Ines Lopez

Everything is energy, including the human body.

There are many resources and references covering this basic principle. You can learn it from Albert Einstein. Ancient traditional medicine approaches talk about it. And even movies like The Matrix.

When this knowledge is applied more often than not the assumption is that your body contains your energy. Things that we don’t deal with properly on an energetic and emotional level start showing up in our body as a physical imbalance. Having this perspective allows us to go deep into the root cause of any physical imbalance to be able to find a resolution for it. Rather than just treating the physical symptoms for it.

What sometimes people don’t fully realise is that the energy in your body is not always your own.

If you have already started the journey into personal growth you will have discovered many tools that help you go into your limiting beliefs and your energy. You may have been able to identify what issues are blocking you the most, showing up in the way of what you want to achieve. You know that anger lives in the liver. So if you have liver problems you have worked to transmute that rage living within you. If you have gut problems you would know that letting go is the key topic to explore on an emotional level to be able to address that physical situation. You may have done your work but the stuff keeps coming up very often, with similar intensity despite all the work you have done.

Healing oneself is a long race. It will happen from the moment that you make the choice of doing it until you pass to the far beyond. So layers of things are to be expected. Repetitive situations are also to be expected. It is the way for us to implement new behaviours and realise our growth. But sometimes the repetitiveness is very constant and heavy. It feels like there is nothing you can do about it. In those cases, if you have explored it within yourself and you still feel blocked, you may be dealing with energy in your body that actually doesn’t come from your life experience.

Over the last few years more people are talking about ancestral energy and ancestral patterns. There are some families that go through the same cycles one generation after another. You may think that is because the way we are brought up conditions us. In reality what is happening there is that there is some energy that is going around in the lineage. It gets passed on from one generation to the next because it is not resolved before the people intertwined with it passes away.

So the next generation gets all of that mixed up with their genes. This is one of the parts of the energy that lives within you that may not actually be yours. It may not respond to any living experience you had through your life but regardless you live with it every day. Perhaps you were never rejected or abandoned in your life, but you have a strong fear of abandonment. Always present, without any event associated with it.

To avoid this energy from passing from one generation to the next some native cultures in South America carried out a particular ritual when a baby was born. They collected the energy of the lineage in the placenta where the baby was born so that the energy didn’t attach to the baby’s body. Then they offered the placenta to Mother Earth to send the energy back to source and release it safely.

Those practices are rarely done these days. And so babies come with a lot of energetic baggage into the world. All these energy tends to wake up during adolescence. Teenagers start having loads of feelings out of no where and without guidance on how to cope with all those emotions, very often cycles start repeating.

If your energy is weight in kilos, external energy could be weight in tones. Because often those patterns have been repeated through several generations, each adding a few kilos to it. Our energetic and physical health depends on whether we are able to address those situations to be able to release what is not longer serving us, personally and ancestrally.

A great way of being able to deal with ancestral energy is using quartz crystals as containers for that energy. I have learned this from a Colombian Traditional doctor. He advises his patients to get a crystal (often clear quartz or amathyst, but sometimes changes depending on the person) and place it over their uterus if they are a woman or the same region in the body if they are a man. Once the crystal is in place the person is meant to connect with all the possible feelings that can gather from their live. They should also connect with experiences and feelings their ancestors may have lived. Fear, sadness, scarcity, anger, rage, depression, etc. And tell their body to place those feelings into the crystal. This way the crystal is a new container for that energy. And all those emotions and experiences, rather than being circulating constantly in the person they go somewhere else. When the crystal is full (the person notices when this happens after a few sessions) it is time to offer it up. The way to do this varies. Some people are advised to offer it into a body of water like a lake or river. Others are invited to placed it under the roots of a big tree. The idea is that nature will help all that energy to get recycled and cleansed in the best way possible.

Another way in which your energy may not be your own is if you have absorbed energy from your outside. Some people have the ability whether they know it or not. Sometimes they are called empaths. They tend to be sensitive and notice the nuisance in places and people’s emotional states. But not all empaths absorb energy unconscious or consciously. Some just feel it around them without any movement happening.

Those external perceptions can get into them and start mixing with their energy, emotions and feelings. It can even become something very ingrained that they believe as their own but that in reality it didn’t start with them at all. This situation would vary from person to person. From picking up someone else’s sadness to catching the anxiety from a room and start feeling anxious without having really an explanation for it.

If someone has this ability is going to be difficult stopping it from happening. What is important in those cases is to find tools that help them manage their own energy and releasing what does not belong to them. And do those practices on a regular basis, like rituals. So they can keep cleansing themselves as life moves on and avoid their body to fill up of energy.

A way of addressing this situation (also learned from the Colombian Traditional doctor) is taking baths with plants that help cleansing energy, like rosemary. Rude is also used for this if you can find it in your location. Boil water, placed the plant inside, let it boil for about 5 minutes and turn it off. When it is lukewarm you can placed it into your bathtub or throw it over your head. Let the water dry out of your body on its own as much as you can. This will help you cleanse your energy.

Very often people will use the air element to do energetic cleanses. Palo Santo has become incredible popular for this. So much that it is getting impossible to source this incredible resource sustainably. So finding different ways of doing this work is advisable in my opinion. Sage works well. Copal for those living in countries with this tool. And alternatively taking baths with rosemary can do the trick. Very sustainable and easy to do.

We should all be more mindful and considerate with our body. Not only on a physical sense, what we eat and so on. But also energetically. It makes an incredible difference to have energetic cleanses done. Obviously being mindful on how you are doing them, with whom and with which resources. But once you find your groove and include it into. your life you will notice the difference. And somethings can be extremely simple like a rosemary bath.