In episode two of season three of my podcast, Beth and I brought in a special guest - Shawna Robinson - to speak to Energy Sovereignty. This conversation taught me so much in regards to what I am already doing really well when it comes to being responsible for my own energy, as well as some simple tips on how I can bolster and enhance my energy work even more.
One of the practices that I have been playing with daily since this episode is visualizing an energy shield in my morning ritual. Each day it is slightly different, and I have loved the creativity and deeper connection and awareness this has brought into my field.
Below are a couple of short excerpts from our conversation, and a link to get access to the full recording. Enjoy xox
Marin: What comes up for me is the importance of Co-regulation. Of course it's really important to understand how to self regulate, but we also have the privilege to be in friendships and partnerships and families and workspaces, where we can be around other people that we can feel safe with. And when the energy is good as Igor is bringing in this fall of light, this joy and this love, it uplifts everyone. It's such a gift. When we can take responsibility for our own energy, that's what heals the people around us. We make them feel safe and calm, and they start touching into the joy inside of them. So when we do this practice for ourselves, it just becomes infectious in the best way. So thank you, I'm feeling your love and your joy and your sparkle and it's such a gift.
Beth: I like how you said, infectious. I think Shawna and I were actually just talking about how, for each person that really steps into that energetic sovereignty, they touch 10,000 other people.
Shawna: Yeah, and it can go higher too.
Guest: Hi everybody. I just wanted to thank everybody for having this Zoom meeting, this is wonderful. It's amazing how things come into your life at just the perfect time. I think last week I was talking to my friend about this being a sovereign being, and how we get to choose the reaction and the reality around us. I kind of just wanted to share some tips I guess, or something that I've been practicing. Back to the example of, you know somebody cutting you off. It doesn't come naturally, but we tend to take things very personal. But sometimes, what that person does is on them and it doesn't have anything to do with you. And actually it's most of the time, it's on them. And so, or if they you know, show you a finger or whatever the negative that comes your way, I find that saying “oh it's on them” is almost like an excuse and then you're taking that responsibility of abuse on them, and that works okay too. But if you were to try, just try, again it's not always easy and sometimes it feels forced, but send them love.
Just send them love because they say we're all connected and sometimes it's very hard for us to recognize that we're connected. But if you send them love, then I guess that just, then you're also responsible for that situation and for that scenario.
And then another little thing but again, I've been practicing is the gratitude, which you can create the reality. So simple example, you're driving on the road and the light turns green just for you. You know when you approach that light and there's no cars and the light just like turns green, right there. And so you say thank you, simple, and it can be really anything. An elevator at your floor when you press the button. A person's smiling at you at the park. It can be really anything, but recognizing that is amazing and then you just say thank you and move on with your life. And then if it's a negative situation sometimes we can even say thank you for the negative for the negative situations. But keeping the emotions in line.
So you say thank you, it doesn’t have to be emotional so you are keeping your negativity in control, but you can still say thank you. For example, you know, if you lose money, you can say thank you for just taking the money and not somebody's life or health. So gratitude, sending love, and not reacting to the negative. Just recognizing the negative and stopping right there, and be like okay.
So it's like a pendulum. So if you're reacting negatively to something you are pushing the pendulum back, and it just gets stronger and stronger. But if you're not reacting you're not pushing the pendulum and then everything kind of comes in balance. So those are just little things.
Shawna: And love is the highest frequency there is. I think there is so much wisdom in what you just shared because love is the highest frequency, full stop.
Beth: Yeah I was thinking that’s like a shielding practice. I use a mantra when negative things come at me. I literally feel my heart, like the door slams shut. It’s like “you did what?!” And my heart closed! And when I feel that, there is a mantra that goes off in my head, “oh, I love you deeply and completely and I always have and I always will and there’s nothing you can do that will change that.” And I repeat that over and over in my head and I actually feel my heart open back up. Would that be considered a shielding practice?
Shawna: 100% yes.
Marin: You know, so initially that heart slamming shut is a protection. Right. It’s one of the many multifaceted ways that the body tries to protect itself. Which is so amazing that it can do that. And when you can notice it, and use a mantra like that that provides a sense of safety, and like “this moment is perfect” and open you back up to love, that protection is not needed anymore. So it does relax. That is such a great reminder.
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Shawna: If I may add into that. If we pull this back to an energetic practice. If we pull this back to looking at how we're managing our fields, and what our intentions are, and the frequency that we're putting out into the world. I'm not saying it's going to eliminate “bad” things from happening, but your frequency is really the only guarantee that you have in life.
That frequency is going to determine what you attract, what you deflect, what sticks on you, what doesn't. So a lot of those things that may be fearful or stress inducing, if we have an empowered practice that we are mindful about on a daily basis, those things don't come into our fields, they just don't. And I can, I can say that from my experiences over the last five years, there are things that just don't come into my field. They're not welcome, that frequency is not allowed in, that frequency has no business being in this sphere.
And so when we're talking about stress, this practice could be one way to set you up in your day, where we're maybe freed up for the good stresses. Right, we maybe have the capacity to handle some of those more challenging, negatively stressful things better, because you're starting to come at it from a place within your own self, that gives you the ability to handle it from a higher frequency or from a higher perspective, or from a much more “in your body” kind of place. So I'm just going to pull all that stress chat back to an energetic level that I think some of these practices can absolutely bolster or insulate you towards some of those negative stressors.
Marin: Yeah, and I appreciate you framing it as positive stress and negative stress because I think that actually helps delineate a little bit more of what I was referring to when it came to actually some stress is good. Like, taking a cold shower is stressful. It activates your nervous system, but it's good for you when you're engaging in the practice to boost your immune system and to use it as an opportunity to practice breath work. To run stairs, that's a stressor. But it's a positive stress experience because you're choosing it. You're mobilizing your body and you are activating your system, you also are doing a lot of other really good things at the same time.
So it's different than moving into fight or flight or shut down or being stuck in chronic stress. So even something that started as a positive stressor; if you stay in that activated state and you don't regulate out of it, it turns into chronic stress and that destroys your body. But being alive - aliveness, mobility - these are types of stressors. Eating food, digesting, that is a stressor. Right, so being alive is a stressor. It's just about managing it, making sure that we are regulating.
I always come back to rhythms. As long as there's flexibility, there's health. If there is stagnancy or, you know, a really incoherent rhythm, then something's off. But if we can move flexibly through all the different states of our nervous system, then that's, that's health.