covers the domain of emotional well-being.

Remember how I said the energetic body is like a brain? All mental understandings about love are stored in the heart chakra.

The heart chakra is the domain of several aspects of your physical body, including your heart, circulatory system, blood, lungs, rib cage, diaphragm, thymus, breasts, esophagus, shoulders, arms, and hands.

Each chakra can be damaged by the physical body, by the mind or by the energetic body. Usually, the damage to a chakra is caused by a combination of these.  When a chakra is damaged, it’s hard to gather and translate energy effectively.

For example,  let’s say someone gets their heart broken badly. They are with the person they consider the love of their lives, and that person betrays them.  They are literally, heart-broken.  Emotionally, energetically, their heart chakra is damaged.

So, this someone comforts him or herself with a sundae. One sundae turns into a month of Sundaes.  They stop exercising. They start smoking again.

They aren’t supporting their heart chakra through their physical body.  Sure, it feels good and comforting to sit on the couch with a big bowl of cheesy mac and watch Project Runway. I won’t deny that. But it’s not nurturing.

They stop interacting healthily with their heart chakra through their mind. Perhaps a belief pops into their head that they are truly unlovable. This belief lodges in the heart chakra. They avoid friends. They stop interacting with the world.

Their heart chakra continues to become damaged. Where once this person was vibrant and bright and on top of the world, they are now stuck on the couch feeling bad and lonely.

Been there?

Who hasn’t been there?

The Good News

When our energetic bodies are working well, they are so useful to us.

We get good information about what our body needs to be healthy.

We get good information about who we should be around.

We get inspired thoughts about how we should live our lives.

We really hear God, which means that we see that we are deeply loved, and of course, divine ourselves.

We feel more positive about the world around us.

We’re better able to handle and learn from the inevitable disappointments that come with living on this planet.

How to Support the Energetic Body

There are so many ways to support the energetic body. We’ll be spending more time on this blog talking about how to support and interact with this beautiful aspect of our living selves.

Let’s focus on the heart chakra for a moment.

You can support the heart chakra physically- through cardiovascular health and yoga, through looking at the color green, through hearing heart chakra music.

You can support the heart chakra mentally, by writing about love, by giving to others, by drawing with the color green, or creating with green clay. You can support the heart chakra by cooking with green foods, by walking in the woods.

You can support the heart chakra spiritually by meditating upon it, by simply focusing your energy on the light within your heart.

Scratching the Surface

We’ve just scratched the surface here on the energetic body.  There’s so much to tell.

A Great Resource

I love this book by Anodea Judith. It is the quintessential tome about Chakras.

Click on the picture to buy it from Amazon.com:

For More Information
The Chakra Health section of this blog has posts that touch on the energetic body. Most of my classes focus on the energetic body as well.

Questions?
You can also always ask me or just comment here.
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