Positive Energy Guide

Our relationship with our environment can be a useful source of guidance. Reading the atmosphere in the room is a one of several guidance skills that involve paying attention to the energy in the room or area around us.

The term “reading the room” is generally refers to paying attention to a group of people within the room. A speaker or presenter will “read the room” by sensing and observing the audience’s level of engagement. Tuning in allows the speaker to gear his or her presentation to the listener’s needs and interests. Some intuitive presenters extend this skill to the extent that they can directly address the inner needs of their listeners.

I am using the term “reading the room” to include the energy in the room or area itself. Energy-savvy people naturally notice what is going on in their environment and tend to “feel into” a room when they have reason to do so. The energy in an area holds and shapes–to a varied extent–what can occur there. Energy can impact mood and influence sensitive people, whether or not they are aware of it.

Reading the room to become aware of its influence gives us more choice about they ways we allow ourselves to be influenced. Being aware of the impact of our environment gives us the option to make changes in order to optimize our experience.

Here are several example of energy that may influence the mood and the current potentials of a room, building, or plot of land:

• Land may carry impressions or energy from events from the past, such as tribal warfare
• The atmosphere may be congested from an accumulation of emotional energy from repeated domestic conflict
• The area may have been used for intensive mental work and hold energy that makes it hard to access the heart
• It may feel wonderful after housing a saint
• It may feel “off” from underground streams or metals, electromagnetic issues, the shape or angle of structures, or adjacent objects
• It may be on a positive power spot
• There may be odd rifts or portals that interface with other dimensions and create unusual influences

Sensing this type of influence develops guidance that supports masterful and intentional action. As with other guidance skills, becoming attentive to the environment begins simply, at your own level. You can start by paying attention to the impact of your own room, home or office.

Here are some possible ways to focus your attention:

• How does your fridge feel if leftovers are getting old in there?
• How do you feel when piles of paper accumulate?
• What do you feel when you enter a home where people have been fighting?
• How does your home feel after a period of intense stress, illness, or loss?
• Is there clumpy, smeary, side-ways, or dissociated energy around your bed, left over after a night with odd dreams?
• How do you feel after a particular relative or friend stays at your house?
• When you move, can you sense the people who lived in the house before you?

The guidance we derive from responding to our environment begins with natural responses to fairly obvious cues. Sensitivity to energy develops with practice, making us more and more adept at sensing ever more subtle influences.

Sensing influences has two big advantages. First, awareness gives us the opportunity to learn to filter out influences that are not optimal for our well being. Second, we can now develop the ability to alter the energy in the places we spend time, to optimize it for specific purposes. We will continue to explore our relationship with energy and environment over the next few posts.

What type of energy or impressions most impact YOU when you enter a room or building?

Are you passive to the impact of your environment or do you find ways to to change the energy?