What Everyone Ought to Know About the Energy Body

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The Physical Body is the form that a soul takes while incarnated in the 3rd dimension (i.e. on Earth). The Physical Body consists of energy so dense that it can be felt and seen. However, the soul consists of more energetic layers than just the physical body.

According to spiritual, esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings, souls have a Physical Body and an Energy Body, commonly called a Subtle Body. The origin of Subtle Body teachings was principally Indian Yoga tradition, where it is described as sheaths that cover the immortal soul.

The Energy Body is known by various names in different spiritual traditions:

• Christians call it the “Resurrection Body” or the “Glorified Body”.
• Sufis call it the “most Sacred Body” (Wujud Al-aqdas) and the “Supra-celestial Body” (Jism Asli Haqiqi).
• Taoists call it the “Diamond Body”. Those who have attained it are called “the Immortals” and “the Cloudwalkers.”
• Yogic schools and Tantrics call it the “Divine Body.
• Tibetan Buddhists call it the “Light Body” or “Rainbow Body” (Jalü or Jalus). The Tibetan Book of the Dead1 calls it the “Shining Body”.
• Kriya Yogis call it the “Body of Bliss”.
• Hermetics call it the “Immortal Body” (Soma Athanaton).
• In the alchemical tradition, it is called the “Golden Body.”
• In the Mithraic liturgy it is called the “Perfect Body.”
• In Gnosticism it is called the “Radiant Body.”
• In the Vedanta it is called the “Superconductive Body.”
• The ancient Egyptians called it the “Luminous Body or Being” (akh) or the “Karast”.
• Alberto Villoldo, a scientist and shaman, calls it the “Luminous Energy Field” (LEF). He says the LEF dwells outside of time having existed since before the beginning of time and endures throughout infinity. It manifests in time by creating new physical bodies lifetime after lifetime. The LEF contains imprints of a soul’s memories, traumas, and wounds from former lifetimes.
• Clairvoyants see it as an aura or cloud of colored lights surrounding the Physical Body.

Our Energy Body is a luminous body. It is a vehicle that is used for traveling to other dimensions. The Energy Body is a vehicle of consciousness that exists as frequency levels on the subtle planes and as a yogic body that consists of ch’i or pranic energy (aura), energy vortexes (chakras) and energy channels (nadis or meridians). Astral projection and death are two ways to separate the energy body from the physical body.

The Energy Body can be separated into different layers. The number and names of the layers vary according to different spiritual models and theories. I have simplified the layers into 6 levels:

1. Physical Body (aka The Gross Body, The Biological Body, The Dense Body, The Material Body)
2. Etheric Body (aka The Life Force Body, The Auric Energy Fields)
3. Astral Body (aka The Psychic Body)
4. Emotional Body
5. Mental Body (aka The Mind)
6. Causal Body (aka The Higher Self, The Soul, The Spiritual Body, The Divine Body, Nirvana, The Celestial Body, The Cosmic Body)

The Energy Body is depicted in the graphic diagram below as having different layers that reside on various dimensions of consciousness. There is a portion of the energy body, called the Higher Self, that never descends to the physical body, but remains resident on the spiritual planes. The Higher Self retains all of a soul’s consciousness and memories.

However, for the purpose of this article, it is not necessary to distinguish the different layers of the Subtle Body. The term Energy Body or EB will be used to refer to the Subtle Body and the term Physical Body or PB will be used to refer to the Physical Body.

