CP 19 🤲🏽 It’s Not That We’re Low On Energy

The Solution is Neither Additive nor Subtractive, it’s Transformative and Restorative; it’s Spirit Compost

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My dad whose first language is Spanish not English once asked me what the difference between “wondering” and “wandering” is. After explaining that wondering is like thinking about something in an inquisitive way (head tilt, finger on chin) and wandering is walking around but not like you have a clear destination, more exploring… he said “well aren’t they kind of the same thing then?” And I thought that was pretty profound.

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When aiming to transform how we feel…

It’s not that we’re low on energy, have little energy, need more energy, or any other interpretation that understands energy in terms of quantity.

The quantity (mass) of energy doesn’t change. Energy doesn’t go anywhere.

Despite the occasional usefulness of believing we are vessels, and while I fully relate to the sensation of energy/life leaving that vessel, I think it’s actually an error to imagine that our energy goes anywhere. 

It also seems completely related, though not the exact point of this piece of writing, to our fear of death. Of course if we’re believing that we are vessels that are subject to the depletion of our own energy, the thorough drainage of all of our conscious experience, that would be a disorienting and frightening prospect.

But what we actually know is that matter doesn’t go anywhere, it just transforms. Volcanoes. Compost.

Imagining is a way of transforming. A thought game in here for you.

So, same with your individual energy. How does it change things to know that energy doesn’t leave you but rather transforms in it’s quality and nature?

It’s important to note here that by quality I’m not speaking of a linear scale from “bad” to “good” (words we’re evolving away from), but rather a limitless field of specific tangible reality.

If we can think of energy less like a characteristicless substance that simply increases or decreases in quantity… If instead we grew our curiosity and awareness of the unique quality of our energy at any give moment… how might that change things for us?

If your energy were a fabric or a flower or a color or a song or an animal or a friendship or a building or a landscape or a season or a body of water or a plant or a planet or a beverage, how might you describe it?

Creating a space with more options,

Loretta

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Images: A volcano! An Osprey catching two fish!

Do not hesitate to reach out to me or to others for support on your path. The world is weird and it’s a weird ass time and you’re not alone and we’re here to help each other.

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