I am not suggesting we unburden ourselves to everyone who asks us this question as a casual greeting. I am suggesting that every time someone asks the question you check in with yourself. See if you actually know how you are.
If we don’t know how we truly are most of the time how can we expect to function authentically or, for that matter, effectively.
Energy therapy reconnects you to yourself. You gradually become more aware of who you are and how you are feeling. You begin to trust that this noticing, this paying attention, provides a reliable guide for how to be in the world in a way that is true.
The French have a word for it: ennui. We sometimes call it irritable, impatient, dissatisfied, but ennui is more than that. Many of us wander around in a cloud of ennui, vaguely aware that we seem out of sync with everything and everyone.
Energy therapy provides a way to reach beneath the surface to what lies below. Often irritation is a disguise for sadness, even grief. Anger is the same. The reverse is also true; we can be weeping when what we are really feeling is angry. We cannot tend to ourselves, extend compassion, if we don’t realize this. We cannot know how to respond appropriately to our world without this essential information.
This process gives us back to ourselves. It is the beginning of an extraordinary love affair. We learn who we really are. It is like coming home. When you begin to really see yourself it is easier to care for yourself. When you care for yourself it becomes possible to care, really care, for others. Its how we make a better world, it’s how we fall in love.
