Clairsentience is the ability to feel energy; and since everyone is empathic, we all feel each other’s states of mind, body and emotion, whether painful or not, to some degree.

The experiential level of these feelings or sensations, depends upon how open our energy centers are, or how well we are anchored in our own bodies and how much ownership we take for our personal energies. For example, if the sacral chakra is too open and there is no ownership or anchoring, a person may feel strong physical-emotional sensations of all that emanates from the outer world, triggering fear or survival responses. If the heart chakra is too open and has no filter, a person may feel invalidated, needy or unacceptable, triggering old patterns of emotional lack, loneliness and self-worth issues. While these are just a couple examples, and there are innumerable others, we have all experienced them.

Contrary to much new age philosophy and some spiritual programs, it’s not always appropriate to sustain a completely open chakra system. A warrior would never go into battle without his armor and sword. Likewise, don’t fool yourself; you are meeting opponents every day just by being human and waking up in the morning, not to mention driving and going to work. Now I’m not suggesting you over-protect yourself or control everything that is happening in the world, I’m simply stating that there are ways to move through life without being bogged down by outside energies and the collective unconscious.

And we can do this without resistance, without erecting a big wall or mote around us, and with great love in our hearts.

Remember, even if you are really strong and courageous, super conscious and on the road to enlightenment, you are still connected to the collective. To see how the collective works, just look around at our economy, our religious structures, international relations, inner city lifestyles, even many of the top selling books and top producing movies. These are the voices of the collective, and you are linked to all of it.

I know people who will not see certain movies because it affects them greatly; and I’m not talking about slasher, horror or even war movies. A simple, yet intense love story can trigger a lot of emotion. I know people, including myself at certain times, avoid social engagements because they (we) are overly sensitive and have no coping tools. It’s most likely the same with people who take anti-depressants. Life and people are just too challenging so they alter their consciousness with a drug that controls their emotions, creating a false sense of security.

There is another way, and it slowly builds our ability to handle life without avoidance and denial.

We actually have the ability to manage our energy centers, widening and narrowing them like a camera lens aperture at will. It is our inheritance. If we are very sensitive to the energy of the collective, or even to one person, we can “control” our responses with a variety of different tools. Of course the most important of those tools is full acceptance of all that is, yet because we are human and none of us here is fully enlightened, we may need to take some small steps first.

Even if you accept some things and some people, it doesn’t mean you embrace and live in full acceptance.

Once we learn how to manage our own energies, or our responses to other people’s energy, we will have a strong foundation from which to expand, and we all need a safe space in which to grow. Because we’ve spent our lives mostly reacting as opposed to responding, we are still babes and need to start over again with proper information and guidance. We need to re-experience our maturation process without the old enmeshments. It’s like learning to crawl all over again.

Our humanity dictates that we have the same trigger points as the next guy; we have the same emotions, states of mind and body. We might handle them differently and put our own unique twist on them, yet they are all the same. That’s why we become enmeshed so easily; that’s why we need some transformational tools to break this massive collective agreement to match each other’s negative states of being-ness.

Everyone has a liver and if the liver is toxic, it desires more toxicity. If the liver is clean it wants clarity and yet it also attracts toxicity looking for a channel through which to cleanse itself. Like attracts like and we are inherently and always in search of the road to clarity and consciousness. It’s our nature.

Beginning with a conscious choice to start the journey, we take steps to first find this channel. It already exists within us. So the real choice is to seek and find a higher vibration, to meet it and match it, then channel it. Because the mundane world is expert at pulling us back into resonance with a lower vibration, this will take some focus. Each day we will focus on the highest vibration possible, eventually attracting more of the same which makes it easier to sustain that vibration.

One of the ways we can open the channel is to become more discerning of who, what, when, where and why we do certain things. Mostly we find that it’s habitual, programmed in since birth or before. We go with what we know, what you are comfortable with, never really raising the bar to far out of reach. So, we might have to be alone for a while, imaging or mocking-up what we’d like to create in life. Like a new food program or diet, we have to entrain our bodies to desire more vegetables, and that means avoiding the bakery, at least for a while.

Clear channels have an entrance and an exit. Without both, it’s way too easy to become trapped in those old comfortable hammocks of enmeshment. Like a cellular structure, or the body as a whole, there are ways in and ways out. Like waterways, there is always a spring or source; an estuary or canal; and there is also a mouth. Like water in a river, energy flows indefinitely and forever through eternity. It never really stops, yet it can become blocked like water at a damn.

It’s our job to make sure the energy is always flowing. This is how we clear our inner channels, opening to source, channeling it and finally dumping at the mouth where it alchemizes into a new or different elemental structure. So again, it’s our choice to use our tools to channel the energy, clearing our bodies, our minds and our emotions so we can attract and support higher vibrations, multiplying the cells of consciousness, rather than matching the collective unconscious.

As you can see, spiritual warrior-ship does not mean hatred, dismissal or killing. It simply means conscious attention to our inner energy or self-mastery. It’s our job to take out the trash each day and with a little practice it can be as easy as flushing a toilet.

On my personal journey I’ve had heart pains, liver pains, spinal pains and shortness of breath. My digestion has been either sluggish or too fast. There are many bodily issues I’ve experienced and exacerbated over the years because I was entangled with people’s emotions and didn’t have tools. These conditions were latent inside me, yet because I didn’t know they were just energy, I became attached to them and they multiplied. That was a long, long time ago.

When I finally learned about energy and practiced my tools of differentiation, the symptoms disappeared. Most of my so-called illness or dis-ease went away completely. Some of them return now and then, and sometimes new things appear. If I am conscious of the difference between myself and the next person, the symptoms less intrusive and I know they are not mine so I can disengage easily. Some people have a more emotional or mental enmeshment; I just happen to experience almost everything as a physical symptom, whether it originates as a thought or an emotion.

At some point we become masters of differentiation. When that time comes, we will be able to meet everyone and everything with total acceptance rather than matching the energy and becoming trapped in that enmeshment. First we need to explore what is ours and own it. The only way we can do this is by creating that clear channel and calling in a higher vibration.

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