This table summarizes the basic differences between the Energy Body and the Physical Body:

Energy Body (EB)	Physical Body (PB)
Is formlessness.	Has form.
Composed of energy as light.	Composed of dense matter.
A product of past lives and between life experiences as well as karmic activity.	A product of genetic material inherited from ancestors.
Memories are stored in the Akashic records.	Memories are stored in the genes.
Has high energy, low density.	Has low energy, high density.
Can be seen or experienced through the 6th sense (3rd eye/intuition).	Can be seen by the physical eye and felt through the 5 senses.
Stores trauma from past lifetimes.	Stores trauma from the current incarnation.
Exists in timelessness.	Exists in linear time.
Does not age and does not die.	Ages and dies.
Is immortal and is kept over many lifetimes.	Is mortal and kept only for the current incarnation.
You take it with you when you die.	You leave it on Earth when you die.
Eternal. Is carried in between lives and through multiple lives.	Temporary. Only lasts one lifetime.
Exists on the higher planes of existence (i.e. the spiritual world).	Exists on the Physical Plane (i.e. the 3rd dimension).
Has a connected oneness identity.	Has a separate ego identity.
Is motivated from within.	Is subject to external laws.

DOES THE ENERGY BODY ALWAYS MATCH THE PHYSICAL BODY?
The Energy Body is usually described as a round, egg-shaped, or asymmetrical energy field. Although formless, it carries characteristics with it. Sometimes those characteristics are in synch with the Physical Body and sometimes they are different. Instances where the Energy Body does not match the Physical Body are:

1. Individuals whose physical body weight does not match their mental picture. An example is someone diagnosed as anorexic. The mirror indicates the physical body is of an acceptable weight, but the mental picture is that the body is “fat”. In reverse, many overweight people are surprised when their body cannot fit between two objects because their mental picture does not match the Physical Body.

2. Individuals that have physical disabilities. An example is someone that has had a limb amputated. The feelings and sensations of the limb still exist. In fact, a Kirlian photograph of a leaf that has been cut in half still shows the complete, intact energy fields of the whole leaf.

3. Individuals that feel young at heart. Have you ever looked in a mirror and been shocked at how old you look because when you look out on the world from behind your eyes, you see the world from a much younger perspective? How many times has an older individual suffered a physical injury from overdoing a physical activity that was perfectly easy to do when they were much younger? Many individuals in contact with souls on the spiritual plane see them to be about 30 years of age. Even though the Energy Body exists outside of Time, perhaps it does so in a state similar to a Physical Body of 30 years.

4. Individuals that feel they are part human, part animal. Mythology is full of examples of therianthropes such as centaurs, minotaurs, mermaids, fauns, sphinxes, satyrs, and Ganesha. In fact anyone could feel part mineral, plant, or animal as well as human.

5. Individuals that feel they are of a different culture or race than the physical body displays. Many people have a very strong identification with different cultures, skin color, and physical shapes than the ones they were physically born with. An example of this may have been Michael Jackson. He underwent many cosmetic procedures to alter his Physical Body to match the image of his Energy Body.

6. Individuals that feel they have a different gender than the physical body. Sex is usually defined as the biological or physical body, i.e. it is produced by one’s DNA. Gender, however, is a mental definition. Many people have a Physical Body that correlates to their feeling of gender i.e. females feel feminine and identify as female and males feel masculine and identify as males. However, there are a lot of individuals that do not have a Physical Body that matches their feelings and thoughts, in other words the Physical Body does not match the Energy Body. Many of these individuals identify as transsexual, transgender, intersexed, or gender fluid.

The most common instances where the Physical Body does not match the Energy Body are illustrated below.

BRIDGING THE PHYSICAL BODY TO THE ENERGY BODY
People tend to ostracize, stigmatize, and shame individuals who are different. Many times difference is a result of the Energy Body not matching the Physical Body. If taken and individual takes on the judgments of others, they will lodge in the Energy Body as body stories. Body stories are energy blocks or blocked energy imprints that eventually migrate into the Physical Body and manifest in the form of dis-ease.

We must stop looking only at the shells of people, which is the Physical Body, and begin to honor the energy that we feel, which is the Energy Body. As the Energy Body is acknowledged by others, the more at peace an individual will feel.

The Energy Body houses our true Nature. Changing it would be like trying to carry a mountain home with you. Instead, wouldn’t it be much simpler and smarter to travel to the mountain? So how does one take steps to build the bridge between the Energy Body and the Physical Body?

