Elizabeth Grant's Quantum Living Blog

I just learned a few months ago there is a name for the bizarre world inside my body! I am what is called “energy sensitive.” I have even had energy healers tell me they have never heard of what I experience day to day.

Energy moves through my chakras, and it does yours, too, except I can actually feel it moving. Zip, zip, zip it goes. When something triggers me emotionally, the amount of energy I feel sitting in a chakra is almost overwhelming. For instance, when it moves to my throat chakra, I will often feel like I am choking, like there is a tight band wrapped around my throat. When it moves to my 6th chakra (the forehead), my ears will pop, and I will feel incredible pressure in my head. When it moves to my crown chakra, the top of my head will tingle.

What does all this mean? It means when I feel good and my body is clear of negative energy, I feel pure, euphoric, divine energy rushing through my body. It is not just the negative energy that is intense; so is the positive! It is the most amazing feeling! It’s my hope that someday, you will be able to feel this if you haven’t already – this appears to be the spirit in its unclouded, undisturbed form, although I don’t really know.

It also means that when I feel strong negative emotion stuck in my body, it can be so intense, it’s almost debilitating until I am able to clear it out.

Recently, I traveled to my home town in Iowa to visit family. I had a fascinating sacred energy-related experience while I was there. I’ve had this same experience only once before, and under completely different circumstances.

My sister took my nieces and me to Rieman Gardens at Iowa State University. It’s a beautiful place with about a dozen gardens and a botanical center. They also have a butterfly sanctuary. I had never been to a butterfly sanctuary but it sure sounded nice! We walked in, and it was so beautiful. Tropical plants and trees everywhere, with flying colored wings flitting about.

But I noticed something else almost immediately … the energy in the enclosure was so PURE. It was so cleansing, that it removed from my body by its presence any negative energy. It cleansed me simply by being in its presence. I looked around, and realized no one else was having this experience, and realized that it must be something to do with energy sensitivity. Or should I say, they might have been having the same experience, but weren’t perceiving it.

The beauty of this experience was so intense, I began to cry. My sister looked at me, perplexed. I noticed no one else was crying or seemed to be feeling anything different than usual.

Out of embarrassment, I suppose, as no one else seemed to having this experience, I put my attention off of what I was feeling and focused on the butterflies. But as I walked around to the other side, the feeling of well-being, of peace and calm, was so remarkable, I burst into tears again. I explained to my sister what was happening, and she just let me be me.

This same experience happened to me only once before. I went to an art exhibit here in Chicago of Buddhist statues by a Japanese artist. Many of them were plated in gold. They were so beautiful. As I walked through the exhibit, I noticed a bowl of water holding flower blossoms and a small statue of a boy with his arm raised toward the sky. I smelled the aroma of the flowers and after a couple of seconds standing near the sculpture, this same “clear” feeling as I had with the butterflies came through my body and I began to sob uncontrollably. By the way, these were tears of joy, not of sadness.

I was really regretting not having brought Kleenex! I walked on, but couldn’t stop the tears from coming. The feeling is really hard to explain. It was in my heart area, and it wasn’t a feeling of being “moved to tears” like art sometimes does to us, but of being “clear.” It turns out I had happened to go to the exhibit during the Feast of the Buddha’s Birth, and that the statue was a sacred figure of Siddhartha as a boy. The bowl was full of sweet tea, and we were to pour sweet tea over the statue in honor of his birthday, which I did. (A monk came over to me with a lot of Kleenex, and told me that the same thing happened to several other people as they stood in the presence of the statue.)

I told a friend about the butterfly sanctuary and the Buddha exhibit experiences, and he asked me, “What do you think the energy was?” I told him that I don’t think the energy was anything different than any other energy. I think what I experienced was the absence of something – the absence of what is not pure love and not divine. I have felt this absence on other occasions – for instance, after an energy healing by a master. But even on those occasions, I didn’t feel the sense of oneness or well-being that I had during these two experiences. Very similar feelings; perhaps the difference is simply that no one (me or a healer) was trying to produce a certain outcome. I simply walked into this sacred space filled with divine, pure energy of which we are all actually made.

