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What Causes Energy Imbalances?

We are in constant contact with vibrations which can influence our energetic health and well-being. A healthy individual will have a higher rate of vibration than an unhealthy individual. As the rate of vibration lowers, an individual becomes more susceptible to other lower energies around them and begin to resonate to this lower vibration. The cycle becomes self-perpetuating as the lower the vibration falls, the more susceptible to surrounding lower vibrations the body becomes.

Life today is very different from life 100 years ago, which is very different from life 500 and 1,000 years ago. Many new, external factors affect the vibration of the human body. Today, we are exposed to toxins, chemicals, preservatives, environmental pollutants (e.g. pesticides, petroleum-based products, and dangerous metals), parasites, and viruses that did not exist years ago. As the world expands, many foods are filled with preservatives to enable them to be stored longer. Water is polluted as a by-product of manufacturing. We live in areas where the air we breathe is polluted from vehicle and manufacturing smog. People are traveling to locations they have never been to before and where they are exposed to an environment to which they do not possess immunity. The rate at which the body has to fight to detoxify and cleanse itself is becoming greater and greater, as more toxins accumulate within our bodies. The body becomes overwhelmed and unable to maintain equilibrium, resulting in disease.

Our energy is affected by prolonged states of stress and anxiety, the energies from other individuals, and from energy interference from household appliances (e.g. microwaves, televisions, and cell phones). The earth is also surrounded by electromagnetic grids which affect us energetically.

Just as a variety of different foods provides us with balanced nutrition, our physical senses perceive a variety of colors, scents, sounds, touch, and sights which provide us with a different kind of nutrition. For example, the lack of loving touch, either from people or from animals, can stimulate feelings of loneliness and isolation. The scent of a flower, fruit, or substances from the natural world can stimulate very different types of emotions than scents which are composed of synthetic ingredients. If we are in an atmosphere where we are continually yelled at or berated, this can have a profound impact on our emotional well-being. Each color possesses its own individual vibration and, based on our past experiences and perception of different colors, each color affects us all in a different way.

Repressed feelings of pain, fear, and anguish from earlier points in our lives can become "frozen" within the energy field and cause a change in our our belief system which mirrors the frozen energy. For example, a child which has been repeatedly punished for expressing creativity will believe "if I am creative, I will be punished." As time goes by, the child will be unaware that this belief has been accepted and is affecting other experiences in his life. This blocked energy contains a energetic pattern/vibration which causes similar experiences to then continually be drawn into the child's life. The different types of emotional blockages affect specific energetic meridians of the body, which are in turn related to organs and systems. The blocked energy will eventually, if not cleared, result in physical illnesses in the area of the body related to that energy meridian.

Finding our energy blockages and releasing them is the key to transforming ourselves to a state of balance, health, and happiness. As we transform these blockages, we often find that other blockages which originated and are dependent on the original blockage, then simply begin dissolving. For example, the child who accepted the belief that his creativity would be punished, may have chosen a career focused on emotionally unfulfilling academic subjects and hobbies which caused career dissatisfaction. As this comes to light, he may then begin focusing on more creative endeavors.

From birth, our energy vibration is naturally very high as we maintain an open connection to our higher spiritual selves. As we grow, voices of authority such as our parents, teachers, and employers present their viewpoints and beliefs of love and hate, right and wrong, good and bad, which we either accept or reject. The beliefs we choose to accept and take on as our own, in turn changes the vibration of our energetic bodies. As we struggle to define who we are in our early years, we often try on various beliefs, and release old ones which no longer serve us. Beliefs which are limiting may cause us to continually feel lower vibrations of energy such as fear, rejection, and abandonment. This energy attracts to our lives circumstances and people which match the same low frequency.

How to Heal Ourselves

We constantly receive sense stimuli from our surroundings, some of which are uplifting, and some of which are depressing. If we make a conscious effort to engage our senses with loving, positive, and natural stimuli, we can assist our bodies in restoring energetic balance.

As we consciously reconnect with our higher selves and ask for guidance, we begin to see limiting beliefs for what they are, and begin to release them. We begin to connect to our inner self, the core of our being, freeing ourselves from energetic imbalance and restoring our energy to that of its naturally high vibration - we then achieve a state of perfect emotional, physical, and psychological health. There are many techniques we can use to uncover and release limiting beliefs. Continue on to learn "How Healing Works."

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