YOU AND YOUR ENERGY FIELDS

Given your innate powers and the energy that they generate in your body, your mind-body- emotion state is, and operates as, an energy field. Given the metabolism within your body, you generate an energy field with your thinking-emoting, somatizing, speaking, and acting. And not only can you feel it, others can pick up on it. You feel your own energy field in terms of the health and well-ness of your body and in terms of your emotions, whether you are feeling up or down, discouraged or encouraged, joyful or sad, vitally alive or tired and fatigued.

When others pickup on your energy field, they generally pick up on the vibrations that you are putting out via your emotions. It’s easy to detect this when a person is depressed or joyful, when someone is stressed and frustrated or relaxed and chilled-out, when someone is hateful or loving, when someone is fearful, apprehensive, or courageous and bold. Emotions transfer your energy first into your body as you somatize your semantics and then out to the world of others as you embody your emotions. There’s no real mystery in this. It is true for all of us.

And that’s why we say that, socially, emotions are contagious. We see this in mobs and riots whether in the streets in revolutions or at ball games and department stores. We see this when people are falsely told that toxic gas has been released in the air and dozens or even hundreds of people start fainting and even vomiting.

Now because states operate as an energy field, an energy field of our emotions, our meanings, our physical well-being (or the lack of it) —we can gauge the intensity of our states. Just ask a human being a gauging or scaling question.

“On a scale from 0 to 10, how much anger are you feeling right now? How much frustration? How much confidence? How much compassion?”

And the amazing thing is that everybody will give you an answer. If 0 is none and indicates that you don’t have a smithering of that kind of energy in you and 10 is absolute and you could not have more of it, where are you?

And because we can scale our embodied emotional energies in this way, by doing this we can also begin to manage our energies. How? Simply explore with the person the following type of questions: What do you have to do in your mind or body to turn this up? Show me. How much does that alter things? What do you have to do in your mind or body to turn this down? What images, words, sounds, gestures, etc. increase or decrease this state?

In Neuro-Semantics, we speak about states as the grounding matrix in The Matrix Model. The process matrices of meaning and intention create the state. Or to put it another way, the state is the embodiment or the feeling of meaning. Something means something important to you! But what? If it is about your self, then the meaning may be about your worth, your competence, your relationships, your time, or some domain that you live and operate in (self, power, others, time, world).

The bottom line? You create your mind-body-emotion states! Your states are the energy fields that you generate by the meanings that you invent and by the way you treat your body and its needs. Yes, there are some additional variables that play a role— weather, viruses, genetics, etc. Yet the primary force or power that generates the energy fields of your states is you. It arises from your powers. So if you feel a victim of your states, of your emotions, of your energy fields — it’s time to ground yourself in your innate powers (revisit articles 1-4, or get Secrets of Personal Mastery, or get to one of the APG workshops).

Now as an energy field, the power of your communication loops (Article #4) means that the feedback and feed-forward loops that you have set up inside yourself are operating as a self- organizing system. This isn’t new. You’ve heard about this before. Every time you talk about “the self-fulfilling prophecy of a belief,” you are talking about the energy of your self-organizing system.

And this means what? It means that you have already been using your innate powers to set up a frame of reference/ meaning in your mind and sending orders to your nervous systems to actualize your belief as your “reality.” That’s why whatever you believe will tend to define your life and be realized in your life. And if it is a limiting, sabotaging, self-defeating belief like “I’m a slow learner,” “I can’t learn this stuff,” “I will never be successful,” “Nobody will love me.” etc., your innate powers of thinking-emoting, speaking, and behaving and the energy field of your state will tend to make the limiting belief actual.

Your energy field (your mind-body-emotion states) is powerful! Its energies is a “command to your nervous system” (Richard Bandler) which seeks to actualize its meanings, and attracts into itself according to what it’s looking for and expecting. Once you set it up, it operates automatically— which is probably why you may feel a victim of your states and not in control of them. Once you set it up (and you and only you have set it up) it operates as if it has a life of its own.

And how did you set it up? By thinking, by experiencing, by believing, by creating meaning, by adopting frames. It’s inevitable. You may not have set it up consciously. You probably didn’t. You probably set it up by growing up and by being human in whatever family, school, religion, and contexts that you grew up in. And the good news is that by becoming aware of your inner powers of thinking-believing-framing-and-emoting you can now mindfully take charge of your states and your energy fields. And to a great extent, this is what Neuro-Semantics (and NLP) is about.