John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) wrote that headline above. It’s from the song ‘Rise‘ (Not to be confused with our song ‘Rise‘) and his band Public Image Limited. He wrote the song about apartheid in South Africa and the torture method’s used by the Northern Irish RUC. In the song he sings, “Anger is an Energy”. Although, I’m not here to talk about anger… I’m here to talk about Energy.
Energy is everywhere and everything. It’s an invisible force that is all around us all the time and wherever you focus your ‘energy’ it escalates.
I wrote a couple days ago a quote by John Lennon that he made during the Vietnam War. He said, “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.” Someone on my Facebook page made a comment, “Pro-Peace? What does that even mean?”. I’m pretty sure this person didn’t understand what Lennon was actually saying. I believe that Lennon understood ‘The Law of Attraction’ before it was ever named ‘The Law of Attraction’. He understood that energy is energy. That wherever you focus your energy it becomes more centralized, more part of your reality. He understood that having a protest against war was still focusing the energy on war. You can’t not state something and not focus on it. It’s impossible.
Here is an example; Ice Cream. I hate Ice Cream. I love Ice Cream. Ice Cream is awful. Ice Cream is beautiful. Ice Cream should be banned from the Universe. I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream.
What are you thinking about right now? Yep. You’re thinking about Ice Cream.
Good or bad, you’re thinking about it. You can’t not stop thinking about what you are focused on, as the example with Ice Cream. So having a Pro-Peace rally would actually be focusing on… You guessed it — Peace.
That’s why all of these Wars against things never work. Look at the War on Drugs… what’s going on with that? Are we winning this War? Nope. Drug use is up higher than it’s ever been. War on terror? Way worse. We now live in a world where we are afraid to even go outside because something might happen to us. The War on Terror has changed our whole lives completely. TSA, ISIS, NRA, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, FOX, etc… all fear based organizations, and they are in the news every day. I don’t watch the news. I quit watching the news in the late 80’s. There is nothing on there that somebody won’t eventually say to me, “Did you hear about (fill in the blank)?”. And I’ll let you in on a little secret. I was in Advertising for many years and one thing that Advertisers know is this: The more it’s in your face, the more you’ll think about it. The more that you think about it, the more you’ll want it. It’s the old ‘Carrot in front of the Horse’ trick.
It’s no coincidence to me that we have Presidential candidates that exude fear. They are only reflections of what we are, and we are predominantly a fear based society now, because that is all we focus on. We focus on what we don’t have. We focus on the rich who have more than we have. We focus on crime. We focus on race. We want to build a fucking wall and make it all go away. I’m afraid that is not the answer but until the pendulum swings a different way it is going to get worse.
Another little secret: It will only get better when we all start taking the blame for everything that has happened. Yes, each and every one of us taking responsibility. Each and every one of us stopping the finger pointing. Each and everyone of us looking in the mirror and repeating what Gandhi once said, “Be the change that you wish to see in the World.”
I am an Energy Worker. That is what Reiki is. Reiki is channelled energy from the Universe, God, Gaia, etc.. As a Reiki Master I know that energy is everywhere because I feel it flowing through me. I feel it burning through my hands when I’m working on a client. It’s not magic. It’s no more magic than the invisible electricity that you plug your phone in to charge, or your WIFI that you connect to. It blows my mind that people think all of this stuff is Mumbo Jumbo Hippie crap and yet they still believe in God. God, a source that can’t be seen, but can be felt. A source that can be felt when people congregate together. Yes, God is real. God is real because when we believe in something we are tapping into that energy, that force. That is why placebo’s work.
The definition of a placebo is, “A substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.” A patient who ‘supposes’ it to be medicine! It works because we say it works. We are happy because we say we are happy. We are angry because we say we are angry. It’s really simple. It might take you baby steps to believe it. It might taking you ‘faking it ’til you make it’, but what is the alternative?
I am also a Musician. I know, just as I know with Reiki, that music heals. And if I can help heal your pain through my music then I’ve done something good in this world. But you have to want to be healed. And once you decide that you can be healed then you will be healed.
Namaste!
David
