It was hard for me to decide which feature story should open my blog. I wanted it to inspire and inform, but I also wanted it to encompass what the website is going to be about. Then, it came to me. This site is about energy, and how positive energy can change your life, and how negative energy can sabotage it. This is my story.
Around Christmas time, an old friend reappeared into my life. He lives in another city, and we had been talking for several months, planning to meet up. I wanted the experience to be perfect since our time together would be limited so among other things, I made a music mix to be playing while he was here. Let me just say that music has always been one of the most important things to me. It also has always been something that has been able to inspire me, make me feel, and help me heal.
I went through the 5400+ songs on my Ipod and selected songs that would be good for background music. I also selected songs that I love, and I named the play list, "Mellow." My friend came over, the experience was dismal, and I didn't hear from him the rest of his trip. I of course was crushed and I couldn't figure out what happened.
Something that also stood out was that he didn't seem too impressed with the music. It may sound silly, but when I hear good music, it touches me, and I guess I expected it to touch him. Above all, it is one thing that keeps sticking out, "He wasn't touched by the music."
Since that night, I've listened to the mix several times and one day it occurred to me that every time I listened to it my heart would feel like it was breaking. As I looked into it further, each and every song I chose for the mix was about heartache, loneliness, and missing someone. And that is exactly what happened. This minor piece of art that I put so much energy and emotion into, projected negative energy that resulted in a negative outcome.
Life Coach, Freddie Cecchini who has studied with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, runs his own Mastermind Coaching program and is well versed on the power of energy and the Law of Attraction.
"To understand the Law of Attraction is to understand positive and negative energy," Cecchini said, "Everything in universe is energy, all information is vibrating."
Cecchini said our nervous system is an instrument that picks up vibrations and interprets them for us. Our thoughts, which are the highest forms of vibrations, are interpreted then projected out into the universe.
"Once you start to realize that everything we think about starts to expand, and energy of the universe will bring it back to you, then it will inspire people to live their dreams," Cecchini said.
In layman's terms, energy and the law of attraction as I've come to understand it is that the entire universe is comprised energy, and every second of everyday, people project this energy through their thoughts. If it's positive energy and positive thoughts, then positive things will happen in your life. Conversely, when people have negative thoughts and project negative energy, then negativity is returned.
I was curious if this applied to tangible items as well. Could music project a negative energy frequency that could affect me? I thought it best to talk to an expert.
Susan Merkner, of Feng Shui Consulting and Design of Greater Pittsburgh, said that Feng Shui energy called Chi, is attached to all objects.
Energy transfers from one thing to another and in my case, the energy of the sadness and heartache was projected into my space by way of the music. The problem, she said, is that most people don't consciously realize the affects of this energy.
Merkner also referenced why people feel at peace when in nature. She said its because there is healthy energy when walking through the woods or being on the beach and therefore we feel that positive energy.
As for my mix, well I may have been doomed before, but there is no time like present to turn it around.
"In order to change it, what you're going to have to do is consciously pick victorious music, then that will raise your Chi, therefore the chi of your surroundings will be lifted and the people who walk into the chi of your surroundings will be lifted," Merkner said.
Perhaps its time to make a positive mix and see if I can change my energy for the better. After all, the beauty of the energy phenomenon is that we have complete control over the energy that we project and have the power to change our life at any moment by just changing the way that we think.
Below is the Track Listing for "Mellow" listen to any one of the songs and its obvious to see why things didn't go so well.
Pancake by Tori Amos
You Do by Aimee Mann
Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
Cry by Angie Aparo
Fastlove by George Michael
In the Waiting Line by Zero 7
Drizzle by Big Bean Theory
The Mountains Win Again by Blues Traveler
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak
Sparks by Coldplay
Strawberry Swing by Coldplay
10 years Later by Collective Soul
Run by Collective Soul
Perfect Blue Buildings by Counting Crows
Anna Begins by Counting Crows
How Will I Know by Cousteau
Don't Dream it's Over by Crowded House
Silence by Delerium
Terra Firma (Lara's Mix) by Delerium
Here With Me by Dido
Walk Into This Room by Edward Kowalczyk and Neneh Cherry
Criminal by Fiona Apple
Lover, You Should Have Come Over by Jeff Buckley
Have a Little Faith In Me by John Hiatt
Show Me by John Legend
Hold Your Tongue by Jump, Little Children
Save Me by K.D. Lang
Bedshaped by Keane
Dance With You by Live
Turn My Head by Live
Smog Moon by Matthew Sweet
Just One Thing by My Morning Jacket
Kissing A Fool by Michael Buble
Road by Nick Drake
Set Adrift a Memory Bliss by P.M. Dawn
Straylin Street by Pete Droge
Find The River by R.E.M.
Black Star by Radiohead
Welcome to my Party by Rusted Root
Prayer For the Dying by Seal
Heaven Knows by Squeeze
When We Dance by Sting
Gypsy by Suzanne Vega
Begin by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Walk on the Ocean by Toad the Wet Sprocket
1000 Oceans by Tori Amos
Original of the Species by U2
Fin by Unified Theory
Way to Find by John Bechtol
Destiny by Zero 7
Shelter by Ray LaMontagne
When the Stars Go Blue by Ryan Adams
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