Issue 9 February 2011
Quantum
I’m sure you’ve watched or heard how our entire country had been saddened by the recent shootings in Tucson, Arizona. My heart goes out to all who have experienced the tragedy directly and all those who have been affected by it. Many have acknowledged that they feel a sense of helplessness, or a pull to assign blame and respond in anger.
What can we do in situations like this? We all may have different levels of response to the events corresponding to our level of involvement in the world. What unites us as energy psychology and energy medicine practitioners is that we bridge from the socio/political to physical/emotional to the spiritual/energetic, and that we want to make sure that our responses reflect the spiritual/ energetic dimension.
In the December column I wrote for Quantum Health magazine, I talked about energy leaks and gathering back energy lost to conflicts as a way of recovering from shock and trauma. That can be one level of response.
What I would like to share in this column is another very powerful and practical way in which we have an opportunity to make a contribution towards our own energetic balance, as well as to foster balance and healing in the world in the way that is just and in alignment with the universal principles. I speak of a particular unifying principle shared by many traditions and religions—a principle of energy allocation that is rarely discussed and frequently misunderstood.
Let us say that you’ve been energetically attacked by someone (and no, it does not have to be anything supernatural): your political opponent, a neighbour, or even a feuding family member.
How do you respond? Many of us focus on self- examination. If you are a spiritually oriented person, you most likely will
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also adopt some “energetic karate” routines for energetic protection. The most common ones are to visualise surrounding yourself with a white light or creating some kind of protective barriers around your energy field.
From an “engineering” perspective (which is my background, as many of you know), there is a problem with this “let’s look on how we contributed to this problem” approach, if that is all that we do. By solely focusing inwards on our own responsibilities and protecting our own energetic space, we are actually placing a limit on our own area of energetic influence, while allowing the toxic energy of the attacker to run rampant. This is what happens if we let the political pundits run their toxic campaigns unimpeded.
It turns out that the first step in the process of forgiveness and healing must be to allocate (responsibly, of course) the responsibility for what has happened back to the perpetrator. The desire for retribution is the first instinctual reaction we have as humans. But as we become spiritually evolved, we discover that there is a great deal more behind this instinctual response. There is a difference between expressing hostility towards others as a reaction to their actions (which among other things is bad for our heart and immune system) and returning back what is rightfully their own energy. Our true task is to facilitate returning and containing the energy that they put out in the world to its source and, in so doing, to help restore the balance of the universe.
The Russian folk medicine injunction sums it up succinctly: “Yours to you, mine to me.” And this approach should be the true meaning of the English expression “to give someone a taste of their own medicine.”
In ancient times, the true warrior was the one who could avoid conflict by the act of controlling his inner state. Energy allocation is a method frequently employed for achieving this control. The shamanistic, mystical, magical and spiritual traditions share in many different ways the notion of allocating personal responsibility for one’s actions as they warn us against being a source of negative energies.
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