As modern science recognises, everything is made of energy, including you. And there are many different forms of energy. There is, for example, the energy of thought and emotion.
Every time you feel or think something, energy goes into the feeling and thought – and that energy continues to exist. It does not just evaporate or disappear, but following the natural laws of the universe, it continues. It continues as atmospheres and vibrations, as clouds of emotion or thought. Our planet is filled with the energies and influences of the six billion people who are alive on it now. It is also filled with the vibrations of all humanity's history – the atmosphere of all the thoughts and feelings of the past.
Certainly, there are atmospheres of care and love, creativity and generosity. But there are also the vibrant fields of emotion and thought concerned with money, sex and power; energy fields of cruelty, anger, greed, manipulation, fear and all the rest. You can surely imagine the intensity that has gone into all of that.
So, there is indeed an invisible environment that can affect us. One of its major features is that millions of people over thousands of years have been radiating negative thoughts and emotions into it. Their vibration and energy did not just disappear. In some form or another, it is still around. You live in the middle of it and it can sometimes influence you.
Understanding how these energies work can bring you some unpleasant insights that you might rather avoid. Like attracts like. If something vibrates at a particular frequency it will attract and make a connection with other objects of the same frequency. This is a basic law of physics.
Resonating with mass energies
It is best to face the fact that unless you are a complete angel, like everyone else you carry some negative stuff – and therefore you too will feel and be affected by external vibrations similar to the stuff that is already in you. You will not only be affected by the energies of individual people, but will also be touched by the collective energies created by large groups.
For example, if you go into a mood of selfishness or fear, you may connect with the mass energies of selfishness and fear. This is like turning the dial on a radio. You simply change the frequency and catch the waves of the different transmitters.
It is important to realise just how easily you may be influenced. This sometimes can, for example, affect what people desire. Men and women can become obsessed with getting a particular piece of new clothing or a car or furniture. Teenagers must have the latest CD or trainers. In these instances, relevant to status and fashion, people are not just carried along by the usual psychological factors of wanting to maintain a certain image and identity; they are also caught up in the mass energy currents of desire. They are like pieces of wood carried on the tide and have little power to resist.
Throughout the world, you can see individuals and groups of people suddenly caught up in a mass movement and behaving in ways that they never thought possible. Perhaps you remember the photographs of the Rwandan women with machetes and knives – including mothers, professionals and highly educated women – on a rampage to kill and maim members of another ethnic group. There is, of course, a mass field of energy that contains violence and aggression. In this case, these normally benevolent women were overwhelmed by the energies of the herd instinct and carried along into psychotic behaviour.
It is useful to ask whether in your life you are adding to the mass energy field of violence. There was a man who lost his temper badly in the days preceding the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and felt terrible remorse afterwards. He wondered whether his own anger had tipped the global balance on that day and spilled out into the already dangerous Chinese situation. Of course, it was over-dramatic for him to think he was responsible; nevertheless he had a point.
Which frequencies are you tuned in to? Are you connected to the benevolent or the angry forces? These are important questions because you should be aware of what you are attracting to yourself. It is wise to assess how you are influenced by the stuff that you do not see. You need to be realistic about the fact that your own negativity, including the moods that you hide and even deny, are attracting more of the same - and creating more of the same.
The first step in dealing with this is to be honest with yourself about your own private attitudes and feelings. If you can maintain a kind mind as you notice and look at your negative characteristics, then the energy of your wise and compassionate thoughts will separate and protect you from the external negativity that may be attracted to you.
Do not create negative thoughts
There is an obvious responsibility that goes hand in hand with understanding that people create atmospheres and fields of energy. You need to be careful with the energy of your emotions and your thoughts. It radiates from you, feeds into similar fields of energy and affects other people.
Sometimes, especially in situations of crisis and threat, it is difficult not to worry and have anxious thoughts and feelings. Energetically, however, the moment you start to do this, you begin to add more negativity to the situation. The actual act of worrying creates distressing atmospheres. If, for example, you have an illness, do you want your doctor to be worried and radiate worry vibrations? Worry is connected with fear, and worry energy just makes things worse. It will depress you. You want an aura of confidence and optimism.
When you look at the world and see terrible things happening, what do these situations need? They do not need vibrations of distress, pessimism, anguish and worry. Energetically that makes the situation worse. Crisis, conflict and distress need love, acceptance, warm humour, playfulness, support, empathy, compassion and creative positive solutions.