Bridging is bringing awareness from one side to the other. Once a bridge is created between the identities of the two bodies, both bodies become validated. The Energy Body can expand because it is acknowledged and the Physical Body becomes healthier because energy is flowing freely. The more solid the bridge, the easier it becomes to cross back and forth and integrate the two sides.

There are two grand advantages to being aware of your Energy Body:

1. Western medicine only focuses on treating the Physical Body. If you are educated about your Energy Body, you can implement ways to maintain a healthy one. For instance, you can learn about ways to create a healthy energy body for yourself or go to practitioners who are experienced in energy medicine techniques. For instance, I offer Energy Body Tune-ups, which include: aura repair, chakra restoration, grounding cord check, and a Reiki fill up. Deeper energy work may be indicated and could include power restoration, energy extraction, and soul retrieval work.

2. Acknowledging the existence of the Energy Body will broaden your perception. Many indigenous people look to Condor and Eagle as teachers showing us not only how to fly high enough to see the big picture but how to fly wingtip to wingtip with Spirit. This is a metaphor for knowing that the Physical Body is a very small part of our soul. Our existence extends all the way into the spiritual world and is forever eternal. When we tap into the consciousness of our Higher Self, we are able to see a much bigger picture, because the view is from the spiritual plane.

Here are some steps to building a bridge between the Energy Body and the Physical Body:
1. Awaken – Awareness can be a simple introduction such as saying “Hello, I see and feel you” to both Bodies.

2. Acknowledge – Done through unconditional love and acceptance. Try some of these activities:

• Perform positive affirmations daily.
• Banish negative thoughts and self-talk whenever it begins.
• Do guided meditations, mantras, and individual meditations.
• Seek out and surround yourself with non-judgmental people who practice unconditional love and acceptance.
• Throw a tea party for all your Bodies to celebrate their uniqueness and diversity.

3. Align – Done on both the energetic level or on a physical level. Your Physical Body gets fed every day. But how do you feed your Energy Body daily? Find out what makes your Energy Body happy and nourish it regularly. Energetic alignment methods can include:

• Grounding Meditations and Exercises: Grounding on a daily basis puts you in your Physical Body.
• Develop Astral Travel and Lucid Dreaming skills.
• Go on Shamanic Journeys. Shamans are very good at understanding transformation and metamorphosis, living between the worlds, and bridging different realities.
• Receive Massages: Reiki for the Energy Body and other body therapies for the Physical Body.
• Receive Energy Healings such as aura-chakra cleansings, shamanic healings, and various other forms of energy medicine and therapies.
• Do Shapeshift exercises: Examples are ecstatic dancing, creating masks and costumes that celebrate your Energy Body, tattooing the physical body with energy body characteristics, changing the Physical Body through cosmetics, clothes, hair style, surgery, or any other physical means.

SUMMARY: A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF THE ENERGY BODY
1. The Energy Body merges with the Physical Body at birth and leaves the Physical Body at death. The Energy Body remains connected to the Physical Body during incarnation through energetic systems such as the aura, chakras, and meridians. When the Energy Body leaves, the Physical Body sleeps or dies. If the Energy Body leaves the Physical Body temporarily, it is called Astral Projection. If the Energy Body leaves the Physical Body permanently it is called Death. Psychopomps help the Energetic Body leave the Physical Body at death and seal the Physical Body chakras so the Energetic Body does not return.

2. The Energy Body has many layers. The inner most layer is the closest to the Physical Body and the outer most layer extends into the 5th dimension (spiritual plane). This layer is the Higher Self that never incarnates into a Physical Body. The Higher Self retains memory of all lifetimes and all time between lives.

3. The Physical Body is made of slow, dense energy so it can be seen by the physical eye. The Energy Body is made of faster, higher vibrating energy and can be seen by some through the 3rd eye. Some basic energy systems of the Energy Body include the chakra system, the aura, and the meridians.

4. When the Energy Body overlays the Physical Body at birth it only brings a portion of the soul’s energy. Some energy always remains in the outer layer, i.e. in the 5th dimension.

