Your imagination is powerful! Very powerful. To give you an idea, I want to share what happened last night in a local coffee shop.

Looking for a place to get some writing done last night, I emailed a friend. He’s usually hunkered down over his laptop with a cup of coffee somewhere in town. The spot he was hanging out at had a few empty chairs so I asked him to save me a seat.

When I showed up there as a nice cushy easy chair waiting for me across my friend. Getting settled in, I started writing, watching people wander by, and enjoying my passion iced tea. Eventually, I needed a break from all that and decided to try an experiment.

Because my friend has an extensive background in working with energy (chi) I thought it would be fun to work some energy with him without telling him. In this experiment, I didn’t intend the energy to be active in his body. Doing so without his permission wouldn’t be cool. What I did was I created flow of energy in a cyclonic doorway pattern between the two of us. After a few minutes of of flowing and cycloning I IM’d him on Facebook, “Feel that?”

He didn’t see the message for 10 or 15 minutes. When he finally did he looked up and laughed. Looking at the time stamp, he said he definitely did feel something at about the time I sent the message but it was outside his body. So, while we were talking about what had happened, I intended the energy to move internally and began moving it in a circular manner through him.

Yep, he felt the shift immediately. Note that all it took was a shift in my intention for him to feel a corresponding shift. He also began describing the nature of the energy to me. Basically, the energy had a gentle feel to it as it was sweeping and swirling through his body.

Without saying anything I decided to try something new. And this is where the experiment in the power of imagination really starts. I imagined the energy I was flowing towards him as being passed through a funnel. What this funnel was doing was concentrating the energy into something resembling copper wire or a cable.

Then I intended that energy wire to coil tightly and work its way from his solar plexus to his head. After 20 or 30 seconds he said, unprompted, something felt different. The energy, he said, felt focused, denser, and more concentrated than it had before.

Two things happened with my friend in that coffee shop session. First, I made the choice to shift the energy experience and second I tried a new model for guiding the energy with my intention. Using my imagination I was able to create a new pattern for the energy to flow along.

While you don’t create the energy or tell it what to do, you are able to guide it. Kind of like sailboat. You don’t make the wind blow from a certain direction. You use a sail (imagination) to direct the wind and a rudder (intention) to guide the boat (you) to your destination (attention).

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The words of Rumi, holding the Sacred Heart space, and memories of a single dance are conspiring tonight. Some thoughts and images as a poem is being born:

The two spent the day wandering the forest.

Following old forgotten paths used for generations by creatures of all kinds, in time, the pair found themselves on a quiet sand beach.

Swimming in the cool water a warm summer rain began to fall.

With waves lapping at their feet the raindrops composed nature’s tanda on their bare skin.

Rivulets traced their embrace as they began to dance.

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Your heart contains the answers your looking for. In a manner of speaking you can imagine all of reality is in your heart. Why? We are all one. Like a hologram.

Looking for love? Look inside, first.

“Life is inevitably different than we assumed after being born into it. We have this tendency to believe that there is another soul that is our singular mate. We believe that, out there, somewhere, she or he exists and is waiting for us. Nothing could be further from the truth.

“The one who is waiting for you is silently inside of your heart and she is real. As real as the print on this page. But there is a catch to this that may spurn you on to finding that “other” in physical life as well: We are not separated from each other. So when you look for your partner, find her in your heart first! She is already there! You don’t have to follow the long distance lines to find the one you love standing at your side.

The irony becomes enlarged when the day comes that the love of your life stands before you in physical form and guess what? She is the same one you found in your heart first! My point? Creating a loving relationship with you and creating a loving relationship with another person is the same act. They cannot and should not be separated.

Being the social animals that we are, finding the mate in this life is very important. Just do not forget that she is already in your heart. Connect with her there first and she will be holding your hand next. And she will be the correct one, no matter who she is. Get it? Don’t be so dense as you have been. It is not magic I speak of. It is love. That is the real magic because it is already inside of you.”

from Ayame’s Heart by D Jon Harrison

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The inspiration for this blog post came from a friend on Facebook who was presented with the following anthropology research assignment for a class she is taking.

“Problem Statement: Strong, independent women wait for men to ask them to dance.”

