Energy Matters

Alberon Reserve, Parnell, Auckland - where I went to recharge yesterday

We have been talking about passion lately and how to support our personal vision with positive activity. A friend mentioned today: that's all very well but where does the energy come from to be so engaged with life?
Remember Cerunnos? The energy she is talking about is life force and the vehicle for it is the etheric body.

What does that term mean- the etheric or vital body?
The physical body you see when you look in the mirror is actually composed of seven layers. The lowest three layers are solid matter. The atoms comprising these layers make up the solids, liquids and gases that compose what we generally refer to as "my body". The upper four layers are ethers which create a template for the dense body you see.
Science refers to the etheric as the bioplasmic or bioenergetic body. It is identifiable and measurable. In Hindu terms it is prana. The Greeks referred to it as pnuema. For the Chinese it is Qi. In my own Celtic tradition it is the Great Chalice.

Most of us are unaware of this force body which consists of instinct or natural body intelligence.Usually people respond to their body emotionally and through their physical senses. It can, however, be perceived intuitively and taken into conscious consideration as we are endeavouring to do in the Homestead Project.
When you take account of your etheric body and work consciously with life force it is possible to support your health in very tangible ways. You get more energy that way. Energy follows thought remember, so it pays to give prana your close attention.

Our basic vitality is hereditary. Like our features, the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of our form are inherited.

Another source of etheric energy is from the food we eat. In other words the life quality of what we eat either supports or diminishes life force. This is the reason for our goal at Homestead to grow or manufacture at home as much of our food as possible. There is a very close link between humans and the plant kingdom. They provide us with our best and closest source of life force. Eating fresh, uncontaminated fruit, grains and vegetables really does support your health.

By listening to our body intuitively we contact instinct and are naturally drawn to the food that best supports us. When that food is a pure as we can acquire we extract the greatest benefit - the greatest life force- from it.
Occultly speaking different foods support the body in different ways:
Bitter foods drain and dry the body and stabilise emotion.
Pungent foods disperse energy
Sweet foods harmonise the body via the spleen
Sour foods have astringent qualities via the liver
Salty foods purify and detoxify via the blood stream
Bland foods leach damp heaviness in the body via the bladder.

Etheric energy also comes to us from the air we breathe and from sunlight.

When life force is flowing in a balanced way we enjoy good health. We have plenty of energy and are full of enthusiasm and passion for life. Whether the flow is balanced or not depends on our mental and emotional condition too. The happy habit counts because everything is interrelated.

It helps to think of you etheric body as an invisible template for the physical form you see. Imagine it is an interlacing network with energy running in and out. Activity is conditioned by centres located around the seven major endocrine glands of your body.

So we really are what we eat - and how we feel and how we think and the environment we live in. All life is interconnected.
Try putting your attention on your etheric body and practise listening to what your body is saying to you.
Watch your energy levels rise.