Positive Energy Guide

It’s fascinating when energies we do not expect make a clear appearance in our lives. Surprise events help us to remember that life is more amazing than what we habitually take it to be.

I was finishing up a healing session with a client. Let’s call her Sara. (Shared with permission.) I had been overriding exhaustion to give my best. Seated beside the massage table, I had my left hand near her heart and my right resting gently over Sara’s hand.

As I flexed my legs to stand, my Guides said, “Just keep your hands where they are and stay open.” I was surprised. The session was technically over, and I hadn’t been working with Guides. I sharpened my attention.

I sensed into the room and felt something unusual. The energy I felt was so strong that I was sure Sara would be feeling it too. I asked. “Feel that energy in the room?” She nodded but looked a bit uncertain. “It feels really clear and bright,” I added, “totally open, and incredibly compassionate.” Sara nodded with certainty, staying unusually still.

“I think it’s an angel,” I said. I had felt angelic energy before, but nothing so vivid and direct.

The Being corrected me: “Archangel,” it told my inner ear. I repeated this aloud.

“How is that different than an angel?” Sara asked.

“It’s a more comprehensive order of Being, like an umbrella of energy that encompasses what people call angels.” Neither Sara nor I had any particular belief about this topic.

I extended intention to keep from closing off to the wonder of this unexpected visitation. Sensing Sara beginning to think I said, “In a bit, your ego will kick in and try to block the experience. That’s what happens; it’s what we do. It’s okay. Just relax and see how long you can maintain your openness.”

Our experience intensified. To keep Sara focused I said, “Listen to the quality of the silence right now. Can you hear that high frequency pitch in the room? That’s part of the energy signature.”

I was directing the archangelic energy–grace–down and through Sara’s body. Tears ran down her cheeks. Her tears were especially significant since she’s a mental person. She and I both tend to rationalize excessive sweetness. As the energy began to subside I said, “It’s amazing how much can happen despite one’s cynicism!”

I made this comment to acknowledge yet head off any tendency to downplay the experience. I am not of the opinion that one must believe in things in order to experience them. Amazing things can happen as long as we don’t take our beliefs and opinions too seriously.

At the door as she left, Sara told me that she felt different in her whole body. Her manner was gently inward.

I felt lighter and felt good for several days. A refreshing sense of positive energy remained, regardless of circumstances.

It’s important to let experience happen without getting tangled up in interpretation, holding experience hostage to understanding, or trying to fit it into a particular formulation. If we limit experience to what we already know about we are not open to transformation.

Ego makes trouble when what we think takes priority over input from life. Identity fear is one such trouble. It goes something like this: “If this experience is coming from me then I’m not the me I know any more. And if it’s not from me I’m being influenced by something I don’t know about and can’t control.”

It’s fairly simple to relax out of that kind of fear by participating with experiences that feel right, without identifying with them. This means we don’t make it MEAN something about OURSELVES. If we identify with a mystical experience we can get a big head about being the person who does this and that. Then we have to repeat the experience over and over to prove ourselves, or cling to our story about it, making it iconic instead of moving openly.

I have had hundreds of different kinds of intuitive experiences. Their variety, and the fact that many are one-time occurrences, make it easy for me not to get into any particular trips about them. I find a balance point in allowing and enjoying these experiences while keeping them in perspective.

What shakes up YOUR preconceived ideas and reminds you that the universe is bigger than your usual way of thinking?

How do you respond when something you consider abstract asserts itself as a reality?