Recognizing Blocked Energy

If you've ever listened to abundance gurus talk about the idea of flow and allowing things to come freely to you, you may have also come across terms like blocked energy. Typically blocked energy may be defined as anything that keeps your energy stuck outside something else and keeps your energy from flowing freely. In a nutshell, blocked energy is a literal separation!

Blocked energy is extremely common in our world--so common, in fact, that you come across it every day without giving it a second thought! For example, if you run across someone who is different from you in any way and you feel yourself pulling back, that is blocked energy (and you are doing the blocking). Maybe the person is morbidly obese or challenged in some way and you feel yourself repelled. Maybe the person is a different religion or sexual orientation from you and it feels threatening. Sometimes we even pull away because we feel unworthy of the love and attention we might receive from someone else, or we are afraid of being hurt. The point is, recognizing blocked energy can be this easy!

If you take the time, you can also explore blocked energy on a deeper, more subtle level. This takes a bit more introspection and investigation on your part. The best place to start is when you are in a relaxed, meditative and expanded state. Begin to explore the relationships you have in your life. It may be a family member, a friend, a coworker. Can you embrace this person, flaws and all, or is there something about this person that makes you pull away? Ask yourself why you would pull away. If the answer you receive from the universe is that you are not pulling away, ask yourself why the other person or thing is pulling away? Asking questions will help you discover what exactly is holding you back.

Picture yourself beside a wall that encloses a beautiful garden. You know there is great beauty and solace within, yet you cannot venture inside. You are blocked! This is the exact feeling you get when your energy is not allowed to flow freely!

Why would we want to recognize blocked energy? Blocked energy is a signal from the universe there is an issue you need to work on! Ideally, we want our energy to flow freely in order to take full advantage of all the gifts the universe has to offer us. When you are blocked, you are limiting what you can receive!

Recognize your blocked energy, and you will be able to resolve the issues that keep you from receiving the abundance available to all!

~ CSE

Living In The Question

It is human nature to search for answers. We want to understand what things are, how they came to be and how we fit into the into the grand scheme of things. The journey of growth and understanding begins with the question.

Small children instinctively know this. That is why they drive us crazy asking question after question as soon as they learn to speak! Their lives are full of exploring, experimenting and wondering why!

At some point in our adult lives, many of us stop asking questions. The reasons for this may vary, but suffice it to say that adults often believe they already know the answers! They have defined who and what they are and have become content in that knowledge. Anyone who tells them differently from what they believe is just plain wrong! What they don't understand is, this way of thinking is a trap!

Often, what we believe is truth is merely seeing an issue from one very limited perspective. Change the angle you look from and your "truth" can appear strangely different!!! Take a simple cylinder. If you stand beside the cylinder, you might perceive something that looks like a square or rectangle. However, if you happen to look at the cylinder from an end, you will perceive a circle! Is either perspective wrong? No, but you could waste a great deal of time arguing your point if you don't stop to ask yourself how someone else can see something so completely different!

Being willing to ask the question keeps you in a childlike state of wonder, opening your world to possibilities you would not otherwise know exist. True open mindedness is the willingness to believe something more or different could be possible! This is exactly what asking questions does. Questions keep you open to more!

It is the question that expands us. It is the question that helps us grow. It is the question that ultimately enables us to look beyond our established boundaries and into the infinite. The question contains great power. Are you courageous enough to ask the question and follow where it leads?

Your whole life can begin to change as you become willing to live in the question!!!

~CSE

Connecting To Heart

The heart is the place of connection. Not only does it connect our basic, earthly selves to our higher vibrating spiritual selves, but the heart also acts as a conduit between our earthly/spiritual bodies and the greater universe at large. Taking time daily to connect to your heart will keep you grounded and focused on the wisdom of the One.

The instructions that follow are designed to help you connect to your own heart so that you can use that connection to embrace the divine. This is not the only way, nor will it necessarily work for everyone. Feel free the play with it and ask yourself if this works for you. If not, ask the divine what will work for you!

1. Begin by sitting in a quiet, comfortable place, preferably with little distraction.
2. Ask the divine to place protection around you. Envision a bubble of light surrounding you along with the presence of your guardian angels and their helpers. This will allow the light to come in and keep darkness out. 
3. Take deep breaths, filling your lungs as much as possible.
4. As you exhale, allow your problems to be expelled along with the old, stale air. Focus on this breathing for several minutes as your body and mind detox from cluttered thoughts.
5. Begin to focus on the beating of your heart. Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
6. Picture your spirit self contained within that beating heart. Allow the being that is you to fill that heart space.
7. Slowly allow that heart/spirit self to expand. Think about it expanding to fit into the room or building you are in. Expand it even further into town or county, state/country, continent, whole world, and out into space into infinity. When you first begin to experiment with this expansion, allow yourself to feel the limits of the next space before going on to more infinite space. Each step may take several minutes (and that's okay). You will become better at it the more you practice.
8. Allow yourself to sit in this infinite space and rest for as long as you are able. Feel free to explore and ask questions. You will be amazed at what you discover!!!

It is time to wake up and remember the beautiful, spiritual, empowered soul you truly are!!!

~CSE