5. The Energy Body is the vehicle that carries our consciousness from one lifetime to another and holds our consciousness in between lives. It also carries imprints of past life Physical Bodies including physical characteristics and traumatic injuries. The Energy Body can also house imprints of impending dis-eases. If the cause of the dis-ease is not identified and healed, the dis-ease will descend into the Physical Body.

6. The Energy Body receives and sends energy. This is a form of communication that is in addition to the standard forms of communication that most of us are familiar with and use every day, such as verbal and body language. The energy body “gives off vibes” and these vibrations are received by the universe. The Law of Manifestation states that what vibration you give out is what you will attract back to you.

7. The Energy Body can “feel” the same as the Physical Body can. Have you ever felt angry or frustrated when someone has cut you off in traffic or in line at the market? Even though they have not touched your Physical Body, you are reacting to the sudden intrusion of their energy touching your Energy Body. People can send energy “whacks” to you simply by giving you the “evil eye” or sending you a nasty thought.

8. The Energy Body may not match the Physical Body. For instance, individuals may have a different gender identity (energetic level) than biological sex (physical level). Some Energy Bodies may be larger than Physical Bodies (anorexia) or may be smaller than Physical Bodies (obesity). The Energy Body can even retain feelings when a physical limb is lost through amputation.

9. Western medicine practitioners will only treat the Physical Body. To receive Energy Body treatments, an individual must visit alternative health providers or Eastern medicine practitioners that are knowledgeable about the energy body.

10. The more the Energy Body can be integrated with the Physical Body, the more whole and healthy a person will feel. Acknowledging the Energy Body is a big step towards integrating it with the Physical Body.

11. Healers that are trained in energy medicine techniques can provide clearing, healing, and maintenance for the Energy Body. They also can provide a daily energy body tune-up regime for an individual to follow.

12. The Energy Body is the one thing you will never shed and will be with you always. It is ageless and eternal. Therefore you will want to maintain the healthiest Energy Body you can so treat your Energy Body well!

CONCLUSION
On the physical plane, the Physical Body inherits genetic material from thousands of generations of ancestors. On the spiritual plane, the Energy Body inherits wisdom from many past lives and between lives times. We choose our Physical Bodies before birth in order to experience specific lessons while incarnated. But even then, our current Physical Bodies tend to resemble our Past Life Bodies. Perhaps the reason is that when the Energy Body overlays the Physical Body during incarnation, it affects the look of the current Physical Body. So why would we even think of negatively judging ourselves and others based on what the Physical Body looks like?

Copyright © 2014 Drake Bear Stephen. Except where acknowledged. http://www.DrakeInnerprizes.com

Projections become Reflections: The Grand Mirror of Life

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I will tell you the key to success, happiness, and fulfillment. It’s so basic that it’s unbelievable. It has a 100% success rate if followed. And I am telling you this for free. Here it is:

What you put out, you get back. How you think of yourself, is how the world will treat you.

It’s that simple. The world is a huge mirror and returns to you exactly what you think you deserve. Another way to put it is, as you do your personal work, you raise your vibration. The higher the level you vibrate at, the higher the level of vibrations you will attract. The foundation of doing your personal work is changing your perspective. About everything.

The 4 steps to manifesting anything you want:
1. Know Yourself Learn all you can about yourself. Travel your subconscious for hidden memories. Heal past pain & trauma.
2. Love Yourself Unconditionally. Constantly. Know you deserve the best.
3. Be Yourself Serve yourself. Honor your boundaries. Be authentic by extracting others’ voices & influences.
4. Share Yourself Be of service to others. Share your gifts with the universe. Shine your light.

5 “W” and 1 “H” questions to ask on your journey of self-discovery:
1. Who am I?
2. Why am I here now?
3. Where am I going?
4. When do I step fully into my self-power?
5. What is my gift?
6. How much self-sourcing and support do I need for this journey?

