Living in the World of Energy, Part 2

Changing the State of our Energy Bodies

Aug 12, 2024

Last week I began a series of posts on living in the world of energy. We are energy beings, and we engage the world of energy through our energy bodies. Our relationship to the world of energy and our ability to move or affect energy is directly related to the state of our own energy body. I shared that the mysticism of the Q’ero of Peru speaks of two kinds of energy. One is called “sami” which is a refined ordered light that suffuses the natural world, animating all living beings and imparting power to natural objects and places where it accumulates. According to the teachings, our natural state is to be filled with this refined, ordered light energy and this energy empowers us. The second kind of energy they call “hucha.” Hucha is felt as heavy, disordered and dense, even dark energy. This energy is less compatible with the human energy field and so it tends to disempower us. Our tasks as “lightworkers” is to come into a sacred and conscious reciprocal relationship with the world of the living energies so that we have the power to move the energy.[1]

The state of our energy body influences the energy around us. Several years ago, in a shamanic journey, I traveled to the Underworld to visit with Huascar, the guide and guardian of the Lower World. We came to a pool of water surrounded by beautiful vegetation. I noticed many hummingbirds. Huascar told me “This is the Place of the Hummingbirds.” I looked into the pool, which was crystal clear. Mist was rising from the pool, and Huascar told me that the mist rising from the pool was the wisdom of the hummingbird. Suddenly I heard these words, “Look deep within the pool that is inside you and you will find the wisdom of the universe.” I’m thinking, “I don’t know whether these words came from Huascar, the pool, or the hummingbirds.” It was as if Huascar heard my thoughts and answered, “It doesn’t matter because they are all one. Energy of the one is continually exchanging itself with the energy of the other.” I thought “But then how does one distinguish between them?” Again, as if hearing my thoughts, he answered “There is no distinction. It is the human mind, the ego that has the need to separate.”

In another journey, this time to the elephants, the elephants told me, “Everything you need is within you. Look inside and you will find the wisdom of the Universe.” I asked the elephant, “What is the wisdom of the Universe?" Elephant said "that we are all connected. We are not separate. Everything works for the healing of the other, for in healing the other, we heal ourselves. This the universe knows.” And I would add that by healing ourselves we heal the other by the transference of energy.

The energy that we carry affects the greater energy field. The more dark, heavy, disorganized energy or hucha that we have in our energy bodies, the more we contribute to the dark, heavy, disorganized energy of the collective. Likewise, the more light, refined and ordered energy or sami that we contain, the more we contribute to the rise of that energy in the collective. Therefore, it is important to do our own work. It is important that we do our own healing so we can release as much of our dark, heavy, disorganized energy as possible and raise our level of light, refined and organized energy.

According to Andean teachings, we humans are the only beings that create hucha and we do that because we do not live in sacred reciprocity and harmony with the cosmic energy field and with each other. Joan Wilcox in her book, Masters of the Living Energy, that I mentioned in last week’s post, points out that it seems that at our current level of consciousness we humans can’t seem to exist without creating disorder, without hurting others and upsetting the harmony and balance of our environment. We both create and accumulate hucha through our emotional interactions with others. This dark, heavy disorganized energy is the natural byproduct of our pain, our hurts and traumas, our unhealed places and the confused and conflicting emotions and conscious and unconscious feelings that drive our thoughts and actions. Although it seems we can’t help but create and attract hucha if we are living fully, it is a density of energy that we don’t want to accumulate as it turns the natural lightness of our energy body heavy like itself. This heavy energy keeps us in an energy vibration that keeps us from functioning optimally and prevents us from engaging with the living energy of life as fully as we can.