Just wanted to share this experience with you, as it was fascinating and it helped me understand what our natural state is … divine joy … or perhaps, the absence of all that is not.

Warmly,
Elizabeth

Have you heard about Noah St. John’s innovation in affirmations?

I was talking with Noah the other day on Twitter about his innovation in affirmations. He said, “Don’t you think it’s weird no one ever thought of it before?” My answer, “Yes, I do!” That’s because it is so obvious, and so simple. But not even the world’s best brain scientists thought of it!

Noah has discovered a rare breakthrough in personal growth: “afformations.” That’s his name for a new take on affirmations. See, when you say an affirmation, like, “Money comes to me easily.” or “I am so grateful to have met my perfect partner,” your rational mind immediately says, “Yeah, right! Have you seen how hard you struggle?” Or “Really? Is that why you’re home on a Saturday night once again?” Now, as you probably know, your subconscious mind doesn’t do this … it can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality. But your rational mind can trigger all kinds of resistance and lead to self-sabotage.

What Noah came up with (in the shower, no less), is this: What if you could bypass your rational mind, put that affirmation directly in your subconscious, and instead of feeling resistance, put your mind to work looking for what’s RIGHT about your life and not what’s WRONG?

In addition, when you use Noah’s technique, you will immediately notice a difference in how the statement feels. It will feel light and fun and clear! You will be on a higher energy vibration. Where traditional affirmations, while they do work, sometimes can feel unbelievable, or cause the body to contract or even elicit a sarcastic response (which is a form of anger). That’s not to say they always do this, but in the areas where you have the deepest issues or resistance, this is often the case.

What Noah created is the most simple, yet massively effective, tweak to what was already a pretty great concept. It just involves shifting the way you say the affirmation so you can get your mind solving the right problem for you. PLEASE take 3 minutes and learn about it. It will change your life!

Feel free to come back here and comment … once you learn how to form them, share your afformations with the world!

Recently a friend and I watched a fabulous HBO film called Grey Gardens. With stunning performances by Drew Barrymore and Jessice Lange, this film fascinated us and blew us away. The movie chronicles the lives of Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale and her daughter, “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale. Big Edie was the aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

A documentary was filmed of these two in the 1970s, and this is included as a movie-within-a-movie in the updated version, which is much better, because it includes the backstory of these two eccentric people.

Their story is one of riches to rags. Having grown up a Bouvier — a prominent American family — Big Edie lived a life of endless prosperity. She married a successful attorney and they settled in at a mansion called Grey Gardens in The Hamptons, Long Island, near the water, in a neighborhood where only the super-rich can afford to live. A spendthrift, Big Edie soon blew through her husband’s earnings and eventually he left her. Little Edie wanted to be in show business but her mother manipulated her into giving up her dream and moving back to Grey Gardens to live with her so she wouldn’t be alone. She never married. These women, in their younger years, were stunningly beautiful, by the way, and Little Edie would have been considered quite a debutante.

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Family members, and even her husband, begged Big Edie to sell Grey Gardens, as it was her principal asset received in the divorce settlement. She refused, clinging to memories of years gone by and a now-impossible opulent lifestyle. She was evidently written out of the Bouvier fortune and received only a small trust when her father passed away. She seemed completely unable to take care of herself — in the most basic ways.

Fast forward 15 years and these two are living in a completely dilapidated mansion (which was later bought by Ben Bradlee, of the Washington Post, and his wife for only $220,000). You should have seen the footage from the original documentary! Overrun by cats and raccoons, with holes in the walls, roof and siding, and a jungle of an overrun garden, the property was eventually condemned, and when this info made the tabloids, Jackie Onassis stepped in and had the property cleaned and repaired.

