Energy Suckage

I love today's APOD pic - it's galactic cannibalism at its best, one galaxy merging with another and the inevitable suckage of energy, billions of stars, dust and the like.

I think it a truly universal concept that all of us are familiar with. We're all guilty, one time or another of being energy suckers. It's not our fault, we're weak, reaching out, forgetting our divine nature. And when we forget that we're connected to the source of all energy, we also forget how to fill ourselves up. We lose our inspiration, we feel down on ourselves. And the only way we can think of filling back up is to take energy from the first available source - usually the first person willing to indulge us our sob story.

Now this is natural behaviour from time to time. Well, I say that it's natural but it's certainly something to work towards overcoming. Moving past this point of needing others' energy means that you find a way, in your darkest direst moment, to fill up from the source.

The problem with this is that often, when things are going badly for us, we shove our heads up our arses so far we can no longer see the light. And then we become the victims rather than the heroes of our own comic book.

Be a hero in your dark moments. Here's how.

Step 1 : Remove head from arse.

Step 2 : Remember you are a divine being. You are only light and energy inhabiting a body for a short time.

Step 3 : All you have to do to feel better is open yourself up to the universal energy and be a receptor. Be open. Resist the urge to close up shop and shut everything out. This isn't going to help you.

Step 4 : Visualize the energy pouring into you and warming you from the inside out.

Step 5 : Let go. Move on. Your life is waiting. And it's better than you can imagine.


Don't get the impression that I'm saying you shouldn't reach out for a sympathetic ear from time to time. We all need love and friendship. But getting beyond the need for others' energy means that we are truly exploring our own potential for self-healing.

Now let's see if I can listen to my own advice next time life dishes out citrus.

Eeny Meeny Miny...

Us new-agers are like recovering alcoholics. We're pretty adamant about the whole 'taking responsibility for your life thing' - you know, not playing victim to your life.

So while we're at it, let's take responsibility for being born to our parents. Just for fun... See what happens.

Okay, so we choose our parents before we're born, rather than being the product of random DNA colliding and creating consciousness...

Consciousness in fact recycles itself intelligently...

Still with me?

Okay, so what are the implications if in fact you had your pick of a million (billion?) sets of parents... And you picked them out of the crowd?

So no matter how dysfunctional our parents were, we couldn't really blame them for our lot in life anymore, could we?

Okay, so one we stop blaming our parents and realize that WE chose this life, for some reason unknown to us... What then?

Well if we're all still trying to enlighten ourselves, to grow as people and energies, then maybe it's a good time to take a good candid look at our parents and take stock of what we've learned from them. What morals/values did we acquire through them? How did their struggles affect us either positively or negatively - how did we grow from them. Or did we?

And if you're a parent yourself? Feel free to shift the blame. When your little kid starts yelling at you for not buying him that toy he wants or for not letting him eat the whole cake on his eighth birthday, you can say "yeah well you chose me!"

How do you like them apples?