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Being a Transformative Energy Agent

Adela Rubio — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:37 +0000

Ever wonder how to flip the switch from 3D human to transformative energy agent?

Who you are being dictates the spectrum of potential and possibility that is available to you in any given moment. How you view the world is filtered through the lens of your level of engagement.

These levels of engagement are a device, a transformative tool, for your own dynamic engagement of what’s true. They are not set in stone. They are not a truth! They are merely a tool to shift your being.

Let’s explore the levels of engagement to get a sense of the potential that’s possible in every moment:

Personal

This is the 3-dimensional (3D) level of reality that 98% of the planet is connected to. It is limited to the five senses and ‘apparent’ physical reality. It is locked into time and space and the world of external form. Reality is experienced through the ‘personal’ perspective. It is something that happens to you, you are at effect. There is very little control of your energy and your level of consciousness. You’re at the effect of external factors, you’re surfing on the surface of consciousness. It’s all about ‘me and mine.’ You exist primarily at the level of the mind, the ego and the roles of your personality.

Transitional

Energetically, this is just a step above ‘the personal.’ There is an increased venturing into the non-physical aspects of your nature [emotional, mental, spiritual], there is a greater sense of awareness of your expansiveness and a call to experience ‘no separation’ or source. There is still a seeking outside yourself for verification of what’s true so you are still dependent on teachers, gurus, trainings, etc. You can even be on the ‘spiritual path’ but at this level it is more of an enchantment with the seeking vs a realization, a finding or engagement, of the energy in your world. There are moments of connection and expansiveness, but it’s not sustainable yet. There is more of an intellectual entertainment of core truths vs the practical living of it.

Transformative

A dynamic, fluid adventure in being, your authority is at full throttle. It is the territory of no doubt and core certainty. Form shifts rapidly as you engage the naked potential before you. You are the energy that ripples transformation. Your words and your energy transform everything. Your Presence ripples potential into being. You are co-creative and at cause, you know when you are the wave and when you are riding the wave. You are open, expansive, joyful, in flow, living it, being the Being. You are hyper creational and dynamically aware. Your actions are sourced from your authority and your level of responsibility is powerfully present. You are the ripple of evolution in the cosmic ocean of creation.

Who are you Being? At which level are you engaging life: personally, transitionally or transformatively? Your choice is essential not only for your own personal evolution but for the evolutionary stream of creation.

Surrender to Power

Adela Rubio — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:44:16 +0000

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world. Eckhart Tolle

Surrender is often perceived as an adventure in powerlessness, in yielding, giving in/giving up.

What if . . .

Surrender is an act of transformation
that opens you up to the next level of power.

What if in the letting go you are in effect freeing up your energy . . . Energy that is now more readily accessible to you? What if in letting go you become more than you were before?

Check in to where surrender is wanting your attention. You can often get clues from those places where it’s diffficult to surrender, to let go :

Beliefs, Emotions, Stories, etc.

Test the mettle of your willingness and dive deeply . . .

PS Often sound can pierce the armor of your mindset and deliver an opening to wonder and willingness . This is a really nice one. If you’re unfamiliar with the image below it’s Ganesh, remover of obstacles, in the Hindu religion:

Music: Jonathan Goldman, ” Crown of Creation”

Image Above: Jump, by Endi Yu

Physical Factors Affecting Your Energy

Adela Rubio — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:00:14 +0000

Ever wonder about the practically accessible elements that factor into your available energy? Some of these seem so obvious, and yet, minute changes can create huge shifts in the amount of energy available to you:

Breathing is one of the most profound and direct ways you have of changing or fine-tuning your chemical and biological state. Each breath contains life-force (energy, ki. chi, prana, etc.) and it can be increased through your awareness. Breath is a medium of exchange with your surroundings. The air you breathe today was once the exhalation of someone else. Breath not only connects you to your center, it connects you to ‘All That Is’.

Water was your initial environment, prior to birth. Three quarters of your body is made from it and your digestionand metabolism depend on it. Evolution has shifted the ocean outside of you to within your tissues — salt water is the internal medium in which materials are transported around the body. Your brain is over 70% water, your blood 60% and your bones 30%. It is required for assimilation of nutrients and elimination of waste. Water also conducts electricity, a form of energy. Your available energy is enhanced when you are hydrated.

The quality of your food impacts the quality of your energy. Eat fresh, organic, locally grown food. Too much refined and processed food robs the body of vital nutrients and increases your intake of fat, sugar, chemicals and additives. Eat more vegetables (especially leafy greens and cruciferous carbs such as cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts) and less animal products (meat, milk, eggs). Eating fresh fruit and raw salads each day increases your fiber and reduces your salt intake, helps to optimize absorption of protein and ensures a rich supply of cancer-busting phytochemicals — substances only found in plant foods. Eat Intuitively! Add whole foods to your diet and eliminate stressful foods. This will awaken your body’s intelligence.

