The Energy Behind Every Moment - Discovering Mind
Untriggered: Discovering the Three Principles That Dissolve Triggers, Anxiety, and Stress
A six-part blog series for regaining the power to live your life how you want.
Part 2: The Energy Behind Every Moment – Discovering Mind
In part one of this blog series, we looked at the idea that there is a set of foundational principles that determine our human experience of life and how navigating life gets really easy once you see these principles at work.
The first principle we will explore is called Mind.
Mind is the intelligence of the Universe. No less.
It's the energy that runs the show. It's what beats your heart every moment of your life. It grows acorns into oak trees and orange seeds into orange trees. It's the innate intelligence in each of our cells, orchestrating the beautiful dance of our DNA at every breath. It's the energy that directs the exact right protein to be built in our cells at the exact right time to craft a salivary enzyme to digest our food on demand.
It's how bats know where to go and how birds navigate across continents. It's the pulse of the planet and the soul of our being. Some call it nature. Others call it God. It's the actual energy of the Universe.
And we can feel it.
The fact that we can feel the energy of life itself is mind-boggling. We're built to feel it.
It's that feeling of vitality or aliveness that runs in your veins or along your skin. It's the flow state that takes you over and spits you out six hours later, exhausted, with chapters of new writing on your computer. It's the shine in your baby's eyes. It's the love that won't go away or be ignored, even when you think you don't want it.
It's the idea that wakes you up at 3 a.m., and you need to work out on paper before you can go back to sleep. It's the energy that infuses your bones and muscles during the performance of your life. It's also in the quiet moments when you're so calm and at peace for no reason other than it's dusk and you love the quality of the light as it fades into night once again.
By focusing on the feeling of the energy of aliveness, the feeling builds and builds until we're living in a different world where everything is energizing. Everything flows. All emotions are felt with no difficulties.
It's joy and love and the feeling of loving being alive. You can feed yourself fire.
It's as if fire erupts from within your very core and runs along your veins, blasting out your head, your eyes, your fingertips. Everything you touch is fire.
Try this right now: Settle in your mind, your arms, and the boundary where your skin meets the air. Become aware of the air as it gently rests upon your upper arm—perhaps your shoulder. Feel how the air ever so softly glides over your skin. Even if there's no movement of air, there's a point where your skin leaves off, and air begins.
Move your attention just off your skin, maybe a half inch into the air. As you focus there, all along the length of your arm, can you feel it? That slight—or not so subtle—buzz of electric feeling? That's the energy of life itself enlivening you.
You are literally filled to the brim with it. You are made of it. It's what keeps you going and maintains you as a being on the planet.
It's what, secretly, in the quiet spaces of your soul, whispers to you of belonging and perfect love. It's hope. It's spirit. It's you and me and all of us.
In giving our attention and focus to this energy, we become more and more aware of it. We begin to feel it more and more. It enlivens our world more and more. You see it in the eyes and kindness of a stranger. You feel it at the gym and the corner store. You start to live life from a ground of connection and good feeling. Wonderful experiences become your baseline.
The literal energy of the entire Universe is on your side. It's literally waiting for you to notice it's been sitting alongside you, holding your hand all this time.
When was the last time you felt that alive buzz? What shifted for you? Feel free to share.
(Next: Part 3 – Consciousness: The Gift of Simply Being Aware)
With Love,
Sara Joy