Opening the Channels

Opening the Channels

Energy is life, it is how we make changes, how we use it gives our lives meaning. As we live that life sediment builds up that slows us down. Discomfort, stress and worry all get in the way of us doing the things we want to, it stops us from making the changes that will give our lives meaning. With discomfort, if we want to lift something but our back hurts, it takes more effort to interact. With stress, if we want to read something but there are distractions, it takes more thought to gather information. With worry, if we think someone doesn’t like us, it takes more emotion to connect. 

The same thing happens with the friction in our souls. With exhaustion, it takes more effort to chase experiences and more thought to pull out a perspective. With apathy, it takes more thought to hear our conscience and more emotion to draw out our empathy. With anxiety it takes more emotion to motivate ourselves and more effort to collaborate with others.

Sustaining contentment is freeing our life to flow without being held back, creating positive meaning with the daily decisions we make. To free up our life we need to both remove sediment and find a way to keep it from collecting. If we view our energy flowing through our body as if it is moving through a channel inside, the sediment builds up and narrows that channel. Following the natural flow empowers our energy to remove the sediment and use it for something positive. Just like when a fire is hot enough to start burning wood, it clears the wood out of the way and grows more powerful. By our nature at birth, some of our channels may be wider than others. The way our nature was nurtured until now has also changed our channels too. But there is a solution for us, and that is to open all the channels, widening them as much as possible.