The Energetic Body

So, what is the energetic body? I had a teacher who first shared with me about the energetic body that it were these rainbow-colored vortices of energy in our body and, you know, eek. As someone who is a little bit more science-minded, I had yet to find these rainbow-colored orbs in a dissection, or I had yet to see nadis on an MRI, and so it really was very easy to discount it or disallow it as something kind of hippy-dippy imaginary. But at the same time, I was having these experiences in my own practice that I wanted a language to discuss it, to share it, to understand it better. And so, even though my understanding of the energetic body keeps shifting, what I've come to lately is that the energetic body is really the poetic topography of the experience of being alive in these forms in what are called a meat suit.

So it's the mapping that, as we see, we all have these very shared experiences, no matter the age, no matter the culture, no matter the era. We have very common experiences that we all share. We might say, I have these feelings. I have these feelings for you. We don't say, I have these feelings for you, right?

I don't have these feelings. We point all to the heart. We feel it in the heart. Even when we say things like I, we don't point to different body parts. We point here.

I live here. I feel here. I express here. This is me. This is my home, right?

And I come to see now that the poetry really does matter. The poetry that we share really matters because it helps to remind us that we are all connected. The mind will insist on dividing. It'll insist on duality. It insists to make sense of the world on separating, whether it's me from you, whether it's the brain and the heart, whether it's the chakras and the glands or my emotions and my posture.

It insists on putting these in divided categories. And even in that word divide, that D-I of divide, it means to separate. It insists on separation. I think this poetry matters because it brings us back to the truth. It brings us back to that reconnection, to that reunion, to that remembrance of who we are both individually and collectively.

So I hope that you share these practices with that intention. And I hope to hear from you, to know how it's going for you in the comments below. I'm very much looking forward to it from my heart. Namaste.