The Energy To Change

The difference between healthy and unhealthy energy can be summarized as follows: Healthy energy is flowing, flexible, dynamic, balanced, soft, associated with positive feelings. Unhealthy energy is stuck, frozen, rigid, brittle, hard, out of balance, associated with negative emotions. People who can’t find a way to change are entangled in one or more of the qualities just listed.

There are strong indications that energy is more powerful than matter. Studies in longevity, for example, examine why some people live to a healthy old age. Their secret isn’t good genes, diet, not smoking, or even exercise, beneficial as all those things may be. The highest correlation for reaching ninety or hundred years of age in good shape is emotional resilience, the ability to bounce back from life’s setbacks. That fits with one of the qualities of healthy energy: flexibility.

Starting in the late 1940s, Harvard Medical school undertook a study of young males to see why some developed premature heart attacks in middle age. The leading correlation wasn’t high cholesterol, bad diet, smoking, or a sedentary lifestyle. The men who escaped premature heart attacks were likely to be those who faced their psychological problems during their twenties, as opposed to men who ignored them. Psychological problems are marked by stuck, rigid attitudes and distorted emotions, pointing us once again to the importance of energy.

Most studies indicate that we are becoming by the decade a more anxious and depressed society, more hooked on antidepressants and tranquilizers. Stress levels keep increasing, whether form loud noise, long work hours without rest, interrupted sleep patterns, or pressure at work.

What’s really needed is a broad-spectrum cure. If all the qualities of unhealthy energy, from blockages and rigidity to negative emotions, could be healed at once, your body could quickly rebound to its natural state of health; it already knows how to thrive in the flow of healthy energy.

Adapted from Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting The Soul, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2009).

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Emma S.

10:17AM PST on Nov 20, 2011

Yes, I've always believed that our mind-set was more important than any other 'lifestyle choice' we make.

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Autumn V.

4:14PM PDT on Aug 16, 2010

fascinating

Jewels S.

7:47PM PDT on Aug 11, 2010

So true. I have had a few people that have went through real depressive states around me and I get physically sick just being near them. More people need to learn self care or learn to stay out of others space until they can balance.

Naomi G.

6:53AM PDT on Jul 17, 2010

thanks!

Jamie C.

1:51PM PDT on Jul 12, 2010

energy is energy.

Loh J.

1:13AM PDT on Jul 11, 2010

Thanks and agree totally.

Diane W.

12:02AM PDT on Jul 11, 2010

All those things healed at once? Sounds like a miracle to me.

10:43AM PDT on Jul 10, 2010

Sometimes, the most positive things for us are the hardest to gather the strength to do.

R Dianne B.

12:42PM PDT on Jul 9, 2010

Thanks for the reminder. This is related to facing the shadow self--not always easy.

Marie R.

12:14PM PDT on Jul 9, 2010

Facing ones self is difficulty to deal with so we hide behind that person who really have nothing to do with us. Bringing that personage of yourself can work wonders for an unhealthy spiritual person a good spiritual person brings about good works. Owning up to those things that depresses and hold you back because you are afraid to let go so you stifle the you within. These things each person should work on in order to become spiritually healthy only God can give longevity, but the Holy Spirit gets you closer to God Our Father!