Energy Work is Soul Work

Energy Work is Soul Work

Energy Work is Soul Work

The medical institutions that treated Leah's bronchitis without correctly assessing how her symptoms reflected the predicament of her soul failed to help her. Illness and healing are way stations on the soul's journey. The soul, however, is not an easy concept to fathom, and conventional medicine has hardly even attempted to incorporate soul-level concerns into its understanding.

To approach the soul, Renaissance theologians would have an initiate study the vastness of the night sky as a metaphor of the vastness within. It is an illuminating exercise. The soul is the source of the most subtle energies of your being. Yet this subtle energy gives form to everything else about you, from your cells to your sense of self. If spirit, as it is often defined, is the all- pervasive, intelligent energy of creation, soul is its manifestation at the personal level. Soul and Spirit are the unfathomable, vital mysteries of our existence. We can, however, experience them directly, whether through the energies of love, contemplation, healing, or mystical experience. William Collinge, a researcher of subtle energies, describes energy as "the bridge between Spirit and matter":

Einstein showed through physics what the sages have taught for thousands of years: everything in our material world-animate and inanimate-is made of energy, and everything radiates energy...

He concluded that the continuously unfolding and dynamic nature of the universe could only be understood as the work of a higher guiding intelligence of another dimension.

I think of soul as the spark of Spirit that infuses the body with life and the brain with consciousness. When the soul leaves, the brain dims, the body dies. To work with a person's energy is to touch a soul as well as a body. Ironically, the deeper you enter into the life of your personal soul, the more fully you identify with your roots in the life of a universal, unifying intelligent Spirit. And the better your body will fare.

When all your energies are brought into harmony, your body flourishes. And when your body flourishes, your soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world. These are the ultimate reasons for energy medicine-to prepare the soil and nurture the blossom.

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Donna Eden, Energy Medicine