Raising Your Energy Field

An inspiring talk about the importance of building a body that can hold the energy of your desires. Lou will talk about moving through your blockages and fears to expand your comfort zone and embrace your potential.

Transcript

Hello,

My name is Lou Redmond and so appreciate you giving me some space to share a little bit with you today.

Recently I had a humbling experience during a facilitator training I'm in.

As I entered the meeting I saw the guest teacher was a leader in the personal growth space and someone who I followed since 2015.

When he got on I felt this heavy tension across my chest.

My heart rate increased and feelings of insecurity washed over me.

I saw this guy as above me and like a high schooler just wants to fit in I felt I needed to ask the right questions in hopes he would like me.

With a small group of eight there was nowhere for me to hide.

I had some practical questions for him but instead of asking them I raised my hand and I told him what I was feeling.

It was a vulnerable share that yielded a helpful reminder.

He responded that he experiences the same thing only on a different level.

He expressed speaking at a prestigious event feeling like he didn't deserve to be there.

His body and mind were telling him it was not safe.

He settled down enough to push through the fear and gave an impactful talk.

By being with the experience he retrained his body to find comfort amidst discomfort.

It was a reminder of two things.

First is we are not better or worse than anyone.

The Sufi teacher Kabir Helminski writes the ego tells us that we are better or worse than other people to false beliefs that are related.

We think the people that we look up to are different.

They're not.

They're just like you and me.

The only difference is how they've trained their heart,

Mind,

And spirit to be comfortable in new situations.

They have increased their energy field so they can be with more intense experiences.

This brings me to my next point.

We need to do the self-work to create a body that can hold more energy.

What does it mean to hold energy?

Lottery winners are a classic example.

They win a large sum of money but they haven't developed the consciousness to hold it.

Like putting a 50 watt bulb into a 100 watt outlet,

They can't handle the energy.

The money ends up leaking out until they return to a baseline often worse than they were before.

We are like that light bulb.

We are bodies of energy and our work is increasing that energy to allow more light in.

Another way you hear this said is raising our vibration.

Many of us have big dreams.

What's imperative to attaining those dreams is building the energetic body that can hold them.

You can't magically think your way to it.

Your state of being needs to change.

Like adding weights to our workouts,

We need to add resistance to life so our energy field can hold more.

We do this by seeking discomfort and putting ourselves in situations that allow us to grow.

By doing so,

We teach our nervous system,

I can feel safe amidst something I once feared.

That is transformation and I'm sure you've already done this in some ways on your journey.

Emotion practice offers a way to help retrain our mind and even our body.

We can imagine feeling and sensing ourselves in an uncomfortable situation.

We can see ourselves overcoming the fear and turn up the dial on those positive feelings.

However,

This can only take us so far.

We need real life action to raise our vibrational presence,

As Cynthia Bergeau calls it.

When you hold the energy of what you say you desire.

I'm aware that I have a lot of ego desires reflected in this experience.

Part of me wants what that esteemed teacher has,

The audience,

The impact,

The success,

Etc.

This experience showed me that even though I say I want that,

My body is not ready for it.

Being uncomfortable and sharing with him allowed me to work through my insecurities and find some comfort.

Moving beyond my superficial yearnings,

This leads to spiritual growth.

Maurice Nicole said,

As your being increases,

Your receptivity to higher meaning increases.

As your being decreases,

The old meanings return.

By showing up,

Working on our triggers,

We enlighten our bodies and we open to greater meaning and insight.

That is what this beautiful journey is all about.

I'd love to share practice with you on this.

If you want to meditate around this topic called raising your energy field or raising your vibration,

Look for both in my tracks and we can meditate a little longer on this.

I'd love to hear what you think and what you thought about the share.

You're also welcome to join me and others in my circle on Insight Timer called Lose Circle.

I'd love to get to support you in the ways I can.

So don't hesitate to reach out and stay connected.

Sending you so much love,

Guidance,

Keep putting yourselves in those situations that grow you,

That expand you and we'll continue walking each other home as Ram Dass says.

Big love.

Thank you.

Reviews

Best Speech ever

Love it, thank you Lou 💜

🙏Just what I needed! Recognizing that, stepping outside of my comfort zone, adds me and raising my vibration, ensure to benefit by spiritual journey ahead! 🙏

Interesting. It could be that underlying the process you describe in your experience is evolved male competiveness. All humans can be competitive but the male of the species tends to be hierarchical, women more communal. These traits were useful lfor our survival when daily life was really tough. It was necessary to be clear about who was above and who was below in calculating a route to the top rung of the ladder, while ensuring our survival and that of our genes. Even the most humble appearing person may be subtly competitive, and even small, unseen wins can privide an Ego boost.

Great, looking forward to your meditation on this topic next 😉👍🏻🍃

Thanks for sharing your story, Lou. It really clicked for me when you spoke about building up capacity to hold energy. ✨🌟✨

Thanks Lou 🙏🏻
Great meditation to put things into prospective👍🏻

Thank you Lou. The practice of Yin Yoga offers the passive, kindhearted, Metta centered physical practice into “Dis Ease” through time & personal prana, energy, life force. Inviting the body & mind to Stillness, (breathing in uncomfortable space we chose to step into with Grace, relinquishing through time & breath, to raising & inviting ourselves to Rest in a posture, where we were once were feeling uncomfortable. A Yin Asana practice yields the fruit (goal) of a life foundation rooted in disEase, relaxation, flexibility & fluidity stepping into spaces which meet us where we are, vibrationally speaking, by raising our energy, as this talk offers.

Thsnkyou once more- love these short pieces of wisdom

Great talk - I've been in many uncomfortable situations and pushed through them. I just didn't realize that I was also grow and expanding! Thank you for your insight. I look forward to more talks and meditations on raising my vibration.
Namaste ❤️

Loved this! Thank you Lou🙏🏽

Really amazing. Love the way this was shared. So practical yet so enlightening as well

Excellent thank you 🙏

Hi Lou, great talk! I had a little burst of insight when you mentioned that sometimes our bodies can't hold more energy, and that we need to put ourselves in uncomfortable situations so that we can learn and grow. I've been trying to raise my energy level for a few years and it hasn't worked well for me yet. I meditate and feel better temporarily, but that energy seems to run out by the evening. The action component is something I can see myself moving into. I will also try your guided meditation to raise my energy vibration as well.

So true, and just in time for me. Thanks for that Lou🧡🙏🏼🧡

Thank you! Your talk was so inspirational and just what I needed this morning! 🙏

Thank you for the honest vulnerability. That experience of putting people on a pedestal can be painful and this was very encouraging

Thank you Lou, I really needed to hear this now. I love what you are saying. It was so synchronistic for me. 😌😌😌

Always So inspiring and relatable at the same time🙏🏻❤️

Great to hear Lou speak on a topic that I was actively seeking clarification. This talk help put a few things in perspective and maybe, just maybe I'll place myself in more uncomfortable, positive places to allow my energy field room to grow 🙏🏽✨