According to Cyndi Dale, author of The Subtle Body, subtle energy is energy that cannot be accurately measured using contemporary scientific methods. Further, Dale states that energy can be described as information that vibrates.
Subtle Energy Fields
Subtle energy fields are believed to be bands of energy that do not stop at the skin and can also be directed by one's intention according to Dr. William Tiller, a researcher, physicist and expert on subtle energy.
Vibrating Energy
Wayne Perry, author of Sound Medicine, indicates the entire human body is made of sound or vibrating waveforms of energy that have taken on the appearance of solidity. Perry further states that the frequencies of sound determine the density and form of matter. For instance, bones in the body have a slower vibration and lower frequency than does blood or other body tissues.
It is also believed that thoughts and feelings consist of sound vibrations that vibrate at faster waveforms and higher frequencies than the more solid parts of the body. The emotional body according to Perry, is believed to vibrate at higher frequencies than the physical body and the mental body is believed to vibrate at higher rates of frequency than the emotional body.
Developing Sensitivity
Penney Peirce, author of Frequency, proposes that one can develop an increased sensitivity to nonverbal information. One starts by consciously noticing what comes easily. Think of this step as noticing what you're noticing. For instance, be attentive to why a decision was made to return one phone call rather than another. Or why a decision to run errands took precedence over household chores.
As sensitivity increases, one becomes aware of the body's ability to detect nonverbal information as vibrations within the body. If those subtle vibrations are ignored, they tend to increase in intensity until they are acted upon. For instance, subtle vibrations could develop into tension, chronic pain, illness or accidents.
Peirce indicates the following exercise is believed to help raise awareness of one's feelings. List events or people that create a strong emotional response, fear or anxiety in you. List traits embodied in others that you would like to cultivate. List ways you associate the senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste with feelings of pleasure or beauty. Describe how tension or minor illness is expressed in your body. List environmental influences that create sensitivity for you; for instance, temperature, ugliness, noise.
Spend some time determining how you could notice nonverbal information earlier. Make a note of your most dominant senses and those you would like to develop to a higher level.
As one's sensitivity to nonverbal information increases, one will experience instinctive feelings of the expansion or contraction of energy, of energy moving or not moving. For instance, when a choice is favorable or appropriate, one will have a sense of energy expanding, rising, becoming active. When a choice is unfavorable or inappropriate, one will have a sense of anxiety, a sense of tightening in the chest, nausea or headache.
As one learns to listen to and trust the body's sensitivity to subtle energy, one will become aware of waves of vibration that constantly bring subtle data. Waves that bypass time and space, where knowing is immediate and everywhere simultaneously.
Sources:
- Dale, Cyndi. 2009. The Subtle Body. Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True.
- Peirce, Penney. 2009. Frequency. New York: Atria Books.
- Perry, Wayne. 2007. Sound Medicine. Franklin Lakes, NJ: The Career Press.
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