Most of us know what that moment before the music starts feels like. From a guys point of view, there’s dealing with the fear of rejection and learning to not take “No.” personally. Sounds like women have their thing to deal with too.

The Yin and Yang of Vulnerability

Yep, there is some real vulnerability possible in that moment for the guy. In his choice to take action he is vulnerable. He’s choosing to expose his ego to rejection for a chance to dance with a woman. And if she has a partner he’s not aware of who is the jealous type, well, rejection could be the least of his concerns. Especially, I hear from a bouncer friend, in Texas!

Yin & Yang

One or even a handful of rejections may not bother a confident man. A string of constant rejections over the course of six months, though, would start to get to any normal guy. “What the hell is wrong with me?”, being the most likely question he will be asking himself.

A woman, on the other hand, has traditionally been vulnerable in her having to wait to be asked to dance. While she gets to choose her partners her risk is in not being approached in the first place. She makes the choice to show up at the dance and risks no one noticing her.

What’s a strong, independent woman to do?

For the most part, men, at least the ones I know, don’t really question their role. They ask women to dance and that’s just how things are done. It may suck to be told no, oh well, suck it up and move on. When a woman asks you to dance, that’s cool. At least you don’t have to deal with the rejection thing.

In all sincerity, are women expecting to not have to be vulnerable these days? I get the impression from the problem statement that started this post, some of them may.

Here’s a thought for women who believe being strong and independent means not being vulnerable. Women have a choice. They can be vulnerable in the act of waiting or be vulnerable in the act of asking. They don’t get to avoid being vulnerable, though, if they want to dance.

Let’s take it further and bring in the energetic bits. Vulnerability is the ultimate strength. Why? Because to the degree that people, men or women, do not embrace their vulnerability they become closed and locked into the limitations and weaknesses of their ego.

From an energetic perspective, and I do want to get to this as it’s the point of this blog post, being vulnerable means keeping your heart open. Letting the ego protect your heart only interferes with your ability to authentically connect with yourself and others, and slows your spiritual growth.

How? Fear. Fear brings you down. Fear chokes down the life force. The fear behind the ego is limiting you wherever you are on your path. From a vibrational perspective, you’re getting stuck in gooey fear-mud. Tarry stuff that you are going to need to wash off eventually.

As far as dealing with risk in those moments before the music starts, the heart can handle whatever you encounter. The ego is the brittle one. Keep the fear down and the heart vibrations up! Stay vulnerable and allow your heart be your connection to the life force and other people. Including, connections with your potential dance partners.

Which brings us to, TANGO! Tango has an ingenious way to deal with the ego and rejection. Well, I suspect it’s really a very pragmatic, and old-fashioned, approach to dealing with the peculiarities of the male ego. Which, from the evidence, appears to be pretty much the same as it was a thousand years ago.

Eyes – Windows to the Soul

In tango, traditionally the lead motions with his eyes to the follow if he’s interested in dancing with her. She will respond with her eyes if interested or avoid eye contact if not. I wouldn’t have guessed this without experiencing it myself but the eye thing is much easier to deal with than the verbal approach. On the surface it sounds more intimate and potentially a more risky approach.

Only it’s not, at least for me, and here is why. Our egos understand words. Hearing “No.” is much more threatening to the ego than the non-verbal, body language of averted eyes. Not to mention the possibility of sounding like an idiot.

The entire communication can be done in a subtle and really quite private manner. No one will hear her say no! Better still, we can even pretend there wasn’t a moment of vulnerability in the first place! “Dance? Who me? No, I was just looking at the painting behind you. Nice use of color and texture wouldn’t you say?”

Keeping the ego feeling safe makes keeping your heart open much easier. Which in tango, with the depth of connection dance partners potentially share, is really important!

Back at the table, waiting.

Not that any of this eye contact stuff helps the strong, independent woman sitting at the table waiting to be asked to dance. What I would offer her is this bit of advice. Stay vulnerable. Whether you decide to ask him first or wait, it’s the vulnerability that allows you to connect. Be still and observe those vulnerable moments. Stay in your heart.

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You have the ability to directly perceive radiating Love flowing to and from yourself from the Source and everything in the Universe. In your body. Physically. The ancient ones knew this and somehow many of the modern gurus appeared to have missed this point.