There are many roads to self-empowerment. Some suggestions are:
1. Develop your personal skills (intuition, meditation, contemplation, etc.)
2. Do your personal work (classes, bodywork, therapies, past life sessions, etc.)
3. Do your homework (reading, researching, study, astrological analysis, etc.)
4. Maintain a daily spiritual practice (ritual, ceremony, prayer, acts of spiritual service, gratitude, etc.)

Seeking your fortune ends in finding yourself. Knowing and loving yourself is the greatest gift you will ever find. Because you are the treasure at the end of the rainbow. Each one of us is a treasure trove of talent, love, and light.

“In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.” –Alberto Villoldo

Copyright © 2014 Drake Bear Stephen. Except where acknowledged. http://www.DrakeInnerprizes.com

Energy Body Dis-Functions Treated through Shamanic Energy Medicine

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Energy Body Dis-function, Shamanic Energy Medicine

WHAT IS ENERGY MEDICINE?
Energy medicine is the use of energy to activate the body’s natural healing energies to restore weak, disturbed, blocked, or out of balance energies. An energy medicine practitioner acts as a conduit for healing energy on the body’s energetic systems. Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine, has identified 9 energetic systems associated with the body. To simplify, I have categorized the energy systems into the following 4 categories:

1. Energy Networks – Meridians are the body’s energy bloodstream consisting of 14 channels that carry energy into, through, and out of the body. Acupuncture points along these meridians can be stimulated with needles or pressure to redistribute energy along the meridian pathway. The Celtic weave (the Ida and Pingala) is a spiraling figure-8 network that runs throughout and around the body to keep all the energy systems functioning as a single unit. The Electrics help charge and connect the other systems at an electrical level.

2. Energy Centers – The chakras are concentrated centers or vortexes of energy that act like transformers to step down the higher energy of the aura into the lower energy of the meridian system. There are 12 major chakras and over 100 minor chakras.

3. Energy Fields – The aura is a multi-layered (usually 7) shell of energy that brings in energy from the environment to your chakras and sends energy from your chakras outward. It is a protective shell. The basic grid is the body’s foundational energy that all other energy systems ride on. The radiant circuits are fluid fields that ensure that all other energy systems are working for the common good and redistribute energies to where they are most needed.

4. Energetic Rhythms – Known in Chinese medicine as the 5 elements (water, wood, fire, earth, and metal), a person’s primary rhythm, in combination with the changing rhythms of life’s seasons, directs the ambience of the entire energy system.

Every organ, tissue, gland, and cell in the body depend on a regular and supply of this energy in order to sustain life. The body’s energy flow can become restricted or blocked by physical trauma, emotional trauma, surgery, disease, stress, or fear. Over time these energy blocks create dis-ease, emotional and mental disorder, and/or spiritual disconnection. Energy medicine can restore and maintain the body’s energy systems by means of tapping, massaging, pinching, twisting, or connecting specific energy points on the skin; by tracing or swirling the hand over the skin along specific energy pathways; through exercises or postures designed for specific energetic effects; by focused use of the mind to move specific energies; and/or by surrounding an area with healing energies.

Symptoms that there may be dis-function in the energy systems can range from being very subtle to being overwhelming. They include:

• Fatigue, weakness, or lack of vitality
• Chronic physical pains or illnesses
• Depression, anxiety, restlessness, emptiness, or panic
• Unresolved fears, nightmares, or interruptions to sleep
• Sudden changes in behavior or feelings you are not your usual self
• Feelings of being off balance, unfocused, ungrounded, or judgmental
• Feeling of being disconnected from Others, Spirit, and/or Nature
• Survivor of a trauma

Symptoms that there may be dis-function in the spiritual realm include:

• Lack of integrity, honesty, compassion, understanding, courage, or strength
• Lack of self-respect and self-esteem
• Lack of spiritual activities
• Lack of respect or tolerance for other human beings
• A sense of not belonging anywhere or a lack of sense of community
• Cruel and violent behavior towards other human beings
• Disregard for the needs of Mother Earth and the universe
• Physical, emotional and sexual abuse
• Not knowing your purpose for being
• The worship of material objects

WHAT IS SHAMANIC ENERGY MEDICINE?
The shortcoming of Western medicine is that the energy body is ignored whereas in Eastern medicine it is very integrated. For example, Chinese medicine is based on the theories of chi (energy) and Aruveyda is based on theories of prana (energy). So if a Westerner wants to heal on an energetic level, s/he must seek out a specialist. A specialist who is trained to work with the energy body is called a shamanic and/or energy medicine practitioner.