Exercise increases oxygen in your blood, boosts metabolism and pumps up circulation—just what your sleepy brain needs. If you’re bored with your workout routine vary them: try belly dancing, African dance, water aerobics, or whatever you can do consistently that’s fun. For maximum drive, make movement part of your daily routine: take the stairs instead of the elevator, bike to work, park in the farthest corner of the grocery store lot. And add mini-workouts to amp up your energy all day long. One of my favorites is dancing between telephone calls.

The quality of your rest — whether it’s sleep, meditation or mindfulness — directly impacts your ability to restore. We know that muscles grow when you rest, we also know that sleep and meditation are deeply restorative. Your body requires deep, sound, uninterrupted sleep to be at its energetic best. Establish a routine for bedtime – take a warm bath, drink chamomile tea, meditate, etc. Be conscious of things that may contribute to unrest such as violent films or books. Design your sleep space to induce a relaxed, peaceful state — use a water fountain, an alarm clock with sounds of nature or gentle chimes, delicious comforters, scents that are calming.

Tweaking the physical factors that influence your energy will expand your bandwidth of energetic availability. Fine tune yours today!

Top 5 Energy Drains

Adela Rubio — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00:48 +0000

1. Living a Programmed Life. You won’t find this one on most lists, but part of the problem is that you’re not living YOUR life. You’re living a life that is mostly on automatic pilot. Moments of awareness and connection are fleeting. You know there’s more yet you fear to step up, be who you are and embrace your authentic self. A lot of this isn’t your conscious choice, it’s a decision made by default programming. Like spyware running on your system, you’re not even aware of it. It’s a fearful experience to be different — current generations have witnessed what happens when you are different (race, culture, handicapped, sexuality, etc.) You live in the Matrix and wonder why you’re so tired and drained. How can you be excited, vibrantly alive when you are not living a life that IS you?

Changing this is a commitment to yourself and to your world. It is a path of empowerment that leads to greatness and authenticity.

2. Stress. Worrying, overbooking yourself and living in stressful conditions — commuting, working 70 hours per week, divorce, separation, death in the family, being a single parent, starting a new business — are the fastest ways to burn up energy. Unfortunately it’s not a good way. It triggers the body’s fight or flight defense mechanisms which kicks the adrenals into overdrive. Constant stress and agitation boosts cortisol levels and results in fatigue.

Here are some quick ways to chill out. Try a 10-minute time-out throughout your day: open a window and breathe deeply, stretch like a cat or take a brisk walk around the block. An hour break — painting or drawing outside under a tree, journaling in the park, taking an energetic hike — can relieve stress and increase energy. Make daily relaxation and restoration a part of your life. Even a short break provides benefits. Include yoga, qigong, swimming, meditation and some kind of creative activity like drumming, writing, dancing or painting in your daily life.

3. Toxic People and Environments. Also known as — changing people, places and things. You are energy and you are affected by the energy that surrounds you. Why is it that you read books, attend trainings and yet you are surprised when your old environments still trigger you? It would be wonderful to respond as an ‘enlightened master’ and demonstrate loving compassion. However, you are still a ‘work in progress, ‘ even though you may have more lucid moments now. Freeing yourself of toxic people and environments creates a nourishing space for you. This frees up more easily accessible energy for your use.

4. Chemicalized, Processed, Artificial, Food. This is a HUGE topic. One of the major culprits is excessive refined carbs. Having a bagel for breakfast, pasta for lunch and potatoes for dinner is a design for an energy roller coaster day. All carbs convert to sugars in the body, which can lead to fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Cut down on refined carbs and focus on grains, vegetables, protein and a little fat to provide sustained energy.

Depending on your food lifestyle here are some suggestions: Start your day with an egg and veggie omelet. Use two egg whites to one whole egg. Blend a fruit smoothie with unsweetened yogurt, bananas and berries. Add in a tbsp of ground flax seeds and a scoop of protein powder. Skip the starches at dinner, and have a salad with steamed veggies, and lean meat, fish or beans. Really go for it and shift the proportion of cooked to raw foods in your day – amp up the leafy greens, sprouts and fruits! You’ll be zinging throughout your day.

5. Stimulants and Drugs - Let’s start with the most seemingly innocuous stimulant — Caffeine. It is a potent drug, acts as a diuretic and taxes the adrenals — bad news for long-term energy. It also raises then drops blood sugar levels, even more so if you take it with a couple of sugars and cream. Kick the coffee habit and let your body produce its own energy. Start slow and wean yourself gradually to avoid caffeine-withdrawal migraines. Take two weeks to cycle off of coffee. Then look to healthier beverages: green tea, yerba mate, or Teecino.

