Love Energy
by
Dr. Marianne Rolland
The energy of love is the most powerful
healing ingredient that exists throughout our universe. It is
readily available, monetarily the least expensive, and distinctly the
most reliable source of medicine that we have. Yet, surprisingly
enough, the majority of the planet’s population continues to rely on
other external methods for healing and conflict resolution. Even those
of us who consider ourselves to be devoutly spiritual beings are
challenged by our inability to let love energy perpetually flow through
us, and to draw upon this love energy for solutions to our problems.
The amazing thing about love energy is that it lives inside each one of
us. When we consciously choose to let it flow, only wonderful, desired
and higher-good outcomes will occur—often seemingly by ‘magic’.
By tapping into love energy, we not only heal ourselves and our
relationships; we also contribute significantly to the healing of our
world.
Unfortunately, tapping into love energy is not always as easy as it may
sound. In our modern society we have been unconsciously conditioned to
block the flow of love through our hearts and inner beings. At some
point in time, each one of us has put up a wall or shield around our
heart. It may be a giant brick wall or a thin veil, yet nonetheless
“our protection” requires us to expend energy to contain a force that
naturally wants to flow. Flowing love energy is our natural state of
being; a state which through no conscious intent of our own has been
blocked.
Healing ourselves is really about reconnecting with the love that lives
inside of us and releasing the natural flow of love energy. This
not only restores the body’s natural capacity to heal itself; it heals
on all dimensions of experience, existence and relationship:
individually, familial, community wide, globally, mentally, physically,
emotionally, spiritually and socially.
Tapping the energy of love also serves as a powerful guide for helping
us in every aspect of our lives. A former co-worker used to ponder, “I
wonder what love would do about it?” whenever faced with a challenging
situation. I have always really liked that because it is so simple and
yet profound. Whenever we are faced with a difficulty, we might
ask ourselves: What would love say or do about it? This can be a push
because most of us have the tendency to want to figure things out
cognitively using only our minds. When we take the added step of
consulting our hearts (and we now know scientifically that our physical
hearts do indeed have a ‘brain’), we discover instant access to solving
problems that previously seemed insurmountable. When we access love
energy, we open to the flow of possibility of All That Is. Thus we
experience the unlimited creative thrust of the universe.
When we flow love energy we are vibrating at a higher frequency. But
how do we tap into this flow? First, we must acknowledge that for
human beings experiencing life on the planet at this time, the flow of
love energy is frequently blocked by another powerful force. This
other force—which is a condensed, lower vibrational energy form and
also lives inside of us—is fear.
The energy of fear has many faces: anger, rage, jealousy, self-hate,
judgment of self and others, resentment, guilt, shame, and other
limited beliefs (I will never succeed; I can never do things right; I
am a failure; I hate myself and everyone else, etc.). Concentrated,
confined and constricted fear energy gets stuck in the body’s “spinning
wheels” or chakra energy system and blocks the flow of love energy
through the body and to the heart. This leads to all forms of
heart dis-ease and many other physical manifestations of illness.
And, this is why we struggle and feel blocked from the perpetual flow
of love energy. Holding fear energy prolongs suffering, whereas moving
fear energy restores the flow of love energy and activates a natural
healing response in the body.
My partner, Floyd Guthrie, shares a piece of his life story about the
form fear energy manifested as a result of repressed rage from early
childhood: “I first became aware of the presence of a wolf back in the
early nineties while living in Metlakatla, Alaska. I was continuously
holding back my anger, which had built up since birth. I noticed as I
was talking about my feelings that when I mentioned anger I would see
this wolf about fifty feet away from me. I knew what he represented and
I feared him. For he was the one I would become when anger consumed me.
Ultimately, I knew if I allowed him to come completely in me that I
would experience rage. So, I would concentrate until I felt some sort
of composure. What I could not stop feeling was a tightness in my
belly. The tightness in my belly was created during my childhood after
age seven while living in Ketchikan.
“The community treated my people—the Tlingits, Haidas, and Tsimshian
Indians—with contempt, outright hatred, and discrimination. As a child
growing up and coming of age in such an environment, I learned to
contain my energy through silence. My family reacted to this treatment
with alcoholism, violence, hatred of others and intense fear. To
survive, I learned to live within myself and hide my feelings. I
stuffed and stuffed my feelings. When I was fourteen I was triggered so
deeply by a friend that I nearly pushed his eyeballs out of their
sockets. I cried so hard afterwards because the rage went out of
control and I had become frightened of my own feelings. I learned to
smile a lot to hide my true feelings. As an adult I accepted that I
would always have a sense of unhappiness. One day the wolf appeared and
I said to him, “Stay away; I know who you are and I hate you.”
In the late nineties, Floyd had the opportunity to work with a healing
shaman and safely release the accumulated rage that had lived inside of
him for so long. He shares, “I still see the wolf, but I no longer
despise him. I acknowledge him and thank him for reminding me that
there are two parts to me. One part is of the spirit. The other part
lives and feels and breathes on this earth and has discovered that I
really love myself.”
Floyd’s story portrays one example of how we can tap the healing power
of love energy: first by acknowledging and then by safely releasing the
fear energy that also lives inside.
I recently read a newspaper article about a 26-year-old man who
returned to his childhood village home and lit it on fire. He reported
that he had so many bad memories in that house that he had to burn it
down to the ground. The question that immediately popped into my
mind was how many other house fires are a result of painful, tormented
childhood memories that manifested in demonstrations of anger, rage and
revenge. How much of life’s suffering and torment is due to the
stored fear energy that lives inside of us? When I asked Love what it
had to say about this, the short answer I got was: “All of it!”
Blessed people of our Mother Earth, we need to understand: heavy stored
emotional fear energy in the body blocks the flow of love energy and,
therefore, blocks healing and our capacity to experience peace on the
planet. It also prolongs suffering for all. The Good of One is
the Good of All; the Honor of One is the Honor of All; the Healing of
One contributes to the Healing of ALL.
As we move into the long, dark, winter months, let us consciously
remember to open to the love flow. As we access the love energy that
lives inside each one of us, and demonstrate courage by acknowledging
our fears and moving them in safe and healthy ways, we will enjoy and
resonate with increased light in our experience of the season. We
will discover newly found inner warmth that radiates and heals beyond
anything we have ever imagined. We will also be helping all of
humanity to remember and consciously access the most powerful medicine
available to us all: Love Energy.
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Marianne Rolland has provided healing services to Alaskans for over 30
years. She is the founder of White Raven Center Inc. based in Anchorage
with outreach services to village Alaska. Contact: w.raven@att.net or
333-4478.