#2: Okay I’m Atoms, Why Should I Care?

Introduction

This week’s blog is also inspired by a message from a loved one. This one said, “How exciting that your new life is off the tarmac! Looking forward to follow it all. I sure am made of atoms but I honestly don’t have the faintest idea how that helps me.”

First, ‘off the tarmac’ – this is my first time hearing this phrase and I love it. I interpret it as leaving the established path, departure, or taking flight, which is accurate. But what I especially love is that it omits the judgement of most terms used for ventures like mine.

Terms like ‘out there,’ ‘woo-woo,’ etc – these phrases dismiss and invalidate, and usually without consideration or investigation. They hint of shame and give pressure to conform.

But innovation doesn’t come from conforming. Innovation comes from breaking away from the norm, trying new things, experimentation, iteration, and risk-taking.

The dismissive terms also suggest aimlessness.

But planes leaving the tarmac are not aimless. They are intentional. They are going somewhere. They have a destination.

So, thank you for that, my friend! And thank you for the tee-up and inspiration for my second blog, which is about why you should care that you are made of atoms.

Okay I’m Atoms, Why Should I Care?

You should care because if you accept that you are energy, you can learn how to work with it. You can take the grips and fly the plane. That’s right – you are the pilot and you didn’t know it.

(Who’s aimless now, baby?! Sorry, low blow!)

Seriously though, we’re not given an operator’s manual, so we have to figure it out ourselves. And figuring it out is the name of the game we call life.

But this conversation usually doesn’t get off the ground because most people, especially scientists, shut down when we start talking about concepts of energy. Not because it’s scientifically invalid – no, the science is clear – matter is condensed energy as described by Einstein’s E=mc². We shut it down because we can’t wrap our brains around it as humans. And this is a big problem because our scientific system relies on peer review, and the system fails when your peers are not open to consider what you are studying without bias.

But let’s get back to why you should care. As with all energy, human energy is in constant motion and vibrating at different frequencies. Since we don’t realize we are energy, no one is flying the plane, and we go about life passively allowing our energy to be set by three things:

1.     The environment around us

2.     Emotions from the past

3.     Anticipation of things that might happen in the future

Pretty rough, no wonder we’re all struggling. Fortunately, with a little effort and practice you can manage your own energy to live a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled life. And when you do this, you start to discover what truly inspires you.

There’s much more you can do with your quantum-ness, but you have to start with the basics to gain control of your energy and mind first. Here’s my attempt to explain the basics in a way that makes sense to a matter-oriented mind.

Introduction to Your Energetic Backpack

In your energetic body, you carry around energy in a variety of frequencies, like carrying items in a backpack. If you are not living a predominantly joyful and inspired life, you are carrying heavy energy in your backpack.

There are four major factors that determine what’s in your energetic backpack:

1.   True Nature

We all have the same true nature, and it’s aligned with the source of all consciousness. People have different names for it – Universal Consciousness, Source, Spirit, God, The All That Is, etc. Whatever works for you is good. The energy is unconditional love – just pure love. When we tune into it, we feel complete peace and acceptance of all things.

2.   Innate Personality

We come into this life with energies that our soul planned to explore and learn from, and that sets our innate personality. This is why a baby has a personality from day one, and why your first child can be so different from your second child even though they grow up in the same environment.

3.   Life Experiences

We also come into this life with a plan for the energies we will explore and learn from through life experiences. We play out these experiences with our family members, classmates, partners, colleagues, neighbors, communities, etc.

4.   World Around Us

And of course, we are impacted by the energies of the world around us even when we’re not directly interacting with them. This might be the energy of the neighborhood, city, state, and country we live in, the media we interact with, and all of us are impacted by collective energies at a global level.

So your backpack is full of all sorts of energy, primarily in the form of emotions, thoughts, and beliefs. The more of these things you take out of your backpack, the lighter it becomes and the closer you feel to your True Nature – the version of you that lives in satisfaction as a default.

It’s a bit of a process to get to the ‘satisfaction as a default’ state, but it’s worth the effort. Daily life, including mundane stuff, becomes fun. You stop feeling like you have to do things you don’t want to do. You start to enjoy just being alive. I highly recommend it.

Learn What’s in Your Energetic Backpack

The first step is to become aware of what’s in your backpack. To do this, you focus on your Innate Personality and Life Experiences. These are the aspects of your energy that you can directly change. Yes, you can change your personality. You specifically want to rebalance aspects of your personality that are not serving you. Think about what aspects of your personality are balanced and which are imbalanced. Think about which life experiences or situations have shaped how you think, act, and feel.