According to the teachings, hucha in and of itself is not “negative” or “bad” energy. This can be a challenging concept for some of us to grasp. What we tend to judge as “bad” or “negative” are the symptoms that we associate with an accumulation of hucha. We tend to generate hucha from what we consider negative emotions and behaviors such as anger, guilt, shame, aggressive behaviors, etc. From a psychological point of view, hucha is the accumulation in our energy body of all that does not serve us such as negative attitudes, untruthfulness, inability to love, self-destructive behaviors, poor self-image, etc. When we experience these conditions, we are either creating disorder in ourselves or we are in contact with an energy field that feels heavy to us. The emotions of fear, pain, anger, etc. are symptoms from being in contact with hucha. Emotions that are incompatible with our natural light, refined and ordered energy state feel heavy to us. But that is a moral judgment we make about ourselves. For the Andean such emotions only “disorder” our energy fields. They do not generate “negative” or “bad” energy. Hucha doesn’t have a moral category. We can think of it as ordered light energy that has become disordered, dark and heavy. We in the West like our polarities and are always trying to reduce everything into dualities. Good versus bad. Right versus wrong. Fair versus unfair.

According to the the Q’ero, heaviness is a relative thing. What might feel heavy for one person may not feel heavy for another and that has to do with the condition of our own energy body and the energy power we have at our disposal to move the energy. This is critical for it helps us to suspend judgment of energy as bad, negative or even evil and puts the responsibility for the quality of our energy interchanges squarely on our own shoulders and not someone else’s. From an energetic point of view, when we judge someone or something we remain stuck in the energy field of that which we are judging and contribute to its darkness and heaviness. Feeling hucha or heaviness indicates an incompatibility between the current state of our own personal energy and another energy.

According to the Q’ero, if our energy environment is not ordered and light, then it must be cleansed until it becomes filled with light, refined ordered energy (sami) which we can then use to help us acquire the personal power to move energy in service to others. The cleansing practice begins with the self, then moves outward in a series of concentric circles to encompass larger and larger fields. After we cleanse our own energy bodies, we can begin to cleanse our immediate environments and the people with whom we are in close contact, such as family members, friends and colleagues. As we accumulate personal power, we can direct cleansing even further outward, toward those with whom we have difficult relationships or toward whom we feel discomfort or animosity. We can even cleanse hucha from groups, communities and entire populations. Finally, we can cleanse physical localities, such as a house where dense energy has accumulated or a landscape energetically suffering from the effects of violence, desecration, or pollution. This all begins with the condition of our own energy body and our relationship to the energetic world.

There are several ways to release this heavy, disorganized energy from ourselves and from the world around us. I will share some of these ways in future posts. For today, here is a simple release technique” you can do anytime. This is a simple intentional practice during which you sit in a meditative state and visualize any hucha in your energy field. Notice where you are feeling irritated, on edge, perhaps frustrated or upset about something. You might imagine what this energy looks like--disorganized, chaotic—and what it feels like—anxiety, fear, etc. Visualize this energy being drawn down through your root chakra, the lowest energy center at the base of your spine and as you exhale, imagine that you are releasing that through the root chakra and into the earth. As the release occurs, you are simultaneously drawing in sami, that light refined organized energy in through the crown of your head. Let it wash through your energy field and your physical body, completing the circuit of ayni, of coming into sacred reciprocity with the sami of nature. In Andean cosmology, sami is usually drawn down from the energy of the cosmos, because the world always acts with perfect ayni. Sami is also the elemental force of the natural world and so can be drawn from just about any natural place. A good practice is to go outside, tune into your body, notice where you are carrying heavy energy, breathe into it and as you exhale, release it down through your root chakra into the earth and as you inhale, pull energy from the sun or from nature around you. Feel yourself become lighter, more ordered and peaceful. Then radiate the sami—that beautiful, light refined and ordered energy out around you, even sending it to your family, neighbors and communities. Energy follows awareness. As we place our awareness on healing and moving our own dark, heavy, disordered energy, we become conduits for sami, conduits for light. The Andean prophecies speak of the arrival of Homo Luminous—humans who live in and are light. Working together we can raise the light in the world.

Source: Wilcox, Joan. Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru.

[1] Wilcox, Joan. Masters of the Living Energy, 44-50.

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