The body acts as a conduit for Love or subtle energy, chi. And because we are a conduit we can gauge our progress along our energy radiating consciousness path by the degree of openness to the flow we experience.

None of this occurs in the brain, mind, or imagination. Our bodies will tell us exactly where we are at with the sensations.

What energy is not. I frequently run across misconceptions about energy. While the life force is in everything, your conscious perception and guidance of energy is what I’m talking about. The tool you have in the physical for perceiving is your body.

When I refer to energy I am not referring to:
• An emotion. Subtle energy is not, or dependent on, your emotional state. Brain research shows us emotions have a physical basis. They originate from the body responding to perceptions, biochemistry, and other physical stuff. Brain stuff.To be open to the flow is about detachment and surrender. Being what some refer to as the compassionate observer.
• Your imagination or creative visualizations. Life force energy is directly perceptible by your physical body. Your nervous system acts as, among other roles, an antenna for energy while you are alive in the physical universe. If your body is not picking up the energy signals you’re not getting as much energy flow as you have the potential to receive.
• Pain. A martial arts instructor once attempted to demonstrate chi for me. She struck my forearm really damn hard and said, “What you’re feeling is chi!” Excuse me? No. That’s pain.

What is subtle energy? Subtle energy is the radiating flow of Love in the Universe. Of which, you are one of the points in the matrix doing the radiating.

• You have a body so you can learn and grow in this life from a constrained perspective. With your body you have immediate feedback for where you are in the opening process. More sensation equals more opening.
• Your heart is your connection to the matrix and flow. You sense and process what comes to you energetically using your heart. Your heart is where you do the actual communicating with the matrix.
• Your imagination is your workshop for learning and growing, crafting your life, and achieving your goals.

How do you get get control of your energy? Direct your attention at your breath. Feel what it is to be alive in your body.

Put these elements together for healing and whatever else. Leave out the direct energy connection via the physical level of existence and your work is unbalanced.

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Six or seven years ago I began experimenting with subtle energy field meditations, the Law of Attraction, co-creating, and social media. At the time I was a stay-at-home, homeschooling dad. A lifestyle which had a certain degree of freedom as well as a bunch of limitations. I was also becoming more entrepreneurial, looking for business opportunities, and wanting to connect with interesting people.

That was also around the same time I was doing a lot of research on concepts like the Law of Attraction and manifesting. What I noticed was that most of the gurus I came across were teaching only the mental part of the process. They were teaching the use of imagination, belief, and focusing the mind. They weren’t teaching the role of the body in making direct contact with the subtle energy field.

Pretty picture break! I found this over at http://www.morguefile.com/. Also, there is a bullet point summary below for those of you experiencing a shortage of time and/or attention.

Quick Summary:
• With our attention on images of what we want to attract, we send them out into the Universe.
• With the flow of energy increasing in our bodies we create a strong impression in the subtle energy field of what we want to attract into our lives.
• The stronger, clearer the image is and the longer we can hold that image in our minds while engaging consciously in the subtle energy field, the faster and more accurate the results will be of our co-creating.
• When groups of people, here’s the bit where social media comes in, focus their attention on the same thing the whole is greater than the sum of the parts come into play. Which is why masterminds, intention groups, Social Media and Online Dating Sites can be so powerful when combined with energy work.

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We were talking about modern gurus only the teaching mind related aspects of co-creating. This disconnect felt odd to me from my readings of the old masters and shamans. They would often mention a specific physical sensation associated with their meditations. There was a vibration that filled or flowed through their bodies.

What they described sounded a lot like what I experienced when I worked with subtle energy. I started linking the two in my own explorations. The basic idea was to hold an energetic state where I could feel the flow of subtle energy through my body while doing various Consciousness experiments.

My feeling was, and is, that we are born into this physical reality with physical bodies. Our bodies are our little piece of, and connection to, the physical Universe and the subtle energy field that fills it. It made sense to me that we would be able to use our physical connection point(s) to have a dialogue with the Universe.

From the descriptions I came across, I figured one of the ways the old shamans and gurus were using their bodies was as antennas. They communicated with the physical universe while in a state of open connection with the energy field. In all my work of an intentional nature I began to do the same. Including, connecting with people on the Internet.

Where Does Social Media Fit?