I know a sincere peacenik, desperately concerned about the state of the world, his face intense with earnest desires and thoughts of peace. But what is he actually radiating into the situation? He has his own need for the situation to be resolved because that will make him feel better. He is, in fact, radiating neediness – a need for peace. And that is just another polarity that can create more negative feeling and reaction.
Moreover, radiating negative feelings and thoughts connects you harmonically with all the other negative energies floating around. Worrying can attract the very stuff to you that you do not want! And if you worry about other people, you are directing your own pessimistic energy at them and attracting more negative stuff to them. No wonder it has been said that worrying is a way of praying for what you do not want.
Sometimes, of course, a situation may be so tragic that you are temporarily overwhelmed and disappear into depression and grief. When friends die or there is a tragedy, it is normal to be upset or to have very strong feelings. But as soon as you start to surface and regain some equilibrium, you need to think of the consequences of continuing to run depressive thoughts and negative energy. You need to guide your thoughts and energy in a more positive direction – not just for your sake, but for that of others.
All across the world, there are individuals and groups who use prayer and meditation to create thoughts and energies that are positive and benevolent. Throughout the ages, churches and temples have often centred their worship around prayerful calls for a world of peace. Particularly with the coming of the Internet, it has become possible for people to network very quickly and communicate together about how, where and when they will focus their energies.
In times of crisis, they focus on troubled regions and send peaceful and creative thoughts to them. Where there is conflict, for instance, they hold an upbeat thought of the opposing leaders greeting and hugging each other with warm and genuine friendship. They send in waves of peaceful and loving energy. In these meditations and prayers, it is important not to have judgmental thoughts about the leaders you do not like. It was very easy for people to stigmatise Saddam Hussein as an evil and negative dictator. Outside the United States, it was also easy to judge George Bush Jr as a stupid man who was in the pockets of right-wing financiers. But to have these critical thoughts just creates another polarisation and energetically adds to the negative field.
One of the positive thoughts directed at Saddam was that he was indeed a messenger of God, but sent to bring healing to all nations. At the same time, people visualised a happy and prosperous Iraq. George Bush, on the other hand, was seen as a loyal team player, a jock with his heart in the right place. His team loyalty moved away from the Republican hierarchy that had got him into the White House and across to the great team of other world leaders and all the world's people.
People who were hostile to either Saddam or Bush, of course, thought that these ideas were naive. In fact, though, these were very helpful ideas to have floating in the ethers ready to inspire these leaders. At any rate, it is important and useful to think good thoughts into troubled situations, and not to send worry and fear. This applies as much to home, relationship and work situations as it does to global crises. If your children or workplace are in crisis, keep a positive attitude. This is powerful invisible support.
Healing war
The wave fields of pain, injustice, resentment, aggression and warfare that humanity has created are immense and strong. They float as large, negative influences around the planet and will channel through situations that attract them. This is why political conflict has to be handled so carefully. The politicians and diplomats are not just dealing with the individual people and nations; they are having to keep things calm so as to prevent the wave fields of fury from pouring into the situation.
Once one situation has been resolved, these wave fields of conflict float onwards waiting for another set of suitable circumstances. For many centuries they seemed to hover over Europe, causing interminable warfare which was finally resolved by the Allies' victory in 1945 and the subsequent building of the European Community. No longer able to channel through Europe, an outlet was found in the Cold War between the Western and Soviet/Chinese blocs and the innumerable conflicts that emerged in developing countries. When this international conflict was put to rest with the collapse of Communism, another charged polarity emerged in the conflict between the West and fundamentalist Islam. And so history and the energetic realities continue.
The issue here is to be metaphysically realistic about the mass karma of humanity. What we have created we can undo, but it will take time and a huge focus of clarity and good will. It is because of the energetic connection that every individual action is so important.
Thoughts and prayers for peace are good and useful. Even more powerful is your ability not to polarise, but to open your heart and mind to the pain felt by all sides and the suffering that all will endure. And equally powerful is your ability to put the brake on your own anger and negativity, and with humour and goodwill transform your hostility into loving kindness. All of this transforms and redeems the mass energy fields of conflict, thus helping to create safety for everyone.
There is a classic meditation mantra that speaks all this with great clarity. It is beautifully and appropriately simple. People sit quietly and say it silently in their hearts and minds.
I breathe in negativity. I breathe out love.
I breathe in negativity. I breathe out love.
I breathe in negativity. I breathe out love.
From Feeling Safe, copyright 2002 by William Bloom, published by Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd.
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