What Exactly is Energy Hygiene?
Energy work as an umbrella phrase has become an increasingly popular aspect of the wellness world, for better or for worse.
To be honest with you, I don't actually really love the phrases "energy work" or "energy healing" because while I believe in their legitimacy and power, I find that for the average person, due to their increasing popularity and over-saturation, energy work and energy healing concepts can be vague, inaccessible, hard to understand and even harder to practically integrate.
That is the reason why I love Energy Hygiene (or at least my version of it) and have been practicing it for the last 10 years; because it includes so many different aspects of *all* of our practical human experience: the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
These are known as our energy centers.
So, again the question remains: what exactly *is* Energy Hygiene?
Let me start by saying, everything is energy.
And when I say EVERYTHING, I literally mean every single thing carries an energy: people, places, animals, food, clothes, thoughts, emotions, plants........everything.
This also means that every single thing has an energy field, so on a moment to moment basis we are constantly in relationship with not just our own energy but with the energy of everything around us.
For human beings specifically, the energy field extends several feet beyond the body and that can shift depending on our awareness, intentional choice(s) and the degree to which we are cleaning, clearing and maintaining our Home Energy.
Our Home Energy is our core energetic blueprint. It is how we feel when:
the needs of our various energy centers are met: mental, physical, emotional and spiritual
our nervous systems are settled (i.e not in a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response)
we are deeply present and connected to ourselves and our intuition
we are emotionally and energetically sovereign (i.e we are not entangled with others' emotions, experiences, perspectives, opinions)
we are generally connected to the flow and purpose of our unique life path as well as the natural world around us.
It is when all of our energy systems are running smoothly; we feel that sense of flow and inherent ease and trust in ourselves and in life itself.
If our energy is our biggest asset, our Home Energy is our life force. It is our guiding light, our North Star.
Energy Hygiene is the practice of not only becoming aware of our energy blueprint and what's going on with our various energy centers, but also learning the tools, routines, techniques, practices and rituals to clear, manage, heal and ultimately return to our Home Energy as frequently as possible.
........so we can be in our flow state as much as possible.
When we lack consistent Energetic Hygiene, we may become confused. We may become involved in careers, relationships or situations that take us far outside of our Path; living in misalignment with our soul or our soul mission.
This is why Energy Hygiene is so imperative. We begin to understand what our true needs are and how to get them met. We begin to develop conscious discernment: what emotions, life, perspectives, choices, responsibilities are ours to own and what are ours to Return to Sender (or not take on in the first place).
When we have good energy hygiene, we have more clarity on who we are and why we are here. We have (literally) more energy, more capacity to manage the nuances of life and our experience moment to moment and more confidence to express and share our unique gifts / perspectives with the world.
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