A shamanic practitioner facilitates healing of the soul or spirit. S/he specialized in working on crystallized and fluid energy, spirit possession, and missing soul parts (dis-functions 1 – 4 illustrated below). An energy medicine practitioner facilitates healing of the energy body. S/he specialized in working on ungrounded energy, damaged energy centers, pathways, and fields (dis-functions 5 – 9 shown below). A shamanic energy medicine practitioner facilitates healing for both modalities.

There is a natural overlap between shamanic practice and energy medicine practice. These two modalities can be combined to create powerful treatments that address a wide range of spiritual and energetic circumstances.

LIST OF ENERGETIC DIS-FUNCTIONS
Below are listed the spiritual and energetic dis-functions that can occur in the energy body:

  1 Crystallized Energy – Toxic energies can crystallize in the energy body. Crystallized energies are metaphoric entities used by a sorceress and angry people wishing ill will in form of psychic attacks or curses. They can be in the form of blow gun darts, spiders, insects, snakes, etc. Or a crystallized energy can be remnants of past life memories of how our injuries, wounds, and deaths. Solution: Extraction of crystallized energies, inject positive energy, and repair aura.

2 Fluid Energy & Spirit Attachments – Fluid energies can be aliens, astral entities (human-like, animals, bugs, astral parasites, or thought forms), dark force entities (dark angels or demons), devas, fairies, elementals, soul fragments, or undines. Spirit entities are deceased humans who are trapped in the “middle world” and have not “gone to the light”. Solution: Extraction of fluid energies and spirit attachments, inject positive energy, and repair aura. Some soul retrieval work may also be necessary.

3 Missing Soul Parts – During a trauma, soul pieces have been separated and placed away from the energy body in a “safe” place or left at the scene of the trauma. Also, some individuals may have “stolen” or “borrowed” soul pieces from you. Solution: Recover soul pieces via soul retrieval.

4 Foreign Soul Fragments – Just as someone else can hold on to a piece of our soul, so you can be holding on to soul fragments of another individual’s soul. Most often these parts belong to a close lover, friend, or family member that has moved on. In order to clear and purify your own energy body, it is important to release that energy. Solution: Extraction of foreign soul fragments, inject positive energy, and repair aura.

5 Ungrounded Energy Body – Grounding cord between our energetic body and Mother Earth is broken or damaged. Solution: Repair or create grounding cord.

6 Damaged or Blocked Energy Centers – The energy centers of the body may be blocked, damaged, weak, too small, irregularly shaped, or spinning counter-clockwise. Solution: Repair chakras.

7 Damaged or Blocked Energy Pathways – The energy meridians and grids may be blocked, damaged, or weak. Solution: Repair meridians and grids.

8 Energetic Cords between Energy Bodies – Energetic cords exist between energy bodies. Solution: Cut all cords that do not serve you. (Excludes cords to a person’s own children.)

9 Damaged or Weak Energy Fields – Aura deviations can include blobs, bulges, bright spots, cold spots, hot spots, color splotches, dark spots, dense energy, dense energy, hazy areas, elongations, holes, clusters, pulsations, points of light and darkness, voids, agitation, lack of symmetry, tentacles, fissures, arcs, geometric forms, and flimsy, jagged, or wavy edges. Solution: Repair aura.

Copyright © 2014 Drake Bear Stephen. Except where acknowledged. http://www.DrakeInnerprizes.com