When you look at a person, you are dealing with a complexly
interconnected system where you will find a lot more data than meets the eye.
To simplify the discussion, let’s break it down into the physical
body, the emotional body, the mental body and the energetic body.
All the bodies interact with each other. When one gets hurt
the others will most likely be effected, yet depending on the nature of the
injury and the pain, it is not always easy to determine what is happening and
what tools are needed to remedy the situation.
When your physical body is sick or gets hurt you have
tangible proof for the severity of pain you are in and it is likely that your
fellow travelers will show a fair amount of compassion and will offer their
support in order for you to heal.
If you break your legs and you are in a wheelchair, no one
will expect you to run a marathon with them.
If you go through a divorce, a death in the family or the
loss of your job and you are grieving and heartbroken, you know why you are in
pain and suffering. You have something to share with the world that explains
your emotional and mental state and it is possible to get the necessary help
and support to facilitate healing. If you don’t quite act like yourself for a
while you will most likely be given the space and the understanding to regain
your balance.
If you were drugged or had an allergic reaction to a bee
sting and you are mentally out of it for a while, you are not going to be
expected to finish the report, show up for the final or pick-up the kids from
school. Again, it will be very evident that you are not in a position to do so.
In our current human circumstances, pain of the soul or energetic
body isn’t as evident or equally recognized on a collective, social level, yet
the suffering can be similarly debilitating.
Before I go into further details, let’s talk a bit more
about the energetic body.
Imagine that you’re watching a cartoon. All the energies are
visible in color. If somebody’s energetic body is healthy there is a bright,
multicolored orb around their physical body, at least a couple feet in all
directions. I call that a healthy energetic immune system.
Now, imagine that the immune system is compromised and that
it has cracks. Through these cracks slimy, toxic energy creeps in and the
system is thrown out of balance.
Since the whole human runs on electricity and energy, it is
just a matter of time until the other bodies will exhibit symptoms.
The physical body might react with a migraine headache, the
emotional body could feel depressed and the mental body, not quite comprehending
what is happening can fall into an obsessive mantra of self-judgment.
“What’s wrong with you? It’s such a beautiful day, you have
a great job, a family that loves you and all you do is complain. You have no
reason to feel depressed. You should feel grateful. Why aren’t you happy? You’re
a horrible person…and on and on and on.”
Does any of this sound familiar?
I encounter this a lot in sessions. People don’t give
themselves credit for their energetic and/or soul pain. Our society isn’t
equipped to support people on that level and so we not only run into our own
internal judges but are also confronted with the impatience and harsh judgments
of our environment.
Depending on how chronic and severe the pain is, insult is
continuously added to injury and many years can go by, where we don’t even look
for a cure because we are so convinced that there’s nothing wrong in the first
place. If unaddressed, the symptoms and suffering tends to get more intense as
time goes by.
The first step to take in order to break this vicious cycle
is to acknowledge that you are indeed hurt and that you will set out on a quest
to figure out what it is and what it’ll take to get yourself well.
Here are some indicators that you are suffering from
energetic/soul pain:
1. Your emotional symptoms are not making any sense.
2. You don’t feel comfortable in your own skin.
3. No matter how much you clean, your environment seems
dirty.
4. You experience reoccurring deep-seated emotions that are
way disproportionate to the circumstances at hand.
5. You feel pressure in your head at odd moments.
6. You have physical, phantom symptoms, yet all of your
medical tests show that your physical body is completely healthy.
7. You are suffering from debilitating nightmares that are
not connected to any real life drama
8. You have strong knee jerk reactions in your behavior and
you feel really guilty for it because you are not able to show up as the person
you know you can be.
These are just some of many indicators that your soul body
primarily fuels the source of the disturbance.
If that is the case, my advice is the following:
1. Have compassion with self and others and know that indeed
something is amiss and the source of the disturbance can be fixed and healed.
2. There are two main reasons the energetic body hurts:
a) There is an unresolved past life trauma.
b) The energetic body has to deal with an invasion of
disharmonious energies.
3. Find modalities that assist you in energy clearing i.e.
Tai Chi, certain forms of meditation, chanting, smudging, use the “Clearing
Protocol” (other post in my blog), Kundalini Yoga to name a few or find
yourself a skilled practitioner to assist you.
Determine what compromised your protection so that you can
fix long-standing imbalances and strengthen your energetic immune system.
4. Consider exploring your karmic history via hypnosis, your
own intuition or a skilled practitioner. Understanding what you are dealing
with is half the battle towards healing it.
Even though energetic pain isn’t a mainstream term yet, we
still have to deal with it.
As old souls, it is sometimes the only surface indicator
that we have karmic homework to do.
It is time for you to show up for you and to be on your own
team.
Remember, at the end of the day everything about you makes sense. Part
of the journey is to put the pieces back together like a highly sophisticated
detective story.
