Reading energy and using our intuition as a guide are both vital to our spiritual journeys. Energy medicine incorporates following our intuition and listening to our inner guides, just as listening to our intuition causes an energetic transfer to happen in our bodies. When we fully understand how energy works and honor our intuition in keeping our energy balanced, we gain insight into developing wholeness, happiness, and prosperity in our relationships, finances, health, and spiritual development.

We perform energy medicine every time we release a bug into the garden or set out an ant trap. In this way, we spend most of our time ignoring traditional forms of energy medicine until it speaks to us in a voice we must hear and heed.

Today we use energy medicine mostly for spiritual advancement and ignore the cultural, environmental, and health significance it brings us. When we truly open to energy medicine we allow the universal energy to fill us and begin to realize the full our full potential. Living in harmony, honesty, and integrity teaches us to respect the truth that all living creatures bring to us.

Love creates the center of all energy and every intuitive thought. Because love signifies the highest good of the world and every being in it, trusting our intuition to guide us through our energy patterns remains in the highest good for all of Life. The highest good for an individual reflects the highest good for everyone. One person's highest good cannot be in another person's worst interest. In this case, all for one, one for all stands true. Lightening other people's loads and offering healing and guidance to others on their path creates love and growth opportunities for everyone.

ENERGY

What is energy?

Energy is our life force. It is known as prana, ki, qi, chi, mojo, spirit - the list is long.

Subtle energy is what we feel when we notice the feelings of others around us. For example, when we are around people who are mellow, intense, hyper, laid back we catch their mood and feel subtle energy.

INTUITION:

What is intuition?

Intuition is the voice that our higher self uses to speak with us. It is our connection to God; our God-self. It is different than our conscience. Our conscience develops to conform to societal beliefs and mores. Our intuition on the other hand, might be vehemently opposed to following the pulls of our conscience for one experience and in accord with it during another experience.

Our intuition is our gut feeling. It's the voice in our head that says, "quit your job and move to Michigan to become an organic asparagus farmer." Our intuition, when followed, creates safe good energy for us. It heals us and protects us. Our intuition is always right and always in our highest good.

On the other hand, when we ignore our intuition, call it stupid, or refuse to acknowledge our urges we become agitated, depressed, sick, or unhappy. We create as many problems and diseases as we can to call ourselves back into our intuition's guidance. We generally know what makes us sick, but we become master deceivers to ourselves, tricking ourselves into following our conscience or other people's expectations. If we deceive ourselves long enough our intuitive voice becomes so faint it sounds like a nagging mosquito; one that can be brushed away but not dislodged.

If we ignore our intuition long enough we create psychic or physical illness that forces us to look our problems squarely in the face. The face of our pain is our lesson. So, our intuition guides us to learn our lessons without pain and our humanness guides us to learn our lessons in the most painful way possible. When we balance these we tend to have an equal amount of pain and pleasure. We tend to move back and forth from listening to our intuition to listening to our thoughts. This is the dance that has existed since the inception of time.

Intuition is how we learn our lessons and develop positive energetic flow with all of Life. It links us with our energy and all of Life's energy. It also tells us when there is a disruption in our energy flow and how to handle it. When we listen to our intuition, the energetic disruption is quickly and calmly restored. Our balance is restored. When we ignore our intuition we are called back into our spiritual growth process. This act is generally painful and we feel out of balance with ourselves and in our lives.