Positive and Negative Energy

By Kim Eng

In exploring a path to healing our bodies and our emotions, we often feel challenged by the negative energy that we experience around us. This month, Kim teaches us about processing blocked energy and finding flow.

I have been asked whether the acceptance of negative energy from others can be the cause of illness or disease, and whether we ought to embrace only those people who are positive forces of energy in our lives.

Every thought form and every emotion is an energy. Acceptance of this energy is totally unconditional, and includes what the mind judges to be both positive and negative. If you are holding negative energy within yourself, and you’re not releasing the energy within you that may have been the cause of some sort of emotional pain, what Eckhart calls the pain-body, then, yes, this blocked energy within your body can eventually lead to illness and disease.

If we are not processing energy and emotions, and we’re not releasing our thought forms, these can become blocked energy. Energy is meant to flow; this includes thoughts, emotions, experiences – it’s all energy. If we deny that process – the natural occurrence to arise and let go – then it begins to solidify and become blocked. We hold energy in our body. Everybody may hold it in a different spot. If the energy blockage becomes so intense and then contracts our body, of course it could lead to illness and disease.

So can you get blocked energy from other people? You can feel energy from other people. And if you are not aware and you are holding back your own energy – in other words if you have an emotion that you don’t deal with yourself – then how are you able to really truly process the energy that emanates from another being? You can’t. So the energy that emanates from them can activate your own pain-body. It’s like someone else’s frequency is connecting to your frequency. Energy is energy; whether it’s yours or theirs, it’s all one. But if your own pain-body is not processed, then it can be activated and get bigger in this way.

So do you avoid other people? I think it’s virtually impossible to avoid people who have negative energy. You can work on your own negative energy first, however. When you’re with somebody, you may even be able to help them in their process, maybe not even so much in words but just simply by feeling your own energy. With awareness you can be with another person and simply feel the energy to help them process it. If you begin to feel that it activates something within yourself, then sometimes it is best to step away from that person so that you can process it within your own body first, but when we can process blocked energy, we can find flow and let negative energy go.

Just be the space in which whatever form of energy arises, whether pain, tears, laughter. Just be the space and witness it all and feel it all. And don’t worry so much about what the mind is telling you; it’s time now to feel and experience what we’ve held back for so long. We pushed it under and now it wants to come out. Just allow it, because this is the process of our spiritual awakening.