The Key Environment for Personal Evolution

Adela Rubio — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:44:50 +0000

In coaching circles we talk about ‘creating supportive environments.’ one of my favorite Thomas Leonard quotes is: “Success can be arranged.” That’s where the 9 Environments (Coachville.com) come into play:

1. Memetic Environment – Ideas
2. Financial Environment – Money, Wealth and Budget
3. Relationship Environment – Close friends, family and close colleagues
4. Network Environment – Professional Connections, Greater Community
5. Physical Environment – Places and Things
6. Body Environment – Your Energy, Appearance and Clothing
7. Self Environment – Strengths, Talents and Character
8. Spiritual Environment – Deep Connections and Sacred Spaces
9. Nature Environment – The Great Outdoors

I’ve always felt that the most influential of ALL environments is the internal environment. A lot can be managed and orchestrated with the design of your external environments. However, quantum shifts occur when you open to the dimension of your internal environment. Your inner assumptions crack loose and a new experience arises in your awareness. Your physical, external environments can’t help but change as an outflow of the energetic ripple caused by your shift in perception.

The new is inevitable.

Your Brilliance

Adela Rubio — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:59:46 +0000

What if being great was really easy
and not something to be achieved.

What if it was as easy as an inhale
and as natural as a sigh

What if perfection rested in the
stillness of your focus and in the
warmth of your embrace

What if you were simply, Brilliantly, You!

Your Vision of Self Care

Adela Rubio — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:28:18 +0000

Have you noticed that unless you define what you want that when you get there you might be a little disappointed?

You have unique wants and needs. What may be the perfect fit or outcome for someone else may just not cut it for you. What’s more, it’s your responsibility to design the container of your experience. There really is no one else who can do that for you. So, what is it? If you were able to shop for your self care, just the way you’re able to shop for books on Amazon, what would be the titles, what themes would interest you most, who would be your favorite authors?

Self care runs deep and wide. What’s on your list? Not only would I love to know but I KNOW that you will get much better results if you design some vision for what self care will look like for you at the end of our adventure.

The Illusion of Judgment

Adela Rubio — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:13:23 +0000

Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding. Osho

Judgment keeps you in the arena of the limited mind. It’s that aspect of you that compares, taps into the past, filters the yes/no from a very limited perspective. It’s the world of the personal, the little “I,” it leaves very little room for movement.

When you find yourself at this level of being just realize that you can swiftly shift into an expanded state with a simple tool – Breathe . . . Relax . . . Expand. Allow your body/being to fill the room, building, city, continent, cosmos. Feel the YOU become porous and palpable throughout the streams of creation. Allow yourself to flow freely and joyously. Feel your superconnection to All of Life, feel the movement of creation contained within you.

As you experience yourself in your expanded being, the true nature of you arises. There is plenty of space for everything and everyone. Clarity and compassion flow easily and effortlessly. Your natural state of abundance is inevitable and your movement into more ripples organically.

Be the Being!

The Abundance of Aloneness

Adela Rubio — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:24:00 +0000

To be alone is the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you. Osho

At first glance this might seem like sad news. It’s not!

Consider the distinctions between loneliness vs aloneness. Loneliness is a state of wanting. Here you seek the other, you are not enough. There is a feeling of lack. Aloneness is like the roar of a lion. Your presence proclaims your being. You ARE the roar, you are ALL of it. You are enough unto yourself and so much more. Aloneness is a state of abundance.

Today just notice who you are being: lonely or alone. Are you wanting from others in order to BE? Or are you the abundance of life flowing your essence.

The Energy of Expansion

Adela Rubio — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:05:45 +0000

I’ve been an energetic practitioner for decades. Whether it’s been traveling in the energetic realms as a child, as a Reiki Master or more recently as an Evolutionary Coach and Trainer. The non-physical realm is one in which I experience an extraordinary level of comfort and familiarity. However, there is nothing like a ‘real world crisis’ to test the mettle of a seasoned player. No matter what your degree of mastery or expertise, life always offers you ‘the more’ if you are willing to be in the play.

I won’t say that recent events haven’t tapped emotions of fear, uncertainty and impending loss. They have. What I do notice is that they move with greater ease and something else arises. . . the more, the deeper substance of external events. I have been experiencing moments of extraordinary connection and knowing, not only with my father but with my family. There is a presence of ‘non-physical’ bounty of energy that is way beyond any conceived notion of ‘support.’ Though my physical being is engaged in conversations with doctors, nurses, family members, and even my father, there is also this stream of sustenance and intelligence underlying all of the external experiences.

On a moment by moment basis, the potential for the ‘more’ presents itself to me. Am I and my fellow players mere physical bodies engaged in a play with a specific story line? Or are we dynamic co-creators in a story that is being written with every single note of energetic intention?

Life is ALIVE and YOU are an ALIVENING force. Life conspires to create with YOU in every moment. Don’t fall asleep and take the surface occurrences as a true representation of what is possible. Breathe life into your every thought, word and action. Feel yourself as the stream of LIFE coming into creation dynamically in every moment. Don’t assume the story has been written. Write the story, in collaboration with life. Open to the magnificence and power that is yours to wield. As you do you will find that EVERY experience is an extraordinary opportunity to be ‘more than’ you were before. Your moreness then ripples to everyone and everything that you touch – the MULTIVERSE!

As Plutarch said, “What we achieve inwardly will change outward reality.”