Building Energy Power

Saturday, April 20th, 2013

Power is accessed and developed through connection. This connection can occur with one’s own self, nature, creative acts, and through a reciprocal exchange with others that Inca paqos (shamans) refer to as being in right relationship. Although we sometimes forget this living in the modern world, the ability to hold energy is  not limited by supply, the amount of energy available to us is only limited by our perception and our willingness to surrender to being open in an ongoing energy exchange.

 

I have heard people say “you can have anything you want.” Perhaps that is true, however, from a poqo’s perspective, that is not the point. The intention is always to be in right relationship with the living natural world (Pachamama), and when we experience the flow of this connection we drop our “ego orientation” and realize that there is something that is much bigger than we are, that we are a part of. In the field of psychoanalysis, attachment and object relationship theorists say that we find meaning through our relationships, through being seen, and having our true sense of who we are reflected back to us. Psychoanalysts and paqos have a similar view of how we find meaning. A difference between the two would be that psychoanalysts focus on the individual psyche, while paqos focus on the collective psyche.

 

The capacity to build and hold power is largely a function of our availability, how open we are to the actual energetic experience available to us, and how willing we are to participate in the collective process of nature that is occurring in every moment.This requires that we  drop focusing on what we think we want and consider our world from a “bird’s eye” view, by looking at the whole picture. It could be that there is opportunity for something much greater than what we think we want.

 

I am using the phrase “think we want” because energetic connection is felt through our hearts and or bodies, and seen in our minds from a “big picture” perspective. In the field of psychology,  common common cognitive characteristics of depression that are worked with are the perception of isolation, limited ways of viewing the world – along with narrow minded thinking, and negative belief about the future. The experience of universality – that their are others like us can foster hope and a sense of agency, that brings a willingness to initiate steps toward positive change.

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