With social media, and the Internet in general you have millions upon millions of people grouping together around ideas and topics in which they share a mutual interest. They are sharing a common focus. They are paying Attention to the same thing.

This shared attention is very powerful. You can see it in action in masterminds, when doing group energy healing, and other group consciousness projects. Groups can get stuff done, fast, in the subtle energy field!

How is this different than old media like printed publications, radio, and television? Focus. Online, people are able to form groups with a very tight focus. For example, on LinkedIn.com, people are focused on business and employment. These millions of people paying attention to business networking creates a powerful impression in the subtle energy field.

The meditation I used to attract people was direct contact with the ground using my hands while opening to the flow of subtle energy. I would continue until the physical sensation of flow and connection with the subtle energy field ceased. Then I would get up and go about my day. My intent wasn’t to meet someone in a specific manner. Any route to connecting would be fine.

While I didn’t document my meditations, I’m pretty sure that well over half the time I did one of these meditations I would get a bump in requests from people to join their networks on LinkedIn.com. Not only did I get the requests, I would often have personal contacts with those people wanting to connect with me, asking how we could do business together. While connections and requests are not uncommon when you have a LinkedIn account I noticed something else. When I didn’t do the meditations, I would go weeks with nobody contacting or connecting with me. With the meditation? Contacts within 24 hours, or less.

20 Minutes From Meditation to Results

Sometimes you can get some pretty dramatic results. One day I did the meditation and about twenty minutes after I was finished, a woman called. She found me on LinkedIn.com. We had never met, online or off. She wanted to know if I was interested in talking with her about a business opportunity!

When I did my meditations, LinkedIn.com must have been the path of least resistance for the manifestation to become reality. Since those early days with LinkedIn.com I’ve done similar meditations in other areas of my life. Most recently, with a divorce behind me, I’ve applied the process to dating sites like Match.com and OKCupid.com. Lots of people with focused attention!

I’ll write more about those experiences, later.

Attention, Attraction, and Social Media

Learning to control your mind is key to pretty much all the consciousness tools and spiritual growth. While the action is in the heart and the energy field for conscious connection and influence in the world. The mind plays the important role of making choices about goals and taking action in the physical world. As well as, at the start of the process, creating the imagery of what we want to attract.

When you imagine a goal for a few seconds and then are distracted by something else you create a weak impression in the energy field. The mind and ego can be a major cause of these distractions. Mental chaos and incessant self-talk will weaken pretty much all your efforts.

Not that what you were focusing on for those few seconds won’t come to you in some manner, at some point in your life. It may well. And you might not recognize it when it does because your focus was so weak. Instead of attracting your soul mate and living happily ever after you exchange glances with a stranger on the downtown bus. Little did either of you know….

On the other hand, when you can hold your attention with sustained focus and clarity you really can get great results. Attracting people, experiences, and other things becomes pretty simple. Some of the abilities that you begin to access can be pretty out there. Heady stuff. Often, a real ego trip.

You attract what you need to learn.

Be warned. Becoming adept at abilities like remote viewing, energy healing, intuitive reading, past life awareness are pretty normal as you grow in your awareness. Without awareness of your ego, though, you will keep repeating negative patterns in your life no matter how impressed you are with your superpowers. You will continue to attract people and events that have the potential to help you grow along your spiritual path. Some of this will be painful!

If you aren’t willing to go have a look under your own hood, instead of blaming people and circumstances on the outside, the patterns won’t stop repeating. These days, I like learning my lessons early, if possible. Moving onto the next lesson is part of the adventure. No point in sitting around in the parking lot any longer than is necessary to lace up our hiking boots!

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Last night I got my mind blown all over the dance floor. How? My first Argentine Tango lesson with the WWU Tango Club.

Explosive stuff, tango. The core concept behind Argentine Tango is to have your attention on your chest. You keep your chest connected, by an invisible cord, to your partner’s chest.

The idea is you are always chest to chest regardless of how close you are to each other. And that is why, as I’ll describe later, Argentine Tango has the potential to be a particularly powerful energy field meditation.

Dance Class? Really?

A month or so ago I asked my Facebook friends for suggestions on where to go to learn ballroom dancing. I wanted to get over an insecurity about dancing and have another social outlet for meeting people. I figured finding a class where I wasn’t the only one feeling awkward would help.

