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What Do People Mean When They Talk About "Feeling Energy"?

3/12/2014

 
(and are you ready to give it a try?)
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When I began to study Thai massage more than a dozen years ago, I knew that it moved energy. I knew because that’s what my teachers told me. I did not know because I could feel it. I could not.

I (kind of) trusted that one day, if I kept at it and meditated a whole lot more than I do and stopped eating meat and did more yoga and thought only pure thoughts and stopped swearing (blah, blah, blah). You get the idea. I wasn’t sure I was “good enough” to feel energy.

Let me say that again. I wasn’t sure I was good enough to feel energy. Oh, man. We can be so hard on ourselves.

I remember one of my American Thai massage teachers sharing a story about traveling all the way to Japan to study Shiatsu with a renowned teacher. She carried along in her little bag a list of questions for Great Teacher. When the time for asking arrived, she pulled out her list and started with the first question (basically “HOW do I feel energy?).

Great Teacher replied, “Just feel.” (It’s so maddening when they do that.)
She moved on to her next question, reframing the first. “How do I feel energy?”
Great Teacher replied, “Just feel.”
Undaunted (which is what I like about her as a teacher), she worked through her list. She got the same answer every time.

And, boy was she pissed. All the way to Japan?! The time?! The commitment?! The expense?! Alas, Great Teacher was just being honest. It is that simple. There is nothing more. 

Just feel.


Okay, you say, but How Do I feel energy?

Right. I knew you'd ask that.
I have thought a lot about Great Teacher over the years, while I waited for the energy to show up. And while I waited, I pondered my own moments of energy awareness and began to write. By writing I began to see, and to feel and most importantly to understand and to teach. Teach you.

I have distilled that journey into the Sensing Energy e-Course, 14 lessons to help you feel your ability to sense energy, which is with you right now and has always been there. 

Using simple exercises, video demonstrations, interviews, stories, quotations and journal prompts, the Sensing Energy e-Course will turn on your own beautiful energy sense and show you how to feel energy in others.

No more waiting for energy to "strike." Learn how to nurture what is already in you.

How will you use it?
Learn more about the Sensing Energy e-Course here.
What have you been waiting for?
jill castle link
5/2/2014 07:42:55 am

this post is awesome and very informatic, with the help of this i learned many tips of getting thai massage, i think it will help me to remove my stress and gives me proper relaxation,,thanks again for sharing this informtion with us.

Pamela Herrick
5/3/2014 07:04:16 am

Jill,

Thanks for your comment, and I am so pleased that this post helped you to relax into your work and meet the energy there!

Pam


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