Our energy fields hold a blueprint of our full potential, our luminous essence. How can we tap into and source from that essence?

About seven years ago I got hooked by Sandra Ingerman’s writing on using spiritual methods to transmute toxins. Her concepts made sense: We can reverse environmental pollution using our connections to spirit, not just science! We can change our own toxic thoughts! We can learn to find our essence, become our divinity, and see the perfection in all things! We can heal—ourselves, our animals, and situations of conflict in the world—using vibration and light.

I read the book, Medicine for the Earth, and took the class. I began using the practices in my life and kept thinking about how to embody the principles. Wanting others to “practice” and play with, I began incorporating, into my teaching, the ideas Sandra had woven together. I found it fascinating and transformative to explore the ecstatic, light-filled web of life, my divinity and shadows, transmutation, and transfiguration.

What’s different for me, seven years later? My awareness. An easier and more compassionate way of being with friends, family, the world. My skill in letting go of negative thought patterns. My ability to shift into positive, hopeful perspectives on even the most difficult issues. The spaciousness, fluidity, and joy I experience almost every day now.

Obviously, I think these practices are a great way of shifting consciousness, and you can find people all over the world who are using and teaching Medicine for the Earth (see link).

Old Habits, New Stories

A few years ago, when Dennis Kuchinich first proposed a Cabinet-level Department of Peace for the US, I thought, “It’s not possible, no one will vote for it.” This is an example of what I now understand as an old “story,” limiting my ability to vision and create a different world. Dennis had the vision, but my brain found lots of “reasons” to focus on the negative.

“We have to make new stories, tapping into our creation wisdom for inspiration. We have to learn how to shift old habits and thinking that holds us back,” say my spirit helpers. Usually we do not have internal resources to do all this on our own. Our minds may learn to think an idea for a while, yet if our bodies haven’t caught up, if its not in our cells, we’ll revert.

Experiential learning is the key here: learning that helps you explore and try things out rather than telling you how to think; learning that offers you opportunity for embodying and using all your senses to discover how something works for you; learning that you can take home and put to use.

Finding Our Own Creation Stories

One really amazing way of reframing our personal story is to ask “What is my creation story?” or “How was I created?” When we discover our own creation stories we make a new mythology, put ourselves into it, and begin to manifest very shifted perceptions.

I want to share an example from one of the many times I have asked the question “how was I created?” listening to Pachelbel and using “automatic” writing. (You can find specific instructions for this beginning on page 32 in Ingerman’s book Medicine for the Earth). Each of your stories would be different, and I bet they’d be equally amazing.

Light filled the universe. Rivers of song burst forth, sending their filaments everywhere. The rivers flowed and wove, apart and together, seeking. In their union arose seeds of consciousness. The seeds were carried out into the dark universe on the promise of energy, the potential inherent in all dark matter. In the potential, the seeds of consciousness began to pulse and grow, forming stars, planets, meteors, dust, building the energy into fusion and fission, exploding everywhere. Chaos reigned, and the rivers of song and the seeds sought each other. When they came together, their union made pulsing hearts and a breathing earth, different sizes and all one.

For a long time the universe knew harmony, and my cells remember this. My anger mirrors the explosions of stars forming. My blood courses like the rivers of song. My heart shines like starlight. In the vastness I am one and all. When I fall out of consciousness into ego, I lose the all, cannot even remember it. Returning to the vastness, I remember I am one with dolphin and tree, moving through waves in an energy field without words, pulling up nutrients through my cambian layer and expelling oxygen from my essence, weaving my rivers of song with all the other creatures out into the edges of the universe. I am the light, pure energy. I am the dark matter, pure potential energy. I am the interstices between energy and its potential, the quick breath of heartbeat, the seed of awareness.

Spaciousness, Not “Time”

Many cultures predict that we have little time left to change our ways: Mayans call this “the end of time as we know it;” Aztecs refer to this as a time of transformation. We all find ourselves falling into thoughts of impossibility and despair on some days. In fact, I just read about a syndrome, “eco-anxiety,” where people become so fearful of the future (global warming) that they suffer sleeplessness and panic attacks. But it does not help to leave the present moment and project into the future. The real issue is: how do we empower ourselves? How do we use our resources, brilliant minds, big bucks, or whatever we perceive as our assets to change our perceptions? How do we tap into the blueprint of our luminous essence and use it to shift our consciousness?

In quantum and indigenous world views, linear “time” doesn’t really exist, or can be seen as expanding into the infinite, creating a wonderful spaciousness. It’s in this spaciousness that consciousness-shifting and life changes take place.