The Structure of Energy Healing
By Kay Urlich
Published by SOTEH Publishing on Smashwords 2011
Copyright © Kay Urlich, all rights reserved
Book one in a series of three
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To My Parents, Rafael & Evelyn Urlich
Contents
Modern Mythology
The State Of Our Energy
Four Groups of Energy
The Structure of Polarity
Strong Energy Fields
Supporting Awareness
The Structure of Energy
Receiving Nourishment
Case History: Alan
Polarities Lurking In The Underworld
Toward Healing
Our Full Power
Fight or Flight - Our Armageddon
The Force Of Life
Unconscious Energy
Problems and Solutions
Opening and Accessing the Energetic Structure
Case History: Ray
Energy and Structure
Separation
Case History: Carol
Guided by a Force through Energy Fields
Energies Trying to Emerge
A Web Of Other Realities
The Biggest Block
Releasing Defensive Energies
Forces of our Subconscious
Transforming Energy
A Sequence for Rebuilding Consciousness
Energy and Medicine
Male, Female and Polarities
Relationship with Others
Bad Luck or Good Luck
Case History: Jane
Divided Energies
Action and Nurturing Energies
Breaking the Cycle
Philosophy and Psychology
Collective Unconsciousness
Mothers, Fathers and Families
Unconscious Mind and Mental Illness
Cease the Blame
Medication
Case History: Sally
Illness as Communication
Toxicity
Understanding the Unconscious
Drugs and our Energy - Losing Connection
Occurring Instantly
Lack of Mercy
Activating Psychosis
No Safety Connection
Case History: Mary
No One Home
Case History: Leon
Letting Go of the Past
Case History: Jessie
Case History: Abby
Case History: Peter
Case History: Cynthia
Like Canaries in Coal Mines
The Confused Warrior
How Far is Too Far?
No Man is Your Enemy
When Demons Become Angels
Who has power here?
What lengths will we go to, to avoid these fears?
‘State Of The Energy Healing’
Case History: Pat
‘State Of The Energy Healing’
Energy Healing
Case History: Bob
Case History: John
Case History: Kirsten
Our Shadow
Action and Nurturing
Limiting Beliefs
Connection
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
When I was growing up we were led to believe that we existed only in the physical body. We were told that the spiritual world was outside of ourselves and limited to something that some people did on Sunday: going to church where God’s representative - a priest, minister or Sunday School teacher guided our souls heavenwards. We were taught to succumb to authority, to lead quiet sober lives. And I think I did that - until I turned twelve.
Such were the expectations of institutions. It was the mission of business, of that powerful peer group the family - and of education too.
At school our generation aimed to pass school certificate and university entrance though getting it was another matter. Schools and families pushed harder at the boys, because it is seen as important for them. As future heads of households they needed to be qualified so they could in the future support their own families.
We’re all a little wiser now. We know we can expect more than that. Modern thought has shown that we are not restricted, that gender plays less of a role. We now know that men and women can expand beyond the confines of their biological makeup, and indeed we are expected to. But by opening the door to other ways of living, there is now some confusion as we step out of the comfort zone of ‘traditional’ gender roles. What are Real Men supposed to do now? What is the role of women?
In western cultures the separation of the male and female parts of us is being challenged on all fronts. While some people resist change and are unable – or unwilling- to come to terms with the energies they possess, others are embracing their full potential. Many people are dissatisfied with the beads and trinkets of consumerism. Others, unable to heal or be healed by orthodox medicine, are exploring the nature of healing through their own energy fields.
‘Some of us are exploring the nature of healing through the body, mind and spirit.’
By linking with our energy we connect to the other parts of ourselves that exist in different realities.
What I have learned from people who have guided me is that as human beings we know very little: that we owe it to ourselves and our children to explore and experience beyond our apparent reality because we simply don’t know enough about the potential we all have.
Are you well or could you be better?
Chapter One
Modern Mythology abounds with the struggle between good and evil. These tales represent forces that are attempting to destroy the innocence and purity within us.
When I read a book or go to the movies it’s like looking at the struggles many of us face personally as we heal conflict in our own lives. We experience the same trials as characters like Frodo Baggins and Harry Potter, for they resemble the main character within us; our inner child.
No matter where they are or what they’re going through, there remains a burning desire that cannot be conquered. This is the driving force within all of us, our Soul’s desire to heal. No matter how much we have endured or how devastated we may feel, the desire of our Soul to heal will continue building our energy structure.
Our Soul never sleeps; it waits to catch our attention by bringing before us its image. Through the form of family, friends and enemies we are faced with our unconscious selves. This is the way of the Soul; to continually reconnect us to lost aspects of ourselves.
