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  "description": "Soul Craft: It's time to come to the circle to begin",
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    "A Psychological Exploration of the Power of Our Mindset and Its Influence on Physiological Health",
    "as Carol P Christ teaches",
    "Check Out Live Events",
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  "textContent": "# What is an Energy Body and How Can We Work With It?\n\nIn this overly-constructed, terrestrial world, it’s easy to get caught up in the matter of things. The physicality. The perspective that unless we can see or touch it, it isn’t real.\n\nBut of course, we know that isn’t true. The fact that much of the patriarchal, capitalistic, misogynistic nightmare we’re living in is founded in belief systems is perfect evidence. Rarely are we encouraged to look beyond this physical reality to find or create new solutions to these age-old problems.\n\n\nEverything in our Universe—literally, everything—is actually made of energy, and therefore quite malleable. As Albert Einstein famously noted:\n\n> “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.”\n\n## The Illusion of Solidity\n\nPerhaps obviously, then, this is true of our bodies and our realities. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Part of that persistence is the \"averaging\" that physics does to make things feel solid to us, and part of it is our own habits—from thought patterns to social traditions.\n\nThe very cells and atoms that give us shape and form are energy. Our bodies _are_ energy. But we also carry within us another **\"energy body\"** : the one created by our thoughts, emotions, and belief systems.\n\nAncient healing and spiritual practices have long acknowledged the energy of our soul selves—in chakras, auras, and the like—and the power to balance these energies to affect healing in our physical lives.\n\n### The Science of Mindset\n\nWestern medicine has also come to accept that there is healing power in our self-talk. According to _\"_ A Psychological Exploration of the Power of Our Mindset and Its Influence on Physiological Health_,\"_ published in the National Library of Medicine:\n\n> \"...our mindset's power is so strong that it influences our physiological health... one can manipulate the mind to think in ways that are beneficial or detrimental to one's health.\"\n\nThe significant takeaway is that our thoughts and feelings have a powerful impact on our realities. We can affect personal, relational, and communal emotional healing by putting **conscious intention** into how we manage our energy.\n\n## Revolutionary Perspective\n\nAs Einstein put it, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”\nThis change is a shift in perspective. Telling a woman’s story from a woman’s point of view, yours—as Carol P Christ teaches—is a revolutionary act because we stop looking at our energy from “out there.” Like time, energy, and light, we begin to experience ourselves in a new reality changed by our perception.\n\n### Dismantling the Narrative\n\nWe can empower ourselves to participate in dismantling patriarchy by actively choosing to reject the narrative it feeds us. To untangle ourselves from subconsciously programmed beliefs, we have to seize our power and tell ourselves the actual truth:\n\n  * **The Lie:** Men are more spiritually adept or powerful.\n**The Truth:** Patriarchy knows how powerful we are, and it fears it.\n  * **The Lie:** We need men to be fulfilled and happy.\n**The Truth:** We can make our lives blissful and complete in our own right.\n  * **The Lie:** Our value is in what we can produce.\n**The Truth:** Our value is inherent; we double down on what gives us pleasure.\n\n\n\n## The Power of Pleasure\n\nOur pleasure is a weapon. Activating it redirects our energy to come from an empowered place rather than a weakened one.\n\n  * **Music** that delights us.\n  * **Art** that brings us joy.\n  * **Conversations** that ignite us.\n  * **Movement** that reconnects us to the earth.\n\n\n\nWe get to remind ourselves of our own value every chance we get. Whether it is dancing through the day to re-activate our _chi_ or celebrating a sister’s success, these acts are de-programming the patriarchal bullshit that tells us we are without value.\n\nIn these moments of conscious gratitude, we undermine the capitalist message that we need \"things\" to be happy. In celebrating each other, we threaten patriarchal systems through solidarity.\n\n## Cultivating the Life Force\n\nCountless spiritual systems have acknowledged this quintessential life force. Yogic traditions call it **Prana** ; Christians call it the **Soul** ; ancient Egyptians referred to it as **Ka**. Regardless of the title, connecting to it is a significant step out of the patriarchal matrix.\n\nReminding ourselves that we are beings deserving of **reverence** , and not just respect, is essential. We are radiant souls, forces of creativity that manifest life and beauty. That energetic shift reverberates out, impacting everything and everyone in our lives.\n\n### **Join the Conversation**\n\nJoin us over on the **Discord channel** for a playful exploration of the many ways we can bring more love and joy into our bodies, relationships, and lives.\n\nVistors, become a member | Members, meet in the server\n\nFirst Session is 30 April! Jaclyn hosts these groups to help us reveal the whole women we are, our under-stories, our under-voices, our undenability.\n\n\n                            Check Out Live Events\n                        \n\n* * *\n\n**Jaclyn Lanae** is an embodiment coach, author, and freelance writer who came to this work the long way—through experience, loss, and repair. She writes for people in moments of transition, helping them move forward without self-abandonment in love, conflict, & change. Follow her on Substack at https://jaclynlanae.substack.com/ or connect at AuthorJaclynLanae.com.\n\n* * *\n\nReach out anytime for any reason: info@medusarising.org.\nFind us everywhere we are with the social web: @gorgons@medusarising.org.\n\n**( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆**",
  "title": "Both Energy And Body | by Jaclyn Lanae",
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