Imagine yourself as an energy field instead of a body with boundaries. Because of the fact that your personal energy field interacts with all the other energy fields around you and is therefore directly affected by them, your interconnectedness with all external energies is every bit as important to your health as treating your body well with good food and exercise.It doesn't matter how clear and unconditionally loving you are, your environment matters. If you are hanging out in low-energy places, or with negative people who are resonating with low vibrational or negative energy, you become very susceptible to the affects of that energy. The question is; Why would you choose to be in conflict within negative environments, people or circumstances if you don't absolutely have to? Who is forcing you?
If you make a conscious choice to manage and protect your energy in its natural, high-vibratory state, you will make self-supporting choices that nourish your desire to have positive feelings of well-being, otherwise known as 'happiness'. This may mean drawing boundaries with yourself, better communicating your needs to others, asking for support or just walking away from certain people in your life who are dragging you down. You can take affirmative steps to create the life experience you want. Life does not just 'happen' unless you feel powerless to make any positive change. Most people in our culture are blessed with the freedom to make choices in everything they do whether aware of it or not. So do you. But first, you have some energy work to do.
If you want to learn how to control your experiences you have to learn to control your energy and become more conscious of what you stir up. Choices can be destructive and disempowering or they can be conscious and self-honouring. This includes the choices you make about the people you spend time with, choose to interact with, do business with and so on.
If someone is causing you emotional pain, you need to remember that it is your choice to allow that person to negatively affect your energy and that you can make a choice to change the energy dynamics surrounding the particular relationship in your life. Don't find yourself in the position of unconsciously allowing others to hurt you. When you do this, you announce to yourself and the world that you believe yourself to be unworthy of better treatment. In reality, all of us deserve love and respect from all those we share common energy with. The best thing to do when you experience energy disruptions and conflict seemingly brought upon you by others, is to accept responsibility for the choices you have made either consciously or unconsciously, come back to 'now' and observe yourself as though you are watching yourself in a film featuring you as the hero. Chances are, you will realize that whatever conditions appear to be dominating your life at any given moment, are actually well within your grasp to change and that you can write your own move according to the choices you consciously make moment by moment.
Now sit back, and make some self-honouring choices that serve your greater good. Take the time. Make it a priority and watch things change. Make a list of the immediate things you can do to change any circumstances in your life that disrupt your natural energy flow. Remember, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change. Start with how you view yourself and your energy environment. Welcome the supportive people and environments and dismiss those that frustrate you, and mess with your positive, natural energy. It all begins with the choice you make about who's going to call the shots in your life. If you choose not to make choices for yourself, there is always someone nearby who will.