Frodo and Harry’s stories are our stories of how we regain our spirit and our health, while undergoing trauma and elation, defeat and success in the ongoing battle of our energy fields. It is the journey we all embark on in order to clear the rambling path of mystery and mayhem within ourselves, as we discover the secrets that will guide us past the conflict and fear of this world. Of Swords and Rings, depending on which movie we’ve been watching.
Throughout this book I refer to the examples of my clients and my own experiences, as I draw pictures and parallels within the archetypes of myth and story.
I hope it brings a new perspective to your journey.
The State Of Our Energy
Many of us fire up our imagination by reading fiction and watching movies. Through these stories we are presented with aspects of our own Self.
In my work I focus on accessing these aspects not through the imagination - but through the State of our Energy. Within our energy lie the keys to unravelling the mysteries of our Soul.
These mysteries relate to rebuilding and healing our body, mind and spirit through a complex energy sequence that holds the structure of our consciousness.
This book explores the worlds of energy that lie within us.
Relating these stories to our own journey, as we encounter myth and legend in everyday life, helps us to gain an understanding of the dark, perilous and illuminating trek we must take into our own energy field.
Observing Energy
It would be a rare person indeed who hasn’t experienced a bout of sadness. Most of the time this feeling is fleeting; it comes and it goes. At other times it gathers momentum and spirals into deep and overwhelming despair. Life becomes a dark struggle to get through the day without succumbing to the oppressive and murky weight of stress, anxiety and depression.
We all exist within the dynamic world of energy.
We are aware of energy around us as we are nurtured physically through the air we breathe, the food and water we consume and the fire that warms us.
In contrast to this, we also experience its volatile power as it disrupts our lives. We experience earth, air, water and fire as they sometimes terrorise us with earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or infernos.
We can see the transforming power of energy, because all elements have the ability to alter their form, by increasing or decreasing the states of their energy.
People are no different. We also exist as forms of nature, men and women who have the capacity to move from passive to active depending on the state of our energy.
Belated Reactions
By watching television we witness many spectacular world events. We may not witness these scenes at the time they are actually happening, but we can record them on DVD or tape and watch them later having the same happy or horrified emotional reaction as if they were happening now. We can replay the scenes that give us joy and delete those that make us uncomfortable; those that we don’t want to repeat.
However when prodded by different stimulation, the feelings which arise and which we try to suppress will overflow and disturb our energy fields, ruining our peace of mind by flooding through our body.
We experience personal events in the same way as we experience global ones; we’re happy to repeat the good times as much we try to turn off the ones we don’t enjoy.
As with temporary sadness, this disturbance doesn’t usually last long before we change back to our preferred sense of calm. When we experience severe trauma it becomes submerged and stored deep within us. It lies there fermenting until it erupts from the pressure. We are then left with gaping holes in our energy field and wounds that replay continuously that same shock and emotion as if we are still experiencing the original scenario.
Whether we experience our emotions fully at the time a traumatic incident occurred or much later, will make little difference to the feelings that are now stored in our bodies.
Our traumatised energies are now conditioned to replay again and again.
What Motivates Us
Whether we feel severe trauma at the time an incident occurred or ten years later, it is likely to still have a strong impact on us physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Whether we are aware of this activity or not, it is held like the reel of a movie in the boxes, caverns and sanctuaries within our energy field. Until we clear that experience, wipe the tape as it were, we will still feel some degree of the energetic shock of those encounters.
This energy lies dormant at the core of our unconscious thoughts and emotions. It is the underlying motivation from which many of us react as we make life choices.
We are continually prompted to take action, to defend the wounds and needs of these suppressed traumatised energies, as they lie gnawing at our subconscious.
This book, like our lives, is a journey to explore these aspects of ourselves that lie bubbling and brewing within the submerged realms of our energy fields.
Chapter Two
Four Groups of Energy
I find there are four main groups of energy within us, and these are expressed through our male and female, earth (physical) and spiritual energy.
These groups clearly contain their own characteristics. We can see how our physical body reflects the state of our physical awareness, but we are not always clear how it connects to its polarity, our spirit. Nor are we always clear how the male and female polarities exist together in the physical world through the various forms of our physical bodies. We may not always be aware how they connect to each other, but these energies also extend to more intangible aspects; that exist in our emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
Illustration 1
We are aware of our thoughts and feelings as they manifest themselves in our behaviour and in the behaviour of people around us. These will appear in various forms depending on the level of their vitality and awareness- as apathetic, angry, happy, sad, and passionate to list but a few. They reveal themselves through the endless forms of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states.
The Structure of Polarity
In the healing work I do I am able to connect with these very different energies. They began appearing to me as individual forms and then it was revealed how they exist as combinations.
