Energy Dynamics of Your Relationships
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| 1. Release the need for drama! |
| The soap opera aspects of our lives are like the waves that
agitate the ocean without changing the inherent nature of the ocean.
The dramas in our lives appear much fiercer than they really are.
They cannot upset us permanently unless we believe them and act upon
this belief. Become aware of all of the drama that surrounds you.
You will be shocked by how much drama is imbedded into our lives,
our work environments, our families, our friends, etc. The more you
can detach from this drama, the happier you will become. This is why
spiritual teachers stress the importance of calming the mind and
releasing attachments to people, places or events. |
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| 2. Self Love |
| Self love is perhaps my core value. The universe reflects back
to us what we radiate out and if we do not radiate out a high level
of self love we almost certainly are not going to like the landscape
of our inner and outer lives. I firmly believe that self love is the
cornerstone to create a life that works. Anything that is not
created on a solid basis of self love will fall in time. Truly we
can only love others to the extent that we love ourselves. And it is
not easy to do this because often we attract people into our lives
who challenge our attempts to honor ourselves and view our behavior
as selfish. |
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| 3. The Mirror Effect |
| Our souls attract into our lives people who mirror our own
patterns back to us. If there is anyone in your life that you really
hate and cannot stand to be with, look at what personality traits
that person has that really irritate you. Almost always you will
find that this is a trait that you have as well. You cannot stand it
in another person, because you do not like what you see in yourself. |
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| 4. Energetic First Impressions |
| Subconsciously, we all trust our first impressions and realize
how important they are. When we meet someone for the first time,
what happens is that our energy fields mesh together and they
exchange information. If our energy fields complement one another in
any way, we begin to feel that we like this person and we want to
further the relationship. If a karmic relationship is involved, we
feel more strongly drawn to that person even if we don’t like them
and often we won’t. These are the people we really obsess about and
we don’t know why. When we feel neutral about someone or instantly
dislike them, usually our energy fields don’t match and we can learn
nothing from them. For example, when an old soul meets a baby one,
usually they won’t like each other because with such dissimilar soul
ages, there is little opportunity to either teach or to learn. This
is how we draw into our lives the people we are meant to share them
with. |
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| 5. Don’t Take on Other People’s Problems! |
Human beings are powerful creators. Our souls create every
aspect of our life so that it can learn and grow and expand.
Everything that we experience is created by ourselves but not
necessarily by our conscious minds. In fact, most of our life
experiences are created unconsciously either by the subconscious
mind or the super-conscious mind or soul. Part of the spiritual
growth process involves taking conscious control over the areas of
our lives that are on automatic pilot.
So basically we create stuff and attract stuff into our life to
learn from every day. This is fine for without our stuff, we
wouldn’t grow. But when we get involved with another person’s stuff,
watch out! It often is very easy for us to adopt and claim another
individual’s stuff for our own. The problem with this is that we
don’t learn as much from other people’s stuff as we do from our own.
It is important to compassionately acknowledge the stuff others
experience in such a way that we don’t claim it for ourselves. When
we take over someone else’s stuff, even if they want us to, we
deprive them of the experiences they need the most and ones that
they have worked hard to create for themselves. |
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| 6. Choose your friends and sexual partners wisely! |
| A human being can be viewed as an energy system or a field of
energy. The people that you hang out with or work with are
important, because you become attuned to or resonate with their
energy fields. When these people experience anything that
emotionally sets them off, their energy fields swell and they
literally reach out to the human energy fields around them and suck
them into their energy vortices. This is perhaps OK when the person
is happy, but not so good when they are angry or depressed. It is
perhaps even more important to choose your sexual partners
carefully. When you engage in sexual acts with another, you are
trying to reach at-one-ment with that person. What happens is that
your two (or more) energy fields merge together and your body will
retain the energy of that other person for a month after the sexual
act even if it is just an one night stand. |
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| 7. Honor and Respect Your Relationships! |
| We live in a very fast-paced society that is rapidly changing
and this often makes it challenging to nurture a relationship and
keep it going strong. I feel that one reason why relationships
appear to fall apart faster than they used to is because people no
longer honor and respect their relationships. This is reflected in
many ways. Some of the more obvious manifestations of this are
gossiping about your partner to friends and co-workers, being
unfaithful sexually, playing control games with sex and money, etc.
One thing I know is true and that is if you do not honor and respect
the relationships of others then please do not expect others to
honor and respect the relationships you have co-created with
another. |
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| 8. Chakra Orientation and Relationships |
| Although we each have seven energy centers or chakras in the
body and five outside of it, human beings tend to funnel their
energy into one of them and this affects how we perceive the world
and how we interact with others. Most people funnel their energy
through the first chakra at the base of the spine and they filter
life primarily through the physical senses. Others funnel their
energy through the fourth or heart chakra and they experience life
primarily through their emotions and feelings. Others funnel their
energy through the fifth or throat chakra and they filter life
primarily through their thoughts and ideas. A relatively small
number of people funnel life through the sixth and seventh chakras -
the inner/third eye and crown centers, and they perceive life with
the awareness of unity with all that is or was or ever shall be. |
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| 9. Stop whining and complaining! |
| We energize our problems when we dwell on them or talk about
them or worry about them. When people tell you their tales of woe,
interrupt them and redirect the conversation to an area in their
life that works. People often listen to these tales of woe and then
twenty minutes later they wonder why their energy is so low. If you
find yourself complaining or whining or dwelling on negative issues
when you talk to others – STOP DOING THIS. You are just digging
yourself deeper into a hole and it will be harder to get out.
Instead, focus on the good things in your life and your loved ones
life. One of my old co-workers summed it up best: What you feed
grows. So be careful what you feed!!! |
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| 10. Learn about Myers Briggs |
| Many years ago, I used to temp and learning about the Myers
Briggs personality types was a lifesaver for me because I could
adapt my working behavior to meet the needs of my many bosses. The
Myers Briggs test measures four traits. 1. Do you get your energy
from within (introvert) or without (extrovert). 2. Are you intuitive
(big picture person who sees a forest) or sensing (logical,
sequential person who sees the trees). Are you a thinker (cares more
about principles and procedures) or a feeler (who values
relationships more). Are you judging (likes closure) or a perceiver
(likes to keep things open-ended). Please Understand Me by Kiersey
should be a must read book for everyone. |
