Everything is Energy

A letter from the Vital Field Collective

This post is part of an ongoing series of letters written for the Vital Field Collective, our weekly gathering exploring consciousness, presence, and the practice of living from our true nature.

Everything is energy.

I heard this many years ago. The meaning of it is still landing. If I look closely, if I contemplate, I can see it. I can see the invisible. And so can you.

Many people come to me for physical care, and a common topic is posture. When posture comes up, it is typically because someone’s posture has collapsed. They are having a hard time holding themselves up. If you were to reflect on times in your life when you felt defeated, ashamed, guilty, some kind of hopelessness, and in that reflection you really let yourself drop into the memory, get yourself into the frequency of that situation to the point where you feel that same feeling again, you would notice your posture caving in. Your spine begins to fall forward.

Now imagine yourself having just accomplished something you are really proud of. Imagine you had a nourishing meal, good rest. You are excited about the day. You see possibility in life. You feel optimistic about the future. Really let yourself imagine this. As you get into the feeling of this wish fulfilled, notice the posture your body automatically starts to assume. Your spine straightens. Chest opens. Face softens. Eyes twinkle. Breath deepens. You feel lighter. By imagining this state, you are allowing more energy to flow through your system. And if you look at what is happening physically, you can see it.

Everything is energy.

The more we allow ourselves to be where we are, the more gratitude we can cultivate. The more possibility we open ourselves up to. The more life flows through us, the more access we have to vitality. What is vitality? What is health? Both are our natural state. Life flowing. Never standing still. Always changing. When you look out into the world, if you shift your perspective to see where life is flowing and where there is resistance, it becomes easy to see.

When life flows with resistance, there is less possibility available, and we tend to be in a state of self protection. When life flows through us with vitality, we have more access to the unseen possibility within, and we tend to be more flexible.

We can reorganize. There is a lot of plasticity in our ability to reorganize. Whatever we are experiencing now is simply how we, and life through us, have organized our expression to be.

Knowing this, space opens up to understand behavior patterns in ourselves and in the life expressing around us. Instead of beating myself up when I am in a low energy state and act a fool, I am trying to see the energy. Not to justify the behavior and carry on, but to soften the grip of shame and open myself up to more flow.

I was recently feeling weighted down by a life situation, curled up and low. A dear friend reached out and put one hand on my heart and one on my low back. It was almost like a flow of energy moved through their hands as they guided my system up into a more upright posture. I felt the resistance start to leave. It opened me up to being more present and more powerful in the exact situation I was already in.

What I was meeting in that moment was a different expression than my own. Something expressing at a higher vibration. I did not ask for the exposure to that. It just came in. And in becoming aware of what was happening, my heart opened to receive this new template. It lifted me. I felt lighter. I felt more alive.

Through seeing the light in each other, through seeing the potential within, we can find compassion for ourselves and for the world around us. We can bring life up. By looking for the energy within, our hearts open to life, and possibility begins to emerge.

Everything is energy. I heard that many years ago and the meaning is still landing. This week I got to see it. In a collapsed low state, in a friend’s hands lifting me into a higher one, in the space between resistance and flow. I am learning to trust what I am seeing. It is beautiful. Thank you all.

With love,

DN