They merged to show how the polarity of energies hold form. By merging, these energies can support each other to build structures, that either hold the life force of our energy field or aid in its destruction.
The more we identify with them as isolated aspects of a polarity, the more we limit ourselves to these forms. We then lose sight of each other. When this happens and we cannot see that all energy is an integral part of a complex system, we come to believe we are opposed, and we’re often in conflict with our polarity.
Strong Energy Fields
Depending on the state of their energy, these polarities will merge and present themselves from four main groups which I call spiritual male (illustration 2), earth male (illustration 3), spiritual female (illustration 4) and earth female (illustration 5).
When these groups are strong and balanced within their own energy field, they gain the strengths and abilities they need to support, nourish and expand the sequence of life within us.
When one group has problems, all groups are in trouble, as they are unable to maintain the expanded structure of our united awareness.
Through this ability we access the ‘fields of Awareness’
They maintain the web of life, the sequence that unites the flow of energy within the polarities of our healthy structure. They are the foundation and the building blocks within the energy fields that run through our body.
Consciousness and good health will flow through us until one of our four energy types encounters obstacles that interfere with the pattern of its energy field.
These vast realms of energies then become stuck and the structure of our energy field starts collapsing, dividing again into isolated personas.
This creates blockages throughout our system which in turn cause a breakdown and like rush hour traffic the flow of consciousness within our healthy energy network of awareness begins to deteriorate and the state of our health begins to crumble. For us to heal, these groups must be connecting to each other, while being healthy and balanced having order within their own energy field.
Supporting Awareness
The state of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, depends on our ability to create a balanced energy system; one that can maintain the merging and flowing rhythms of our life force throughout our energy fields.
We are in harmony and balance within the force of our electromagnetic fields when we’re able to maintain this flow and connection.
It’s not only our personal health that’s dependent on the state of our energy - as our energy expands Awareness then unites through its structure. This dynamic of awareness also unites us globally, connecting us throughout the universe.
Illustration 2 - Spiritual Male
An open and healthy spiritual male energy is the part of us that opens to the universe when it feels safe to be vulnerable. It holds our inner child energies of curiosity, inspiration, expanded male wisdom and mercy.
Illustration 3 - Earth Male
The active earth male energy holds our physical energies of action through structure, strength and logic. This represents the physical father and husband within us, the action hero the strong masculine, resilient, competitive, athletic and independent leader energies.
Illustration 4 - Spiritual Female
The spiritual female energy represents the holder and nurturer of our empathy, expanded female wisdom of divine love and the active power of compassion. This is the defender and nurturer of the more vulnerable and innocent energy within us.
Illustration 5 Earth Female
The earth female energy represents the physical mother, wife, within us, she holds our passive areas of sensitivity and nurturing, of caring for others and meeting our physical needs. This is the aspect of us that is nurturing and intuitive. This aspect is also inter-dependent and co-operative with others.
These forms of energy do not exist randomly. I have found this structure of energies to exist within all people, men and women, young and old.
Illustration 6
The Structure of Energy
I see these fields of energy as tides within fluid oceans of overlapping and merging polarities. Just as oceans advance and recede with the tide, the earth gives life and then dies, we draw on these cycles of flowing energy within ourselves.
We create vibrant energetic structures of consciousness when our four energy fields are healthy and exist in harmony within the energetic structure and principles of their energy fields.
When we are in alignment within this network of connecting energy we hold the structure of our consciousness.
If one of our energies is damaged -whether it is physical, emotional, mental or spiritual - the other energies will react to compensate their pain. For example if we were to leave a physical injury unattended, it would, in all likelihood, be open to infection or further injury. If we injure our toe we must stem the bleeding and protect the wound from more pain; so we shift our whole body to defend and protect this vulnerable physical aspect. When our whole body shifts to protect an injury in this way soon our spine and shoulders are also out of alignment.
One tiny bleeding wound whether it is left unattended, or covered over for protection, has the potential to manifest into major imbalance and problems throughout our whole body.
This dynamic also exists within our wounded and vulnerable, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
When the vulnerable and tiny aspects of us are injured the stronger energies will come forward to protect us from further harm.
Unconsciously we are hiding and protecting our wounds by accessing defensive and prickly energies from other areas of our energy field.
To rebuild the structure of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health we will look at why certain energies and movement are important. I share my perspective of why they need other energies to support them - just as a building site needs scaffolding - as they are strengthening within themselves.
To prevent a repeat of our old exhausted and debilitating programming we will explore how illness is created energetically and discover what we need to maintain good health throughout our system. Like a physical wound that must be opened, examined and cleaned out before it can heal, we must open, examine and explore the relationship of male and female, earth and spiritual energy fields for them to heal. To look at energy from an entirely new perspective and see how parts of us relate and why parts of us don’t and why balancing these powers is vital to the health and structure of our body, mind and spirit.
