When I was an architecture student, it was a common feeling as a young artist to pine for what I wanted. A relationship, a dream job, a dream family. At nineteen, I discovered the placebo and nocebo affect in a psychology course and was hooked by the connection between the mind and body.
As I grew (I still am growing into myself), I learned a little about a lot — like most architects — and began to collect dots in quantum science, the math of Chaos theory, art and architecture, structures and sustainability, nature’s intelligence and systems thinking, psychology and philosophy. It took me years to connect all those dots, and I am happy to report: the mind and body are connected.
Since those early college days, I have learned a lot more about what underlies this connection: energy. There is a phrase out there that thoughts become things. Another way of saying it is high frequency energy (thoughts and feelings) compresses down into denser matter (things). All we have to do is wake up to what we are thinking and feeling so we can think and feel with more awareness and create on purpose.
So, there I was as a young artist looping in a habit of longing. And I was not alone, for it is a cultural thing. So many of us think “I’ll be happy when…” and fill in the blank. We keep looking outside of ourselves for what will make us feel whole, and we become identified with that looking, seeking, longing. Maybe we have learned enough to say all the positive affirmations we have seen in the movie The Secret, but have no idea of the ten thought and belief boulders in the way at the level of the subconscious. Many of us are conditioned to look outside of ourselves for love and joy. Rarely do we consider what the energy of wanting creates. Rarely do we remember we are the love and joy we are looking for. Rarely do we remember we are creating it all — including those hidden belief boulders — so why not create on purpose?
Quantum science taught me that wanting something was creating more of the same: wanting. When we focus our creative juiciness on wishing and wanting, our photon arrangement goes to more wanting. When we align our energy and really feel into the state of “having,” we step inside our passion right here and now. This is the secret sauce to manifestation, and to healing.
And that is why I am so passionate about my online course Project Awakening inside Inner Space Academy. It is a wonderful compendium of energy wisdom. In addition to the Energy Codes, I also share wisdom nuggets from many of the diverse dots I have gathered over the past two decades.
Enliven your energy field, learn how to heal yourself, and build resiliency through this four month long course on energy intelligence. Emerge a new you in the new year.
If you haven’t already, we recommend you carve a half hour out of your day and create a nest to heal and restore yourself inside our Sound Alchemy this month, exploring drops of emptiness inside the soothing sound of singing bowls. Read our blog Inter-be to learn about how full emptiness actually is and how you are connected to everything.
Explore how to live as if. When you join us in the full course collection, Astara shares the Energy Codes practice Don’t Want It, Have It, helping you practice a new way of creating from a state of having.
So, take a moment this week and bring to mind something you want, and convert it to the creative present tense and energetic sensation of having. Let the photons do the rest of the work for you. You deserve a little rest.
For those new to Astara and Illuminating Hearts, we encourage you to check out our soulful offerings. We create containers and openings for you to find healing, restoration, and self-reflection. This is how you build resiliency and strength for the disruptive world we are living in.