You may notice that I don’t suggest focusing on the World Around Us. When world events can be considered a part of your personal life, they fit in the Life Experiences category. When World Around Us energy is not directly a part of your personal life, giving it too much attention is distracting and disempowering. You are adding more of that energy to your backpack and diverting attention from what you do have control over. It’s okay to give a reasonable amount of attention to be aware of how these energies are impacting you, but less is more.

A good place to start is with whatever is giving you the most strife now. Over time, you’ll look at your childhood, relationships, employment, financial health, etc. There’s no wrong way to do it, so you can decide. Just get curious. It’s a process of self-discovery and self-awareness. It takes courage and compassion for self and others.

Extract The Lesson & Let Go of The Energy

In practice, this step iterates with the previous step. You get curious about an energy, thought, or belief you carry. You work to understand it. Decide you don’t want to keep it. Feel it and let it go. Some things can be released easily and others take more time to unwind and let go.

You can go through a period of fast energetic and emotional transformation and quickly change your overall state of being. And still, you will always experience new things to learn and grow from. It’s a life-long practice.

Regardless, every challenge you face is with purpose. Your soul plans them before you get here for the purpose of learning and growth. As you work to understand your personality and experiences, you also decide what you are meant to learn and how you will change. When you extract the lesson, your challenges turn into your greatest strengths and sources of power. So, through the process you also find your own unique inspiration, power, and success.

Relevance to Physical Health

Remember from blog #1, our atoms and energy translate into the physical – neurons, neurotransmitters, genes, proteins, etc. When things are awry with our energy for long periods of time, it starts to translate to the physical, impacting gene and protein expression and therefore physical functioning.

I believe every illness has energetic underpinnings and points us to energy that we need to take out of our backpack. This is why we inherently know that people often get sick from grief, worry, anger, people pleasing, etc. It’s why some are more prone to infection and environmental sensitivities. It’s also why people with terminal illness who give up their old emotional weight can suddenly heal.

Traditional healthcare focuses on the chemical and physical and largely ignores the energy behind it. In doing this, we’re focusing on the intermediaries and outcomes instead of the source. It’s like trying to stop a waterfall by damming the pool below it.

Who knows what we’ll find when biological science really dives into the non-physical as Nikola Tesla pointed to, but for sure there will be a treasure trove at the cross-section of energy, emotion, and epigenetics.

When this happens, we’ll integrate energy and matter into a new model of healthcare. We’ll be working directly with the waterfall, instead of exhausting ourselves patching and rebuilding the dam to contain the pool below it.

Relevance to With Love Gaia

While I believe that releasing emotion and aligning energy will resolve physical illness, physical health is not With Love Gaia’s focus. It’s a wonderful byproduct and I do intend to measure it over time.

With Love Gaia’s focus is upstream of physical health, in what I consider to be spiritual, emotional, and energetic health. I want to help people change their energy. I want to learn how to do it really, really well. I’ve already seen incredible things, so we hit the ground running.

I help clients understand a snapshot of their soul’s plan, to see themselves from their soul’s perspective, to identify energy linked to their Innate Personality and Life Experience, to release energy that’s ready to be released, and to initiate their process of releasing what isn’t ready.

I love that it helps people live happier and healthier lives, but my main focus is to help you unload your backpack so you can unlock your inspiration:

• Unloading your backpack helps you connect to your soul.

• Connection to your soul helps you align to your true purpose.

• Alignment to your true purpose helps you discover your unique gifts.

• When you discover your unique gifts, you share them with the world.

• When you share your gifts with the world, you help others and inspire them to do the same.

My intention is to give you a jumpstart – like a helping hand in leveling-up.

Conclusion

Why should you care that you are made of atoms? It matters for many reasons.

First it matters because most people write off the idea of energy and energy healing as nonsense, without giving it any consideration. (Even tho we are literally made of atoms, which are energy. Seriously, y’all this one will go down in the history books like the discovery that the Earth isn’t flat!)

More personally, by rejecting that you are energy, you cut yourself off from your potential before you even get started.

If you accept that you are made of energy, you can start to learn how your energy impacts your experience of life.

And then, you can learn how to do something about it. You can take the grips and fly the plane. You can find direction, purpose, and inspiration. You can learn how to play the game of life.

There’s so much more when you get to advanced topics of your atomic quantum-ness, but we’re not there yet 😊

With love and gratitude, Shelley