To see that no aspect of ourselves can function in good health if it is isolated from other aspects within us. Our healing is a process, and for maximum vitality all energies must be compassionately and responsively connected to each other.
Chapter Three
As I started my healing journey I began exchanging energy healing with other people. Through the process of working with people I started receiving spiritual guidance on how to access and move their energy. New patterns began emerging and I started to record what I was seeing. I was shown how to identify and access the life force through simple, hand and foot massage. As I work I’m guided to find and release those energies that are causing people repeated distress.
When I massage the right hand I find the spiritual male energy, while the left hand holds the spiritual female energy. The right foot is where I access the earth male energy, and the left foot is where I find the earth female energy.
It’s possible to see how we operate to our fullest energetic potential through releasing the active and nurturing powers of our male and female energy fields.
Case History: Alan
Alan was depressed. He was shy, nervous and not very outgoing. He had a job; but was working alone most of the time. He didn’t have much contact socially and had never had a girlfriend or close relationship with a woman. He felt lonely and lethargic and said he felt that he was looking at life through water. Alan didn’t know how to break out of this isolation and connect to his life.
I found his inner child lying within his spiritual male energy field. It didn’t know who to trust and couldn’t find a permanent hiding place. This child in him, when it did move, was running around searching for wood to keep the fire (of his heart) going. His earth male energy (representing himself in the world) was vague and aloof, trying not to show his vulnerability. The spiritual female energy was full of anxiety, hand wringing and not knowing what to do. The earth female energy was flopped on a board floating in the ocean this was brought out to connect to the earth male energy. As the healing session progressed his vulnerable inner child was led to its real home; a place of comfort and security within his own heart. The earth female was also reconnected to the spiritual female energy to bring forth powerful compassion for his earth male energy - himself.
To heal and nourish the fragile aspects within him it was important that he gain confidence by taking action through his earth male and female energies. They now had connection and the tools they needed to support the fragile parts of him, by holding his own loving, compassionate and spiritual energies.
Alan didn’t go into detail about his past nor did this healing session show us what had happened to cause this unhappiness, because it wasn’t necessary at this time. If it had been important for his understanding or his healing then we would have been guided to explore this aspect of his consciousness.
Too often we can be drawn into the story and we miss the point, which is to release the energy. We can’t change the past, we can only release the energy that attaches us to it.
From the state of Alan’s energy I could see where he had had to hide as a child; to protect his gentle energetic self, and that was all we needed to know that day.
He acknowledged he had experienced trauma and this had caused the loss of his connection to this vulnerable inner child aspect and the female energy that would nourish this part of his spirit. Alan also understood where he had lost connection to his earth male and female energy, those aspects that would hold and nourish him physically. Through this session it was important for him to acknowledge them as he reconnected to these parts. He struggled at first finding it hard to get past his old patterns of behaviour and to value his feelings. Having to renew his ability to nourish himself and take the action he needed to maintain this energy.
Even while he was not experiencing trauma in his life, Alan’s energies were still held to their old fear experiences and this was affecting his ability to give and receive the love and nourishment he needed. It was important for him to continue with energy healing while building and strengthening the positive aspects of his male energy, by taking action to overcome the apathy (held in his earth female) of his old comfort zone. This helped him immediately, to draw forth the loving and nurturing energies that he desperately needed now, to make the internal emotional connections he required to move forward in his life. Alan came back five times over a six month period.
As he increasingly grew stronger he released the old trauma and gained more insight to himself relearning the actions that would support new behaviours. It was now time to take on the responsibility of nurturing himself.
Until we have rebuilt life force in those areas, we will continually be drawn back to the false protection of our old energy patterns; because that is where, until now, we have felt most protected.
Unless we have a strong intention to consciously validate and support the expanding and unfolding aspects of our new structure and continue on our new course of action, we will fall back into our old unhappy comfort zone.
Because we are bound energetically to recreate past experiences, this causes us to continually repeat our mistakes or misfortunes. That is, until we have rebuilt the life force and established healthy new energy structures.
Chapter Four
Polarities Lurking In The Underworld
We have realms of other worlds existing within us, whether from the depths of hell or the apex of heaven, there exists in our subconscious dormant injured and majestic, defending and nurturing polarities of awareness.
These polarities as in our favourite books of fiction, range from innocent to evil, wise to ignorant, compassionate to cruel, humble to proud, courageous to timid, lively to dull.
Such states of opposites, due to past attachment or injury, live on, lurking in the exiled states beyond our conscious mind. They have become prisoners to the nether worlds of our unconscious energy fields.