One of my students just moved into a new apartment, after living with a particularly difficult roommate for most of a year. I watched her navigate the events leading up to the move using energy tools. She never had to be reminded to work with the energy, she reached out when she couldn’t see her next step and she connected with fellow students outside of class to practice reading and move more energy.
She completely understood the assignment. She’s also young, just 22 years old! She didn’t have 30 or 40 years of conditioning prior to learning the tools, and that makes a big difference.
Her move was a beautiful, real-world example of why we do what we do. I notice with my students that most of them easily learn the tools, but many hold them at a sort of intellectual distance, as if they are concepts separate from their lived experience. When they come to me with a personal challenge I always ask them, have you looked at the energy? This question takes some of them by surprise. But this student looked at the energy every time she felt uncomfortable. She managed her own vibration, she created a mockup every day, and she held space not just for herself but for a second roommate, who was also struggling with the challenging living situation.
Then they moved. The apartment had formerly been inhabited by 3 college-aged men; one stayed and my student and her friend moved in with him and his couch. Lord, The Couch; it was so well-used it had its own personality. They quickly replaced it and scrubbed all the floors; they opened the shades, washed the windows and let the light in. They emptied and cleaned the refrigerator and cupboards and they pulled . . . bedsheets and spare pillows . . . out of a kitchen cabinet, replacing it with pots and pans. They tackled a moldering bathroom.
When they were done the place energetically felt so much lighter and so did my student; she was buoyant.
Everything is energy. Whenever we clean a room, we’re not just making it look better; we’re also clearing the vibration of other people and other times. I remember visiting a home furnishings store in Taos years ago. I admired a big, beautiful solid wood dining table with mercury glass candle holders and chunky hand-carved wooden trenchers (lest you think me fancy, this is a term I have just learned this exact minute; it’s a thing you’re meant to put your bread in), a striped linen table runner, colorful plates and bowls and beautiful hand-wrought flatware. I complimented the beauty of the table and how clean and bright everything was. The store owner told me, “I cleaned the store this morning! Every time I do that, people start noticing and buying more. It’s like they can see things better!” The table had collected the energy of many shoppers’ opinions, ideas and admiration and, after a while, the energy itself obscured the objects.
Think about spring cleaning or clearing unused items out of your house. Sweeping the porch or cleaning your car. My car hauls a dog and her cousin dog around and they shed an entire, extra dog’s worth of hair every day, at least 3 months out of the year. When I wash and detail my car I feel like a different person. It’s more of a pleasure to drive, the car feels so spacious and it seems to run better. I feel more supported.
Eating is another great example. When we eat foods that are simple and alive, we naturally feel better than when we eat processed foods. Friendship works the same way: when a friendship nourishes and supports us, the energy feels better than when we’re connecting with people that are competitive, self-absorbed or controlling.
It’s as easy as asking ourselves, how does this person/meal/job/experience make me feel? When I do it differently, how does that make me feel?
You don’t have to know energy tools to change your life. But when you do, it’s a way of consciously and deliberately bringing your circumstances into a higher vibration, with more awareness of what energy you’re clearing as well as the new qualities you’d like to bring in.
Blessings,
Katie H