One of my friends suggested Argentine Tango. She thought I would really appreciate tango because of the energetic connection partners can experience while dancing and pointed me at AllBellinghamTango. As it turns out, friendly, welcoming communities of tango lovers have formed all over the US. Including, in my smallish town.

Another avenue for exploring, experiencing and expressing the subtle energetic field? Get out of the house with fun people a couple times a week to boot? Even better. Let’s do it!

Every Tuesday, the WWU Tango Club, gathers at the university multipurpose room to teach, learn, practice, and reconnect with each other through tango. And they are definitely enthusiastic!

Learning the dance is fun even though I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. Not terribly complicated, either. At least, in the early stages. Though I’m going to need some practice, I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it. Oh and as a side note: Thank goodness for gracious partners!

What was difficult was putting my attention on my chest while learning to dance with another person. Usually, when I put my attention on my chest I am doing energy work of some kind or another, meditating, or going about my daily life flowing energy for no particular reason.

I found myself habitually going into meditative awareness of my chest and heart instead of focusing on the dance movements. Great learning for me! Breaking patterns is a good thing! Helps with opening awareness.

What I am not typically doing in those meditative states is coordinating my body motions with another person in such close physical proximity. Especially, when that someone is wearing spiky heels that look like they could go straight through my sock clad foot and pin it to the floor with a single misstep.

And I loved it! A little danger has a nice way of keeping one on their toes, so to speak.

After this first lesson I can see why my friend thought I would enjoy Argentine Tango. Tango is practically designed to encourage the dancers to cultivate energetic connection. The people really are friendly and get together quite a bit, too.

Granted my experience with other dance is extremely limited. Mostly, free-form or ecstatic dance. Which is very different from Tango in a number of ways.

Argentine Tango is full of tradition, clear protocols, and what some might consider sexist roles. There’s a special tea we drink before starting the lessons. Can’t say it tasted all that great but I can see acquiring a taste for it. Men are leads and expected to be confident leaders. Women are follows and expected to be confident followers. Partners have to depend on each other.

Then there is the clear potential for Argentine Tango to be a powerhouse for developing heart energy awareness and connection. What really caught my attention and why I believe there’s so much potential for developing energetic awareness and sensitivity is the high degree of focus.

Intention and energy flow to where you place your attention. This is true whether you are working in the mental, emotional, spiritual or physical realms.

The protocols and rules can act as magnifiers of your attention on heart connection. The instructors didn’t describe it that way. It is hard to miss the presence of your heart in your chest, though. Just imagine dancing three songs or about twelve with a partner. Following the music, responding to subtle shifts with your partner while you are both focusing your attention on moving from your chest is going to shift your awareness of a connection at some point.

Awareness at the physical level does provide the foundation for higher levels of awareness. One wouldn’t have to shift into these other realms but I have heard many people describe Tango in energetic and spiritual terms. I suspect the slip from physical dance to energetic or spiritual dance happens for many dancers.

There is probably a tango community near you. Check it out!

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Stressed out? Money, work, family, over-scheduled, too much to do lifestyle got you scattered all over the place? Here’s a simple process to help you get back to that calm, happy place. Remember that place? Where smiles are easy to come by and instead of growling at your loved ones kisses and hugs flow freely.

Let’s get you back there fast!

First, your attention is probably focused on something very specific or all over the map. Maybe, a stress-inducing monster like your demanding boss or an unreasonable client? Or, maybe you have a bunch of over-zealous gremlins pulling your mind in a thousand different directions. None of them happen to be leading you anywhere near your happy place.

Peace and Happiness, now. Please!

Shift your attention to your Breath. Just watch yourself breathe. Yep, in-out, in-out. If it helps, here is a picture I took from a spot I was meditating at this weekend. You can just hear the gently lapping waves, can’t you?

Calming Picture of Bellingham Bay

I happened to be putting my attention on the ducks that evening. Imagining the world through their eyes was very relaxing. Left me craving sushi.

Spend a few minutes in this state of shifted attention. Just watch your breath, allow everything else to float on by. You can always continue with the dragon slaying when you’re finished watching your breath.

Bonus tip: Start exercising! After talking it over with your health care provider, of course.

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