Understanding how energy interacts with both your inner thoughts and outer environment is crucial for managing your emotions and overall well-being. This chapter explores the diverse sources of energy that influence your daily life and how they shape your experiences and emotional responses.
7 Sources of Energy Input = Creating an Xperience.
Your experience of the world is shaped by seven primary sources of energy input:
Touch (feel with your skin), taste, smell, sight, hearing, your thoughts, and the energy of other people, animals, and living creatures. Each of these inputs carries information that interacts with your body and mind, contributing to your overall experience of reality.
When you touch something, your skin senses texture and temperature, sending signals to your brain that help you understand your physical surroundings.
Tasting food involves chemical reactions on your taste buds, which send signals to your brain, helping you distinguish flavors and decide whether something is enjoyable or not.
Smells can trigger memories or emotions because they directly connect to the part of your brain that processes emotions and memories.
Your eyes capture light, allowing you to see colors, shapes, and movement, which your brain interprets to navigate the world.
Hearing enables you to perceive sounds and voices, which can evoke different emotions or reactions.
Your thoughts are the internal dialogue and ideas that shape how you interpret and respond to external stimuli.
Lastly, the energy emitted by others and living things interacts with your own energy field, influencing your mood and interactions.
Energy and Emotion: “Energy in Motion”.
The information received through your senses and thoughts triggers chemical reactions in your body, such as the release of hormones. These biochemical reactions create emotions—literally “energy in motion”—that influence how you perceive and react to your environment.
When you experience something pleasant, such as tasting your favorite food or hearing a joyful song, your brain releases neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, which make you feel happy and content. Conversely, encountering a stressful situation or negative thought can trigger the release of cortisol, causing feelings of anxiety or fear. These emotional responses are your body’s way of adapting to and interacting with the world around you.
Epigenetics: Your Genes and Environment.
Epigenetics explores how your environment and experiences can influence the expression of your genes. Certain environmental factors can switch genes on or off, impacting your health and predisposition to diseases.
For example, studies have shown that diet, stress levels, and exposure to toxins can affect epigenetic markers, which control gene expression. This means that even if you have a genetic predisposition to a certain illness, a healthy lifestyle and positive environment can help prevent or minimize its impact.
You can influence your stress levels with your thoughts, by movement, and by play, which can also influence how your genes behave.
The Constant Interaction of Thought and Environment.
Your thoughts and your environment are in a continuous cycle of interaction. Similar thoughts or environments lead to similar actions and experiences, which trigger the same chemicals in your body, resulting in consistent emotions. This forms your subconscious programming.
If you consistently think positively and surround yourself with supportive environments, your brain reinforces these patterns through a process known as neuroplasticity. This is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections in response to learning and experience. By consciously choosing positive thoughts and environments, you can reshape your subconscious programming and promote emotional well-being.
Neuroplasticity: Rewiring Your Brain.
Neuroplasticity refers to your brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout your life. By consciously training your thoughts and behaviors, you can reshape your subconscious programming and influence your emotional responses.
For instance, practicing mindfulness meditation or positive affirmations (and at the same time feel it as if it were already there) can strengthen neural pathways associated with calmness and positivity. Over time, these practices can reduce stress and anxiety by rewiring your brain to respond more adaptively to challenging situations.
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”
– Mahatma Gandhi