On Energy

Awakening, energetics, and the path of prayer.

I turned 36 last Monday, beneath the light of a full harvest supermoon. It’s been a threshold moment in my life. I’m back in therapy, and there’s a post-doctorate spaciousness precipitating some sort of inner unraveling. I’m wrestling with questions like never before, reconnecting to prayer, and returning to the very ground of my being.

Alongside the psychological support, I turn to energetics. Energy work is a conflictual yet deepening love affair I’ve held quietly these last few years. In the heart of my graduate studies, as I was honing my therapeutic skills, I was simultaneously immersing myself in energetics through reading, circles, workshops, and mentorships.

For the past three years, the magic and mystery of kinesiology has suffused my life, carrying me through each threshold, each unraveling and reweaving. When a beloved mentor, Zoe Bosco, shared with me that she was beginning Overe®, a practitioner training in specialized kinesiology and energy psychology, my heart leapt and I knew I had found my home.

While I won’t be opening my energy practice until early next year, I find myself brimming with excitement and wanting to share more about this beautiful craft. In the midst of process, I begin to feel into what is alive and wanting to be shared.

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We carry worlds within us. As an Overe® practitioner student, I am grounded within the belief that the quality of our energy informs the quality of our lives. By learning to attune with prayerful reverence to the energetic or subtle body, we are able to drop into an eternal well of inner wisdom. Each of us carries a specific expression of divinity, there is a prayer that prays within.

Energy interflows each part of our existence, permeating the physical, psychological, and eternal realms. There is a deep, invisible yet animating life-force that sustains our bodies, illuminates our thought forms, and directs our actions, bringing shape and corporeality to our material worlds. Energy coheres the physical with the ethereal, and it is through energy that we can awaken to wonder and belong intimately to this miraculous life, held by the subtle field.

As sensitive beings in a harsh world, we protectively begin to forget the infinite interiority of our hearts when fear, dread, guilt, and other dense frequencies become coded into our energy bodies. Discordant energy clouds the psyche, creating patterns of rigidity and defensiveness that collapse possibility and shut down our truth and authentic expression.

Connecting to the energy body through kinesiology and muscle testing is a potent way to soften into Self, attuning to the subtle wisdom and highlighting what is needed to shift and transform dense and stagnant energy into a freely flowing frequencies of truth. Change begins internally if we can approach the subtle body with openness, curiosity, reverence, and humility. To gaze into the shadow self and notice previously unconsciously held beliefs is a confronting experience, and a process that requires us to be generous and hospitable toward all parts of self, even those we have protectively forgotten.

The kinesiology method I am learning is an inner healing framework combining muscle testing and energy psychology to clear blocks and restore balance to the energy field. We begin to build a home within ourselves. Sensitivity to the subtle realm opens us to the rhythm of the universe, where each season of expansion and contraction can be allowed to unfold in its true and rightful timing. Possibility and potentiality open within the psyche, and we are ushered into an expansive tranquility of mind, body, heart, and soul.

The subtle body offers wisdom that we can further refine and deepen through working with the chakra system. Our human bodies house seven core energy centers, each with its own sacred purpose and unique function in supporting our larger identity. Embodying themes of belonging, creativity, sovereignty, reciprocity, expression, trust, and ownership, we are able to craft a life worthy of our great purpose. As we clarify the energy at each gate, new portals of destiny stir and awaken. We settle and soften into the ground of our being, and step forth with greater surety and presence within Self and our soul’s sacred work.

Throughout this method, intentions serve as guidance and prayer. Intentions open conversation between our current reality and the eternal longing of our hearts. Intentions are an annunciation calling us toward a more substantive and generative life experience. Intentions are the “angelology of words,”¹ divine message-bearers in their own right. Our words are sacred, and hold the power to shape our worlds. In working the intention through the energy of the subtle body, we are refined within the sacramentality of our evolution. A prayerful intention carries transformation, widening space around possibilities, experiences, relationships, and worlds of greater love, freedom, and ease.

The beautification of interiority allows us to step forward with integrity, elegance and wonder. As we soften into Self, life comes forward lovingly to meet us. While the shifting and re-ordering of the internal experience can be disorienting, remaining steadfast to the process allows us eventually to arrive at the still point in the center of epiphany. We re-engage the world, welcomed by the invitation it offers.

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There is much, much more to come, but if you’ve made it this far, I hope you begin to feel the stirrings of your own awakening.

May we all be held together in the divine mystery,

Sarah xx

1. Grateful to James Hillman in Re-Visioning Psychology for his thoughts on these words.