Picking up the Subtle Energies

Weekly insights to turn pain, trauma, and the human experience into opportunities for growth, purpose, and meaning

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Issue 19 - Read Time: 4 Minutes 42 Seconds

Energies and Emotions

I have been thinking a TON about how emotions are created from subtle energies experienced in our environments, affected by our inner states, and transmitted through other humans.

Which has combined into lots of thoughts about a process of feeling and expressing that involves becoming an antenna, performing inner alchemy, and expressing love. So this week I am going to try and talk through this process in a coherent way!

This week you will get:

What is an antenna? And how do I function as one? 📡

Understanding emotions as energies.

Performing inner Alchemy and expressing love.

Antenna Effect and Tuning in our Frequency

Let's start with the very basics. What is an antenna?

In the simplest possible terms, an antenna is an instrument that transmits and receives electromagnetic waves, usually radio wave signals.

The purpose of transmitting and receiving radio waves is to communicate or broadcast information at the speed of light.

So, there are two functions - to send a frequency out or to receive a frequency coming in.

Now, I want to suggest to you that we, as human beings, function in a remarkably similar way to antennas.

We are subtly attuned to electromagnetic waves, emotional energies, archetypal forces, celestial happenings, and terrestrial turnings.

Whether conscious of this or not, we are influenced by these things ALL OF THE TIME.

And the opportunity is to tune in our instrument (the mind & body) so we are conscious of what we receive and conscious of what we transmit.

Emotion as Energy

A big part of becoming an antenna is relating to emotions as energy, which, like electro magnetic waves, are transmitted through the airways.

These energies are subtle, come from both inside and outside of you and very much affect your daily life.

Viewing emotions this way requires a certain level of detachment from the personal nature of the emotion.

Meaning you don't identify AS the emotion. You simply notice it and pay attention to the sensations the emotion elicits in your body.

In Buddhist philosophy, this is called becoming the observer.

The observer simply notices it's happening, receives the transmission, and decides what to broadcast after the reception.

For Example

Let's walk through an example that happened a while back and taught me a TON about this process.

I was in traffic when a guy behind me drove to my bumper and nudged my car. I thought it was a mistake, so I moved my car forward a couple of feet, and the guy proceeded to move forward again and bump my car.

I have no idea what I had done to upset this man, but he was pissed.

My body started reacting as it became more apparent that he was mad at me and essentially trying to pick a fight.

I first felt a flood of adrenaline wash through my chest, stomach, and limbs that were responding to the threat.

I watched that sensation and felt it settle in my hands and feet which began to tingle intensely.

I then noticed this feeling of anger in my chest and jaw.

The Anger was INTENSE. But I made the decision right there to observe it and to not let it overtake me.

So I got away from this guy and drove home, observing the sensations in my body. They kept changing from anger to self-judgment, anger, fear, and finally to peace.

All in all, the process took about 15 minutes, and I found that I could track it quite clearly with intention and attention.

So, going back to the example of the antenna. This man came up to me and transmitted all of this energy through his actions and my internal process.

I received that energy and decided not to relay any message forward until I sat with the transmission.

Sitting with the transmission required me to observe my experience, and ultimately, I did not relay that message forward at the moment. I took it home and told my wife and friends about it.

It would have been very easy for me to receive anger and frustration and then transmit anger and frustration forward. But I did not. And this is not because I am a saint or more advanced, honestly, mostly I didn't do that because I was scared.

Performing Alchemy

Here is the crux of the whole receiving and transmitting thing.

You can choose how to take in messages and energies and what you relay forward.

In many ways, this is akin to the process of alchemy.

Alchemy is not the literal transformation of lead into gold.

It is a metaphor and symbolic expression of our internal capacity as energetic, spiritual, conscious beings to take in negative information, experiences, and emotions and transform them from lead into gold.

We perform these transmutations all the time, which is why we often look back on the difficult times in our lives with admiration and gratitude. Because we effectively transmuted that lesson into gold.

So, let's put it all together.

You are an antenna. You receive subtle energies all of the time. Some of them are directed at you, and others are not. Regardless, you are picking them up.

With practice and attention, you can become adept at noticing what is coming in, being the observer, and then deciding what to put out.

Through alchemy, you can synthesize negative information, experiences, and sensations, synthesize them, and then determine what you relay forward as the next transmission.

So, what is the ultimate transmutation? What would be a 100% alchemically processed relay forward look like?

It's actually pretty simple. The cleanest transmission forward is love.

So, the opportunity is to ask, what transmissions am I taking in? What do I do with them when they are in my body? Do I consciously alchemize them? Or do I pass them forward quickly? Have I transmuted them into love? Or are they left unchanged, and I am transmitting negativity forward?

Thank You!

If you made it this far - thanks for sticking with!

This weeks newsletter is not my cleanest thinking or cleanest writing but these ideas feel important to me and I wanted to take a shot on articulating them. Its a bit clunky, but they'll keep cooking and coming out a cleaner :)

I love that you are interested in exploring yourself in the pursuit of growth and expansion.

And I love that you are diving deeper into the unconscious patterns that limit our capacity as a species to transcend this paradigm.

You are becoming the change you want to see in the world and that is incredibly inspiring!

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey ✨✨

With Love,

Christian