With junk, garbage, cat poop, and newspapers piled to the ceiling, the Edies spent most of their day cooped up in one small disgusting, filthy room. The house was, literally, falling apart. Bradlee later said that even after the home was completely restored, it still smelled like cat pee when it rained.

What fascinated me most about seeing the original documentary was how oblivious these women were to their surroundings. They didn’t seem to notice the filth, the junk, the holes, the dirt, the smell. I wondered why, and realized it was because it had happened so gradually. Their “set point” for their surroundings changed only a tiny amount each day until one day they were living in squalor.

And then I thought about how if you look at this in the opposite way, that’s how moving up the world works, too. How one day you are living in meager surroundings, with an empty bank account, and then years later, after you’ve done the work on yourself, and little by little changed your habits, you realized you’re doing pretty well. You look around and smile as you realize you live in a nice house and it’s a rare day your checking account goes under $10,000, and you can easily afford the lifestyle you want.

For most people, growth, prosperity, permanent weight loss, or whatever they are working toward, isn’t a quantum leap. It’s the small choices every single day that add up and accumulate into a huge shift.

And one day, you wake up, and you realize you have created quite an amazing life for yourself.

By the way, if you want to see some images of Grey Gardens, here is a great blog post I found about it from Life magazine.

http://www.thequantumcoach.net.

Yesterday someone triggered my “pain body,” or the energy field within me that’s a combination of my ego and my emotional memory. The term was coined by Eckhart Tolle. You’ll know when it’s triggered because you will have a severe emotional reaction and the situation itself won’t warrant such a strong response.

This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, look out! I became very defensive, but other people may fly into a rage, fall apart emotionally, or become emotionally or physically violent (or withdraw completely). Everyone has a pain body. And you have no doubt encountered someone else’s pain body and wondered what they heck was going on. For instance, your spouse will lash out at you, withdraw, or burst into tears from what is seemingly an innocent remark.

Everyone gets triggered sometimes. When it happens, it’s because there is something deep inside from the past that needs to be healed. See it as a gift — after you calm down enough to reason with yourself!

I thought this was a good opportunity to address what to do from both people’s standpoints, as we’ve all been on both sides of the equation and will probably be again.

When you trigger someone’s pain body, NEVER:

1) Point it out to them.

2) Say things like, “Why are you freaking out?” and “You’re sure getting defensive, Bill. That’s your issue, not mine.”

3) Engage them in a discussion, thinking you can surely help them see they are overreacting.

4) Counsel them in the “right” way to feel.

What’s really important to realize about yourself in this situation is that the minute you point out their behavior, judge them, or try to discuss with them why they are overreacting, you are now in YOUR ego. Isn’t that ironic? Your authentic self — your spirit — has no need to be right, or to change or correct people’s feelings.

DO:

1) Ask yourself if you did a behavior that deep inside you knew would cause them to react this way or cause them pain because it’s caused it before. Be honest with yourself. While they own their reaction, you also own your part if you did something you knew would likely cause them pain.

2) Stay present. The most common thing that happens when you trigger someone’s pain body is that yours is immediately triggered back, as they are now in their ego and would like you to join them there.

3) Remain neutral, foregoing judgment.

4) Avoid conversations until they are “themselves” again.

5) Love them and have compassion for them — if they are triggered, it is because some part of them is hurting badly. Be gentle.

6) Avoid doing the thing again that triggers their pain, if this is possible.

What to do when YOUR pain body is triggered.

NEVER:
1) Engage in a discussion while you feel so disconnected from your spirit. (This may be very hard, as you won’t be rational.)

DO:
1) Try to recognize that you’re “not yourself.” This is often hard as you’re sort of lost in your mind. The moment you have this awareness, you’re half way there!

2) Try to get back into your deeper self by observing what’s going on within you and asking yourself, “What is really going on here? Why am I feeling this way?”

3) Get back on track as soon as you can.

4) Have a rational conversation with whoever triggered you and explain why you reacted so severely. Apologize if appropriate, and mean it.

I hope this helps you and may you be trigger-free!

http://www.thequantumcoach.net